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busghost · 3 years

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on a scale of one to ten, how much do you love honkai impact?

11/10. I have never been this invested in a game’s story and I’ve logged on more than 99% of the days since I started playing on August 11, 2018. I’ve cried more at this than anything else This doesn’t mean that I can’t recognize its flaws but also it‘s like it was hand crafted to my tastes.

Science Fantasy? Fuck Yeah!

I just fucking love having fantasy monsters in the same setting as fucking laser swords and rail-guns and floating battleships. Going to the space between universes! Defying fate! Fighting to save the world! Killing God!! And the Honkai is basically just magic as a force of nature that is super evil. I also like that it features zombies without being a stupid zombie virus apocalypse. It’s also just easy for me to think about this way too much and make things far too complex in my head, but that can be fun too.

WLW? Fuck yeah x8 characters! Or x4 if we’re counting relationships.

Best representation I’ve ever seen. Although I will admit my only other exposure is dramatic realistic LGBT stories, not stories where the characters get to slice giant monsters in half.

Mei and Kiana have such a good angst filled dynamic I scream, I love them. Bronya and Seele are so cute I feel like I’m going to get diabetes. Kallen and Sakura never get a happy ending and it’s tragic and heartbreaking. Bianka and Rita. I’m a lesbian, I love seeing lesbians just,,,, exist in media. The story isn’t about coming out, or about these characters falling in love, or overcoming homophobia. They just kick ass and how the relationships effect the story is so GOOD. And you FuMiko and FuKi shippers get plenty of food too even if it’s not canon. Also Siegfried and Cecilia get a shoutout. Even if they’re straight I’m including them here in the positive lovely section because they are so wholesome.

Characters with actual depth who I can actually get invested in way too much? FUCK! YEAH!

I have strong opinions on every single character in this story. Except Bianka, but that’s a whole other problem. They’ve made me care so much.

I just, I love them SO MUCH! I won’t go into detail cause that’d be too long. Just ask me about individual characters if you want my opinion.

I just wish that we got more victories now and then. It’s chapter 21 and the last happy ending was in chapter 12. Doesn’t mean what we’ve gotten isn’t good, it’s wearing me down a bit. Don’t want this story to become grimdark.

If we’re talking about the gameplay itself. I think it’s pretty good. Hack and slash isn’t my favorite genre but I still find it enjoyable to be competitive and sometimes wind up with pretty good scores. A Post-Honkai Odyssey has a really cool combat system adding jumping and airborne fighting into the mix. Less friendly to new players if they want to be competitive than it was before. I do hope they do something about that in the near future otherwise it will kill the game for anybody who isn’t willing to whale. But getting crystals is still easy enough if you save them for what you want/need. Once you’re at level 80+ if you do well you can get upward of 1,000 crystals a week. Doesn’t mean you’ll have good luck in the gacha, I did 54 pulls for Dea Anchora and got nothing whoops. But if it means the game is free I’m okay with that because you don’t need the gacha to continue the story.

If I keep going this post won’t ever go up because I’ll keep finding things I love. And I’m probably rambling and making no sense. I haven’t even included everything I’ve thought of because then this would become a novella. Just a rapid fire list: the art, the designs of everything from characters to weapons, the animations they make for the game to kick you in the heart, Kiana Kaslana’s entire existence, Himeko, the love that these characters show each other despite all the pain they’ve been through themselves.

In summary, Yeah I like the game. You should give it a try if you haven’t.

#honkai impact #please play Honkai Impact #build the hi3 fandom #busghost's bullshit

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neonriser · 3 years

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The latest chapters in Honkai Impact's story mode are probably the most hype thing in the whole story mode, possibly more than the last batch of chapters! There is so much to unpack here: the creepy-ass puppets who use people unsatisfied with their lives as hosts, the character development of Seele's dark side, the time the crew had to use their own ship to crash a puppet theatre, and the protagonist finding out that her team didn't really win the battle, it's just that the puppets deceived them. But I think that is little to what I'm going to talk about today (big spoilers ahead).

After finding out that the Herrisher of Domination is some little girl Kiana saved during her Arc City days, the puppets and the Herrisher of Void accuse her of killing her own teacher, the very same person who saved her from HoV's control. This would lead to a confrontation between the Void Herrisher and Kiana. The plot twist is that they represent contradicting wishes of a girl who was captured and experimented on by humans. After much philosophical and ethical discussion (not to mention an exploration to Kiana's past), they then fight each other to see who is more worthy. Benares, who was Sirin's best friend at some point, joins the battle. But HoV was pissed that the dragon sided with Kiana, but she defended her, saying Benares gets to chose who is the Sirin she knows. So HoV had put down Benares and took the power crystals from her, making the battle more difficult. But Kiana did not give up despite the intense struggle, which triggered the Flamescion crystal and giving her a higher edge in battle.

I could go on, but I would end up summarizing the whole chapter, which I'm not here for. I'm here to express my own opinions of the chapter.

After winning against the HoV, Kiana meets Himeko one last time, which was a very touching moment. She later wakes up to find Fu Hua and Bronya, who just resolved a hostage situation by sacrificing HoS to cut the connection between puppets and their unfortunate hosts. It's nice to acknowledge the aftermath of a big event that brought Fu Hua and her HoS side to Kiana's team, but to be utilized for an scene like this certainly proves this continuity.

And as of the very day I type this all out, I am currently in the part where I believe is the most hype thing to ever come to date, one which is as hype as that time Mei fought against the Gear Sword thing and regained her HoT power in the process. It is the battle between Kiana and the Herrisher of Dominance herself, with her HoD Minion hands dueling against her in one last grand finale show before the theater all breaks down. The amount of detail in the battle is as grandiose as the themes being brought to the forefront through dialog throughout the chapters: Despite her allies' best efforts to protect you from incoming death and Bronya being able to get back her HoR core, they both get taken away by the minion hands, which increased the battle's stakes. The battle later on reaches to the next phase after Kiana slides through the pieces of floors and falling rubble, which I haven't felt something this intense since that time Kiana had to run on a long chain while deflecting the HoS's projectile attacks. This phase involves battling against not only puppets and the minion itself, but also puppet imitations of her friends there for HoD to torment Kiana for the futility of her actions. Despite all this, Kiana did not give in. With her newfound inability to get a headache from excessively sword swooshing, she finally finishes of the minon for good, and that is where I am now.

I am thirsty for the grand finale of finales, one that contains a high-quality cutscene where she unleashes her HoF power and commits the grand finale to the show.

The latest chapter so far is so complex with its themes and respect to the series' continuity, I'm basically scratching the surface at this point. If you read this in its entirety and still don't know what I'm talking about, then I understand your pain.

#hi3 spoilers #honkaimpact3rd

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