Honkai Impact 3rd: Difference between revisions

 

In addition to the game proper, a number of supplementary animations and comics exist, expanding on the backstory and the setting.

 

'''Warning:''' ''Honkai Impact 3rd'' is full of [[The Reveal|Reveals]], twists and [[Wham! Episode]]s, and the official website and social media are not shy at all about advertising [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]s. Read on at your own risk.

 

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* [[Alternate Self]]: Some of the battlesuits actually are bubble universe versions of the characters rather than the main universe's version.

* [[Alternate Universe]]: Apart from the [[Alternate History]] nature of the main story, there are also "bubble universes" in the Sea of Quanta. Some are mostly similar to the main universe except [[For Want of a Nail]] to varying degrees, while others diverge much more wildly, sometimes to the point of characters and concepts being [[In Name Only]] from the main one. For example, the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' collaboration event takes place in a bubble universe where Anti-Entropy takes NERV's place and various ''Honkai'' characters slot into the places of the ''Evangelion'' ones.

** EXP chips can be used to quickly level Valkyries, so you don't need to drag around a low-level deadweight just to get her to the point where she won't crumble at the slightest touch from a high-leveled mook.

** After completing a mission, all drops will be automatically collected, so you don't need to worry about missing any that haven't been manually collected or needing to go back to pick them all up.

** Elysian Realm:

*** It is possible to give up in the middle of an Elysian Realm stage and start from it again, allowing you to try another time if you fail a timer without needing to replay all the way back from the start. Similarly, 5.4 adds the ability to restart a boss level instead of ending a run for failure, which helps if you were close to victory and could possibly have made it with a bit more skillful play.

*** The game will seek confirmation if you try to refresh away task choices that offer Crystals, such that you won't accidentally lose a chance to gain that premium currency.

*** In the A Post-Honkai Odyssey subset, there are a few places, like on bridges, where your character or enemies can fall to their deaths. Your character, though, will just be brought back up to the nearest safe spot with some HP loss instead of dying outright.

** In the Empyrean Legends event, bringing a full team of [[Level Cap]]ped characters to an EX stage will unlock a secret weapon in case you've been having so much difficulty beating the boss that you ended up maxing out the levels.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: The leaders of the three main anti-Honkai organisations conform to this. Anti-Entropy's Sovereign Welt Yang is the Herrscher of Reason, able to conjure legions of war machines from thin air, create and survive near a black hole, and hold his own against the Herrscher of the Void. Schicksal Overseer Otto Apocalypse has replicas of some powerful [[Lost Technology]] weapons. World Serpent Sire {{spoiler|Kevin Kaslana is the [[World's Strongest Man]], a [[Super Prototype]] [[Super Soldier]] of the Previous Era with a [[Flaming Sword]] that creates blasts visible from orbit and whose [[An Ice Person|ice powers]] by themselves can not only freeze said sword and let him kill the Previous Era's Herrscher of Flame who burned down Australia, but a clone with a mere 1% of his power stalemated the Current Era's strongest S-rank Valkyrie Durandal.}}

* [[Beef Gate]]: As you slowly unlock the story content in Elysian Realm, everything starts pointing towards a character who is repeatedly raised but hasn't shown up in person yet: Mobius. Go far enough and you will be taken to meet her, but first you will need to fight {{spoiler|Elysia}}. Until you beat this boss, the story won't progress. Progress further still and you will need to fight Mobius as well to keep the story moving.

* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: According to the Second Key comic, {{spoiler|the future King Arthur was a boy who met Kevin and Su and mistook them for Merlin and [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|the Lady of the Lake]]. He later developed natural stigmata because his village was used as a testing ground for Project Stigma. Su took him under his wing to teach him how to use his stigmata and any superhuman feats attributed to him are presumably from that.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event has this. {{spoiler|After time traveling hundreds of times in failed attempts to save Kongming, it eventually turns out that the only way for her to live is to leave the world entirely. She does so and thus survives. Unfortunately, there is no way to bring Rita along, leaving both of them alone, and to make matters worse Kongming [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]].}}

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Zig-zagged. Many of the strongest S-rank Valkyries like Durandal, Rita and the late Cecilia are well-endowed, while [[Long-Range Fighter]] [[Support Party Member]] Bronya is flat. However, [[Bare-Fisted Monk]] Carole is only of modest size while Fu Hua is flat, and what makes the inversion of the last one even more significant is that {{spoiler|she was a peer to [[World's Strongest Man]] Kevin.}}

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Beating the Elysian Realm on the second-highest difficulty gets you the third and best of a set of Emblems that increase HP and damage while in the Realm. If you managed to get that far without it, though, all it'll do is make reruns slightly easier; while a higher difficulty does exist, completing that offers no reward but the acknowledgment of having done so, and thus is of no importance.

* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: While no gameplay content is outright locked out to truly free players, the best Valkyries and equipment are only available through gacha that use the "crystal" premium currency. Crystals can be gained in small quantities through gameplay, or their acquisition can be sped up with real cash. Better types of Battle Passes and other resource-granting bundles can also be acquired using a different kind of premium currency called "B-Chips".

* [[Casting Gag]]: [[Nana Mizuki]] and [[Yukari Tamura]] previously acted together in ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'', where Mizuki played {{spoiler|a clone whose original the [[Big Bad]] seeks to revive.}} They acted together again here, where {{spoiler|Mizuki plays the original whose revival the [[Big Bad]] seeks, while Tamura plays the clone thereof.}}

* [[Clock Roaches]]: In "The Day You Vanished With The Stars" event, {{spoiler|the mysterious black-clad [[Malevolent Masked Men]] seeking Kongming's death are creations of the wish-granting Golem programmed to eliminate the anomaly that she is.}}

* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: While Valkyries are already superhuman, the battlesuit used affects and enhances how that power is expressed and can change both the type and element. Taking Fu Hua as an example, Azure Empyrea and Phoenix are Psychic Fire, Night Squire and {{spoiler|Herrscher of Sentience}} are Biologic Physical, Shadow Knight is Mecha Lightning, and Valkyrie Accipiter is Psychic Lightning.

* [[Conspiracy Redemption]]: It is eventually revealed that {{spoiler|Schicksal's Overseer Otto Apocalypse is the one responsible for the return of the Herrscher of the Void and all the harm resulting from that. This leads to St. Freya breaking off to join with Anti-Entropy in battling him.}}

* [[Contractual Boss Immunity]]: In A Post-Honkai Odyssey mode, quest targets will not be insta-killed by [[Back Stab]]s. Doing one will still inflict more damage than any standard hit, though, so it's still a good idea to open with one.

** The Elysian Realm mode has the Signets of Vicissitude, which build up to 40 stacks of buffs over time but lose 10 stacks every time you get hit. The buffs are big, though, like extra 1.0% total damage per stack for a whopping 40% when maxed out, and its Enhanced Signets can raise the buffs even further. Anything else that comes close has another [[Necessary Drawback]] like only lasting for a short period of time. Good players who can avoid getting hit ride on those big buffs to do well; poor players who get hit often suffer and would have done better choosing Signet sets that aren't so skill-demanding.

** The Elysian Realm also has the Signets of Infinity, at least before getting nerfed in 5.4. In addition to [[Magikarp Power]], getting them to the [[Purposefully Overpowered]] heights they can achieve that surpass even the Signets of Vicissitude requires the player to carefully manage the cooldowns of summoned units on top of everything else already demanded by normal gameplay.

* [[The Ending Changes Everything]]: The "Estival Seaside Amusement Park" event starts out cutely as the Captain and Seele go around catching Honkai beasts ''[[Pokémon]]''-style for a competition. Strange things start happening along the way, but it isn't until the end that the truth is revealed: {{spoiler|The whole thing was Seele's dream that she pulled the Captain (and it is implied Delta as well) into, and the Captain has to be taken back to reality.}}

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]:

* [[Faustian Rebellion]]: A number of Herrschers chose to fight for humanity rather than fall in line with the Honkai.

* [[Four Is Death]]: The Fourth Herrscher, {{spoiler|Wendy}}, is the first character to die, and this happens in the fourth chapter.

* [[Full Set Bonus]]:

** Most Stigmata come in three-piece sets. Putting two together grants a bonus and having all three on the same Valkyrie grants a second one. These bonuses are powerful enough that, outside of a few specific cases, equipping a Valkyrie with a complete set is recommended.

** In the Elysian Realm mode, getting three or more Signets from the same set will grant a powerful Core Signet that is almost always necessary for the set to come online, as well as unlocking for selection more powerful Enhanced Signets.

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Chapter 4 has "Dark" versions of Mei and Kiana as bosses. No foreshadowing is given, no after-the-fact explanation either, and no one comments on it.

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: The real purpose of the Elysian Realm is to find a suitable host for {{spoiler|Mobius}} to transfer herself to so as to escape it and return to the real world.

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: Mooks in [[Stealth-Based Mission]]s have only a roughly 90-degree field of view, take a few seconds to investigate your presence and a few more to be properly alerted, and are deaf to their comrades dying to [[Back Stab]]s even if done right next to them. In all fairness, "don't be seen" is almost the only avenue for stealth.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Whatever just cause Sirin might have had in seeking vengeance on those who experimented on her, she lost any claim to the moral high ground the moment she stopped restricting herself to her tormentors and started indiscriminately bombarding civilians.

* [[Interface Spoiler]]:

** A player can see all the player characters even if they haven't been unlocked for use yet. This includes those who are [[Walking Spoiler]]s.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: In the Elysian Realm mode, the Signets of Infinity are potentially the most powerful type of Signet, or at least they were before getting nerfed in 5.4. However, many of said Signets are individually weak and most of the set must be collected before it develops synergy and becomes viable, whereas almost every other Signet sets only needs three to unlock the set's Core before it becomes viable.

* [[Masquerade]]: Most of humanity is kept in the dark about the true extent of the war against the Honkai. This is made especially clear in Chapter 23 where Welt and Bronya investigate an exhibition of Honkai beast statues and none of the visiting civilians express the kind of alarm or disgust one might expect from encountering replications of the monsters terrorising them.

* [[Mysterious Past]]: Durandal's past is a blank. Officially, she is an amnesiac orphaned by the Second Eruption. Unofficially, her sheer strength and a number of curious coincidences have invited much speculation both in-universe and out as to who or what she really is. Later reveals show those coincidences were not coincidences after all.

* [[Name Order Confusion]]: The official localization has East Asian characters with family name first, so Mei is officially "Raiden Mei". However, everyone else goes with family name last. It gets confusing with, among others, a pair of characters named Welt Joyce and Welt Yang who it's hard to tell at first glance what the name order actually is.

* [[Necromantic]]: {{spoiler|Otto Apocalypse's}} plots, which have caused much harm and killed or hurt many people, are driven by his desire to resurrect [[The Lost Lenore]].

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Despite the fancy name, the Flame-Chasers could only be called a team in the most charitable sense.

* [[Regenerating Shield, Static Health]]: Unfortunately not for the player characters, but for [[Elite Mooks]] and certain bosses; they have shields that can be drained and will regenerate after some time, while the health underneath doesn't. Shields don't completely negate damage to health, though, which makes things less nightmarish than they could have been.

* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]: The chat filter has caused problems with, for example, a boss called '''Jiz'''o Mitama.

* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Bronya's return in A Post-Honkai Odyssey 2, set 8 years after the main story mode, has her noticeably taller and bustier than her younger self.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: The Honkai may seek the destruction of humanity but it has a twisted sense of fair play. It clearly has room to escalate, as seen from how more strong Honkai beasts appeared after the Previous Era survivors tried introducing their technology to the Current Era, but reduced the potency of the attacks when the survivors stopped doing so instead of continuing to attack at full force.

* [[Stealth-Based Mission]]: Some missions require you to avoid being detected. In addition, the Open World maps and some other missions have the option to sneak around mooks and [[Back Stab]] them.

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|"Kiana Kaslana" is not the original Kiana, but a clone designated K-423 that was made by Otto as a host for the Herrscher of the Void as part of his [[Gambit Roulette]] to resurrect Kallen. She takes this discovery badly. As for the original Kiana, last seen years ago in Otto's custody? She was right in our faces all along, after having had her memories altered and a new name given - '''Bianka Ataegina'''.}}

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: The aptly-named "Burden" item is a piece of flame-frozen flame from {{spoiler|Kevin Kaslana's}} first use of the [[Flaming Sword]] Judgment of Shamash, which destroyed all the Honkai beasts it was used on [[Destructive Saviour|but also the city and people they were attacking.]] Notwithstanding that the city wouldn't have made it anyway if he hadn't, he still holds onto it as a reminder of the price of failure.

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]:

** Some of the levels in Chapter 6 are side-scrolling platformers.

** Chapter 7 suddenly becomes a [[Shoot'Em Up]].

* [[Virtual Ghost]]: The Elysian Realm stores sims of the Flame-Chasers, 13 legendary [[Super Soldier]]s from the Previous Era.

* [[World of Action Girls]]: Almost all playable characters are female. The in-universe justification is that women are more likely to be resistant to Honkai than men and there are thus more female Valkyries.

* [[You Are Too Late]]: At the end of A Post-Honkai Odyssey 2, {{spoiler|Lucheni is apparently defeated, and then the Arcane Castle reactivates and creates a Stargate far bigger than any before. The squads defeated Lucheni too late to prevent the alien invasion.}}

 

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