History VideoGame / HonkaiImpact3rd

* {{Crossover}}: Version 4.5 features a crossover event with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', titled "New Century". Angels appear in Nagazora and Asuka shows up to fight them. The event's story parodies that of Evangelion's, with Honkai characters and concepts in place of Eva's: Mei as Shinji, Bronya as Rei, Himeko as Misato, Kiana as Asuka, Ryoma (Mei's father) as Gendo, and so on.

* {{Crossover}}: Version 4.5 features a crossover event with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', titled "New Century". Angels appear in Nagazora and Asuka shows up to fight them.

* HopelessBossFight: In the "Silence" chapter of the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' event, you can't really win the one-on-one fight since the Wotan's sluggish movement can't catch up with the 4th Angel's attacks.

* {{Crossover}}: Early reveal materials for version 4.5 show that it will be a crossover with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', as Angels appear in Nagazora and Asuka shows up to fight them.

** Some of Bronya's cannons shoot unusual things, such as Ai-chan's cannon (shoots {{Rocket Punch}}es) or Dumpling Wrapper (shoots sticky rice dumplings that slow down enemies).

** Himeko's birthday event (only in China) has the Captain and Himeko talk in a pub about "growth", what growing up means and how one handles life, particularly when talking about her students. Then [[spoiler:it ends with the Captain waking up to a glass of alcohol and a rose, alone; implying that the talk occurred some time before Himeko's death]].

** Fu Hua is associated with various kinds of birds. One of her battlesuits, Valkyrie Accipiter, is named after a type of hawk, and another is called Phoenix. [[spoiler:As a part of her powers, she leaves "feathers" in people's minds which connect her soul to theirs.]]

** A patch gives the option to turn off QTE for individual characters. Switching in through QTE gives a 10 seconds cooldown for the switched-out character, while normal switching only gives a 5 seconds cooldown. For high-level gameplay where quick switching is key for supporting the main offensive character and thus deal big damage, this feature is very helpful; not to mention that certain characters' QTE attack either take too long, or just aren't strong or useful enough for the given player's strategy.

** "Rosemary's Floriograph" has the poem left by Welt Joyce, but especially the last line: "We were deceived, and so are you." When Doyle enters a ForcedSleep state, he meets a ghost (Seele) in her dreams, who first asked for help, but then her SplitPersonality takes over and recites the poem. Later, Welt is revealed (through his writings) to have dreamed something similar about the girl; it's implied that he learned the poem from her.

* CallForward: In Chapter 16, Mei and Tesla set up a few Honkai energy detectors to try to detect Kiana in the ruins of Nagazora City; they specifically talk about finding "somewhere wide and flat" to place them, and Tesla claims that it's still a new tech. However, they could only find Mei's trace of Herrscher energy instead. This is a reference to the early part of Post-Honkai Odyssey, where the older Mei and the protagonist set up multiple detectors on different places in the St. Fountain (specifically wide and flat places) to find the missing Welt, and they expect to find two results: Welt, and Mei herself.

** Version 3.5 introduces "Dorm Supply", which costs less than Standard Supply. Its gimmick (other than "guaranteed A-rank Valkyrie as the pity 10th roll") is that, like Expansion Supply, it'll guarantee an S-rank Valkyrie as the pity 100th roll (25th roll for the first time). If you happen to roll S-rank Valkyries that you already have twice, the 3rd S-rank you get will be a brand new one you haven't had yet. The catch is that it only contains Valkyries that were added before the [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]] update, so there are only 31 of them; this includes "Awakened" valkyries that normally aren't available in Standard Supply. Version 3.6 deletes the Standard Supply in favor of Dorm Supply, while Version 3.7 added a few more Valkyries into the supply (and the new Dorm system). Version 3.7 also replaces the Equipment Supply with "Dorm Equipment Supply", which only contains useful equipments (particularly to the Valkyries available in the Dorm Supply).

* CivvieSpandex: {{Justified|trope}} for the Valkyries' plethora of outfits. The Durandal-themed side event "Schicksal Mystery" establishes, via a conversation between Rita and Durandal, that all of the Valkyries' outfits are created by Schicksal, coming from a variety of collections similar to clothing lines, and are designed to be combat capable, so the Valkyries can fight the Honkai should the need arise no matter where they are or what they're doing.

** At the end of Chapter 8, [[spoiler:Sirin fully takes control of Kiana's body and awakens as the Herrscher of the Void. Mei tries to fight her while being assisted by her Herrscher self, but gets utterly trounced no matter how well the player performs in the boss battle. In the following cutscene, Anti-Entropy's army of mechs also gets wrecked when the Herrscher of the Void sends all of their firepower back at them.]]
** Similar to the above, at the beginning of Chapter 15, Mei tries to intercept Durandal as the latter is about to [[spoiler:retrieve an unconscious Kiana, but she's no match for Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, and can only cry while clinging to Kiana's jacket as Durandal departs with Kiana. You can whittle down a lot of health bars during the short fight sequence, but it's made moot by Durandal interrupting all controls and activating her Ultimate.]]

*** [[spoiler:Herrscher of Thunder] can inflict "Narukami's Mark" onto enemies with many of her moves. The mark will let her deal more lightning damage onto them and fill her special gauge with her attacks.

* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Delta notices this when she, Seele and the Water Djinn enter in the "Honkai Quest" event the ruins.

* PensieveFlashback: These are peppered throughout chapter 20. Kiana and Bronya travel to Mt. Taixuan to find clues about Fu Hua, and encounter feathers which, when touched, allow them to experience memories that Fu Hua has excised from her mind for one reason or another, ranging from her teenage years in the Previous Era (Valkyrie Accipiter) to her time as a MANTIS soldier (Shadow Knight) to when she was the "Celestial" and training students on Mt. Taixuan (Azure Empyrea). [[spoiler:However, given the reveal at the end of the chapter, it remains to be seen if they are genuine or not.]]

* RandomNumberGod: Apart from the [[LootBoxes gacha]] and [[RandomDrop item drop]] mechanics, Stigmatas involve RNG when it comes to their Wafer Affixes. Normal Crystal Cores are used to reshuffle Affixes, but the results will always have randomized stat names and values. It's also possible to unlock a second Affix slot when reshuffling with Normal Crystal Cores, but it occurs at a small chance.

* TemporaryOnlineContent: There are a good number of event-only weapons, Stigmata and costumes that usually won't be available again (whether you get them from event quests, Event Supply, or in-app purchase) after the event ends. Certain later events might see the return of a few of the older events' stuff, but don't count on it.

** When Mei [[spoiler:becomes the Herscherr of Thunder again]], part of the transformation includes her hair lengthening until it reaches at least to her ankles.

* AgeStereotypicalFood: During the International Children's Day (June 1st) and a few days after, Kiana, Bronya and Olenyeva Twins will ask for kids' meal when you put them on the bridge and tap the "!!" button. [[spoiler:Herrscher of Reason, however, claims that she has grown up and refuses a kids' meal.]]

* AlienInvasion: The "Alien Space" supplementary comic, set some time after the events of Post-Honkai Odyssey, has "Otto" [[spoiler:(Void Archives)]] explain to Welt that the "Sky People" are a civilization from a faraway planet, who have apparently conquered the Honkai of their own planet and used them as energy source. They're also looking for Honkai energy in other planets to try to harvest them; they send interplanetary vessels shaped like natural space rocks to random planets filled with their "scouts" in order to analyze the Honkai energy levels and the stage of civilization in said planets. Those "scouts" are the monsters you find in the Post-Honkai Odyssey.

** Himeko's birthday event (only in China) has the Captain and Himeko talk in a pub about "growth", what growing up means and how one handles life, particularly when talking about her students. Then [[spoiler:it ends with the Captain waking up to a glass of alcohol and a rose, alone; implying that the talk occured some time before Himeko's death]].

** The city of Nagazora is pronounced in Japanese version with its alternate reading, "Choukuu".

** The "Sanka Saga" event is implied to take place in a different universe, or at least in an AlternateTimeline. The events that occured as Sakura's backstory[[note]]like Kallen coming to Yae Village and becoming close to Sakura, Sakura becoming corrupted by the "black box" and possessed by Hellmaru[[/note]] still happened here (they're said to happen 500 years ago, just like in the main story), but ended differently; Kallen still lives on to the present day thanks to the "Zakti Rune of Deva" and is the head of "Yae Machi" (or "Yae Town"), and a different version of Sakura (called "Kasumi") is officially part of Schicksal, who's on a mission to collect the Zakti Runes. Later on, during the trip to the "Saha World", the Ferryman says that their native world may just be one of the many worlds out there; Kasumi says that she finds it hard to stomach.
** The "Honkai Kingdoms" event and subsequent events related to it happen in another world. "The Day You Vanished with the Stars" event eventually makes it clear that the Captain ends up becoming a DimensionalTraveler in the Sea of Quanta.

** The "Rosemary's Floriograph" event is hinted to take place in a different universe. The story is told from the perspective of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, but he has Fu Hua (as Hawk of the Fog) as his partner, and Irene Adler (a fictional character in Doyle's Literature/SherlockHolmes novels) is a real person in this world (portrayed by Rita as Fallen Rosemary). The story's beginnings has him and Fu Hua traveling with a train to the city of St. Fountain, but it looks different from the same city in the Post-Honkai Odyssey open world. This world's version of Anti-Entropy is an anti-Honkai protection system built by one of Schicksal's labs, Lab 42, in St. Fountain (which was devastated by a Honkai event 5 years from the story's beginning) to protect it from Honkai Beasts. Later on, however, after Welt Joyce discovered how Schicksal was behind the inhuman experiments on orphans in the St. Fountain's church, Lab 42 breaks ties with Schicksal institute and allies with its North American branch, and together, they create a new organization named Anti-Entropy [[spoiler:mirroring the creation of the organization in the main story]]. Also, [[spoiler:"Irene Adler" is actually an alias; she is Rita Rossweisse from another world]].

** Your Valkyries' max level is capped at whatever your current level is as Captain, and can't go higher than 80 although your Captain level is capped at 85 (as of Version 4.0).

** In "Winter's Rhapsody" and "Odd Drifter" events, if the particular item you get from the adventure isn't immediately useful, it will become useful later on.

'''''Honkai Impact 3rd''''' (aka ''Benghuai 3rd'' or ''Houkai 3rd'') is the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Guns [=GirlZ=] - Mirage Cabin'' (alternatively known as ''Honkai Gakuen 2''), developed by Creator/{{miHoYo}}. It is also their third entry in the ''Honkai Gakuen'' universe. It was released first in China in 2016, in Japan and Southeast Asia in 2017 and globally on March 28, 2018 for [[MobilePhoneGame iOS and Android]]. A PC port with cross-play capability was later developed and was released globally on December 26th, 2019, with Southeast Asia getting it in 2020.

** The MechaMook called Spider Mecha and its variants are robotic suicide bombers; they either do high damage when they go boom, or leave a patch of slow debuff on the ground on their wake. A stronger version of them can act as mines, too.

## The boss may appear next to a Rare Monster (keyword being "may"). The trick is to perform a Stealth Kill to the Rare Monster while the boss is in the vicinity so that they'll get hit by the high (collateral) damage. Higher adventure level bosses may teleport somewhere else after their health is depleted by a certain percentage; if the new place has another Rare Monster in it, you can use the Stealth Kill method again. Note that the level 27-29 bosses highly resist it.
## You can try acquiring "soul cannon" from one of the available tasks, which lets you launch highly damaging exploding fireballs. After you get the item, you can teleport out of the area where you get it and into where the boss is located; you can then use the soul cannon to hit the boss safely from afar, for huge damage. (The boss may teleport to another place, like the above.) Note that the stuff does elemental damage, and the level 27 boss is immune to them.

* DifficultySpike:
** Chapter 4 is where things start to generally become harder, especially if you're trying to get the levels' medals.
** Leveling up to 56, 70, and 81 raises the difficulty of Q-Singularis, Dirac Sea, and Memorial Arena.

* CivilWarVersusArmagedddon: The two major organizations, Schicksal and Anti-Entropy, are both fighting against the "Honkai" phenomenon, a force that tries to eliminate humanity. The two are also constantly scheming against each other because of the friction that occurred between the two years before the game's present; both of them have done questionable deeds in the past, supposedly for stopping the Honkai threats, and both have good and bad members of their own.

* CivvieSpandex: {{Justified|trope}} for the Valkyries' plethora of outfits. One of the stories in the Durandal-themed side events in version 4.4 establishes, via a conversation between Rita and Durandal, that all of the Valkyries' outfits are created by Schicksal, coming from a variety of collections similar to clothing lines, and are designed to be combat capable, so the Valkyries can fight the Honkai should the need arise no matter where they are or what they're doing.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Aside from their weapons and stigmata, the big source of power for the Valkyries lie in their battlesuits. Different suits make them exhibit different abilities.

* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: In the middle of ch. 15, after Kiana (who's abducted into Schicksal's Vimur Base) and Durandal have a talk about Schicksal, there's a sudden incoming attack from World Serpent's mechs. As the mechs break in and caused rubble to fall down, Durandal calls Kiana, only to find out that she's gone the moment the former takes her eyes off the white-haired girl. Kiana has taken the opportunity to escape the base.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: This setting may be placed in a generally thriving TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but no one is safe here, as there's Honkai all over the place, and the organizations opposing them are not much better. Not to mention those Valkyries [[RedshirtArmy are extremely expendable]], and generally, their lifespans get [[YourDaysAreNumbered cut off for good measure]] by artificial Stigmata augmentation[[note]]although among playable characters, only Himeko (presumably) has this problem[[/note]].

** Similar to the above, at the beginning of Chapter 15, Mei tries intercept Durandal as the latter is about to [[spoiler:retrieve an unconscious Kiana, but she's no match for Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, and can only cry while clinging to Kiana's jacket as Durandal departs with Kiana. You can whittle down a lot of health bars during the short fight sequence, but it's made moot by Durandal interrupting all controls and activating her Ultimate.]]

*** [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void's ChargedAttack will leave a special debuff on all enemies hit that makes them take more damage from her attacks for 10 seconds.]]

*** Her Lightning Empress suit is the only character that can naturally inflict the "conductive" debuff on enemies, which makes the afflicted enemies take more lightning damage. Her "signature" weapon, Mag-typhoon, can also do this.[[note]]The only other sources of this debuff are one of Himeko's greatswords and one of Kiana/Kallen's guns.[[/note]]
*** [[spoiler:Herrscher of Thunder can inflict "Narukami's Mark" onto enemies with many of her moves. The mark will let her deal more lightning damage onto them and fill her special gauge with her attacks.]]
*** Danzai Spectramancer (Shadow Dash's augment core version) can inflict a special debuff onto enemies with her branch attack or QTE, that makes them take increased physical damage. After she does her Ultimate Skill, her "special clones" (summoned whenever she or her teammates use a branch or ChargedAttack) can also inflict said debuff.

* DieChairDie: The "Post-Honkai Odyssey" Open World features destructible environment objects.

* BeefGate: In Post-Honkai Odyssey, in the "explore" mode, some paths will be blocked by special monsters with an "intel level number" on it. You can only go through after beating those monsters. If your "intel level" (increased by playing its story mode, or completing the tasks, with an ExperienceMeter of its own) matches or surpasses them, you'll have an easier time beating those monsters; you can try attacking them when your intel level is lower, but the challenge would be much harder. In a variant, there are also virtual walls that block your way until you can reach high enough intel levels (depending on the specific wall) to pass through them.

* PensieveFlashback: These are peppered throughout chapter 20. Kiana and Bronya travel to Mt. Taixuan to find clues about Fu Hua, and encounter feathers which, when touched, allow them to experience memories that Fu Hua has excised from her mind for one reason or another, ranging from her teenage years in the Previous Era to her time as a MANTIS soldier to when she was the "Celestial" and training students on Mt. Taixuan. [[spoiler:However, given the reveal at the end of the chapter, it remains to be seen if they are genuine or not.]]

->''"Fight for all that is beautiful in the world."''

* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Most of the Valkyries have at least one battlesuit which has a swimsuit as an optional outfit that can be worn into battle. The exceptions are Fu Hua, Kallen and the Olenyeva twins, who (currently) don't have any such option, and Seele and [[spoiler:Herrscher of the Void]], whose outfits are more like sundresses than actual swimsuits.

** The stages where all 3 of your characters are out at the same time can be exploited to make your characters' panties be exposed on the screen, by having a CPU-controlled character stand behind your current character and close to the walls while the camera focuses on your current character, so that the CPU-controlled character's model stands really close to the camera that some of their clothes "phase" out, potentially revealing their panties. The characters' panties can sometimes have surprisingly intricate patterns.

* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: Some daily stages reward you with [[NonCombatEXP EXP Chips]] to help you level-up Valkyries. In a variant, some other daily stages reward you with upgrading materials for weapons and Stigmata. Playing in CoopMultiplayer also gives your character more EXP per run.

** The Open World introduced in Version 3.8, "Post-Honkai Odyssey", takes place 8 years from the present. Most of the Honkai (forces and energy) has disappeared from the earth as they're sealed on the moon, and the world is in a peaceful era. However, there are mysteries to solve in the South African city, St. Fountain, which the adult Mei and two of her students (of the New St. Freya Academy) are going to investigate. The gameplay also becomes more expansive, akin to ''Videogame/DevilMayCry'' or ''Videogame/NierAutomata'', where the characters can now jump (including DoubleJump) and do attacks in the air and the gameplay becomes more akin to StylishAction.

* AscendedMeme: miHoYo has shrewdly incorporated several of the game's memes into actual content, such as an animation of Rita [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure doing a JoJo pose, complete with Crescent Harvest as her Stand]]; acknowledging delays of Seele actually becoming a playable character; and multiple nods to the fandom treating Theresa's Oath of Judah weapon as an actual character. In the case of the "cabbage hair Ai-chan" jokes, not only has this meme been acknowledged, it was incorporated into the "Empyrean Legends" event by making Ai-chan a cabbage farmer, and then taken even further in the "Timeless Garden" event that lets you farm different varieties of cabbage, several of which are shaped like Ai-chan's head.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: The "Rosemary's Floriograph" event seems like a standard detective mystery fare, even with the truly supernatural elements behind the crime case. The final scene, however... [[spoiler:Irene Adler makes a note about how some of the key people in the case aren't who they seem, and then goes to say "what if Irene Adler is not Irene Adler, and Conan Doyle isn't Conan Doyle?" She then proceeds to ask Doyle who he is, and when he's about to say anything, he suddenly falls silent - as he has a warped view of the Irene in front of him briefly "flashing" into Rita (with the same shot as in the "Sanguine Nights" event) - before he lost consciousness. It then cuts into a text-only scene where "Irene" reveals her real name is Rita Rossweisse - but [[AlternateSelf not the same Rita that we know]]. She's talking to ''Kongming'', who had a deal with her to bring "Doyle" back - as he's actually ''the Captain'' who used his [[MentalTimeTravel consciousness mapping]] to enter the event's world and "become" Doyle. Kongming then says that Rita is different from most people in the Hyperion, but she's closer to the Captain himself. Kongming then warns her about doing or plotting something shady in the ship, but also thanks her (in Kongming's own way) for bringing Captain back.]]

** Seele as Swallowtail Phantasm has a unique black-and-white one at the left side of her head, which also constantly emits blue flames. As Stygian Nymph, she has a white FlowerInHerHair that turns black and red and moves to the other side of her head when she becomes "Dark Seele".

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the "Honkai Quest" event, Seele and Delta find, buried in some leaves and 800 m in front of the Water Djinn’s location, a sign which says that the Water Djhinn isn’t 800 m in front of them. Delta clears away more leaves and find several more signs saying that the Water Djinn isn't ahead of them, which of course mean exactly the opposite.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In Honkai Quest (an event that started in the end of October 2020), the adventurers find 800 m in front of the Water Dschinn’s place a sign which says that the Water Dschinn isn’t 800 m in front of you.