Just a heads up. We missed the captions for Will of the Herrscher but the rest of the videos had them turned on. Hope you all enjoy our longest reaction!
Hello Great reaction for the last animation with elysia and the flame chasers it is indeed a confusing story without context. But in short this story is based around mei and the thirteen flame chasers. 2 of them you know already know fu hua and Kevin (leader of world serpent). Honestly the story is hard to grasp but their is a video dedicated to Elysian realm
For those who played the game, we can agree that Otto is the best villain ever. We love to hate him and hate to love him. Kallen was the only person to ever be his friend and help him open up. We are gonna miss not having Otto.
@@lilisionnach Otto is worth of respect, what you on about? He single handedly rewrote humanity's entire survival chances against the Honkai, all while still having all of his faith on Kallen. Yes, he did awful things, but Otto himself admits hating himself for doing everything that he has done. To disregard your own well being and moral values for one objective, even if everyone shall hate him for it, that is a respectable feat. Oh well, this is how I see it anyway.
@@theforgottenapostle1940 I wouldn't say it's respectable at all. He's a fool. And his actions led to the deaths of millions upon millions of innocents, to what, try and save Kallen, whom he damned himself? If he had pursued the same goal and done so without all the evil, yes that would've been respectable. Instead, he chose to be evil, vindictive, and traitorous. So again, no, not worthy of respect.
The last one was about thirteen people from Previous Era. They were really powerful soldiers, warriors and the last defense of humanity against Honkai. They failed at the last war against final herrscher. What we see now is just memories of them, they created a data space called Elysian Realm and it's a exact copy of the thirteen Flame-chasers and some of the Previous Era. Most of them are dead but there are some unknown cases. Also, Kevin and Fu hua are flame-chasers, they are the only ones that we know as alive. In the cinematic; Elysia(not real one) fought against 12th herrscher, Herrscher of Corruption. She came to the Elysian Realm and started corrupting it. In the end they couldn't stop her and decided to destroy Elysian Realm everything within. So that's the end of the Elysian Realm and Flame-chasers.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Its a shame the story of them is only shown in the game. All 13 of them are very unique charachters with cool stories. And as a sidenote, Mei was send to the Elysian Realm ( the digital memory-mausoleum) to learn more about the Honkai from the previous era. So thats how its connected to the mainstory. The Speech Elysia has while fighting against the Herrscher of corruption was adressed to Mei.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames there is a video that explains their whole arc on the honkai impact channel, also one that helps clarify otto's story too.
Also, just to complement the information of the last animation of Elysia and the Thirteen. They had never acted as a team or something like that. So Elysia's wish, one of them, was to fight all together. And when everyone started to appear even they say "This is something that never happened before", is meant that they finally act as a team and fight together. That's why Elysia was very happy.
This game has been known as Depression Impact due to the tragic events of the story. It’s known for sad endings for the chapters but it has turned more happier further chapters. It’s story made me cry both in sadness and happiness depending on what happens in it. It’s a bag of mixed emotions.
@@GhostChild808 Don’t believe you’re alone in that aspect. Lots of people dropped the game for a multitude of reasons. But if you make it past Chapter 9, it could possibly interest you again.
@@AlexThat200 yeah but at that time I ended up collecting lots of characters. Up to the point to Fischl, after that I stopped and played Genshin and then I dropped that for ToF
To clarify some confusion: - Kallen is Otto's childhood friend, she died 500 years ago, killed by a Honkai beast Otto released in hopes of crashing her execution. In the end he created an alternate timeline where she gets to live (Since in Honkai's Multiverse, time travel doesn't rewrite the present but rather creates a branch) - The characters in the last cutscene are the 13 Flame-Chasers, heroes of the previous era, or rather, lifelike simulations based on them. Kevin and Fu Hua are the only ones that survived to present day. In the cutscene, the Sims sacrifice themselves to destroy the newly born Herrscher of Corruption in the current era
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Fun thing about this setting is that there is NOT INFINITE multiverses. Actual viable branches are something special and few. There are potentially infinite variations in BUBBLE universes forming in Sea of Quanta but they are mix and match reflections of what is going on in viable branches. Gives the creative team the freedom to create fun alternate universes while maintaining CANON of the setting.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I'm WAY TOO LATE but whatever : there's more and more hints added every updates that both Honkai and Genshin are linked somehow, and that's maybe tied to the bubble things, but nobody know (yet at this time, at least) Sorry for my (sometime) broken english, btw ahah
@@fchr0099 a very sufficient and advanced science can be mistakenly and considered as magic as some people would say. It'll get too complex to a point that we just accept it and say it's magic
To let you guys know, there's two more of the operation center videos. One about Otto, and one for Durandal. If you guys are planning in checking out more of Honkai Impact you guys should definitely watch those ones.
Glad u enjoy this hidden gem of a game. By the way, for the last cutscene, the 13 Flamechasers are the heroes from previous era (Fuhua & Kevin also among them if u noticed). Elysian Realm is basically a database maintained by World Serpent, where all the 13 flamechasers memories' were stored for future generations to learn from it. The database somehow infiltrated by a Herrscher of corruption when it was accessed by Mei in the story. & by defeating the herrscher, Elysia basically have to delete the entire realm, thus the memories of their struggle in previous era. Hope this gives a bit of context😊
Okay a second comment around 1:29:20 moment about Mei making huge decision. What you are missing is whole 2 chapters of Kiana putting on a brave face and denying she needs help even as she is obviously dying. Kiana in those chapters pushes help away and that's what makes Mei take drastic measures. She even lied about not being able to taste food anymore. That's why I love the story of this game. They are people, young people even and they make mistakes all the time.
Otto had 2 options, create new timeline or change current timeline. He did all of this to see if current girls are strong enough to save the current world by themselfs and making them stronger. He created new timeline where Kallen Kaslana is alive, with whole other future by saccerfising himself. PS: You need to watch Ottos backstory /Operation And Durandals Story /Operation
I don't think Otto's all that altruistic. Everything he did was to try to revive Kallen. Fortunately he tried different tactics, otherwise we wouldn't have Theresa and Kiana, but he still did a lot of evil. Guess the world of _Honkai_ needs to take it with the good. One one hand, humanity needs to be strong enough to face the Honkai. On the other, the more advanced and powerful humanity is, the stronger the Honkai becomes. Otto is partially responsible for the high rate of Herrscher awakenings in the Current Era. Welt might even be the only one he _wasn't_ responsible for on some level.
Their discussions about the values & morals of the Honkai characters, relating it to all what happens in our world now is really great...especially in our relationships & goals in life that may affect our society & our love ones, even in the smallest ways. This is one of the best reactions I've seen so far...Amazing.
Wow, thanks so much for the kind words. We know most people just watch for the reactions and not the discussion but always love it when people enjoy our discussions as much as we enjoy having them 😊🤗🥳😀
this is so cool that you guys watch background checks like the lore to understand whats happening and having discussions its so interesting to watch i've never seen anyone who reacted to the honkai cutscenes delve into it as much as you guys did i had so much fun watching this💗💗💗💗
Glad you enjoyed it! We don’t mind trying to piece things together but also felt like if there is lore and recap videos available we should take advantage of it in order to get the most out of the story we can. (Without actually playing it because that would take way longer than 2.5 hours 😅) 🤗
Holy Moly I never would have dared to think that you would react to Honkai!!!! It is my favourite game for years and I absolutely love the Story. I'm so thankful that it gets more recognition.TY❤️
OH MY GOD they really just dropped a 2.5h Honkai video out of the blue!!! I LOVE YOU TWO!!! Also, about the whole 13 Flame-Chasers thing, the story is called 'Elysian Realm' and it is about the previous Era, so it all took place before Kiana's journey. The Elysian Realm is the best story Mihoyo ever wrote in my opinion, pure masterpiece filled with tragedy and emotions. I could fill like 10 buckets with all the tears I shed during that story. To sum it up, it is about the 13 forgotten Flame-Chasers who were the last ones to fight for humanity when it needed a hero the most. You explore each of their crusade and life, that's why 'Because of you', their acts of bravery, the sacrifices and their story will never be forgotten. Obviously the only ones that survived are just Fu Hua and Kevin whom you already know..
Appreciate the love 🥰😊🤗 this video has been a long time coming and we’ve been debating how best to tackle Honkai Impact and where to start. Appreciate you telling us about the Elysian Realm and Flame Chasers. Can you only experience it through the game or are their lore videos on that? 🤔🙂
technically there were 5 survivors, but 1 committed suicide, one might have commited suicide, but might also have become a sentient virus instead because reasons? and one is lost in space.
@@DrYesterday from what I remember, of the 13 flame chasers, 2 of them are most definately alive (Hua and kevin are still alive and kicking...for now...); The original Mobius got killed by an AI of their own creation who then took on her identity so I don't know if we consider her dead since technically the original is dead(this is what I atleast thought her story was, could still be wrong); Su them trapped themselves in the seed of Sumeru in an attempt to atone for what the remaining flamechasers' plans (I don't remember if Su's consciousness dissappeared after giving Dudu access to Dea Ancora so he may still be out there. His body on the other hand...I don't think anything survives getting hit by Shamash WHILE wealded by Kevin); Griseo is MIA but is heavily suspected to be the creator of genshin's world since she has the ability to create life through her powers. There's also the fact that she is also called Griseo of the stars which could definately be a possible connection to celestia and the constellations of Genshin.
@@mr.mc.doesntexist7693 mobius's story got a slight extension in elysium everlasting, as far as the sim is concerned, the "real" mobius died in the final herrschers attack after choosing not to go to the cryo pods, but we learn later that she, like what otto does 50 times in the story, transfers her conciousness "somewhere", so her body is destroyed, but she's still around, doing something. probably being the snake that Seele talked to in the sea of quanta IMO.
Otto is like most favourite character in the lore of Honkai. He has done bad things for his selfish reasons but He has done lots of good to the point that humanity wouldn't have as much as a chance against the honkai as they did in this era. He believes the herrschers could fight for humanity. Plus at the end he left his empire to heroes so as they could build for the future after the honkai war ends.
There’s just a few more you’ve missed, so I thought I’d mention them here. >Honkai Chronicles - Otto Apocalypse >Equinox Crusade: The Journey of Durandal >Preview of Honkai Impact 3rd Part 1 Finale Opening I’d love for you guys to check the rest of these out!
It really has been a while since I've seen such a nice reaction to Honkai cinematics. I like how you guys went into the lore, had some feels towards the main characters and pretty much understood what was going on (for the most part). Honkai is not a happy story, but realistic. It's why I personally love the game so much, empathising and connecting with the characters, how they feel, what they think, why they make these decisions is my favorite part of this whole story. For the last part (Talking about Otto's cinematics and Elysia's), there are some videos that have some lore about them, they'll definitely make you understand those cinematics. I personally reccomend Otto's Chronicles (Similar to Kiana's). As an extra, Elysian Realm's story is not connected much with Kiana and the others, however, Raiden Mei was the protagonist in that whole section of Honkai, sadly she did not make an appeareance in the cinematic. I enjoyed a lot this video, thank you!
Since Honkai is made by the same devs as Genshin Impact, you can really feel the story and lore behind this. It's crazy. It's why it's so good. And Otto is best villain. He's one of those, you hate him but love him at the same time kind of guys. This was a really fantastic reaction. Look into Genshin some time in the future, you'll love their story too
@@Melotaku Nothing was spoiled. Saying how emotional you were over a characters death and also saying how much you hated him as a person ain't a spoiler because no examples were given.
@@nencrows_4580 I didn't know he died. I've only played up to Shattered Samsara. (Yeah I know it was a bit dumb of me to read the comments. It's become a habit that I need to break because I keep getting spoiled for things.)
Vidu. Took you two long enough for this. The wait war worth it Edit: I did NOT cry during this video. You guys threw stuff in my eyes. Honest, I did NOT cry Edit 2: can't wait to see you two playing honkai. Just a friendly warning: heart break ahead. We are here for you two
@@ThePsihopatul unlikely- i was a veteran since day1, tried to get back to honkai couple of times but gosh the UI/UX has become convoluted and i didn't know what to do thing first, what's what stuff that is important, or safe to delete, my inventory maxed out- and im too afraid to delete rare mats for crafting and stuff. And the grinding on Elysian realm was awful. I only get back to play Post Odyssey Bronya Onee-sama and ignored the rest. Say is there a friendly guide for beginner or whatnot around here?
basically, otto was a boy who was born into the apocalypse family (a very weathy and respected one), that founded schicksal, a religious organization that later was responsible for defending humanity against the honkai. since his birth, otto was very sensible and fragile, he wasn't specially strong or capable of carrying his family's duties (so he wasn't considered as a heir to the throne of schicksal overseer), though he was extremely bright and liked to build toys as a kid (the airplane you saw on his short), but his talents were ignored by his family. his childhood was very rough, since he was constantly underappreciated by his loved ones, and felt incapable of fulfiling a role that fell upon him at birth; and that was when he met kallen kaslana. a young girl, about the same age as him. she liked to play with him and his toys, and appreciated his genius and creativity. for the first time in his life, otto felt appreciated and content. kallen invited him to "save the world" with her. fast fowarding quite a lot (to when they were already adults), their paths diverged greatly, since during the great plague era, otto conducted inhumane experiments on dying patients (deemed for the greater good), for his fear of abandonment by his family, while kallen, (aka the holy maid) became a "night raven", fighting for the good and beautiful she saw on the world. safe to say that their life styles didn't fit well. when kallen learned about otto's experiments, she was imprisoned by schicksal. while trapped, otto came in contact with her, and helped her escpae in secret. fast forwarding once again, otto learned about kallen's whereabouts, and that she was in danger on yae village, dealing with the herrscher of corruption. after the battle had finished, kallen was able to contain the herrscher, but was severely injured, being sent back to europe for her trial. kallen was sentenced to hanging (the scene you saw of the short). otto tried to save her, but the church had the final word, and his attempts were in vain. on the day she was supposed to be executed, the desperate otto released a honkai beast on the execution grounds, in hopes of disturbing the ceremony and opening a window for kallen to escape. he underestimated kallen's resolve. in the end, kallen died protecting the people from the very same honkai beast otto released to save her. otto was devastated, and his world turned gray once again. in the following centuries, everything he did was to revive kallen; his selfish actions many lives he took, he only did it for love. that's why at the end of the video we see "this is the most selfish thing one can do".
ye but- imagine a place where Otto didn't simp for Kallen- the world would not even last pass middle age against honkai lmao. at the end of the day, Otto is still keeping humanity alive by all of his inventions. Papa Bondrewd and a certain white alien cat who loves to catfish highschool girls would approve. 🤝
Such a well written story is a f2p mobile game (also playable on pc now) is very hard to believe, it’s honestly one of the best stories that I have ever experienced in any content that I have ever consumed, the delivery of the story in game from the voice acting to the build up and the visuals is simply exquisite. Thanks for your reaction to the videos guys I absolutely enjoyed your takes, there are 3 that you missed out on, the durandal and Otto chronicles and the latest trailer which is called “part 1 finale”. The last video of the flamechasers is hard to explain without giving a lot of context from the latest chapters in game. You guys should definitely play the game on or off camera just for the experience. Also if you guys want you can react to the pv trailers (character trailers) which has some amazing music and visuals, you can try reacting to the two concerts too if you want xD
The story of the Flame Chasers is also very interesting, and even if it isn't really appearent, it is also connected in some spoilerwise way to the main story, so checking them out would be really interesting
i loved yalls reaction! you had some really insightful discussions and really nailed the ideas of the story. honkai's story is all about love and loss. i look forward to future videos you make! genshin and honkai both have two incredible concerts if that's something you'd enjoy reacting to.
I...I never expected you two to react to this. Still, thanks for checking out these animations from one of my favorite games. Edit: I would heavily suggest you to check out that Chronicles about Otto Apokalypse if you're curious about what his deal was. And there's another Chronicles about Durandal too - don't skip these two if you can because their parts play quite a vital part in Kiana's personal story. Edit 3: What these animation shorts are really good at doing is that they give you some plots of the game, but leave most of the story unclear to people who don't have context. That's why you are curious on what happened until you check out the game or watch the chronicles. Edit 4: About Elyssia, her name comes from the "Elysium". She's... Well, she's a Heroine from the Previous Era. Let's just say that she's the First Hersherr, who's supposed to end mankind, but chose to side with humanity. She helped humanity to fight Honkai back then, although they kinda failed but she was able to nullify the last Hersherr - which in turn made her last living Hersherr. Then, she asked humans to kill her so the Will of Honkai can't possess her and harm humanity. Thus, making her the First and the Last Hersherr of the Previous Era. Humanity made a copy of her conscience into a server, which served to preserve their history and, in a way, attempt to make her live again. Sounds familiar? Eeyup, this is why Honkai Players jokingly call her "Pink Jesus". 50,000 years later, an extinct-level Hersherr invaded the server; cyber Elyssia and her cyber friends tried to contain it within. But they were too weak. Their solution? Burn the entire server down, killing themselves and the Hersherr with them. Hence, the animation you saw.
Pink Jesus 😂 thanks for giving us more info and we for sure will check our those other chronicle videos we missed. We knew there would be confusion checking out the cutscenes but we tried to minimize it as much as possible with the supplemental videos 🤓
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames your welcome. tbh, due to how lengthy it is when all the animations are put together, I didn't think you guys would react all of these in one go - I thought it'd be a two-parter. XD
I watched 3 hours after it was released and still rewatching it. I love how you approach the reaction by adding some lore videos to get some context and some bonus discussion
Surely a long awaited and fantastic reaction video, great work. Thank you so much for this, can't tell how hyped I was when I first read about your plan on this and you did not disappointed. I just think you did a liitle bit mistake at the end though, jumping straight to "Because of you" from "Thus Spoke Apocalypes", that'll cause a lots of confussion since you haven't heard about the story of the Elysian Realm and the Flame Chaser before. And before that you also miss out the [Otto Apocalypes] Chronicle video, which explain alots about Otto (the best villian ever imo) which is very exciting. I really hope you will give it a try, and also there is also the newest chronicle video which sumarize and explain about Elysia and the Flame Chaser too. Agains, really appreciate your great work and hope to see you react more to this amazing series.
Someone a long time ago had given us a list with all the supplemental videos but since it was over a year ago the last third of the video we kind of had to piece together ourselves which is why it missed some parts 🤗 but just means we have more to check out 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames That is a really good list honestly. You guys should really check out the characters PV video list next. They are great fun to watch even if you don't play the game, great action gameplay showcase and the music are all superb. Some PV even contain some piece of information that may help you understand more of the story (spoiler even).
In the “Because of You” animation!!! that was another arc where Mei went to the elysian realm to find out about the 13 Flame Chasers (which FuHua and Kevin were part of in the past.)
The last one, Because of you needs a lot of context, it is a "mini game" that started after Mei Joins world serpent when Kevin helped her to become a Herrscher, so Elysian Realm event lasted one Year,and it is this virtual place created to tell what happened in the previous era (50 000 years ago), so thats why it makes a lot of references to "computer space", Elysia is the first Herrscher and she is the reason why Kiana and Mei (in the game there are more "good" Herrschers) are able to control their powers, otherwise, they would become just hatred machines, the last images are very very powerful, even if there is no text, most of us cried seeing what the flame chsers were, seeing Eden on her final concert before dying of the Honkai radiation at the very final day of that Era.... Sakura happy with her sister before dreadful events happened, its really amazing how the writters make you care and understand all the characters, and even when u know they are not real, you still care for them, even when they are not even real in the game itself, they are just simulations, ofc, they are sentient and that is explained, but still Elysian Realm was one of the best arcs in the game, everyone tried to defeat the honkai by their own means, even if they were called villians...
Mihoyo does not hold back when it comes to killing off characters. Biggest villian? dies(gloriously), 13 bravest soldiers from the previous era? dies. MC's mentor(red haired mommy)? dies. Kiana's adopted father? dies. her mother? dies (sacrificing herself in battle). The leader of the greatest force against Honkai? dies in battle. This game's story does make a impact in my mental state.
gotta love the takeaways you both got from all the honkai impact 3rd animated shorts... edit: glad that you guys also viewed the honkaiverse story recaps.
I been waiting for so long to see your reaction for all the honkai cinematic and it would be great if you do the the character trailers or also know as pv trailers!
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yes it will be fun to see who gets the best units. Also one thing to keep in mind is that most of the characters will look the same but with different battle suits and elements (ex: Kiana has 6 battle suits) so while it may seem you’re picking the same character your not each have either different combos, ultimate, appearance and roles. Hopefully I made it a little easier to understand?
Wow this is great! I recommended this a long time ago and I wasn’t too sure whether you were gonna check it out. Im super excited to see you view on this game!
Despite waiting for this video for a long time, you two made me watch Aunt Himeko's death over and over again. I cry every time! You can now draft characters. There are so many!
20:26 oh, this hurts way too much. Himeko is one of my favourite Valkyries and that part just kills me to see. I'm hoping (beyond hope) that they'll find a way for her to come back, but it's a long shot at best :'(
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in game, she starts off appearing very 2 dimensional, but her past (which I won't spoil in case you want to go into yourselves) is complex and explains so much about her :)
I never thought about it but yeah that's the main theme of the story, what lengths are you willing to go to for the sake of the person you love? And it does run the gambit of different relationships and the lengths people go to.
"The snap" is still one of the greatest parts of these cutscenes, and I'm glad it carried over into two of Kiana's battle suits - and hopefully it carries over into the new one coming in a few months.
Otto gets a lot of sympathy if you don't actually know his backstory. But he is a villain through and through, who had a one track goal of resurrecting Kallen, his fallen childhood friend and the girl who he loved. I recommend reading through Elan Palatinus (Kallen's story) and Second Eruption (more current time-period) to get a better understanding of Otto's character.
It’s true that ends don’t always justify the means. But Otto seems like a villain created from circumstance and loss which is a more interesting villain than one who just wants power because power is cool 😎🤟
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames that is true, and he is certainly not your normal villain. He’s quite well written, as you can tell by the different reactions to him and his story.
Omg you guys are finally checking it out! Been looking forward to this one! Yeah Def can see you guys getting confused with the last two animations, those last two are quite confusing without any context and it is very confusing even with context. I'm not sure if summarization videos have been released to provide information about those two shorts for setting up the explanation. Trying to make it short, Otto admired the Kallen and how righteous she was and she served as a Nun and strong defender, but due to the greedy corruption within the church they tried to silence her and have her hung. Otto was angered and took over the church at this point after eliminating everyone at the top, and has since been plotting a long game to try and revive Kallen. I think it's been mentioned he doesn't necessarily love Kallen romantically, but more so just admired her so where the greatest gift to the world was killed by the cruelness of the world. Think Green Mile pretty much. In that video he worked to reset the world where Kallen lived. As for the final Short, it follows a copy generated memories/sentience of the past heroes of the previous era. Mei enters the world to get some answers and learns about the past heroes before their failure to save their era. Unbeknownst to Mei she brought in a Herscher that corrupted this digital world and started killing off the heroes in the digital space and is trying to find its way out of this digital world to assault the real world. The pink elf Elysia was the prior era's hero and Herscher that fought for humanity, and knew to keep this current Herscher from escaping she would have to destroy this digital world and all the copied sentience of everybody in this world.
2:13:37 YES!! Btw in the of Mei transformation cutscene you see in credits 2 cubes - one purple and The other one yellow/gold. Those cubes symbolize Mei and Otto.
Himeko dying even after all these years still brings me to tears, I've even seen 5 reactions to this including your's and they all 5 brought tears, I'm just too attached I guess.
crash course on otto: 500 years ago, he had a childhood friend named kallen, distant ancestor of modern kaslanas. she went against the church (which his family ran) and was executed (sorta, the execution got botched because honkai beast attacked, but it turns out that the honkai beast was set loose by otto to free kallen in the confusion, one thing led to another, and she died fighting it to protect the people) this made otto very upset, as she was the love of his life and the only person who every gave him value in himself, thus, he makes a deal with a previous era herrscher to become immortal and gain access to a boat load of knowledge from the technologically advanced previous era. fast forward 500 years or so, he's still working on ressurecting kallen, made some clones, one of them became theresa apocalypse, made some more clones, one became K423, shoved a herrscher in that clone to see if he could use it's power to break the spacetime continuum (it didn't work, but it did help him figure out how to actually break time) he makes another deal with the will of honkai (basically the god of the herrschers) and becomes "the false god" in order to trick kiana and co. into killing him, which allowed him to move his consciousness to a specific place where he could break time and bring kallen back to life. basically, he was evil the whole time in the game because he needed to create very specific circumstances to be killed in so he could do a thing and resurrect his dead girlfriend, whom he may or may not have known was actually a lesbian the entire time (but that's a different story)
I can not tell you .. i have not clicked on a video faster in a while.. i absolutely love hoping to your channel here and there ever since i found you with your league reactions. binged through some world of warcraft stuff as well and more. Absolutely made my day seeing this pop up since Honkai is one of my fav game's i've played and i absolutely loved and bawled my eyes out so many times in their cinematics.. which are just beyond amazing!! Thakns four great videos and reactions.. keep it up !
The whole big sis thing is basically like calling someone you're close to your bro, Bronya and Seele are basically lovers. They're not the only gay relationship either as Kiana is madly in love with Mei and Mei cares a lot back. Considering a future relationship I don't think Mei swings that way. Anyways I don't know if y'all'd be interested but they also have a short anime series on their channel. It's a cooking focused show about the characters appreciating each other and the food they cook. Seele and Bronya do get their beach day there is why I mention it.
Welcome to Hoinkai Impact the Third We have - Tight Gameplay -Cute Waifus - Buiriful Grafics for a Mobile Game - Drepessing Story -Desptessing Story - Depressing Story and not forget Gatcha Mechanis
okay I'm commenting before even watching but judging by the length you guys gave it all the attention so why not. This game is, no joke, my favourite story of all time even though it's still ongoing. I have started playing it as a test for my new phone because I'm a huge fan of action games like Devil May Cry and heard this one has really nice controls for touch screen. Initially was barely paying attention to the story thinking it would be generic shounen type anime story... Did not expect this rollercoaster of pure gold. It is for me firmly at the top with games like Nier:Automata, Witcher 3, Planescape Torment and Disco Elysium how obsessed I am with the characters and the plot of this game. There's insane amount of story in dialogues between character as chapters go on. The story is at it's core a Visual Novel. But oh boy the cinematics of this game are something else. The direction alone is a masterpiece and it's the funniest part because the storyboarders at Hoyoverse were all amateurs. Can't call them that after what they managed to create. No formal film making education. In fact the founders are physics majors and that's why their games have those high concept physics hypothesis in them.
And just in case the "best friends" is codeword for a couple from censourious side. It's actually wild how much they get away with but there is no doubt that Bronya and Seele are a couple and there is no chance in hell Kiana and Mei aren't a couple even with the big falling out during Lament.
@@Zolwiol if u looking combat hack slash combine with open world like DMC5, try "A-Post Honkai Oddyssey 2 / APHO2" in open world honkai impact dlc. This story about time skip 8 years in main story and the mechanic gameplay more like DMC5 (but u first clearing act 1 sakura samsara for opened this dlc) have fun and welcome captain xD
51:17 i quite hate that they didn't explain the part that Mei's father was framed because he support Anti - Entropy (Shicksal's Rival) he wasn't actually a criminal.
You're missing a couple of videos by the way. The Otto and Durandal explanation videos make a lot of things clearer, and the newest End of the World stuff is quite literally the last thing to arrive.
about the lights High-altitude nuclear detonations and electromagnetic bombs can generate EMP that has the potential to damage or destroy electronic devices over widespread areas... and in the video they make it temporary shutdown everything ..
I always like the first video because the dryness in the guy's voice and omission of events I know happened make it feel like a military recruitment video. Even before I learned about most of the stuff I was sure they weren't saying something.
Explanation of Otto's relationships with Kallen, K-423, and the original Kiana: Otto was a very weak child and was looked down upon for it. He met Kallen one day and befriended her (later developing a crush on her as well). Due to his fragile constitution, Otto became a researcher and kinda disregarded morality. Kallen, a very righteous individual, found out and was imprisoned for vigilantism. Otto broke her out, but she was eventually recaptured and scheduled for execution. Otto, desperate to save Kallen, released Honkai beasts into the town to cause mayhem while he rescued her. Instead, she sacrificed herself to save civilians. Later, Otto created clones that could house his soul and managed to live for over 500 years by transferring his soul between them each time they were destroyed. Now then, K-423. Kiana, the descendant of the powerful Schariac and Kaslana lines, was expected top become the most powerful Valkyrie in history, so Otto cloned her and used the Herrscher gem from the recently defeated Herrscher of the Void as a blank soul. Siegfried Kaslana, Kiana's dad, lost faith in Schicksal after Otto literally nuked his wife to defeat the HoV. In fleeing, he took his daughter with him--or so he thought. He had instead taken K-423 and refused to call her by the name of the one she was based on: Kiana. In the end, however, he does name her Kiana after his now-missing daughter after losing his arm to calm her down after she becomes posessed by the HoV for the first time. Lastly, the original Kiana. After her mom died and her dad accidentally fled without her, Otto wiped her memories, made up a past for her, and started training her to become the strongest Valkyrie. She appears as a bit of a side character at the beginning but ends up as a main character closer to the end. sorry about how long-winded this ended up being
First, i'm glad u guys took the time to check these all out, like Genshin, Honkai has a great story though its alot darker with several people dying among other things while also being connected to Genshin. About Seele and Bronya, Seele got thrown into the Sea of Quanta(the dimention between worlds) through a experiment and Bronya was finally able to find her after getting a chance to go there as well only to be saved by Seele and her other side, Veliona.(my favorite) And yes, the Yuri is strong in Honkai, the fact that all playable characters are female only adds to do that. Personally i really like how dark the story is sometimes as well as how the characters develop and love it all. If u like the songs, i personally recommend u check out the Dreamy euphony concert that they did this year, its such a amazing expirience!
also that comment about missing your partners quirks or missing what you would normally think as a bad side such as leaving clothes on the floor idk why but that kinda hit me hard. I think I will definitely miss my girlfriend leaving dishes or clothes out seriously though when she can't do that anymore I'll remember the days when she could.
omg I never would've expected you to react to content from one of my favourite games ever. Been playing this game since the global version launched back in 2018. And yes, there is a huge amount of content to this universe created by Mihoyo, but the story telling and compelling characters are easily the staying points. Edit: damn, Final Lesson was 3rd in the playlist. What a jump straight into the tragic part of the story.
Kallen Kaslana was Otto first friend, and one that Otto loved. After Kallen's death, he blamed himself and tried to bring Kallen back. That happen the middle age. And, in the present time, K-423 is the succesful clone created by Otto. This clone soon kidnapped by Siegfried Kaslana, husband of Cecilia, who are parents of the real Kiana Kaslana who are already missing. Later on, Siegfried Kaslana finally gave his missing daughter name Kiana Kaslana to K-423, the Main Character of Honkai.
Kallen is Otto's first and only love and it wasn't enough for 500 years for him to get over her death. For 500 years, otto apocalypse was looking for a way to bring kallen back to life. in the end he created another future and sacrificed his own life just so she could live in that other future.
Talk about a lore dive. You 2 really tried to understand as much you could and I liked the discussions in-between. ❤️🔥 Honkai is a lot more than what a Gacha game would usually give. It’s got a good cast of characters, amazing animations, and really good story going on. I’m not much of a lore person myself, so I just stick to watching character dynamics as that’s I where I find the most enjoyment out of it all. And I was kind of waiting to see if either of you would cry at one of these animations, but looks like you got the same experience as me looking at things from a surface level perspective. I felt sad, but I didn’t cry at any of this stuff that happened because I was too lazy to read any of the Manhuas or VNs beforehand. So I didn’t connect with the characters that emotionally. But you guys seem to have a deeper interest than me on your first viewing, so maybe you’ll resonate with it more if you look deeper into it. And no matter what anyone from the Honkai and Genshin fandoms say, both games have their merits for being popular and you guys are proof that both can be enjoyed in different ways.
You guys ended up confusing Kallen with Kiana. Kallen was Kiana's many-times great-aunt from the 15th century. Kallen was a Shicksal Valkyrie of that time, but believed in protecting people, whereas Schicksal at that time was very power-hungry, so Kallen, being a bit of a wild child, rebelled but was caught. Otto, who was not in line to inherit the leadership of House Apocalypse and Schicksal, was also sickly as a boy, but he was extremely inventive. Unfortunately, Kallen was the first person in his life to give him encouragement designing and building things, like the small plane seen in 'Thus Spoke Apocalypse.' Otto and Kallen went on many adventures together, but when Kallen found out about Schicksal's inhumane experiments, even to find a cure for the Plague, and that Otto was a part of them, she couldn't be with him anymore. Still, she was Otto's only friend, and when she agreed to be hanged as a scapegoat for Schicksal's failures, Otto decided he couldn't stand by and let her die. He released a horde of Honkai beasts into the square where execution was taking place, hoping to use it as a distraction to rescue Kallen and escape with her. But Kallen, being a Kaslana, fought the Honkai beasts, but died while fighting a large one unarmed. Otto spent the rest of his life trying to find ways to bring her back to life. He also extended his own life by transferring his consciousness from his still-living body into primitive clones made of an adaptive substance called 'soulium.' He couldn't do this with Kallen since she'd already died, though, but he would try various means, like cloning, which would carry into the 1970s. But he also heard that there was a Herrscher with power over death who could possibly bring people back to life, which was why he wanted to tame the Herrscher of the Void. You're also confusing Kallen's father with Siegfried, Kiana's father. Siegfried Kaslana was a Schicksal Knight who became a rogue hero, only to work with Schicksal again after falling in love with their best Valkyrie, Cecilia Scheriac. After they married, with approval from Otto as Schicksal's Overseer, Kiana was born. She was expected to have unparalleled power, having a Kaslana's fighting prowess and a Scheriac's holy blood, but she didn't show any particular power -- which was what Cecilia preferred. But then in 2000, the Second Honkai War happened. Sieg and Cecilia were among those deployed to stop Sirin. Cecilia sacrificed herself to protect the others, and Sieg survived. Otto would make a clone based on Kiana and Sirin, and implant the Gem of Serenity into it. Because Cecilia had shown Sirin a mother's love, Sirin passed away with a strong desire to see Cecilia again. So when one of the clones became conscious, there were two warring wills: One that desired humanity's destruction, and one that desired a mother's love. One was the Herrscher of the Void, and the other became Kiana's personality. Sieg joined Anti-Entropy over Otto's actions during the Second Honkai War, taking Kiana with him. When they learned about the clone, they mounted a rescue operation, but while making their getaway, Kiana was thrown from their craft. Otto declared she'd died. Sieg took care of the clone, K-423, as you saw, until he realized he might trigger another awakening. The rest is as you saw.
Awesome to see you guys reacting to the honkai series! If you like this, Genshin Impact cutscenes should be appealing to you all too. Also, Onmyoji CG animations are also amazing, though I am unfortunately unaware of any videos explaining the full context of that game. It's still worth it for the epic and cool animations in that series!
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames completely understandable. It's a lot to take in. (And a lot of text 😂) Given some of the reactions to this, and how you like stories that spark conversation, Onmyoji has a number of stories telling the tales of characters in a similarly thought provoking way, with good animation to boot. Aside from the lack of the overall context of the main story, they definitely seem like the sort of thing you both would enjoy.
The Flamechasers are the heroes from the Previous Era 50000 years ago and are much stronger than the Herrschers. It's members include: - Elysia (Miss Pink Elf and Herrscher of Human Ego...the main reason why some Herrschers could keep their humanity) - Kevin Kaslana (ancestor of the Kaslanas and one of two surviving Flamechasers. Hes the World Serpent founder and the guy who fought Durandal) - Fu Hua (the second of the surviving Flamechasers...yes...OUR Fu Hua) - Kalpas (masked guy) - Griseo (blue haired painter girl) - Pardofelis (cat girl vendor and the bravest of the bunch) - Aponia (butterfly nun lady) - Eden (the brunette who is "friends" with Elysia) - Kosmas - the green haired teen - Mobius - the green haired curly snake girl who called Elysia annoying - Sakura - The other pink haired girl but with animal ears - Su - Green haired guy with eyes closed - Vill-V - Not fortune teller but eccentric inventor with split personality disorder.
Although Otto Apocalypse is the villain, if I consider how unfair the world was with Kallen, I understand that he doesn't mind destroying the universe just to save her
Just a heads up. We missed the captions for Will of the Herrscher but the rest of the videos had them turned on. Hope you all enjoy our longest reaction!
Hello Great reaction for the last animation with elysia and the flame chasers it is indeed a confusing story without context. But in short this story is based around mei and the thirteen flame chasers. 2 of them you know already know fu hua and Kevin (leader of world serpent). Honestly the story is hard to grasp but their is a video dedicated to Elysian realm
It's ok we remember all quotes
This is your best video!! I knew that it would be so good. Thats why i was recommending it quite often.
Hey can yall please do a reaction to warcrafts stupidest dragon by platinum wow thanks
Thank you for your reaction to honkai impact 😍
For those who played the game, we can agree that Otto is the best villain ever. We love to hate him and hate to love him. Kallen was the only person to ever be his friend and help him open up. We are gonna miss not having Otto.
yeah ngl hes a good simp for kallen i cant hate him at all
I hate him but i respect him
Throw his human heart to his love one
he's a great villain, but never gonna love or respect him. Doesn't deserve it.
@@lilisionnach Otto is worth of respect, what you on about?
He single handedly rewrote humanity's entire survival chances against the Honkai, all while still having all of his faith on Kallen. Yes, he did awful things, but Otto himself admits hating himself for doing everything that he has done. To disregard your own well being and moral values for one objective, even if everyone shall hate him for it, that is a respectable feat. Oh well, this is how I see it anyway.
@@theforgottenapostle1940 I wouldn't say it's respectable at all. He's a fool. And his actions led to the deaths of millions upon millions of innocents, to what, try and save Kallen, whom he damned himself? If he had pursued the same goal and done so without all the evil, yes that would've been respectable. Instead, he chose to be evil, vindictive, and traitorous. So again, no, not worthy of respect.
The last one was about thirteen people from Previous Era. They were really powerful soldiers, warriors and the last defense of humanity against Honkai. They failed at the last war against final herrscher. What we see now is just memories of them, they created a data space called Elysian Realm and it's a exact copy of the thirteen Flame-chasers and some of the Previous Era. Most of them are dead but there are some unknown cases. Also, Kevin and Fu hua are flame-chasers, they are the only ones that we know as alive. In the cinematic; Elysia(not real one) fought against 12th herrscher, Herrscher of Corruption. She came to the Elysian Realm and started corrupting it. In the end they couldn't stop her and decided to destroy Elysian Realm everything within. So that's the end of the Elysian Realm and Flame-chasers.
Thanks for explaining the flame chasers to us. Was definitely one of the more confusing ones we watched 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Its a shame the story of them is only shown in the game.
All 13 of them are very unique charachters with cool stories.
And as a sidenote, Mei was send to the Elysian Realm ( the digital memory-mausoleum) to learn more about the Honkai from the previous era. So thats how its connected to the mainstory. The Speech Elysia has while fighting against the Herrscher of corruption was adressed to Mei.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames there is a video that explains their whole arc on the honkai impact channel, also one that helps clarify otto's story too.
Also, just to complement the information of the last animation of Elysia and the Thirteen. They had never acted as a team or something like that. So Elysia's wish, one of them, was to fight all together. And when everyone started to appear even they say "This is something that never happened before", is meant that they finally act as a team and fight together. That's why Elysia was very happy.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames oh also, there is a manga too, if you want to check out.
This game has been known as Depression Impact due to the tragic events of the story. It’s known for sad endings for the chapters but it has turned more happier further chapters. It’s story made me cry both in sadness and happiness depending on what happens in it. It’s a bag of mixed emotions.
Yeah when something is depressing most of the time, to the point of us being used to it, it can invoke tears of joy when something happy happens.
Never gone far in the story, just got too lazy to do it. I think the last time I'm on is on chapter 6 or sumthin
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Don’t believe you’re alone in that aspect.
Lots of people dropped the game for a multitude of reasons.
But if you make it past Chapter 9, it could possibly interest you again.
@@AlexThat200 yeah but at that time I ended up collecting lots of characters. Up to the point to Fischl, after that I stopped and played Genshin and then I dropped that for ToF
da wei just woke up one day and want to know how much depression he can fit into one series before being called grimdark
To clarify some confusion:
- Kallen is Otto's childhood friend, she died 500 years ago, killed by a Honkai beast Otto released in hopes of crashing her execution. In the end he created an alternate timeline where she gets to live (Since in Honkai's Multiverse, time travel doesn't rewrite the present but rather creates a branch)
- The characters in the last cutscene are the 13 Flame-Chasers, heroes of the previous era, or rather, lifelike simulations based on them. Kevin and Fu Hua are the only ones that survived to present day. In the cutscene, the Sims sacrifice themselves to destroy the newly born Herrscher of Corruption in the current era
Always find it more interesting when they do branches in time and alternate timelines 🙂 thanks for helping clarify some things we were confused on 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Fun thing about this setting is that there is NOT INFINITE multiverses. Actual viable branches are something special and few.
There are potentially infinite variations in BUBBLE universes forming in Sea of Quanta but they are mix and match reflections of what is going on in viable branches. Gives the creative team the freedom to create fun alternate universes while maintaining CANON of the setting.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I'm WAY TOO LATE but whatever : there's more and more hints added every updates that both Honkai and Genshin are linked somehow, and that's maybe tied to the bubble things, but nobody know (yet at this time, at least)
Sorry for my (sometime) broken english, btw ahah
@@nyseetem the CEO actually say that Genshin and Honkai are connected
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@@navalinomilzamashshidqi5384 I never said anything against that, I just talked about the hints, that's it.
Honkai lore is basically just a history lesson
instead of honkai impact it is more like Depression Impact once you know the lore and the background information
@@supachatto-san9035 ya
History and complicated sci-fi thing 🤯
And I still find ppl who dont play this game just call this a "usual girl game" when it's not about that kind of girl game 😂
@@fchr0099 a very sufficient and advanced science can be mistakenly and considered as magic as some people would say.
It'll get too complex to a point that we just accept it and say it's magic
To let you guys know, there's two more of the operation center videos. One about Otto, and one for Durandal. If you guys are planning in checking out more of Honkai Impact you guys should definitely watch those ones.
There's also the final arc trailer hehe
Thanks for letting us know. We will definitely want to check those out. Especially the one on Otto 😀
Also lore for elysian realm with chibi mode :v
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames If you're planning to do the rest, please also watch Mobius' Lab.
Glad u enjoy this hidden gem of a game. By the way, for the last cutscene, the 13 Flamechasers are the heroes from previous era (Fuhua & Kevin also among them if u noticed).
Elysian Realm is basically a database maintained by World Serpent, where all the 13 flamechasers memories' were stored for future generations to learn from it.
The database somehow infiltrated by a Herrscher of corruption when it was accessed by Mei in the story. & by defeating the herrscher, Elysia basically have to delete the entire realm, thus the memories of their struggle in previous era. Hope this gives a bit of context😊
It gave us some good context for the last cinematic. Thank you! 😊🤗😀
Okay a second comment around 1:29:20 moment about Mei making huge decision. What you are missing is whole 2 chapters of Kiana putting on a brave face and denying she needs help even as she is obviously dying. Kiana in those chapters pushes help away and that's what makes Mei take drastic measures. She even lied about not being able to taste food anymore.
That's why I love the story of this game. They are people, young people even and they make mistakes all the time.
Otto had 2 options, create new timeline or change current timeline. He did all of this to see if current girls are strong enough to save the current world by themselfs and making them stronger. He created new timeline where Kallen Kaslana is alive, with whole other future by saccerfising himself.
PS:
You need to watch Ottos backstory /Operation
And Durandals Story /Operation
More backstory videos and lore to check out! Works for us 😀
I don't think Otto's all that altruistic. Everything he did was to try to revive Kallen. Fortunately he tried different tactics, otherwise we wouldn't have Theresa and Kiana, but he still did a lot of evil. Guess the world of _Honkai_ needs to take it with the good. One one hand, humanity needs to be strong enough to face the Honkai. On the other, the more advanced and powerful humanity is, the stronger the Honkai becomes. Otto is partially responsible for the high rate of Herrscher awakenings in the Current Era. Welt might even be the only one he _wasn't_ responsible for on some level.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames can you include version trailers too? Among them are some informative, like flamechasers' greetings
Their discussions about the values & morals of the Honkai characters, relating it to all what happens in our world now is really great...especially in our relationships & goals in life that may affect our society & our love ones, even in the smallest ways. This is one of the best reactions I've seen so far...Amazing.
Wow, thanks so much for the kind words. We know most people just watch for the reactions and not the discussion but always love it when people enjoy our discussions as much as we enjoy having them 😊🤗🥳😀
this is so cool that you guys watch background checks like the lore to understand whats happening and having discussions its so interesting to watch i've never seen anyone who reacted to the honkai cutscenes delve into it as much as you guys did i had so much fun watching this💗💗💗💗
Glad you enjoyed it! We don’t mind trying to piece things together but also felt like if there is lore and recap videos available we should take advantage of it in order to get the most out of the story we can. (Without actually playing it because that would take way longer than 2.5 hours 😅) 🤗
I forgot that they use See You in the Next World during Kiana’s Chronicles
the feels hit me like a truck
Final Lesson will never not make me tear up...
Congrats then.
The "i will kill for can of beer" before the final lesson always hit hard.
Holy Moly I never would have dared to think that you would react to Honkai!!!! It is my favourite game for years and I absolutely love the Story. I'm so thankful that it gets more recognition.TY❤️
We’ve been meaning to check it out for awhile and are happy we finally got around to it 😊😀🥳
OH MY GOD they really just dropped a 2.5h Honkai video out of the blue!!! I LOVE YOU TWO!!!
Also, about the whole 13 Flame-Chasers thing, the story is called 'Elysian Realm' and it is about the previous Era, so it all took place before Kiana's journey. The Elysian Realm is the best story Mihoyo ever wrote in my opinion, pure masterpiece filled with tragedy and emotions. I could fill like 10 buckets with all the tears I shed during that story.
To sum it up, it is about the 13 forgotten Flame-Chasers who were the last ones to fight for humanity when it needed a hero the most. You explore each of their crusade and life, that's why 'Because of you', their acts of bravery, the sacrifices and their story will never be forgotten. Obviously the only ones that survived are just Fu Hua and Kevin whom you already know..
Appreciate the love 🥰😊🤗 this video has been a long time coming and we’ve been debating how best to tackle Honkai Impact and where to start.
Appreciate you telling us about the Elysian Realm and Flame Chasers. Can you only experience it through the game or are their lore videos on that? 🤔🙂
technically there were 5 survivors, but 1 committed suicide, one might have commited suicide, but might also have become a sentient virus instead because reasons? and one is lost in space.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames There's Elysian Realm in a Nutshell:
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@@DrYesterday from what I remember, of the 13 flame chasers, 2 of them are most definately alive (Hua and kevin are still alive and kicking...for now...);
The original Mobius got killed by an AI of their own creation who then took on her identity so I don't know if we consider her dead since technically the original is dead(this is what I atleast thought her story was, could still be wrong);
Su them trapped themselves in the seed of Sumeru in an attempt to atone for what the remaining flamechasers' plans (I don't remember if Su's consciousness dissappeared after giving Dudu access to Dea Ancora so he may still be out there. His body on the other hand...I don't think anything survives getting hit by Shamash WHILE wealded by Kevin);
Griseo is MIA but is heavily suspected to be the creator of genshin's world since she has the ability to create life through her powers. There's also the fact that she is also called Griseo of the stars which could definately be a possible connection to celestia and the constellations of Genshin.
@@mr.mc.doesntexist7693 mobius's story got a slight extension in elysium everlasting, as far as the sim is concerned, the "real" mobius died in the final herrschers attack after choosing not to go to the cryo pods, but we learn later that she, like what otto does 50 times in the story, transfers her conciousness "somewhere", so her body is destroyed, but she's still around, doing something. probably being the snake that Seele talked to in the sea of quanta IMO.
Came here for the reaction , got life lessons as a bonus.
100% worth my time.
Thank you.
You are amazing 👍✨
🥰🤗 glad you enjoyed the reaction and bonus discussion 🥳🥳
Otto is like most favourite character in the lore of Honkai. He has done bad things for his selfish reasons but He has done lots of good to the point that humanity wouldn't have as much as a chance against the honkai as they did in this era.
He believes the herrschers could fight for humanity. Plus at the end he left his empire to heroes so as they could build for the future after the honkai war ends.
Wish we had learned more about him in our initial journey. But that just means we have more to explore 😅
There’s just a few more you’ve missed, so I thought I’d mention them here.
>Honkai Chronicles - Otto Apocalypse
>Equinox Crusade: The Journey of Durandal
>Preview of Honkai Impact 3rd Part 1 Finale Opening
I’d love for you guys to check the rest of these out!
Thanks for letting us know the rest we need to see 😀
It really has been a while since I've seen such a nice reaction to Honkai cinematics. I like how you guys went into the lore, had some feels towards the main characters and pretty much understood what was going on (for the most part). Honkai is not a happy story, but realistic. It's why I personally love the game so much, empathising and connecting with the characters, how they feel, what they think, why they make these decisions is my favorite part of this whole story.
For the last part (Talking about Otto's cinematics and Elysia's), there are some videos that have some lore about them, they'll definitely make you understand those cinematics. I personally reccomend Otto's Chronicles (Similar to Kiana's). As an extra, Elysian Realm's story is not connected much with Kiana and the others, however, Raiden Mei was the protagonist in that whole section of Honkai, sadly she did not make an appeareance in the cinematic.
I enjoyed a lot this video, thank you!
Since Honkai is made by the same devs as Genshin Impact, you can really feel the story and lore behind this. It's crazy. It's why it's so good. And Otto is best villain. He's one of those, you hate him but love him at the same time kind of guys. This was a really fantastic reaction. Look into Genshin some time in the future, you'll love their story too
Yeh I love to hate him while getting emotional over his death.
@@nencrows_4580 God damn it I didn't think I get spoiled today but here we are
@@Melotaku Nothing was spoiled. Saying how emotional you were over a characters death and also saying how much you hated him as a person ain't a spoiler because no examples were given.
@@nencrows_4580 I didn't know he died. I've only played up to Shattered Samsara. (Yeah I know it was a bit dumb of me to read the comments. It's become a habit that I need to break because I keep getting spoiled for things.)
@@Melotaku Surprised you didn't get spoiled sooner tbh. However, I'm sorry that I spoiled you.
For eons i have waited
I think it’s actually been a literal year
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Vidu. Took you two long enough for this. The wait war worth it
Edit: I did NOT cry during this video. You guys threw stuff in my eyes. Honest, I did NOT cry
Edit 2: can't wait to see you two playing honkai. Just a friendly warning: heart break ahead. We are here for you two
It was indeed a long time coming. Which is why the video length kept growing haha. And sorry for throwing stuff in your eyes 😜🥲🤗
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames do let us know if our beautiful couple is going to play the game ;)
@@ThePsihopatul unlikely- i was a veteran since day1, tried to get back to honkai couple of times but gosh the UI/UX has become convoluted and i didn't know what to do thing first, what's what stuff that is important, or safe to delete, my inventory maxed out- and im too afraid to delete rare mats for crafting and stuff. And the grinding on Elysian realm was awful. I only get back to play Post Odyssey Bronya Onee-sama and ignored the rest. Say is there a friendly guide for beginner or whatnot around here?
basically, otto was a boy who was born into the apocalypse family (a very weathy and respected one), that founded schicksal, a religious organization that later was responsible for defending humanity against the honkai. since his birth, otto was very sensible and fragile, he wasn't specially strong or capable of carrying his family's duties (so he wasn't considered as a heir to the throne of schicksal overseer), though he was extremely bright and liked to build toys as a kid (the airplane you saw on his short), but his talents were ignored by his family. his childhood was very rough, since he was constantly underappreciated by his loved ones, and felt incapable of fulfiling a role that fell upon him at birth; and that was when he met kallen kaslana. a young girl, about the same age as him. she liked to play with him and his toys, and appreciated his genius and creativity. for the first time in his life, otto felt appreciated and content. kallen invited him to "save the world" with her. fast fowarding quite a lot (to when they were already adults), their paths diverged greatly, since during the great plague era, otto conducted inhumane experiments on dying patients (deemed for the greater good), for his fear of abandonment by his family, while kallen, (aka the holy maid) became a "night raven", fighting for the good and beautiful she saw on the world. safe to say that their life styles didn't fit well. when kallen learned about otto's experiments, she was imprisoned by schicksal. while trapped, otto came in contact with her, and helped her escpae in secret. fast forwarding once again, otto learned about kallen's whereabouts, and that she was in danger on yae village, dealing with the herrscher of corruption. after the battle had finished, kallen was able to contain the herrscher, but was severely injured, being sent back to europe for her trial. kallen was sentenced to hanging (the scene you saw of the short). otto tried to save her, but the church had the final word, and his attempts were in vain. on the day she was supposed to be executed, the desperate otto released a honkai beast on the execution grounds, in hopes of disturbing the ceremony and opening a window for kallen to escape. he underestimated kallen's resolve. in the end, kallen died protecting the people from the very same honkai beast otto released to save her. otto was devastated, and his world turned gray once again. in the following centuries, everything he did was to revive kallen; his selfish actions many lives he took, he only did it for love. that's why at the end of the video we see "this is the most selfish thing one can do".
Thanks for giving us all this info on Otto 🙂
ye but- imagine a place where Otto didn't simp for Kallen- the world would not even last pass middle age against honkai lmao. at the end of the day, Otto is still keeping humanity alive by all of his inventions. Papa Bondrewd and a certain white alien cat who loves to catfish highschool girls would approve. 🤝
Such a well written story is a f2p mobile game (also playable on pc now) is very hard to believe, it’s honestly one of the best stories that I have ever experienced in any content that I have ever consumed, the delivery of the story in game from the voice acting to the build up and the visuals is simply exquisite. Thanks for your reaction to the videos guys I absolutely enjoyed your takes, there are 3 that you missed out on, the durandal and Otto chronicles and the latest trailer which is called “part 1 finale”. The last video of the flamechasers is hard to explain without giving a lot of context from the latest chapters in game. You guys should definitely play the game on or off camera just for the experience. Also if you guys want you can react to the pv trailers (character trailers) which has some amazing music and visuals, you can try reacting to the two concerts too if you want xD
The story of the Flame Chasers is also very interesting, and even if it isn't really appearent, it is also connected in some spoilerwise way to the main story, so checking them out would be really interesting
We’ve been seeing in comments that the story is very good for flame chasers 😀
Really love how your reaction video goes smoothly with the insert discussions between those important parts.
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i loved yalls reaction! you had some really insightful discussions and really nailed the ideas of the story. honkai's story is all about love and loss.
i look forward to future videos you make!
genshin and honkai both have two incredible concerts if that's something you'd enjoy reacting to.
We didn’t know they had concerts. We generally don’t dive into music but that can always change. Glad you enjoyed the reaction 😀🤗🥳
I...I never expected you two to react to this. Still, thanks for checking out these animations from one of my favorite games.
Edit: I would heavily suggest you to check out that Chronicles about Otto Apokalypse if you're curious about what his deal was. And there's another Chronicles about Durandal too - don't skip these two if you can because their parts play quite a vital part in Kiana's personal story.
Edit 3: What these animation shorts are really good at doing is that they give you some plots of the game, but leave most of the story unclear to people who don't have context. That's why you are curious on what happened until you check out the game or watch the chronicles.
Edit 4: About Elyssia, her name comes from the "Elysium". She's... Well, she's a Heroine from the Previous Era. Let's just say that she's the First Hersherr, who's supposed to end mankind, but chose to side with humanity. She helped humanity to fight Honkai back then, although they kinda failed but she was able to nullify the last Hersherr - which in turn made her last living Hersherr. Then, she asked humans to kill her so the Will of Honkai can't possess her and harm humanity. Thus, making her the First and the Last Hersherr of the Previous Era. Humanity made a copy of her conscience into a server, which served to preserve their history and, in a way, attempt to make her live again. Sounds familiar? Eeyup, this is why Honkai Players jokingly call her "Pink Jesus". 50,000 years later, an extinct-level Hersherr invaded the server; cyber Elyssia and her cyber friends tried to contain it within. But they were too weak. Their solution? Burn the entire server down, killing themselves and the Hersherr with them. Hence, the animation you saw.
Pink Jesus 😂 thanks for giving us more info and we for sure will check our those other chronicle videos we missed.
We knew there would be confusion checking out the cutscenes but we tried to minimize it as much as possible with the supplemental videos 🤓
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames your welcome. tbh, due to how lengthy it is when all the animations are put together, I didn't think you guys would react all of these in one go - I thought it'd be a two-parter. XD
Just checked the video length, 2 and a half hours of Honkai reactions! Thanks!!!
Our pleasure 😁🤗
I watched 3 hours after it was released and still rewatching it. I love how you approach the reaction by adding some lore videos to get some context and some bonus discussion
Surely a long awaited and fantastic reaction video, great work. Thank you so much for this, can't tell how hyped I was when I first read about your plan on this and you did not disappointed. I just think you did a liitle bit mistake at the end though, jumping straight to "Because of you" from "Thus Spoke Apocalypes", that'll cause a lots of confussion since you haven't heard about the story of the Elysian Realm and the Flame Chaser before. And before that you also miss out the [Otto Apocalypes] Chronicle video, which explain alots about Otto (the best villian ever imo) which is very exciting. I really hope you will give it a try, and also there is also the newest chronicle video which sumarize and explain about Elysia and the Flame Chaser too. Agains, really appreciate your great work and hope to see you react more to this amazing series.
Someone a long time ago had given us a list with all the supplemental videos but since it was over a year ago the last third of the video we kind of had to piece together ourselves which is why it missed some parts 🤗 but just means we have more to check out 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames That is a really good list honestly. You guys should really check out the characters PV video list next. They are great fun to watch even if you don't play the game, great action gameplay showcase and the music are all superb. Some PV even contain some piece of information that may help you understand more of the story (spoiler even).
Legit just popped in my recommended. You guys will love the story if you decide to ever dive deeper! ❤
We’ve enjoyed what we saw so good chance we will continue exploring 🙂
In the “Because of You” animation!!! that was another arc where Mei went to the elysian realm to find out about the 13 Flame Chasers (which FuHua and Kevin were part of in the past.)
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The last one, Because of you needs a lot of context, it is a "mini game" that started after Mei Joins world serpent when Kevin helped her to become a Herrscher, so Elysian Realm event lasted one Year,and it is this virtual place created to tell what happened in the previous era (50 000 years ago), so thats why it makes a lot of references to "computer space", Elysia is the first Herrscher and she is the reason why Kiana and Mei (in the game there are more "good" Herrschers) are able to control their powers, otherwise, they would become just hatred machines, the last images are very very powerful, even if there is no text, most of us cried seeing what the flame chsers were, seeing Eden on her final concert before dying of the Honkai radiation at the very final day of that Era.... Sakura happy with her sister before dreadful events happened, its really amazing how the writters make you care and understand all the characters, and even when u know they are not real, you still care for them, even when they are not even real in the game itself, they are just simulations, ofc, they are sentient and that is explained, but still Elysian Realm was one of the best arcs in the game, everyone tried to defeat the honkai by their own means, even if they were called villians...
Mihoyo does not hold back when it comes to killing off characters. Biggest villian? dies(gloriously), 13 bravest soldiers from the previous era? dies. MC's mentor(red haired mommy)? dies. Kiana's adopted father? dies. her mother? dies (sacrificing herself in battle). The leader of the greatest force against Honkai? dies in battle. This game's story does make a impact in my mental state.
gotta love the takeaways you both got from all the honkai impact 3rd animated shorts...
edit: glad that you guys also viewed the honkaiverse story recaps.
The Honkai verse recaps were super helpful so we are glad to have checked them out as well. And happy you enjoyed our discussion on the cinematics 😀
You don't even realize how much I love your reactions
Aww. Thanks so much. Happy to hear it 😀🥰
I wish honkai will get more popular and noticable
I literally can't describe how much they deserve it
I been waiting for so long to see your reaction for all the honkai cinematic and it would be great if you do the the character trailers or also know as pv trailers!
Was gonna type this but u already did man :)
We’ve been told a Honkai Character Draft is a must 😅🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yes it will be fun to see who gets the best units. Also one thing to keep in mind is that most of the characters will look the same but with different battle suits and elements (ex: Kiana has 6 battle suits) so while it may seem you’re picking the same character your not each have either different combos, ultimate, appearance and roles. Hopefully I made it a little easier to understand?
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames U can see the evolution of their trailers and the music bangs
2 months later but finally watched this all the way.
Wow this is great! I recommended this a long time ago and I wasn’t too sure whether you were gonna check it out. Im super excited to see you view on this game!
It sometimes takes us awhile (in this case over a year) to get to some games and requests but we try our best to get to them 😊🤗
You could say the people waiting for this could feel it coming In the Air Tonight. As if they've been waiting for this reaction for all their life.
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Despite waiting for this video for a long time, you two made me watch Aunt Himeko's death over and over again. I cry every time!
You can now draft characters. There are so many!
Thanks for your patience in waiting for the video. 😊🤗
That was an A M A Z I N G reaction guys. I hope to see more of Honkai here.
Btw, you guys miss the Otto Apocalypse - Chronicles.
Glad you enjoyed the reaction! And bummed we missed the Otto chronicles but that just means we have more to look forward to 😊
20:26 oh, this hurts way too much. Himeko is one of my favourite Valkyries and that part just kills me to see. I'm hoping (beyond hope) that they'll find a way for her to come back, but it's a long shot at best :'(
😢 just from the little we saw of her Himeko made quite the impression 🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in game, she starts off appearing very 2 dimensional, but her past (which I won't spoil in case you want to go into yourselves) is complex and explains so much about her :)
copium but i feel this 🥲🥲🥲
Great reactions and love that you guys are finally diving into this, but you guys knew there was a sub for every animation right?
they realized it partway through
There was some screwy things going on with captions for first couple videos. 😅 but we managed to finally get it on 🥳
I never thought about it but yeah that's the main theme of the story, what lengths are you willing to go to for the sake of the person you love? And it does run the gambit of different relationships and the lengths people go to.
Love is at the center of all good stories. Lack of love. Love of power. Love of money. Love lost. Found. Etc. 🥰🤗
"The snap" is still one of the greatest parts of these cutscenes, and I'm glad it carried over into two of Kiana's battle suits - and hopefully it carries over into the new one coming in a few months.
Otto gets a lot of sympathy if you don't actually know his backstory. But he is a villain through and through, who had a one track goal of resurrecting Kallen, his fallen childhood friend and the girl who he loved. I recommend reading through Elan Palatinus (Kallen's story) and Second Eruption (more current time-period) to get a better understanding of Otto's character.
It’s true that ends don’t always justify the means. But Otto seems like a villain created from circumstance and loss which is a more interesting villain than one who just wants power because power is cool 😎🤟
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames that is true, and he is certainly not your normal villain. He’s quite well written, as you can tell by the different reactions to him and his story.
I'm really glad you guys decided to choose Honkai Impact. After seeing your positive reactions with Genshin Impact, I knew good things were coming.
We are glad we finally got around to checking Honkai out 😀
Thank you for reacting to this story, it was a great reaction and analysis and interpretation. Thank you again.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it 🥳🥳
Oh my God yes! I have been waiting for this for so long!!
Thanks for your patience! 😀🥳🤗
Omg you guys are finally checking it out! Been looking forward to this one!
Yeah Def can see you guys getting confused with the last two animations, those last two are quite confusing without any context and it is very confusing even with context. I'm not sure if summarization videos have been released to provide information about those two shorts for setting up the explanation.
Trying to make it short, Otto admired the Kallen and how righteous she was and she served as a Nun and strong defender, but due to the greedy corruption within the church they tried to silence her and have her hung. Otto was angered and took over the church at this point after eliminating everyone at the top, and has since been plotting a long game to try and revive Kallen. I think it's been mentioned he doesn't necessarily love Kallen romantically, but more so just admired her so where the greatest gift to the world was killed by the cruelness of the world. Think Green Mile pretty much. In that video he worked to reset the world where Kallen lived.
As for the final Short, it follows a copy generated memories/sentience of the past heroes of the previous era. Mei enters the world to get some answers and learns about the past heroes before their failure to save their era. Unbeknownst to Mei she brought in a Herscher that corrupted this digital world and started killing off the heroes in the digital space and is trying to find its way out of this digital world to assault the real world. The pink elf Elysia was the prior era's hero and Herscher that fought for humanity, and knew to keep this current Herscher from escaping she would have to destroy this digital world and all the copied sentience of everybody in this world.
Thanks for helping clear up our confusion on the last two cinematics 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames No problem, looking forward to more content. Looking forward to new shows you two watch.
Thanks for this. I love Honkai Impact 3rd!
I was so shocked to see this - reacting to my favorite games back to back, like, l4d and honkai impact in one channel? You guys are awesome.
Oh my god... I hope you were ready to cry, like a lot...
Thanks for share this in your channel
Our pleasure. We probably would’ve shed some tears had we played through the entire story to really be invested 😊
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames If you could take the time to see the honkai concerts, they are just perfection,
2:13:37 YES!! Btw in the of Mei transformation cutscene you see in credits 2 cubes - one purple and The other one yellow/gold. Those cubes symbolize Mei and Otto.
Oh cool. Thanks for telling us about the cubes! 🤗
Btw they recently released 2 episodes of the Golden Courtyard which cover the Flame Chasers in an alternate universe. A must see!
Himeko dying even after all these years still brings me to tears, I've even seen 5 reactions to this including your's and they all 5 brought tears, I'm just too attached I guess.
crash course on otto:
500 years ago, he had a childhood friend named kallen, distant ancestor of modern kaslanas. she went against the church (which his family ran) and was executed (sorta, the execution got botched because honkai beast attacked, but it turns out that the honkai beast was set loose by otto to free kallen in the confusion, one thing led to another, and she died fighting it to protect the people)
this made otto very upset, as she was the love of his life and the only person who every gave him value in himself, thus, he makes a deal with a previous era herrscher to become immortal and gain access to a boat load of knowledge from the technologically advanced previous era.
fast forward 500 years or so, he's still working on ressurecting kallen, made some clones, one of them became theresa apocalypse, made some more clones, one became K423, shoved a herrscher in that clone to see if he could use it's power to break the spacetime continuum (it didn't work, but it did help him figure out how to actually break time) he makes another deal with the will of honkai (basically the god of the herrschers) and becomes "the false god" in order to trick kiana and co. into killing him, which allowed him to move his consciousness to a specific place where he could break time and bring kallen back to life.
basically, he was evil the whole time in the game because he needed to create very specific circumstances to be killed in so he could do a thing and resurrect his dead girlfriend, whom he may or may not have known was actually a lesbian the entire time (but that's a different story)
Did you guys see Honkai Chronicles - Otto Apocalypse ?
We didn’t unfortunately. Missed some of the “newer” videos as the playlist we were originally given was a year old 😇🤗
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames guess it's something to look forward to in the future.
I can not tell you .. i have not clicked on a video faster in a while.. i absolutely love hoping to your channel here and there ever since i found you with your league reactions. binged through some world of warcraft stuff as well and more. Absolutely made my day seeing this pop up since Honkai is one of my fav game's i've played and i absolutely loved and bawled my eyes out so many times in their cinematics.. which are just beyond amazing!! Thakns four great videos and reactions.. keep it up !
I just notice today your video and this was already published 3 days ago, thanks for making a reaction video about honkai
The whole big sis thing is basically like calling someone you're close to your bro, Bronya and Seele are basically lovers. They're not the only gay relationship either as Kiana is madly in love with Mei and Mei cares a lot back. Considering a future relationship I don't think Mei swings that way.
Anyways I don't know if y'all'd be interested but they also have a short anime series on their channel. It's a cooking focused show about the characters appreciating each other and the food they cook. Seele and Bronya do get their beach day there is why I mention it.
We are happy to hear that they got their beach day ☺️
Finally we have it, hope you enjoyed it!
We did enjoy it. 🥳🥳😀
I love honkai 3rd a lot, come to find out this is posted one day before my birthday I love it
I always cry in the last animated short "Because of You" I love Elysia so muuuuuuuuuuuch
One of the best reaction vids I have seen. Honkai is a gem of a game. Got a sub from me. Hope you guys get the pleasure of playing it.
Wow thank you so much for this reaction ❤❤
Our pleasure 🥳🥳🥰🤗
Long lasting waiting for... THANK YOU VERY MUCH 😀😀🙏🎉🎉
Our pleasure 🥳🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames btw Elysian realm is for Mei perspective.
Welcome to Hoinkai Impact the Third
We have
- Tight Gameplay
-Cute Waifus
- Buiriful Grafics for a Mobile Game
- Drepessing Story
-Desptessing Story
- Depressing Story
and not forget Gatcha Mechanis
Thanks for the quick welcome breakdown 😜
okay I'm commenting before even watching but judging by the length you guys gave it all the attention so why not.
This game is, no joke, my favourite story of all time even though it's still ongoing. I have started playing it as a test for my new phone because I'm a huge fan of action games like Devil May Cry and heard this one has really nice controls for touch screen. Initially was barely paying attention to the story thinking it would be generic shounen type anime story... Did not expect this rollercoaster of pure gold.
It is for me firmly at the top with games like Nier:Automata, Witcher 3, Planescape Torment and Disco Elysium how obsessed I am with the characters and the plot of this game.
There's insane amount of story in dialogues between character as chapters go on. The story is at it's core a Visual Novel.
But oh boy the cinematics of this game are something else. The direction alone is a masterpiece and it's the funniest part because the storyboarders at Hoyoverse were all amateurs. Can't call them that after what they managed to create. No formal film making education. In fact the founders are physics majors and that's why their games have those high concept physics hypothesis in them.
And just in case the "best friends" is codeword for a couple from censourious side.
It's actually wild how much they get away with but there is no doubt that Bronya and Seele are a couple and there is no chance in hell Kiana and Mei aren't a couple even with the big falling out during Lament.
@@Zolwiol if u looking combat hack slash combine with open world like DMC5, try "A-Post Honkai Oddyssey 2 / APHO2" in open world honkai impact dlc. This story about time skip 8 years in main story and the mechanic gameplay more like DMC5 (but u first clearing act 1 sakura samsara for opened this dlc)
have fun and welcome captain xD
@@overhitempest oh boy. I'm Nirvana vet
@@Zolwiol oh sorry my bad english, i think u from G game hoyoverse. anyway let's waiting how fluid gameplay in APHO3 soon xD
@@overhitempest APHO 3 is basically Honkai Star Rail I guess...?
51:17 i quite hate that they didn't explain the part that Mei's father was framed because he support Anti - Entropy (Shicksal's Rival) he wasn't actually a criminal.
You're missing a couple of videos by the way. The Otto and Durandal explanation videos make a lot of things clearer, and the newest End of the World stuff is quite literally the last thing to arrive.
We will have to check those out 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames what's one more spoiler, am I right?
about the lights
High-altitude nuclear detonations and electromagnetic bombs can generate EMP that has the potential to damage or destroy electronic devices over widespread areas... and in the video they make it temporary shutdown everything ..
What a blessing if a Video. MiHoYo is absolutely top tier when it comes to animations and story building.
Top tier indeed 🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames 🥰🥰
WooHoo, finally!
Version trailers must see
Yup. Version trailers will come 😅
I been waiting for this video
Good reaction guy hope u guys enjoy honkai
We enjoyed Honkai for sure 😀
I always like the first video because the dryness in the guy's voice and omission of events I know happened make it feel like a military recruitment video. Even before I learned about most of the stuff I was sure they weren't saying something.
There should be another animated short in february. There are 2 each year.
Thanks for giving us the heads up! 😀🥳
Didn't expect a 2 1/2 hour long vid, but was not disappointed
Hell yeah, we NEEDED it
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Explanation of Otto's relationships with Kallen, K-423, and the original Kiana:
Otto was a very weak child and was looked down upon for it. He met Kallen one day and befriended her (later developing a crush on her as well). Due to his fragile constitution, Otto became a researcher and kinda disregarded morality. Kallen, a very righteous individual, found out and was imprisoned for vigilantism. Otto broke her out, but she was eventually recaptured and scheduled for execution. Otto, desperate to save Kallen, released Honkai beasts into the town to cause mayhem while he rescued her. Instead, she sacrificed herself to save civilians. Later, Otto created clones that could house his soul and managed to live for over 500 years by transferring his soul between them each time they were destroyed.
Now then, K-423. Kiana, the descendant of the powerful Schariac and Kaslana lines, was expected top become the most powerful Valkyrie in history, so Otto cloned her and used the Herrscher gem from the recently defeated Herrscher of the Void as a blank soul.
Siegfried Kaslana, Kiana's dad, lost faith in Schicksal after Otto literally nuked his wife to defeat the HoV. In fleeing, he took his daughter with him--or so he thought. He had instead taken K-423 and refused to call her by the name of the one she was based on: Kiana. In the end, however, he does name her Kiana after his now-missing daughter after losing his arm to calm her down after she becomes posessed by the HoV for the first time.
Lastly, the original Kiana. After her mom died and her dad accidentally fled without her, Otto wiped her memories, made up a past for her, and started training her to become the strongest Valkyrie. She appears as a bit of a side character at the beginning but ends up as a main character closer to the end.
sorry about how long-winded this ended up being
First, i'm glad u guys took the time to check these all out, like Genshin, Honkai has a great story though its alot darker with several people dying among other things while also being connected to Genshin.
About Seele and Bronya, Seele got thrown into the Sea of Quanta(the dimention between worlds) through a experiment and Bronya was finally able to find her after getting a chance to go there as well only to be saved by Seele and her other side, Veliona.(my favorite)
And yes, the Yuri is strong in Honkai, the fact that all playable characters are female only adds to do that.
Personally i really like how dark the story is sometimes as well as how the characters develop and love it all.
If u like the songs, i personally recommend u check out the Dreamy euphony concert that they did this year, its such a amazing expirience!
Oh yeah this'll be a ride. You won't understand much of it but it'll be a ride
also that comment about missing your partners quirks or missing what you would normally think as a bad side such as leaving clothes on the floor idk why but that kinda hit me hard. I think I will definitely miss my girlfriend leaving dishes or clothes out seriously though when she can't do that anymore I'll remember the days when she could.
omg I never would've expected you to react to content from one of my favourite games ever. Been playing this game since the global version launched back in 2018. And yes, there is a huge amount of content to this universe created by Mihoyo, but the story telling and compelling characters are easily the staying points.
Edit: damn, Final Lesson was 3rd in the playlist. What a jump straight into the tragic part of the story.
Kallen Kaslana was Otto first friend, and one that Otto loved. After Kallen's death, he blamed himself and tried to bring Kallen back. That happen the middle age. And, in the present time, K-423 is the succesful clone created by Otto. This clone soon kidnapped by Siegfried Kaslana, husband of Cecilia, who are parents of the real Kiana Kaslana who are already missing. Later on, Siegfried Kaslana finally gave his missing daughter name Kiana Kaslana to K-423, the Main Character of Honkai.
YEEEEES FINALLY I love this game, so I love that you are finally diving in it
I never knew this would be one of the games I wanted you guys to react to this was my favorite
This is absolutely awesome
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Kallen is Otto's first and only love and it wasn't enough for 500 years for him to get over her death. For 500 years, otto apocalypse was looking for a way to bring kallen back to life. in the end he created another future and sacrificed his own life just so she could live in that other future.
Talk about a lore dive.
You 2 really tried to understand as much you could and I liked the discussions in-between. ❤️🔥
Honkai is a lot more than what a Gacha game would usually give. It’s got a good cast of characters, amazing animations, and really good story going on. I’m not much of a lore person myself, so I just stick to watching character dynamics as that’s I where I find the most enjoyment out of it all. And I was kind of waiting to see if either of you would cry at one of these animations, but looks like you got the same experience as me looking at things from a surface level perspective. I felt sad, but I didn’t cry at any of this stuff that happened because I was too lazy to read any of the Manhuas or VNs beforehand. So I didn’t connect with the characters that emotionally. But you guys seem to have a deeper interest than me on your first viewing, so maybe you’ll resonate with it more if you look deeper into it.
And no matter what anyone from the Honkai and Genshin fandoms say, both games have their merits for being popular and you guys are proof that both can be enjoyed in different ways.
You guys ended up confusing Kallen with Kiana. Kallen was Kiana's many-times great-aunt from the 15th century. Kallen was a Shicksal Valkyrie of that time, but believed in protecting people, whereas Schicksal at that time was very power-hungry, so Kallen, being a bit of a wild child, rebelled but was caught. Otto, who was not in line to inherit the leadership of House Apocalypse and Schicksal, was also sickly as a boy, but he was extremely inventive. Unfortunately, Kallen was the first person in his life to give him encouragement designing and building things, like the small plane seen in 'Thus Spoke Apocalypse.' Otto and Kallen went on many adventures together, but when Kallen found out about Schicksal's inhumane experiments, even to find a cure for the Plague, and that Otto was a part of them, she couldn't be with him anymore. Still, she was Otto's only friend, and when she agreed to be hanged as a scapegoat for Schicksal's failures, Otto decided he couldn't stand by and let her die. He released a horde of Honkai beasts into the square where execution was taking place, hoping to use it as a distraction to rescue Kallen and escape with her. But Kallen, being a Kaslana, fought the Honkai beasts, but died while fighting a large one unarmed. Otto spent the rest of his life trying to find ways to bring her back to life. He also extended his own life by transferring his consciousness from his still-living body into primitive clones made of an adaptive substance called 'soulium.' He couldn't do this with Kallen since she'd already died, though, but he would try various means, like cloning, which would carry into the 1970s. But he also heard that there was a Herrscher with power over death who could possibly bring people back to life, which was why he wanted to tame the Herrscher of the Void.
You're also confusing Kallen's father with Siegfried, Kiana's father. Siegfried Kaslana was a Schicksal Knight who became a rogue hero, only to work with Schicksal again after falling in love with their best Valkyrie, Cecilia Scheriac. After they married, with approval from Otto as Schicksal's Overseer, Kiana was born. She was expected to have unparalleled power, having a Kaslana's fighting prowess and a Scheriac's holy blood, but she didn't show any particular power -- which was what Cecilia preferred. But then in 2000, the Second Honkai War happened. Sieg and Cecilia were among those deployed to stop Sirin. Cecilia sacrificed herself to protect the others, and Sieg survived. Otto would make a clone based on Kiana and Sirin, and implant the Gem of Serenity into it. Because Cecilia had shown Sirin a mother's love, Sirin passed away with a strong desire to see Cecilia again. So when one of the clones became conscious, there were two warring wills: One that desired humanity's destruction, and one that desired a mother's love. One was the Herrscher of the Void, and the other became Kiana's personality. Sieg joined Anti-Entropy over Otto's actions during the Second Honkai War, taking Kiana with him. When they learned about the clone, they mounted a rescue operation, but while making their getaway, Kiana was thrown from their craft. Otto declared she'd died. Sieg took care of the clone, K-423, as you saw, until he realized he might trigger another awakening. The rest is as you saw.
I can't read or watch Azur Waters without crying...
Awesome to see you guys reacting to the honkai series!
If you like this, Genshin Impact cutscenes should be appealing to you all too. Also, Onmyoji CG animations are also amazing, though I am unfortunately unaware of any videos explaining the full context of that game. It's still worth it for the epic and cool animations in that series!
We’ve been given some videos on Genshin but that’s a lot to undertake. Not that we won’t but looking for best way to do it 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames completely understandable. It's a lot to take in. (And a lot of text 😂)
Given some of the reactions to this, and how you like stories that spark conversation, Onmyoji has a number of stories telling the tales of characters in a similarly thought provoking way, with good animation to boot. Aside from the lack of the overall context of the main story, they definitely seem like the sort of thing you both would enjoy.
The Flamechasers are the heroes from the Previous Era 50000 years ago and are much stronger than the Herrschers.
It's members include:
- Elysia (Miss Pink Elf and Herrscher of Human Ego...the main reason why some Herrschers could keep their humanity)
- Kevin Kaslana (ancestor of the Kaslanas and one of two surviving Flamechasers. Hes the World Serpent founder and the guy who fought Durandal)
- Fu Hua (the second of the surviving Flamechasers...yes...OUR Fu Hua)
- Kalpas (masked guy)
- Griseo (blue haired painter girl)
- Pardofelis (cat girl vendor and the bravest of the bunch)
- Aponia (butterfly nun lady)
- Eden (the brunette who is "friends" with Elysia)
- Kosmas - the green haired teen
- Mobius - the green haired curly snake girl who called Elysia annoying
- Sakura - The other pink haired girl but with animal ears
- Su - Green haired guy with eyes closed
- Vill-V - Not fortune teller but eccentric inventor with split personality disorder.
If you wanna understand a bit more I recommend watching ottos chronicles
We for sure want to check that out 🙂
Although Otto Apocalypse is the villain, if I consider how unfair the world was with Kallen, I understand that he doesn't mind destroying the universe just to save her
Sakura would like to have a word about unfairness
The best villains are created by profound tragedy 😢😈
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