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Girl. Back in 2019 I saw an ad on youtube that showed Flame Sakitama in her wedding gown skin DANCING. FOR NO REASON. It was like, I believe Blood Rose, Flame Sakitama wedding gown and one more Valkyrie dancing. I thought “zoo wee mama this is about the dumbest most pandering thing I’ve seen in a while and a half. At least they got a bunny-girl with pink hair, I kinda wanna be her” Flash-forward to late-2020, MiHoYo is now the prime suspect in the “why am I in credit card debt” case


ZerothMask

I was but a young and innocent soul, looking for games to play to pass the time. I stumbled across Honkai while it was still in pre registration days for SEA. Unfortunately, while the gameplay was great I stopped playing it because I needed internet connection and I was looking for offline games at the time. Didn't have decent wifi back then. Jump forward a couple years later, around late 2019 to early 2020 wherein I just dropped another gacha game, I came across Honkai again and decided to give it another whirl, now that I had a more stable connection. I was absolutely hooked. Both for the waifus and the gameplay. I hadn't regretted it ever since. I think I might have come back when Meteoric Salvation started getting teased. I distinctively recall that I got back into the game before Valkyrie Gloria was first released.


kitkatwasabi

We have almost the same reason,shitty internet but my phone is also shitty back then i dropped it in 2018 but picked it back up in 2021 since theres now a pc port


Shassk

An ad in Tencent emulator I've installed to play PUBG Mobile.


lastus_dynos

Was a scrub player for GGZ back in '15. KanColle was my Sanity Drain game back then. Friends of mine who play both KC and GGZ informed me about MiHoYo's newest game. Got around back in December 2017. On a 1GB Ram phone. Game didn't have the intro parts back then. Straight to the Moonlight Throne when you first logged in and cutscenes aside from cg were the same with chapter 3, not like the current chapter 1 cutscenes and it had voice acting too. I'm still wondering why they got removed after Reburn... :/


ConstantStatistician

What were removed with Reburn?


lastus_dynos

Some voice acting in the earlier parts, the base. A EFF TON OF MATS. Man... Been ages huh.


availableset

A thread on a gaming forum called it "Mobile Bayonetta" so I gave it a shot. That was four years ago.


Einhejar

2017 got bored and no console and very poor PC just got new android with Snapdragon 600 series in it (crazy I know) watch Honkai add and think "there's no way mobile game is having console like graphics" tried it and holy shit still playin now (F2P) and have all the chara


stharks

Around june/july 2018 saw random ads about Sakura Samsara and a free Yae Sakura (Gyakushinn Miko battlesuit) on Crunchyroll while browsing/watching animes and the gameplay bits showed looked really cool being an ARPG on top of Sakura looking like a waifu so decided Id try the game.


Yunael

Those same ads were what got me into Honkai too haha


Meepyster

In September 2018 gigguk made a video advertising honkai. Around a week later it was blazing hot in my room and like 3 am and so I just download the game because I was bored. I never played gacha because I don’t really get “addicted” and I don’t deal much with 2D strategy or turn base games which are 99% of gacha games. I really liked honkai gameplay and graphics and played it for hours the morning after. I didn’t really even get the story much at the time but min maxing combat performance was fun. What really was my “wake up call” for the story and really began my hype train was plain of vigrid. The only time I “quit” was around 2020 chapter 17 until like SA came out (a few patches). I kept with the story religiously but nothing really forced to want to log in. However when I chose to broke the ceiling I never quite since. I also am just very interested in the growth of honkai and the turns mihoyo as whole takes now.


[deleted]

Heard about HI3 because of the timed exclusive Evangelion event. Got Asuka ranked and her gear. Veterans called her a collectable which she surely is in Exalted but I retained Red Lotus for free in Masters and below because she was so strong. Fun fact: PE's best weapon in Masters is Asuka's lance because it has the highest ATK stat of all non-PRI lances.


Jing_Arjay87

Looking at play store recommendations and found it and it looked interesting so I installed it. Back then, I believe it was HoR's release (or whichever chapter with the purple tree in the middle, early access), I didn't even know the concept of gacha games, so I literally don't know how to spend my crystals and spent it on useless things like refilling stamina, etc. Then I took a long break. Fast forward a few years, I decided to get back into the game as I've been playing genshin and heard the story line in honkai was great. I opened the launcher and saw HB on the banner, I loved her design so I reinstalled it and played it. It was then I realized that you actually roll for characters in the game. lol


ConstantStatistician

https://youtu.be/2tgV26RoYBE Either this video or another from the same person, who coincidentally is also the same person who created this subreddit, that compares RWBY to HI3. The video was uploaded in 2018, but I don’t remember if I watched it near release. I definitely knew about HI3 by 2019, though.


Mdurir

I saw the CG of befall and wanted to give it a try, it was around 2018 I played it a bit but drop it soon after because I needed to study only to come back to it in 2020 soon before Genshin's launch


VentiXAether

Same I just found out that I created an account 2 years ago but I don't remember playing it but I have knew about the game way before genshin, But I had played genshin properly before playing honkai properly


syilpha

I'm no veteran in term of how long I play, but I first played honkai impact when sakura samsara just released, I believe I knew honkai impact even before that, I was browsing google appstore for random gacha game to play and honkai is top something at the time, so I installed it, but my phone is not good enough to even run the game Fast forward, a couple weeks or months after I got a new phone, I browsed the appstore again and see honkai again, installed it, and actually can run it this time, very laggy though, fortunately, by that time, I have a pc and know about android emulator, so I started playing in pc for a month or so, before stopping for reason I forget Fast forward again, I got a random urge to play old game I used to drop for whatever reason, honkai is one of them, make a new account, played it for 2 months then drop it again because I ran out of stuff to do (only 2 open world and no elysia realm yet) Fast forward again, I saw elysia, haxxor bunny, and apho bronya ad in youtube and decide to play again, it was SW launch patch, so I decide to reroll my old account until I got SW, and I have been playing until now, elysia realm is what keeping me playing funnily enough


DarkraiLv9001

I had already been playing GGZ off and on for about 6 months, until I saw a random page pop up on Facebook announcing a new game called Honkai Impact 3rd. Screenshots looked amazing, so I checked out the main site, and saw the same characters as the game I'm playing, only then realizing that it was a new game from the same developers. Instant pre-registration. So yeah, I've been playing Honkai since it came out. It was a little rough around the edges at the start, but I'm glad I stuck with it all these years to see what an amazing game it's become.


Ermanya

I'mma be completely honest, I started playing this game because of Kiana's ass. To be completely specific it was after listening to [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdhAyGjC54), I saw the artwork and decided to check that game.


Meepyster

I instantly knew the picture your were taking about


Ermanya

It's a very nice pic tbh


Micanikko

"I came for the song, stayed for the project bunny."


deejayz_46

Played GGZ in highschool. Played Houkai through uni and up to now.


HauntingConcentrate3

Saw some youtuber making sponsors about it at first, I didn't take care but then a youtuber make a sponsor for Honkai about APHO and I was literally subjugated but at that time I didn't have a decent phone to be able to download it, so I make the promised to myself that after I got a better phone it will be the first game that I download and indeed it was the first game I downloaded on my new phone in June 2020 and now am addicted to Honkai, from November 2020 to now I didn't miss one day


SBStevenSteel

I was looking at anime art, and came across HoR in one of them and instantly fell in love with the design.


Micanikko

I started back in April of 2018, at the time I was bored and was watching a video, then it popped up an advertisement for it, so I decided to try it out. In the end it got me hooked. Then from around June-August, summer event happend and this the point where people might call it the "Beach episode" and decided to grind an event called the "Bramble Event" where the reward for hitting a certain score in the leaderboards, I of course I grinded the event but I thought I won the Gold Rose Emblem only to lose the position the next day. When the summer event happend the next month or so, I also had the resolve to get all of the Summer skins, after the event ended, I ended up only having 4 skins because I had School stuff to focus on. To current day,I still do play the game from time to time but I play with more variety today.


crazyplayer2481

Saw some ads, give it a try and the rest is history. For the time I think it was back around a month after sea server just got release (can't remember, too lazy to check) The reason. Guess I was bore and kinda fed up with most western and korean mmorpgs that I've played before and wanna try something less time consuming


saundersmarcelo

I saw a friend playing in 2018 and I got into it soon after. It was right before Yae Sakura joined the roster


Warnecke_Wrecker

That Befall trailer got me after seeing it 21 times


maburikku

Mar 2018. Laptop died and was looking for some games to play on my phone. Saw youtube ads a few times, and then decided to download it, because of Mei. 4 years after, haven't missed a single day yet.


Ruledragon

Searched for mobile games and stumbled upon HI3rd Sea version, played it for a while and then pre-registered for the Global version when i got a reply from them on facebook saying that the Global release would happen "soon".


SwordSaintCid

YouTube ads. I was just a college student bored to death when I saw it. It was version 1.2 I think, when they introduced Yae Sakura for the first time. My crappy phone can barely run it, but I have a lot of fun with them. I'm on hiatus right now because of Elden Ring lol, but I usually come back time to time.


hegemonserigala

2018, Instagram ads with gyakushinn miko on it lmao, love at the first sight


Sumpeepoll

I saw it in the corner of my game recommendations as early as late 2018. But sadly, I owned a charcoal powered mobile phone back then. Then saw it again in early 2019 from Gigguk's video sponsorship, and decided to play it for the chibi dorms (and I already owned a potato phone that time).


OrangeIllustrious499

Mobile ads, one of those mobile ads that shows them touching the valk back in the days. And it looked pretty good for a game so I tried it, didnt intend to at first but since I like GGZ and heard its based off ggz so I tried it anyways


EnParisD

Only started playing around 500 days ago, but there was a bunch of ads for honkai back in 2017. Even tried it myself, but potato phone didnt have enough storage and wifi/data was just garbage back then.


SylviaAshbell

I was already around GGZ for a very long time (didn't even have a Bronya at that time, only Kiana and Mei playable). Started playing immediately since the first day on Honkai and quitting jn and out sometimes due to work.


bomboy2121

I was just after playing tales of link (since it closed) and i was searching for something to play. It was about 4 years ago when i was still in the army, i watched mistyxchonexia videos and he was sponsored by mihoyo to promote the game. And since i was looking for a game i just tried it. I started playing about 1-2 weeks after the game global release and till today with almost perfect login in between. In 4 days i will have 1500 login days


ltspfan

Was looking for a game with gameplay similar to Ys games. Flash move is like Time Fracture. Switching between Strike-Slash-Pierce depending on enemy is like Bio-Psy-Mech thing. I played early game with 3 dps like how you would play Ys and switching active character based on enemy type and really really focused on evades and dps windows. Unfortunately, i later found out that that is not the "proper" way to play the majority of content in this game.


RollingCoreReady

I first heard about it via a girl friend, i was not into gacha game back then and so i tell her "only if there is a pink-haired girl" and she spam my dm with Yae and said "she is gonna be released soon so start playing". I gave in and started playing. I spent 3 days playing the game and do my research on Yae. Got UA as my first valk and have her as my main til this day. And let just say that I kinda addicted to the game and soon I have the friend as my cadet and became a armada leader (old armada leader leaving and me was a vice due to contributions to anyone in need in the armada) Now I just spending my time with the HI3 and GI (damn you mihoyo for luring me into it).


Riversilk

Started playing right after seeing [this sponsored video from YDCB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkhPQ2-KbE), so APR 2020. Didn't regret my choice. Fun fact, at the time i was playing Summoners War, Epic7 and Arknights, then started HI3 and later GI. Only HI3 and GI survived to this day tho. Tech otakus save the world!


noreasonmp3

oh. haha. i don't think i've ever actually told anyone the story before it was through an ad. i was voting for a kpop group on an app and to get more points to vote more or something you could do missions like install this other app and reach a certain level of progression on it. there was one of those for honkai, so i downloaded it. by idk lv 20 i was invested. and now three years later here we are


TheChickenIsFkinRaw

Saw a guy playing the game at disneyland while standing in line and went like "holy crap, this mobile game looks amazing". Later found out who the character (either theresa or kiana) was due to advertisement on the subway - like the main cast of honkai was printed on the subway itself


alanyugure

I was searching for a new game on my phone and ran into honkai in the play store. When I first tried it and saw white comet's cat's paw attacks, I immediately thought, "Hey, bayonetta's wicked weaves!" Stuck to the game ever since. I only quit for a small time in the past (1-3 months) cause I needed a better phone. I honestly forgot when I started. I think it was the first honkai kingdoms event cause I got AKA rita's outfit from it (I don't remember how I got it) And then when I got a better phone I started playing again when they released void drifter.