The 'Impact' part of the title is absent from both the Chinese and Japanese versions, and is only used in English marketing. The word 'Honkai' based on the Japanese 崩壊 (ほうかい, 'collapse' or 'decay'), pronounced 'hōkai', which is the direct translation of the Chinese 崩坏 (bēng huài) used in the original Chinese title.

In addition to the game, the storyline of Honkai Impact 3rd spans multiple supplementary media including an anime series, multiple manhua series, and promotional videos. The game is notable for incorporating a variety of genres, from hack and slash and social simulation, to elements of bullet hell, platforming, shoot 'em up and dungeon crawling across multiple single and multiplayer modes. It is the spiritual successor to Houkai Gakuen 2, using many characters from the previous title in a separate story. 'Collapse 3rd') is a free-to-play 3D action role-playing game (originally a mobile exclusive) developed by miHoYo, published by miHoYo in mainland China and by HoYoverse worldwide, and later ported to Microsoft Windows. People clamor excitedly over displays of extreme cunning, forgetting to worry about the overall dangers of the situation.Honkai Impact 3rd ( Chinese: 崩坏3 pinyin: Bēng Huài 3 lit. Jing Yuan: 'A truly masterful chess player has no brilliant moves.

Asta: 'The Lead Researcher of the Space Station brims with enthusiastic curiosity and boasts unimaginable achievement in the field of astronomy'.Clara: 'A shy young girl with no home, Clara had no choice but to join the prospectors to survive'.Seele: 'A spirited and valiant member of Wildfire who grew up in the perilous Underworld of Belobog'.Gepard: 'An upright and noble captain of the Silvermane Guards who bears the name of the age-old Gepard family'.March 7th: 'A clever, quirky girl was found in a piece of drifting eternal ice she decided to name herself after the date of salvation'.Danheng: 'A cold and reserved young man who wields a spear known as Cloud-Piercer.Welt: 'The wise and sophisticated former Anti-Entropy Sovereign has saved Earth from annihilation time and time again'.Himeko: 'An adventurous scientist who encountered the Astral Express as a child when it got stranded in her home world'.Nine characters have been named and described on the Honkai Star Rail website:

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