Is it VITAL to play Honkai Impact before Star Rail?

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Is it important to know the story of Honkai Impact 3rd before playing Honkai: Star Rail? In this video I will explain the things that you need to know before playing Honkai: Star Rail. Should you play Star Rail? The story is amazing in its own right with loveable and relatable characters. But the one person that connects Honkai Impact 3rd to Honkai: Star Rail is the existence of Welt. How important is Welt and why is he in the game of Honkai: Star Rail? Before you play, make sure to watch this entire video for full context on the bare minimum that you NEED to know before playing Honkai: Star Rail. Is it VITAL to play Honkai Impact before Star Rail? Find out in this video!

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00:00 What to know before playing
00:53 Why there so many similar characters?
02:35 What connects Honkai Impact to Star Rail?
03:10 Who is Welt?
03:52 Why is Welt so important?
04:12 How did Welt arrive in Star Rail?
05:16 Why did Welt come to Star Rail?
06:26 Welt and Himeko
07:27 The Blond Man
07:56 Story of HoYoverse

[IslandXD]

Thank you all for watching my video!
I hope you it was helpful and enjoyable!!!

[kmeanxneth]

welt is one of us, Never let himeko go again this time

[Samchanne]

I just hope that Carole Peppers will appear in Honkai Star Rail due to the short cutscene called ‘Reburn II’ where both Carole and Welt went to the express train to go to the other dimension. But if that is scrapped by Hoyo, I would be sad that we can’t see the character development for Carole in HSR.

[annaairahala]

I like these sort of videos. No theories, no speculation, just explaining the information we know.

[b.ardner]

I'm always looking forward the interaction between Bronya and Silver Wolf in Star Rail. Will they think that they're long lost siblings or something?

[riberium]

5:55 actually no, it's not like Welt not cares about humans, but his main purpose of his journey - save Himeko, that's it, nothing more or nothing less, actually Void Archieve target was to get rid of Honkai from Earth, cause of that he wanted to travel. And he actually already want to return to Earth, but literally can't for now.

[kaytowr]

To summarise there's some connection between honkai impact and star rail mostly due to the existence of characters welt and probably void archive who travel to a parallel universe(which is the world of star rail) from the world of honkai impact 3rd basically both of them is the same characters and not the parallel counterpart of them

[gamingwithprince]

Old man can't take rest if he get chance to become hero. As always amazing explanation island to help people understand that they don't need to play one game to enjoy other.

[garethcf]

1 more category of person who came to watch this video. Captains who got attracted by the word "honkai", came to see welt's exact connection, and see if you would recommend HI3rd to new players (and yes, HI3rd is amazing and you should absolutely play it)

[dracotias]

While you probably won't need a deep understanding of the actual Honkai story and understanding of some key terms and concepts like just how bonkers the Quantum and Imaginary realms are is probably some worthwhile research.

I also heavily suggest Alien Space as required reading, it's VERY important to Welts story especially as to how he got lost in space to begin with and as to why he's so fixated on helping this Himeko to "atone" for things in the past.

possibly Second Eruption too as Welt is a pretty major player there as well.

[tetrahedron]

I like to think that Welt in Star Rail is literally a figure of the Honkai Impact 3rd player base overlooking this new adventure and letting the newcomers enjoy the journey that is Star Rail. It's a neat parallel between the players and Welt.

[cutuning]

This is actually an amazing video ngl as someone who has been playing Honkai Impact 3rd for about four years now i can say everyone who is new should watch this video as story is a very important and meaningful part of the Honkai Games and its truly magical and moving when you follow along with it.

[grwingz]

Short answer:
no.

Long answer:
Watch the video

[BranOnline]

STAR RAIL HYPE STAR RAIL HYPE STAR RAIL HYPE STAR RAIL HYPE STAR RAIL HYPE

[hoyostans]

This was a great video, but there is one big oversight that might confuse players if it isn't cleared up, and it's the fault of Honkai Impact 3rd's faulty localisation.

Welt did not travel into a parallel universe. He simply travelled *across* the universe. Honkai Impact 3rd's Earth exists within the same Universe as the different worlds in HSR. It exists within the same universe as *alternate earths* even. However, HI3 mistranslates 'world' into 'universe' at just about every occasion.

While this difference might not seem important now, it is likely to cause issues down the line, as the nature of the universe becomes more important. After all, miHoYo does make a distinction between universe and multiverse.

So far, HSR translates these mostly accurately, but is a bit inconsistent with other space terms.

Another confusing thing is that the word for 'universe' and 'outer space' are the same, which has led to faulty fan translations too as the translator tried to bend it to the HI3 translation.

[garethcf]

If anyone is curious as to how in the world welt's ablilities to reconstruct his body and create black holes are part of the same skillset:

Welt is the 2nd generation herrscher of reason (bronya being the 3rd) which's abillity is to construct anything they understand. Using this, he constructs an armament called the star of eden (an orb he walks around with) which can manipulate gravity

[WARPAINTandUnicorns]

Any Clamp manga readers, Honkai:Star Rail is basically Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle with the starting units being 100% new. The characters you meet that look like Honkai's characters are completely different from different worlds and circumstances.

[iamrandomacorns]

Woah this is extremely interesting, it's nice to be given an insight why certain HI3 players talks about Welt and Himeko along with other lookalikes. It, I guess, prevents me from worrying or turning my head towards HI3- only to be turned off for HSR since I can't understand the dimensional hops thing exist.

[lucasp.c.]

Never expected a gacha game to have actually intricate storytelling... Definitely gonna be playing Star Rail

[donjavi]

I can see mihoyo reapeating ch9 and welp as heroic as: "Last time there was nothing I could do to save her. But this time... this time Im here to save YOU"