I started playing Genshin first and played it for almost 2 years, thousands and thousands of hours invested, easily.

But Honkai? Honkai is a whole other level, my mind is blown by the quality of this game. I've been missing a lot!

Story-wise, holy ♥♥♥♥, honestly, prepare your tissues because you're gonna cry A LOT! MiHoYo is much more daring here than they are in Genshin, trust me. The soundtrack? On point, especially on the cinematics. Speaking of cinematics, TOP QUALITY! Anime style with great animation! The character designs are amazing, I love their armour! When it comes to gameplay, some characters naturally feel better to play than others. Another thing, the sapphic romance here is not hidden, it's not even subtle! Meanwhile, in Genshin, they only show it subtly (like that Beidou and Ningguang scene in the 2nd Lantern Rite event).

Other than all of this, the game is your traditional gacha game, but this is a point I'm not even focusing on.

I'm reviewing this game as a free-to-play non-competitive person, who's just here to enjoy the stories, so yes, I highly recommend this one if you're thinking about playing it for the same reason!

This game is a like a 9/10 even a 10/10 in a lot of ways, but it's probably one of the worst games when you're starting out, it teaches you nothing, and there's so many ways you can basically fuck over your account entirely by doing something so simple that would be considered a tiny mistake in another game.

If you get past that and manage to not fuck up your account, this game is INCREDIBLE. Peak story, peak gameplay, peak waifus, peak art, and the new Part 2 update makes it all the better. Depression Impact strikes again

As much as I hate gacha as much as the next guy, there's no denying the beauty this game has within its story. Seriously, I remember playing this game for the first time and being absolutely hooked on the story for the most part. The characters are very likeable, memorable and grow and change alot throughout the events that take place in the story. You really feel for them and want to see them overcome this or that obstacle. It's also presented well. It's visual novel style but with the 3D models there moving complete with voice acting, Images/animated images and Animated videos which are the absolute peak of this game. Really boggles my mind how Hoyoverse can make such a great story and then proceed to fumble it with Genshin and Star Rail. Sure they have different teams, but it's still insane. Though unfortunately as of late the writing has fallen off for a bit now, hoping part 2 can fix that. The combat is also the best of the 3 games. It is a hack and slash type game which obviously focuses on mostly the combat. The animations are great and fighting is fun. There's tons of content, even too much at times which is a good and downside. This game needs a ton of time invested if you want to keep up so realistically if you plan to play this game seriously, then you better hope you aren't on any other gachas cause this game will take alot of your time. Really the biggest thing drawing it back is the gacha. Gacha sucks.