Games always give people a chance to escape reality, but this escape makes us keep returning to the starting point. For players of the game “Honkai Impact 3: Star Railway”, the first recharge reset in 2025 is like a mysterious temptation. At that moment, it seemed that everyone focused their attention on the rewards in the game, and all the trivialities and troubles in real life seemed to be thrown aside. Everyone wants to get a new start through reset, but is there a profound meaning behind the reset that we have not noticed?
The word “reset” seems to be full of some kind of magic in the game world. Recharge means that we pay money in exchange for rewards in the game. This is not just a transaction of money, but also a kind of psychological satisfaction. Through recharges again and again, we get rewards, our characters become stronger, and we seem to get a short sense of victory in the virtual world. However, think about it carefully, can such satisfaction really bring us more happiness? Can these virtual rewards change our difficulties in real life?
Rewards in the virtual world are like candies, tempting but fragile. Once you bite into them, you will find that their sweetness is short-lived, and even disappears soon after, leaving only empty memories and unsatisfied desires. In this tempting virtual world, every reset of the stored value reward makes people feel that they can start over and pursue higher goals again. But the problem is, after you chase these rewards, you return to life and find that you are still facing the same dilemma. Does the sense of accomplishment brought by external rewards become so insignificant?
I remember hearing a story about a man who spent a long time hunting in the mountains and hunted many animals. However, when he returned home, he found that these animals did not really bring him anything. He was still lonely and confused. In this story, hunting represents pursuit, and prey symbolizes external achievements. However, when people work hard for these achievements, they often ignore the emptiness and anxiety in their hearts. This kind of emptiness cannot be filled by external achievements.
Isn’t the recharge reset in “Honkai Impact 3: Sky Railway” a microcosm of this pursuit of external rewards? Every recharge, every recharge reward, does not bring people a lasting sense of satisfaction, but a short-term sense of pleasure. These rewards do make us stronger in the virtual world, and the character’s ability is improved, but can this solve the real problems in life? Whether facing the pressure of work or the troubles of life, the rewards in the game can never bring substantial help.
We are always pursuing those illusory things and ignore the real life around us. People often think that only through external rewards can they prove their existence and value. Just like the recharge rewards in the game, players are always waiting for a higher grade and more generous rewards, but they ignore that the real satisfaction comes from the understanding and acceptance of life.
The first recharge reward reset of “Honkai Impact 3: Sky Railway” provides players with a brand new opportunity, as if it gives people hope. But after this reset, players can get more rewards and the game characters become stronger, but this is ultimately just a feast in the virtual world. After all these rewards have been collected by the players, the troubles in life still follow them. Can the success in the virtual world replace the steadfastness and hard work in real life?
Perhaps, the “reset” in life is not through repeated external pursuits, but through inner awakening and reflection. In the virtual world, resetting allows you to quickly return to the starting point and get more rewards; but in the real world, resetting is not so simple. We cannot escape the challenges in life, nor can we always rely on external help to solve problems. Only through our own efforts and truly understanding life can we find our own satisfaction from the heart.
The recharge reset in “Honkai Impact 3: Sky Railway” is an expectation and pursuit of rewards, but it is not a real change. For those who want to find satisfaction through rewards in the virtual world, they may eventually find that the harvest in the virtual world cannot replace the troubles in real life. People often fall into a misunderstanding that they can fill the emptiness in their hearts through external achievements, but the fact is that true satisfaction comes from our understanding and acceptance of our hearts, rather than constantly chasing external goals.
Perhaps, everyone has longed for a better start and more generous rewards through some kind of “reset”, but in this process, have we overlooked anything? Perhaps, the true meaning of life is not how many rewards you can get, but whether you can find your true self on this road. Resetting the virtual world is ultimately just a short escape. Only when we truly face the challenges in life can we gain profound growth and strength from it.
Therefore, I want to tell every player who is addicted to the virtual world that resetting is not just a simple choice after pressing a button, it is also a decision we must constantly make in life. The satisfaction gained through repeated “resets” will eventually be replaced by the real problems of life. And at that time, what we can learn from it may be how to find real power and direction in the game of life.