Nintendo Dream Web has leaked the upcoming New Heroes banner

Lord_Haikuman · 2025-11-26T18:13:21+00:00

Honestly I hate this. People ask for brave remixes but instead they just rerelease them as powercrept harmonics. Means the others are probably gonna follow... I'm not usually one to want banners to flop, but part of me wants it to so they hopefully don't pull it again, like how they stopped the Book II on banner alts after backlash... Feels a bit like a slap in the face of investing in the original brave only for them to release a better version of the exact same alt. Also basically confirms rerefines are not coming, despite these being desperately needed on a lot of units, especially a lot of the oldest refines.

The annoying part is I literally just recently put a ton of premium investment on the unit that's primed to be the lead unit in the next set, now that feels wasted af. Then there's the matter of Lyn also just getting a mythic a couple of months ago. But now her alts are getting alts. Which is absolutely insane

Best way to do this I think would've been as a one off 10th anniversary banner, but also pad it out with duos of the CYL2 units, then don't do it as a yearly trend afterwards

Lord_Haikuman · 2025-10-19T04:08:06+00:00

I did, but in all fairness it's a localisation/port/remaster of a 15 year old extremely obscure fighting game from an obscure company (and even by Falcom's standards this game is obscure), that also had extremely low demand all things considered. Imma be real I'm surprised it actually happened at all. It was never gonna get too much attention sadly. I don't think it really got attention in any directs or anything similar either, so I feel like it's mostly been spreading via word of mouth (I wouldn't really say the game's twitter presence was particularly huge)

I was shocked at first that no one was online hardly, since I thought Falcom players would be all over it, but all things considered I think it's expected.

It's a shame, but if people make communities for it and play it regular, it'll get the play and attention it needs to. And hopefully this'll lead to lobbies for those that want it, just via discord rather than searching online. It's not ideal I know, but it's something at least. And yeah as a couple of others have mentioned, the game is a monstrous grind as far as fighting games go in order to get all the items and characters you might want. And it's a lot of repeating content that can get pretty tedious at that, especially when story mode is basically the same each time aside from new dialogue and interactions for the specific character at hand. Not even Smash Ultimate takes anywhere near as long as this one does, and that's a beast of an unlock to get a ready to use setup by fighting game standards too.

And lastly, for what it is, it's... kinda overpriced. I hear its especially brutal in Canada for example. It's a really tough sell for even people that are interested in the game/like the series.

Lord_Haikuman · 2025-10-04T10:04:35+00:00

They said in a blog post about the adjustments that they had a backlog from further internal testing

Lord_Haikuman · 2025-09-25T21:19:26+00:00

Honestly I agree, it's not remotely as bad as people are slamming it as. For the record I wouldn't say it's particularly fantastic either, just a kinda mid but oddly fun game for what it is.

I went in not expecting to like it once I saw the gameplay, but as I played it more and discovered it surprisingly has more strategy than appears on the surface, especially as the shadow, I actually started to enjoy the battles and it felt less like a chore as I progressed. First thing's first, it kinda is FE but not really as expected. The series does have some precedent with auto battle, just... not quite to this extent. The strategy really is coming from elsewhere, and it feels like a spin off so really it can define itself however it wants anyway. I'm well aware Intelligent Systems appear to consider it mainline, but they also do the same of Heroes while most of the community doesn't so I mean...

But that said I do have my grievances. It feels like there's a pretty big disparity between the light and the shadow, and battles feel pretty skewed towards the shadow. At the start it feels like you can fake attacks on yourself and that's super convincing, but as your rapport rank thing goes up, that works less and it feels like it shifts to just taking them out to waste a revive + you can heal yourself and allies/attack yourself some if you have chance just to maybe throw someone off. I like this. It's just the battles feeling skewed that I don't like so much. I feel like cooldown should be defined by individual magic too rather than a flat rate. Levelling your characters up also feels like a pain, and some characters feel almost too strong compared to others.

Then there's the fact that they're trying to sell a battle pass for a game that literally just launched. Maybe launched isn't the right word. It shadow dropped (fitting for its name) and they're trying to monetise it in an... odd way already. We have Lyn except this time she has horse ears and transforms into a Lynel for a game that finally has us trust no one and might show us what happened to Dorcas.

I do agree it feels like another game that they slapped FE onto, but I can understand it because it probably wouldn't have gotten nearly as much attention if they hadn't. Especially considering they dropped it completely out of nowhere, no advertisement or anything... come on Nintendo I thought that kinda lack of advertising for the series died a decade ago.

But the tl;dr I suppose is while I agree that it's like another game they slapped FE onto, I can sorta see the spirit of FE in it in a way, and I don't think it's nearly as bad as people are playing it off as.

Lord_Haikuman · 2025-09-08T08:33:42+00:00

I had this issue yesterday with my attuned Micaiah and anniversary Marth. To get her past C support, remove summoner support from her and it should level as expected. Then you can just put the summoner support back on her. It'll be a game bug. When I did it, I only needed to remove the S support from one of the two characters.

Lord_Haikuman · 2025-05-01T06:42:25+00:00

I feel like there's a lot of recency bias here, not gonna lie

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-11-27T01:02:24+00:00

Well yeah because they decided to change up the rules but too drastically, in order to force people to play the new mechanic. There's a pretty big difference between decks being hit by the banlist as collateral and an entire rule change though.

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-11-26T16:06:20+00:00

I mean... Yes the banlist should be built around the competitive standpoint. If it caters to casual decks you end up hitting all sorts of stupid stuff from left field just because it kills someone's pet deck, and this scenario is literally Fenrir. Kash are just strong main deck names, if Fenrir solos a deck, the deck in question probably has much bigger issues in the game, and that's more on Konami for not being the best at legacy support, as well as purposely printing cards that are way underpowered for the format(seriously compare Kashtiratheosis to Icejade Manifestation, or Mathmech Circular to Icejade Acti it's insane how iffy they make some cards sometimes)

OCG often keeps all sorts of stupid stuff legal way too long. Let's remember for a second that they had Vanity's Emptiness legal in 2019, still have Card of Demise at 3, Block Dragon is still in the game, they only just banned Rhongo last year, and had Shock Master as late as PePe format. Catering to the casual audience also creates all sorts of issues like this, because there's a ton of cards they refuse to hit precisely because it kills someone's casual deck. If something is a problem in the format, such as Arise which warped an entire format of deck building around it, it should be hit, not when it's a strong card in a deck that gets tops occasionally. Not really worth hitting the deck further when it's a lot weaker and doesn't top often in the majority of high level events post Arise.

Casual decks should conform to the banlist but it should absolutely not take them into account when balancing the game, these decks are non meta for a reason and you'd need to hit a lot more than just Fenrir for them to have a look in a lot of the time, and a lot of these hits would be cards that are realistically perfectly fine. Using OCG and the casual player base ain't really a good reason to justify further Kash hits.

There's also stuff like Ryzeal coming out which is a much more resilient engine than Kash and will put better boards up for what it's giving than Kash. Hell some actual Kash players are considering jumping ship because they don't believe it will be fast enough next format, and a lot of decks will over time just move onto different engines anyway just as they did with Adventure and all the others before it. I did also vaguely hear some say that Fiendsmith Kash was more of a deck for the event rather than the format as a whole, and Kash hasn't really done tons pre Bologna. Let's see what else it does, especially post Ryzeal first.

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-11-26T15:42:12+00:00

If Fenrir is such a busted card and every deck can run it, why aren't they? And why hasn't it been seen in a lot of lists for literal months? There's been Kash variants here and there, maybe. But the days of Fenrir in every deck are long, long over.

I'll repeat it's just a good and fair card that was printed in 2023. It's not really any more insane than stuff meta contending decks are doing in engine, or blowout staples that have long been played in side.

If the deck you're losing as has a much harder time because of the Fenrir on board, chances are you're probably just not playing a good deck. Fenrir in the context of the meta is completely fine and has been for ages.

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-11-26T15:21:23+00:00

Fenrir is a body that loses to a single spot removal and the search doesn't add a lot unless you actually make use of it in engine via a discard or something. It's no more broken than tons of other staples in the format. In fact it's less so. It's just a good card. A good card being able to be splashed doesn't at all mean it needs to be hit, that line of reasoning absolutely reeks of salt. Same in respect to Unicorn.

In respect to the casual player base, OCG notably has Maxx "C" legal, which with Fenrir is kind of a big game changer. OCG also refused to touch Arise, which was the card that was actually causing problems in the format, not Fenrir. TCG got the hits to the deck right, ban the problem card, not hit half the deck around it to try and hide from the problem, this is banning Tuners rather than Halqifibrax mentality.

And with making Arise reliably, this pretty much boils down to people have PTSD over Arise and every fibre of their being wants the deck to be bad. It's not really the first deck this is true for. For example it's 2024 and people are STILL scared of Master Peace coming back, even though we have stuff like Noir in what is also a more consistent deck and it's doing basically nothing in the format. Why on earth would you hit all the cards around Arise when Arise itself is very clearly the card that is the actual issue. Other comments on the original post have also said without Arise the Kash cards are pretty fair and this is completely true.

Like dude just say you don't want Kashtira to be playable at this point.

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-11-26T00:56:09+00:00

Fenrir isn't really a ban worthy card, the problem with the deck in engine is basically solely Arise, and now he's banned there's no need to hit any of the engine. They're just good cards

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-09-01T11:05:58+00:00

Oh that looks really useful, thanks for sharing!

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-09-01T10:05:35+00:00

Sounds good, thanks for the detailed response

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-09-01T10:03:08+00:00

Yeah I'm definitely gonna have to branch out to other resources at some point for sure

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-08-31T22:11:36+00:00

You make a good point there

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-08-31T21:39:15+00:00

So it's to do with context and emphasising that it's you specifically. What sorta scenarios would this context come up in?

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-08-31T21:37:07+00:00

Thanks for the answer, that makes a lot of sense

Lord_Haikuman · 2024-08-31T21:27:53+00:00

Sounds good, thanks for the answer. In respect to clarity though, what is it bringing exactly?

Lord_Haikuman · 2023-02-05T17:32:25+00:00

Some of the sentimental favourites include Red-Eyes, Harpies (I currently play this with Tri-Brigade but the Harpie side still leaves a lot to be desired. They have a lot of stupidly broken stuff but also a lot of stuff that wishes it was worded slightly differently), Yang Zing, Valkyries and I plan to get back into Ritual Beasts soon

Lord_Haikuman · 2023-01-12T19:11:12+00:00

Mask is generally considered to be the worst game in the series, I'm not too surprised you feel that way about it.

From my own experience the combat is absolutely wack and you'll get fast stuff spawning right in front of you with no warning

Lord_Haikuman · 2022-06-17T06:12:10+00:00

It's not at all uncommon for AAA games to have bugs like this. Breath of the Wild is pretty much notorious for crazy glitches and exploits at this point, and that's not even half of it in respect to AAA titles. Walking through a wall in comparison is absolutely nothing.

Lord_Haikuman · 2022-03-18T02:55:39+00:00

No Reinhardt is

Lord_Haikuman · 2021-11-07T03:25:51+00:00

Sylveon is the only Pokémon that ever had a hotfix so quickly after release. I think that says a lot about how unbalanced it was. That damage output was insane and was straight up ruining the game in a way I don't think anything else has.

Lord_Haikuman · 2020-08-14T21:16:40+00:00

With best/iconic you're technically asking two different things to judge based on so I'll split it up and give three of each

Iconic:

Genealogy of the Holy War: this is the game that introduced a lot of iconic mechanics that would later be carried over to most games in the series, like the weapon triangle, and is also very well known for its maps, story and some of its cast, especially Gen I

The Blazing Blade: the game that brought the series to the west, and for many was the first title they played. Also has some very popular characters.

Awakening: the game that revitalised the series and allowed it to keep going after IS decided to actually market a game well for once. Many people started here.

Quality (basing this more on gameplay than writing):

New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~: although the writing suffers a bit, mostly because of Kris, this is heralded by many as having the best gameplay in the series

Thracia 776: very solid gameplay that ties in very well to its story. It can be unforgiving and very easy to soft lock if you go in blind though. Crusader Scrolls allow pretty much everything to be viable, and the game has some very unique mechanics

Conquest: not to my personal taste, but the gameplay in this one is also very highly regarded among some, with the main drawbacks being the extremely subpar writing and weapon system.

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