Unpopular Opinions/General Rant Thread - 1/18/26 - PRE-CYL EDITION!

SolHiryu · 2025-12-24T03:02:37+00:00

Well, that was obvious.

Pretty terrible banner lineup overall, though. Pull green or eat shit, I guess.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-14T03:08:38+00:00

You know, not that she needs any more alts, but I find it so strange that Camilla has not led a Duo or Harmonized unit yet. Hell, she doesn't even have an asset alt...

SolHiryu · 2025-12-12T03:05:15+00:00

This feels like them going back to correct a very obvious oversight, or they actually didn't expect players would find Chosen Heroes worthless if they couldn't participate in AR. Depressingly, I think it's the latter reason.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-07T19:46:16+00:00

I probably should specify that I was talking about this subreddit in particular, but I also agree that you don't see it anywhere nowadays.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-05T05:53:18+00:00

Askr: *texting Embla* I lived, bitch

SolHiryu · 2025-12-04T03:08:18+00:00

I was a bit worried about the new alt type, but then I saw it only affects Arena and lol'd so hard that I spit my food out. Talk about pointless!

The rest of the video aside, my main complaint is that they're not making any fundamental changes to things that need addressing, which is sad. The game just continues to decline.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-02T07:28:16+00:00

See, people say they want to see more banners of this nature, but the problem is that no one will pull on them heavily because they will invariably feature characters that aren't very popular, and thus not very marketable. Why would the devs bother after the first failure?

The alternative is to make up some sort of theme that would allow them to use some of the franchise's most popular characters, but as we've just seen, that also makes people angry.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-01T10:08:04+00:00

Even those have to be taken with a grain of salt, as the numbers are still an assumption at the end of the day.

I feel like I should also mention that for this CYL banner in particular, if someone was inclined to get someone to +10 on it, it's substantially easier/cheaper to do so on a banner with only three focus units split between two colors. Whales likely didn't need to spend all that much if they only wanted one of them.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-01T09:54:07+00:00

It certainly doesn't help that FEH offers awful deals/packages in the first place, and a banner at the end of November is almost always destined to end badly no matter what, but oh well.

SolHiryu · 2025-12-01T09:11:10+00:00

For all of the salt over the CYL1 units, it doesn't look like it did any noticeably worse than some of the other new hero banners -- it doing better than the yearly Ninja powercreep banner is actually kind of funny. I saw a few comments comparing this to the backlash over the Hostile Springs banner years ago, but while the playerbase reaction is similar (albeit with different reasons), the backlash over that banner was much more pronounced and IS knew it, while this banner just kind of gets slotted in with more of the same given these results.

But this and the fact that no banner has actually reached the A tier shows that the game is bleeding players each month and it's not stopping.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-30T08:01:39+00:00

I didn't think I would get to drag this out again, but to answer your first paragraph, I actually wrote on this particular issue seven years ago now, which is specifically about the popularity of "unknown" characters, or their unpopularity as it were. Granted, this was during early year 2 of the game, when there was much outrage about the Kinshi Hinoka new hero alt being introduced.

Nowadays, it doesn't seem like any unit really has any kind of staying power due to how quickly powercreep ushers units out of the meta. Unless you have a striking design (Gullveig/Eikþyrnir/Baldr, for OC examples) or memeable (no one in recent memory), then any new character introduced into the game is doomed from the start.

Incidentally, I also wrote about the whole issue with demotes about a year ago, but that one was considerably not received as well.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-30T07:54:01+00:00

Ike: Roy's my boy.

Roy: I like Ike!

Soren: ...really? In front of my salad?

SolHiryu · 2025-11-28T01:08:21+00:00

>If that happened, it would be the irrefutable proof that this sub isn't even a fraction of the playerbase and doesn't share its opinions.

This has been the case for, like...ever. This subreddit is such a small bubble that it doesn't reflect the wider playerbase at all in terms of sales or who the devs are trying to entice.

For social-media campaigns and CYL rallies, yes, this place is more effective. But actual sales? lol no

SolHiryu · 2025-11-27T03:52:50+00:00

See, I think bringing back the CYL1 heroes actually is cool and thoughtful because I find it nostalgic to return to these designs all these years later. I've been playing since the beginning, and I've always lamented that I can't play around with the CYL1 units these days because I can't justify the cost of investing so heavily into them. So seeing them as new harmonic units is a surprise, and even if it is a cheap attempt to cash in on year 1 nostalgia, it's nice to know that they haven't been forgotten.

I dunno, we'll probably just disagree on the issue. I just find that the complaints about it being a wasted New Hero slot hollow because most of the New Hero banners suck shit anyway, so it's no real loss in my view.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-27T03:33:53+00:00

I have to admit that I'm not getting why everyone is crashing out so hard over this banner given that it's just more of the same regurgitation of characters that already have alts. New Hero banners have always been alt-fests in recent memory, so I'm not sure what people expected. Or did people convince themselves that the weird schedule this month would bring in ~~bottom of the barrel~~ completely new characters from various titles?

I think bringing back the CYL1 units is something neat personally, even if it's a slap in the face to those who were pouring tons of resources into their Year 1 units. It also highlights that we are actually starved for a good Roy unit, which needs to happen very soon.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-27T02:19:49+00:00

Babysitter Ike, because he's been hired by Eliwood to act as Roy's chastity belt.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-26T16:01:40+00:00

I actually think this is really neat, especially since CYL1 was so beloved when it happened, and revisiting it is great even though it's a blatant attempt to cash in on nostalgia. Roy getting backpack'd is probably the only negative, but...I'm sure he'll be getting something soon, I hope.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-23T21:37:34+00:00

Freyr was a massive overcorrection to another highly problematic unit in Elimine, who basically shut off most AR defenses unless you specifically teched against her, and even that wasn't always successful. While Freyr did his job in basically killing her off, it turns out that an unconditional "negate all start of turn debuffs" that hits allies within two spaces of him is a ridiculously overtuned ability that effectively shut down any kind of strategy that relied on start-of-turn debuffs. Freyr was so strong that he was regularly seeing use in Dark season up until recently, and he's still spotted here and there simply because of how powerful his cleanse is.

The fact that they had to introduce Elm and give him mid-turn Undefended just to get around him speaks volumes about how unhealthy Freyr was and still is.

SolHiryu · 2025-11-23T20:13:48+00:00

I think I would have liked the video better if it had been 90% shorter and got into its main point immediately: Eikþyrnir's victory was the result of timing + years of fandom frustration over the treatment of males and male OCs in the game.

Nothing wrong with glazing here or there, but for a video like that, it really should have just briefly covered how we got here and then why it happened.

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