Feedback about Cyrene bow skin from Cherished Recollection
It feels like the bow skin for Cyrene that you can earn by spending ~$300 USD just looks like part of what should be her standard design was locked behind a paywall. Before seeing the existence of the weapon skin, when I ran the Cyrene trial stage, I remember liking her bow design, but it also felt somehow slightly incomplete compared to the rest of her animations. Then seeing the weapon skin, it feels like "ah, of course, the base design that matches the rest of her design." The bow skin is VERY pretty, I like it a lot, so this isn't a dig on the animators or designers.
My suggestion is simply: Please make sure that character models actually have their intended base design. It would make the weapon skin feel like an actual bonus reward to just have a DIFFERENT neat design that I could swap between. It's like buying a pizza for $15 and having half of the crust sold separately, at a cost of $100. It just feels weird and scammy and unsatisfying. I'm a whale, but seeing how spending for the bow skin just feels like a manipulation tactic and not a reward made me uninterested in whaling for it.
I don't mean to be a complainbot, and I'm floored at how many free pulls and characters Star Rail is giving away. I love the game, and I'm having a great time. I just give this feedback as a way to hopefully inspire even better game design choices.
Posted Nov 7, 2025, 1:28 PM UTC