Right. Modern monsters are more about making people feel bad and/or property destruction.

Oh, and let's not forget Faiz, which had a major character that was an Orphnoch killing people regularly. Once she (can't remembered the name) offered herself to be raped and then killed them in a back alley.

Kamen Rider is so tamed nowadays. Gaim at least has potential to get some of these dark tones back.

I just hope it never gets to Kuuga levels again, that was just too much.

Well in OOO the purple medal Greeds erased people from existence as I recall.

You say tamed, I say "has some God damn self-control."

What you described isn't dark, it's pointless gratuitous and immature. It reeks of someone trying to be more mature, but failing and becoming an even bigger joke than the so-called "tame" series. "We want this too be DARK and EDGY so let's put in MURDER and RAPE because those automatically make for better stories about silly rubber-suited monsters, right?"

Maybe the creators should spend less time trying, and failing, to make the shows dark and "mature" and focus on making the mouths on the monsters move once in a while?

You've clearly never watched Faiz. What I described is an event used to add to the character drama within the show.

The following contains minor spoilers from the early episodes of Faiz:
Yuka Osada is an Orphnoch. Orphnochs must kill in order to live. Her and the Horse Orphnoch agreed to never kill and live as long as they can. However, Yuka has been killing people she deems "evil," like the rapists (which is only implied), behind the Horse Orphnoch's back.

This character does not like the things she does, but does them to live. That's not dark for sake of being dark. That's dark for sake of adding character. I repeat, today's Kamen Rider is tamed compared to early Heisei.

PS I'm not including Gaim in that statement yet.

Back on topic.

The DJ has the Orange Lock Seed. Guess that means there's multiple of every Seed (at least the basic ones). In theory, two people that have the Sengoku Driver can become Kamen Rider Gaim, Baron, etc. at the same time.

...Huh, the "evil" Gaim in Movie Wars sounds logical now.

I liked the first episode more than I expected to. A little early to compare it to Ryuki but I think they've shaped the world rather well in 1 episode explaining as much of the background as possible such as the Ygdrassil Corporation, the Invess Lock Seed game and the...dance groups.

The Suit design is growing on me. Now that I've seen it in motion its not as gaudy or clunky as I thought it'd be. One complaint I have and maybe its not so much a complaint as it is a sign of things to come is that the monster suit design was very...plain. I mean really really plain. Which to me indicates most of this series' storyline will undoubtedly revolve around Rider vs. Rider plots. Maybe this might change in the coming episodes but even the Invess didn't look particularly inspired.

Kiva...
You know, I hadn't realized it.

Oh man, that was a good first episode. I like that the Invess are part of some kind of Pokemon-style game, that added a nice twist if these monsters are more or less part of every day life.

Dunno how I feel about the whole dancing thing yet, but I liked everything else I saw. Watching Kouta getting use to his powers for the first time was pretty hilarious.