If I remember correctly, the new forms barely get used apart from the mandatory "finish the enemy" thing at the end of each episode. The OG suit still gets a nice amount of use.

Ok I'm watching the Birth of the Tenth special I guess. Here we go.

-Very in media res opening they've got here. If it wasn't impossible I would have thought I skiped two episodes.

-This theme song is sure unique. I like it.

-Hey RhinoDump cameo. Sweet.

-That is a lot of backstory they just kinda drop on you. Not big fans of show don't tell I guess. Really does feel like I skipped a bunch of nonexistent episodes.

-How does Riderman know he's called ZX.

-Also damn me but I think this ugly Thing of a suit may be growing on me.

- Just my luck that the only returning actors are from the one series I haven't watched and that bland dude from Super-1.

Man I just...have a lot less to say about this thing than I thought I would. It's. Certainly a thing I watched. Nothing really notable about it. Nice theme song though.

And I just watched episode 1 of Agito.

Not a lot happened. G3 isn't very good at the Kamen Ridering. Also lots of cat people I guess.

Yay, Agito!

And yeah, G3 is pretty underwhelming at first. That is kind of the point, though: he was designed to fight the Grongi, not the Unknown.

Ghost parkas help Ghost access different power set which similar to utilities power like Shift Cars or Astro Switches. The problem here is each parka is like a pseudo-form with masks changing, different parka, different weapons so people may find it overwhelming.
Just wait until he gets a new base suit (power-up). The old base suit is barely used again that pissed off many people as I noticed. Ghost has some sort of bad handling for form changes, you may need to prepare for that. It's a show that sells toys after all.

So I finished Drive last night.

I loved it, so so much. It had a lot of problems that I won't overlook, but it was entertaining as hell and there was so much I enjoyed about it.

Shinnosuke Tomari is was a great protagonist, aside from his heroic aspect, he was also really relatable and to see him grow was great, and he reminded me a lot of myself.

I may write a review, but it was great.

Just started Ryuki yesterday. Got up to Episode 4. It's pretty cool so far. But I can already see problems that aren't gonna be solved at all.

Like how Yui seems to believe her brother started the Rider War because Ren told her. Okay, why she trusts him wasn't really all that defined. So he fought for other people. That doesn't mean he's immediately correct.

And then while Ren keeps trying to push away Shinji in the beginning I don't get what happened with the school. Ren's under suspicion since it looks like he attempted to have Darkwing eat some students. Turns out that's not what happened, but it took the entire episode to get an answer to it when Ren could've just freaking told Shinji what really happened instead of waiting for so damn long.

Also if Yui really wants to see her brother again to confirm Ren's words then why didn't she just become a Rider? She had Shinji's deck when it was blank since instead was before me made a contract with Dragreder. So she could've just done it herself. But no, she gives it to him, tells him how to do it & then chastises him later on by saying she trusts Ren more because she finds him more reliable than Shinji. Then why the freak did you give Shinji the deck you idiot? Do it yourself!

Ugh, either way I'm gonna continue the series & hope things get better because I actually do like most of what I've seen. It's just those previously mentioned things that get to me.

There is an explanation for that later, kind off, I won’t spoil it. At least I thought it explained it.

Yeah Ren isn't really that guy :lol

I think they wanted to ask the viewer if they trust Ren enough or not, so he created this impractical situation just so that we as the viewer can think about it.

That gets explained later. Like, they won’t explain why Yui never thought about being a Rider but they will explain why Yui will never be a Rider. So even if she tried it wouldn’t have worked.

Hopefully you're right. I just got a little frustrated since things like talking things out were damn near absent in Agito, which I complained about here months ago, & was told this was a common trend in the early Heisei Era.

Yep. MISUNDERSTANDINGS are early Heisei's favorite plot device.