So basically like all villainous movie exclusive riders.
Nope, already established it's to coincide with the World Cup. Soccer is huge in Japan.
Campaign all you like, but if it were going to have Net Movies we likely would have known about them a long time ago.
While I hope it has a great ending I won't say Urobutchi is infallible. He has just as much chance to drop the ball as any other head writer for a series.

As for the speculation about Drive being lighter, well that's all it is. Gaim has had a certain level of darkness to it. But not really anything strangely out of the ordinary. Especially not in terms of earlier Heisei series. If you want to imply it may not be as quality of a series then sure I can buy that. But I don't know that the level of "darkness" will be all that different. The seriousness may be toned down I suppose but that isn't the same thing.

Personally, I hope Drive is a bit lighter atmosphere-wise. Gaim is so intense, so much is happening, so much atmosphere is created... I feel like I need a break from that next year and have something more relaxed- not Wizard-relaxed, but something more like Fourze or OOO.

Well what big sporting event is happening right now? Oh yeah the World Cup about soccer!

Though I won't say Gaim will have the best ending, W (not counting the "final episode) would have one of the best endings I think rider would have to offer, though I'm only about to complete my fourth series soo could be wrong.

W had a cool ending, but I'm sure Gaim will at least be equal, if not better. Depends on your connection with the series though. To me OOO worked better than W, but mainly because I ccould relate mor to the cast of OOO than that of W- which doesn't mean the latter didn't have an effect at all.

Well I've only watched Ryuki, Kabuto, Decade, W, (almost) Wizard and out of those W had such a good ending, besides that year later thing, well the way it ended at least.

OOOs finale was incredible, you know how much you care for the characters but you don't realise just quite how much the characters resonate with you until you get there, it was amazing.

Yeah I absolutely loved the OOOs ending, okay I've absolutely loved every ending of a Kamen Rider series I've seen.

Blade's another brilliant one.

I actually don't remember most of the endings to series that I have seen which suggests I probably didn't enjoy them.

Sometimes the endings have some of the most Badass scenes ever, definitely for some of the Showa Era ones.

Agreed. Also, Blade and OOO were very tragic, while W and Fourze for example were more for the warm and fuzzy feelings.
Wonder which route the Gaim ending will take.