Oh I am so down for this game. Fingers crossed there's some sort of co-op mode where you can mow down mobs together.

The game looks genuinely fun, the Switch is region-free, AND it’s getting an English release?! I’m importing, no question.The only problem is that while I might like W a ton, I’m no OOO fan and I haven’t even seen Zero-One. I need to catch up!

Pretty sure the Z is just there to represent Zero-One in the title just like how the "M" in Kamen is an upside-down W logo and the "D" in Rider is a stylized OOO scanner.

I hope we see other Kamen Riders besides those three. This game does look cool.

This is completely random and also very interesting! It looks more ambitious than Rider games have been in a long while, even if I can't help but think Aruto accidentally walked into a game they started making in 2011 and had unfinished in a vault or something. Like Zero-One should just be Fourze? You could be flipping between all the Switches for sick combos? I've seen Mega Max; those three make a great trio!

I wonder if there even is a particularly deep reason for the choice of Riders. My instant assumption was that they managed to get those actors to do the voice-over, but the trailer immediately proved that no matter how cool this game turns out, it's already less awesome than Genealogy of Justice, which let you kick the crap out of people as actual Hiroshi Fujioka, despite not being released on Sega Saturn.

Actually, if Zero-One was going to headline a game as part of a trio of Riders, this is kind of a missed opportunity to finally do a big cross-era Rider 1/Kuuga/Zero-One thing. I mean, you're already using soundalikes, right? Just go for it!

I can see how this is a bit of a strange combination of main riders, but I'm all for it. It's clear they have a story idea in-mind that makes most sense with W and OOO. And the fact that gameplay will involve mid-combat form-swapping as well as form-swapping for specific situations means these two fit best while also being iconic past riders. I could have easily seen at least Ghost and Build being a part of this as well just cause their form swapping fits the part, too.

Also glad they're keeping this contained to just a small cast. It honestly feels like a Heisei Gen plot set-up that way.

From what I've been seeing appear online apparently it's like, the entirety of the characters from W and OOO being recast. Apparently to make things less awkward. And you know that makes a lot of sense.

Cause let's be real, we could definitely get Renn Kiriyama to reprise his role as Shotaro, but we'd probably be stuck with a Recast Philip sound-alike and it would just be awkward. So the idea of recasting those two series makes a lot of sense.

And the reason 01 and Aruto remained the same is likely because if they included any of the other cast members in it, they could easily get them since they're probably under contract to do stuff like that. If that makes any sense.

I think the big reason for W and OOO really is... just that their gimmicks fit extremely well into a video game! Both of them revolve around alternate forms with very specific powers that don't get completely overshadowed by upgrades and saw a lot of iconic use in their series; and even compared to other Riders who place heavy emphasis on that like Kuuga and Den-O, W and OOO also mix and match a lot.

Right away on day 1 we've seen a form-change wheel for W that has not just his three main forms, but all 9 of his form swaps; implying that we'll see a lot of variation on the same sorts of powers and moves in an interesting way. We admittedly haven't seen anything similar for OOO yet and with his sheer amount of combos I imagine it'll just be relegated to his main non-mismatched combos (with perhaps Tajador requiring more Rider Power to be built up or something), but I imagine they could have just seen more potential in him for what sort of game they were making.

Even aside from gameplay, there's a couple other factors: as already mentioned, the two are the most heavily connected to Foundation X storylines, who from the background mooks appear to at least play a large role in this game's story. Not to mention... the two are absurdly popular. W needs no introduction but while OOO is no Den-O, he still makes a lot of bank -- until Zi-O I believe he had the best-selling toyline, and when merch is made of Kamen Rider he's one of the first to get in there and his lines tend to sell extremely well to the point of eventually going all out. So-Do Chronicle was very quick to get to him after their W and Den-O lines and he was so popular they ended up making sets of the Movie forms and Birth; while apparently Tamashii placed so much faith in his Seihou SHF success that they're making all his main combos, integrating a complex combo change gimmick, making human figures and putting out re-issues. He's maybe not the first you think of but I'd argue he ranks in at least the top 5 most popular Heisei Riders, at least where profits are concerned.


They do look odd at first but I think just a combination of popularity, gameplay potential and then easy connections between the two does make them a natural choice. They do look odd in lieu of Kuuga and Ichigou (and I will say it's going to look even odder when this game's going to be released when Saber will have been airing for at least a month), but there certainly seems to be very good reasons for it.


... or, uh, you could go by this officially stated reason which I'm having a lot of trouble deciphering. I guess Aruto just got REALLY inspired by what he saw of them in Grand Zi-O's summons or something!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...18/unknown.png

So wait, does that mean this game is going to be canon somehow? I've yet to see Zi-O or Zero-One, so is there something I'm missing?

Also, thinking about it, I can think of a more practical reason Fourze isn't included; Space. Considering all the the theoretical combos you could pull off with all 40 of his Switches, I imagine that'd be way too much for a game that I'm assuming doesn't have the biggest budget.

Well hey, Genealogy of Justice starred Agito and came out while Faiz was airing, so that's still a point in this game's favor. :lol

I guess I just don't think of OOO as being actively popular for some reason, but that does all make sense, even if I understand Kuuga has held its popularity over the years pretty well too. The comment about the toy sales reminded me that I've heard on several occasions OOO merch was basically impossible to find at times back when it was airing because it was just selling that fast, so... yeah, I guess he's pretty popular. I definitely don't want to make it sound like I'm upset Eiji is in the game!

And thanks to this article on Famitsu, while I don't have any more idea what the heck that comment about Zero-One inheriting the genealogy of justice means, I do at least know that the logo specifically highlights the subtitle as "memory of heroez" as an additional nod to OOO's presence, so that's neat!

Yeah, I totally know what you mean -- if you're asked what the most popular Heisei series are you'd instantly say Den-O and W; and if pressed after that you'd be like... Kuuga? Gaim? Faiz? Decade?

And all of those are very popular, but OOO always seems to be the big merch mover at least. ... bit ironic, actually!

From this poll https://toretame.jp/heisei-kamen-rid...ng-2017.html/4

OOOs and Double are among the most popular of the neo heisei. I'm sure Build has succeeded them since the poll (which is from 2017, during Build's run), but I imagine there's a better narrative fit for these 3.

It's like Eiji said in the first episode: you can make it in life with just a little bit of money, and some underpants for tomorrow... and then a lot more money to purchase piles upon piles of material goods from your overlords at Bandai. At least I think that's how the quote goes?

You might be surprised on Build. In the west it got almost universal praise, but in Japan it proved pretty controversial. Its SHF line's still going very strong (we're getting Metal Build and Cross-ZBuild), so, who knows, but...



I prioritised my free saved-up money towards Seihou Tajador, so... so yeah, sounds about right!

It's always interesting to see how the unheard fandom reacts to seasons and characters. For instance, in the official character poll held by Saban for PR a few years back, MMPR White actually got the number 1 spot, when it's "common knowledge" that Green is the most popular Ranger. Really makes you think about the aspects of shows and characters that reach specific people.

I wonder if they made a sequel to this game, the riders would be Saber, Fourze and Wizard. You know, take the current airing Rider (or was by the time the game comes out) and add two Phase 2 Heisei Riders going upwards.

If they don't do a team-up between Saber and Blade in any form that's just a wasted opportunity to be honest.

Hey, that's some indication of a fanbase! Those pre-orders gotta be coming from *somewhere*.

So it was just pointed out to me.

Zero-One (1), W (2), OOO (3).


This is just the year of the Number Theory making its comeback

Now watch the next game be a crossover between Fourze, Faiz, and Saber, who will have 6 forms/swords just to keep it going.

No no no no no no this definitely should've just been a game about Zero-One hanging out with Kuuga and Rider 1!

Supposedly, Zero-One is its own universe separate from the main canon (whatever that is, following Zi-O)

Yeah, I guess substitute Shoutarou and substitute Phillip will have better chemistry than original Shoutarou and substitute Phillip.

At least substitute Eiji doesn't sound too deep.

For Aruto, contracted or not, I'm pretty sure Takahashi would be happy to portray him as one of the main playable characters in a video game.

The os even match OOO's colors, as well as yellow for Zero One and green for Double's right half.

That's genius! If Zero One is the missing 0 and 1 in the pattern, maybe Saber will be the missing 9 between Ghost and EX-Aid.

According to RiderWiki anyway. But I'm not going to believe that until they show me some citation.

'Lmao' at the thought that there's a 'canon' across Kamen Rider.

That said, Humagears have obviously always existed since 2007, they were just always offscreen.

This game is lookin' really good! First off, I got lucky in that all three of these Riders are ones that I really like. As in, top 10, including secondary Riders. But mostly, the gameplay just looks really fun. I was considering getting Climax Scramble, but I decided against it because the gameplay didn't look that great to me. But with this? No doubts in my mind that I'll have a blast playing it.

I always got the feel that most of the series took place in the same world

IMO, Decade, Build and... yes, Zero One, are the only ones that give off a feel of being set apart, though it's way clearer in the first two I mentioned.

Probably grasping at straws but eh

There is /some/ canon to the Rider universe. Some characters are obviously sharing universes and timelines, some aren't.

Decade remains in the main Rider universe but hails from a different one, Build is from a different one but lands in the main one after the events of his series, Zi-O started in the main one but the finale resets the timeline, Zero-One feels separate due to its more future-dependent setting, the Zi-O future riders, Aqua, New Den-O all represent potential futures, etc.

Like toku continuity is definitely wonky (Sentai go from co-existing with Riders to being in separate universes and back all the time), but there are some small strands you can connect here and there. Until we get official, definitive word anyway.

Brb, going to edit Humagears into photos from past Rider series.

(Also the golden rule of Rider canon remains - all Rider shows are their own worlds, except when it's a crossover, then they're not.)

Something that I've always appreciated about Rider is that it plays extremely loose with continuity so strict canon isn't anywhere near an important factor and can just happily be ignored so we can get to the good stuff. This game will probably be about as canon as Wizard and Gaim's appearances in Heisei Generations

Look I knocked up one for each series, I'm just gonna post my favourites. Proof Humagears have been around the entire time.
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...7d&oe=5F40FA2D

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...3a&oe=5F40B9D6

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...6a&oe=5F42F4E8

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...99&oe=5F4172EE

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...1d&oe=5F42DBAF

I know we've known about it for a good few weeks now, but it STILL impresses me just how screen-accurate the SO-DO Humagear is. Seihou SHFs have been doing some great work but this was on a whole other level.

Would you believe me if I said this was the easest photo to find of a full Humagear?

Ugh, thanks for reminding me of that Fourze episode where Humagear tries to ask out Magic Hand. I mean, it's cute, how they loop in JK and Shun to give it advice, but the whole thing's still a bit of a drag. Worse, I just can't see Magic Hand ending up with Tachibana. I've read some of the fanfic, but, like, no. Weird. Gross. Probably my least favorite Fourze episode.

(These were amazing, thank you for making them!)

I laughed at this for 5 minutes, help.

I hope there's a scene where Terui tells Fuwa not to question him, and there's lots of teeth gnashing and fist clenching etc.

So I'm looking up pre-orders for this game; is the Premium Sound Edition just not going to be available with english subs? Because I'm only finding Asia/English Subs releases for the standard version.

Historically speaking, Bandai Namco games that have a premium sound version and SEA release, do not have a SEA release with premium sound.

Aw, damn... thanks for letting me know!

So much effort they couldn't bring back W or OOO's actors nor find anyone who sounds remotely like them. :lol

Though they did get DIO as the main villain I suppose.