Hmm alright, I guess that makes me reconsider. Especially since my Fourze driver, much as I love it, is sitting gathering dust now. :lol

More money for the Figuarts later, then. :)

I dont know what it is but the driver feels very much like one from the early heisei shows. Its not that modular like the last years and the technology used in the driver is also pretty basic.

Definitely seems like they're cutting down on the gimmicks starting with the Wizard driver. Both good and bad, good in that it's a streamlined design compared to nightmares like the Fourze driver (though I love it to bits for all its insanity :lol) but maybe bad in that it's not so substantial? I don't have it so I can't do a judgment on that aspect.

In that respect its even worse than the wizard driver. With the driver you have the four stand by jingles and you get a henshin sound and three attack sounds per lock seed. with wizard you had much much more sounds and sounds would change based on the different styles that are used.

Don't you get more sounds from the faceplates, though?

nope. There are only the four basic jingles Gaim,Baron,Ryugen and Gaim Blood Orange use. The Faceplates push down two pins on the side to activate them. So there are only four possible combinations and thats why Gridon and Kurokage have the same jingle as gaim and baron.

That's a shame. Well, thank you, you've been very informative, more so than some YouTube reviews, I think. :)

I've now cancelled my Ryugen preorder and paid for my AC Ichigo/Pine set and my AC Baron.

Then again, we know an add-on for the driver is coming, plus an entirely new one later. And there's tons of Lock Seeds for it.

The gimmickery is all there, it's just not on the belt itself.

I don't think these have gotten around yet - but here are the official pictures of AC05, Zangetstu! Looks really cool to me - sort of like an evil Gaim.

http://akkinews.net/wp-content/uploa...446149500C.jpg