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