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Originally Posted by PortalTron

I would agree, but story-wise the Sclash driver wasn't that significant in Project Build. In fact, it's probably only as significant as Gashat Gear Dual was for Chronicle, which means that going by Build's logic the Gashat Gear Dual voice should have been included for Hyper Muteki (which actually would have made some sense, given Parad's relationship with Emu). Here it just feels forced and unnecessary.

I'd argue that it was significant. Katsuragi designed it to be the next step in project build, Sento was not strong enough to use it so Banjou had to, all of Banjou's upgrades have been based on it, and every rider that used it has been an obstacle for Sento to overcome.

Byg42 got me thinking that the two belts have been representations of Sento and Katsuragi. For a good portion of the show Sento has been trying to beat Katsuragi and now with the genius bottle he is finally embracing Katsuragi as an integral part of himself. I believe this to be the intention of the writers and not just a cool coincidence.

Ex-aid on the other hand was a mess when it came to transformation items and new forms fitting into the plot. It was basically just Kuroto and Emu making better games because they wanted to. The gear gashat dual and hyper muteki gashat had nothing to do with each other. Muteki was basically a game shark to fight a different game shark (chronicle gashat and Buggle Driver Zwei)

Petty edit: Sento and Katsuragi did the two in one thing better than Emu and Parad