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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I really like simplicity in Kamen Rider suits. A couple colors, one motif. Like, one idea expressed in the suit. Drive is a car. Double is two people. Fourze is a space shuttle.

Upgrade suits tend to follow a Version Of X design philosophy, where the core motif gets tweaked, or enhanced, and it can sometimes lead to a messy visual. Drive Type Wild is a monster truck instead of just a car. Fourze Magnet States is a space shuttle EVA suit instead of just a space shuttle. I mean, I'm not against that. I get that, basically by definition, an upgrade suit has to add-on to what the base suit was doing. It just sometimes ends up lacking a clean design philosophy that I respond to.

Final Forms, they usually have to say This Is What Happened In The Series, all through the suit's design. For me, it can make for an overly-busy, cluttered design. There's a need for the suit to incorporate a dozen or more individual elements, and that can lead a designer to some very More Is Better looks.

These are not hard rules! Some series approach these problems better than others. Build Genius, for example, is maybe my favorite suit in the series. This is all very subjective! Sometimes it's as simple as not liking a design mandate. I am only human, and I got human biases.

(Cosmic States, though! I hate those chest buttons!)

Oh man, you are going to have thoughts about Decade Complete.

For what it's worth, I generally agree with you. I'll happily take Blaster or Zero-Two over stuff like Infinity or Cosmic.