[DreadBringer]

They actually make the bad guys win.

It's something expected due to their differing goals, but the divide between the Jamato crew starts to show more here in Archimedel and Beroba accusing each other as traitors, in Archimedel wanting to win the JGP himself as Dunkleosteus Jamato by attacking the remaining Riders and get his wish of making ideal world for Jamatos, and upset of Beroba getting in his way with her schadenfreude wish, or her caring more about a Rider, and Beroba being upset that Archimedel gets in her favored Rider Michinaga's way, clearly playing favoritism.

Later part also showed Beroba being set to cut ties with Michinaga, once he's no longer the underdog, and ofc to further entertain her in his sufferings. Real life audiences can root for villains in fiction due to their underdog nature, and I guess Beroba has that part too of being tired of constant winners. Daichi doesn't get any part of this, but I hope he won't be wasted later.

Knew this from the preview photos, but Ziin returns earlier than I expected, which is good personally to not save everything that's left for the finale only like some people assumed. Guess the Dunkleosteus Jamato is the one who is on par with supporter Riders, with Ziin taking again the Laser Raise Riser from demotivated Ace to fight him off. Consistent with Kyuun fighting it off with Na-Go before, making Kyuun more of an MVP but it's reasonable.

Apparently now Ziin investigates the DGP where previously it wasn't a death game, but the winners get pure gold coins. Previously the DGP was more similar to legal sports like boxing/MMA matches with medals then. So it answers my question of, "if Mitsume was a DGP Navigator, then how did it run without Goddess of Creation"; Sueru changed the game format to ideal worlds. Still don't know why Ziin doesn't immediately grow sick of DGP by the time he knows how valuable life is though, rather than digging up some history first. Ziin is also the one who told Ace that he can use Vision Driver to visit Mitsume.

The Geats vs Buffa showdown is the opposite from before, considering Ziin's Boost gift to him, now Buffa is the one "handicapped" as for some reason he doesn't use Jamato Buckle, and it's good that it's consistent that Geats still has the upper hand on the fight, dancing around Buffa with various tactics like activating Poison Charge to push Zombie Breaker against Buffa. Was disappointed when seeing Buffa with disadvantages actually winning despite what's established before, but ofc, it was according to Ace's plan to shoot him while he's distracted to get the Vision Driver, thus Ace doesn't become suddenly weak here, just losing on purpose.

Niram's lack of empathy (though it may be also "professional" move) is highlighted here, in him refusing to make things easier for Ace, but force Ace to do him favors of "saving" the world to earn what he wants - the DGP way of doing things, which is retrieving the item Ace needs currently in Vision Driver, which the DGP also needs to keep it running. I thought Ace using the Vision Driver will involve the flashbacks from previous Game Masters, but so far it doesn't happen yet (or he needs to be actually Game Master?), thus Ace for now only runs on pure faith on his mom to defend Mitsume from Niram claiming she purposely made the world unjust, with the only evidence for now is the supposed crying sound from Goddess of Creation, unable to show any proof.

Other than possibly lying (like perhaps Daichi before) to likely get Ace end this quick or cover up DGP's sins, Niram also brushes off said evidence above and just tries to prematurely end Ace's reunion by taking the Vision Driver by force as Gazer.Otherwise, I'd think his performance as Gazer is even cooler here than debut, as he's fighting the much stronger Geats Boost Mark II, and he still casually brushes off any of his attacks. Gazer is still the top dog, would say he has more of an upper hand in this fight, and means he surpasses most other supporter Riders given his performance to Laser Boost who defeated Glare2 who crushed Ziin. I thought Ace's downfall would be his sentimentality to his mom, like the beginning suggests, but it'd be more due to Niram's inconsiderate nature the situation worsened.

The winner though, is Buffa, with Gazer and Geats on the depths of the pits, and Ziin being defenseless as he gave his Laser Raise Riser to Geats again, who uses his Zombie Strike to summon giant hands that pulled 2 of the strongest Riders below the pit, turning them into bubbles. Overall, the JGP does provide him the means to win, with how he also got the power to create games with its rules as the Game Master, eliminating the need to defeat these 2 Riders head on, of which obviously he stands no chance, but he only needs to pull them down and let the game rules delete them, the "ring out" way. And the credit also has to go to Beroba as well, who is the one who managed to be enough of a threat to hijack DGP, and allow Michinaga to take control, and the one who expects Ace to escalate his conflict with Niram like this before.

The other parts of the Heaven and Hell game isn't touched upon much, just the Evil Goddess escalating the hell to contain multiple colors; the bright ones, eliminating all of the civilians leaving Sara and the kid the "winner". The high school girl isn't focused more, not even named, unlike Shouta before. The Evil Goddess also just simply crumbles after completion, no talking about what happens to the ones turned into bubbles, or it'd be touched upon later considering it happened to the main characters in Ace, Keiwa, and Niram too. Michinaga would still have to put more work than expected in his wish, in the continued Desire Royale, which apparently has Game Masters like Chirami as another target and returning John and Ben. Apparently the "power" Michinaga seeks to destroy them all has to be activated manually.