[PortalTron]

Too be fair, Reiwa has been doing multiple redundant forms in shows for a while now.

Revice was really bad with this. I believe over 20 forms were shown in like, the first two months. Most of which had no real distinction. Kong was a brawler form, but then Brachio was also power-based. Eagle's whole gimmick was speed, but then Jackal was had more speed. Same goes for forms like Mammoth which used melee weapons, and then Kamakiri, which also used melee weapons. Megalodon was hardly used at all given that there wasn't much that the form did that wasn't done already by other forms.

At least Gotchard is better than Geats in respect to the gimmicks of the forms. Ninja in it's debut had intense speed and teleportation powers pretty much never used throughout the series, and Monster was able to one-shot a boss in one episode, but then Fever Monster couldn't even beat a single Jyamato Rider in it's debut. Not to mention extremely redundant power ups: Fever Magnum -> Cannon -> Powered Builder, which all had projectile based weaponry that immediately made the form that debuted like, two episodes before entirely useless. Not to mention that both Zombie and Monster were employed more hand-to-hand styles of fighting, and Ninja/Beat were melee-based forms (making both of those combos redundant by the standard we are applying to Gotchard).

Oddly enough I didn't see many people complaining about Revice's many forms that were forgotten after their debut episode, whereas Gotchard is being slammed for elements that have been present in Reiwa for quite some time now.

I feel Gotchard works better purely because the focus isn't the forms, but the idea of collecting the Chemies and illustrating the ways they can be used. Wild forms already feel better than the super-forced Remixes in Revice purely because they are a different way the Chemies can be used rather than showing a gimmick of the belt. Is Gotchard guilty of redundancy and a lot of forms? Sure, but not in any way that hasn't already been done over the previous Rider shows.