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Originally Posted by ryan

I want to chime in on the discussion of the Henshins for a moment. I'm watching Fourze a second time thru with my wife, and while love the show, and I love the henshin music, sometimes the switch swapping is really clunky. I'm waiting to finish Decade or Faiz before I resume Wizard, but his ring swapping didn't seem quite as clunky as Fourze's switches, but close. OOO switching Medals was also sorta clunky.
I would like to see the next Rider have a more smooth, streamlined gimmick, that doesn't break the flow of fights as much.

Yeah, his switches were clunky. BUT I did kinda like how it made it more like he was dealing with sensitive, intricate technology. But thematically yeah, outside the henshin the Fourze driver is not my favourite. (though I like that it looks like a control panel... facing the wrong way, but still)

OOO was less clunky as they eventually stopped showing him putting in all three medals, and he usually kept moving later on when switching. I do think it boils down to just one too many things to do. W had two memories, and could swap them with one arm and replace/activate them almost in one quick move. It rarely looked slow or awkward because it was simple and easy. OOO I feel could've been streamliend if he didn't have the scanner. For dramatic henshins the scanenr looks aweosme, but in battle, well iot just goes to show how awkward it was when he never even puts it back on the belt, it just reappears there.

Wizard, man, there's no excuse for him. His is not intricate technology, or has three medals and a scanner to fumble, he just manages to botch what should be the simplest motion ever... and it's still over-complicated by the rings and stuff. Plus the fact that his driver doesn't change when he transforms always put me off. Not that they all have to I guess, but I really like drivers that have on/off positions, since it reinforces that something has happened, and that the driver has something to do with the transformation instead of just being a belt. Retro rider belts just don't do it for me, but hey, they're old. Least Wizard could do is have it change colour like Den-O.