[Locke]

DK 31. It's weird, the Rider suits in the Japanese footage look cheaper than those used in the American footage.

This was like the worst of Dragon Knight's flaws smashed into a single episode. The editing of the footage was so poor, the episode became genuinely hard to follow in places and we got THREE major character deaths IN THE SAME EPISODE. Wrath was painfully tacked on and pointless, our protagonist deserved better than dying in a muddled poorly edited mess that doesn't even really make sense of why either he or Wrath died and someone who has been so consistently entertaining as Strike deserved better than going down in the first ten minutes of an episode with much more important deaths later on.

Wrath may well be the worst Rider in the show bar Siren, like Siren he was introduced as deathly important and deathly powerful and died doing fucking nothing, he killed the protagonist but in a scene so poorly realised I couldn't really tell you how.

The action honestly sucked in a lot of ways. Survive Mode is introduced as a sort of last resort, wild card that shouldn't just be used willy nilly if you value your life and Len, fuelled by revenge, goes Survive Mode against Strike and sends Strike running - and not strategically running, I mean he backs him into the corner cowering and pleading for his life.

But then it turns out the actual powers are just sorta lame honestly. Sorta like this episode.