[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by Black Fang

I only put out Assassin's Creed as an example of video game motifs (in this case for Brave as he's fantasy-based) that would've looked much better than the nonsense we got, not that I literally wanted that. The Ex-Aid Riders as they are would probably fit in perfectly in something like Kamen Rider SD, which caricatured Showa Riders' designs. But they're awful as a "real" look.

It has nothing to do with "edginess" (I'd only wish Rider went back to the grit of Kuuga-Hibiki). It has to do with aesthetics. Gaim took a concept that on paper looked absurd and made it look cool. Ex-Aid was the exact opposite.

What’s ‘cool’ is subjective. I personally do thing the Ex-Aid suits are cool. In particular, I adore all of the Level 2 suits, as well as Zombie, Fantasy/Legacy, Muteki, etc...
Point is, again, Ex-Aid’s aesthetics worked for he target audience - and for some westerners.

Did Ex-Aid’s suits suck? To you, yes, but that isn’t an objective fact. I don’t think so, and clearly I’m not alone. Thinking they suck is fine...but claiming they suck objectively and that they wasted an opportunity is blatantly untrue.

Bandai and Toei could have made grittier deigns, yes. But would they have sold as well? Who knows, maybe they would have.
But the designs they did do sold amazingly, so clearly, they made the right decision for the success of the franchise.