[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by catwhowalks

Yeah, you definitely did, but it's really only obvious in hindsight, so I'll come back to explain once we get to the appropriate part of the story. You missed the point in a particularly funny way though.

My favorite way to miss the point!

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

Go easy on the hints of future developments, people!

G3-X's GX-05 or whatever it was called is one of my favourite weapons in Rider ever. What an appropriate finishing attack for Hikawa, riddle your enemies with bullets until they blow up. The bit with Ozawa lowering the AI for the armour so that Hikawa, and in a sense choosing him over the tech, is really nice. Though honestly I can't notice much difference it makes, if any, in this latest episode. He shows up and beats on the Unknown basically the same way as he did when he was 'out of control' anyway.

A chaingun is a great weapon for G3-X, yeah, since it drives home the human/mechanical type of attack. Gills is raw animal rage, Agito is smooth and precise martial arts, so G3-X needs to be technology. A giant goddamn gun that's maybe better deployed in service of mowing down an army, that's a great thematic statement.

For the dumbed-down AI, the only real hint is that it takes Hikawa a few more moves to put away the Unknown than the previous iteration of the AI delivered. It's still pretty powerful, though! I was mostly skeptical about Ozawa's choice, understandable though it was, since we're only at the halfway point of the show. The Unknown are going to get tougher, that's just how it works. What happens in 12 episodes or whatever when G3-X could use a flawless operator, and it's been handicapped so Hikawa can use it? That feels like something that should come up down the line, a consequence of Ozawa's choice. Just, like, dramatically, I want to see there be a sense that there was a real tradeoff they'll all have to compensate for.