[Layton13]

Oh, Kamen Rider is definitely formulaic, especially with how toys and forms as well as big story points are placed in the last few years.

However, and that is the big, however, each show still feels fundamentally distinct from the last. ZI-O is a two-parter show with a slowly building story in the background, Zero-One a story-driven show that goes hard in on its worldbuilding with mostly one-off episodes in its first arc before moving into a 2 episode structure in its middle and Saber has a unique mix of one-offs and two-parters while using the same monster 2 weeks in a row.

Only because you can roughly predict when the first upgrade, the new, powerful Rider, and other such things can come in, doesn't mean they can't be vastly differently executed, which Rider excellse at.