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They really advertised finally having all 12 Horoscopes in one movie, together, and fighting the Heroes and it was the perfect excuse for Sakamoto to go full Sakamoto and have the Riders use everything to take them down, cycling through forms/gimmicks/etc. And then Wizard shows up for the finish to take down the "main ones" left since that was reserved for the heroes in the actual series.

Inga Blink really kind of cemented the "Sakamoto Girls" thing for me by that point. Which, okay, maybe not a lot of character depth but she's hot and kicks butt, and that's about it.

Skydain and Groundain are the first but not the last attempt at taking older properties and then turning them into villains, but the most I can say about them is that their suits look really good and Ayumi Kinoshita is playing a villain, so that was enough for me.

Random thing I remember is Cosmic States (or was it Meteor Fusion States?) riding Fourze's bike. Like, how often do we actually see the Rider, in their Final Form, ride the bike?

The scene of everyone coming together to help Gentaro reminded me a lot of when the W supporting cast/past cases cheered on Kamen Rider and that gave W their new power up to finish Eternal. You might not remember some of the characters who they show, but you can still appreciate the sentiment.

Meteor Fusion States I will always remember for just being an excuse for Gentaro to cut loose and go Bruce Lee on the villains and just beat the @#$% out of them while the theme song plays in the background, which has got to be one of my favorite final fights in a Rider movie. At that point they really couldn't improve on Fourze's movie exclusive forms, especially considering what came next.

Speaking of the theme song, "Voyagers" is a surprisingly atmospheric yet epic ending song for the movie, and one of the rare times the singer for the series' Opening contributes to the Ending song for the movie. I think there were more examples in Phase 2 than there were Phase 1 (save for when they just reused the series' Opening for the Ending or Gackt who did like every Decade Theme Song) but it was still really neat.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Let?s face it, one of the issues with featuring a character before their series has begun airing/production/writing is that there?s bound to be a few things that don?t seem off when you get to the series proper (Eiji carrying his own Core Medals, Gaim doing a Rider Kick, Takeru being essentially a floating zombie and that?s just some notable Rider examples)

I love how that's the "off thing. It's like if TaToBa's debut had it actually use its Rider Kick and succeed with it.