[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Episode 3: The Search for the Blue Power Stone

Episode 4: The Advent of Bima-X Storm

Firstly, someone obtaining the Stone doesn't take both episodes. And it's also not the de-facto way that Bima-X claims victory in the end either. Rather, the Blue Stone is Ray's' reward not just for beating the Bee Monster, but also for sticking true to his virtues. While I feel the execution of the moral is a little messy, it overall worked for me, since I got the core of what they were getting at.

The stakes felt high here as the Bee Monster evolved into something that can give Grand Gator a run of his money, size and destruction-wise.

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

On that note, the Blue Power Stone. I do like that now when Ray modifies the stones to match his new Red one, the design on the silver trim is unique to each stone. And while I do love me some form changes, I feel like the way it's pulled off here isn't ideal in terms of my aesthetic tastes. I wish that the undersuit also changed color at the very least. And that's not even getting into how much I liked/preferred how the stones would grant different weapons and augments in the original BIMA.

Kamen Rider's Fourze's Astroswitches (mostly) giving only weapons compared to OOO granting new forms (body parts) for different weapons making OOO the Rider with the most form combinations (120+).