[KamenRiderOOO]

With the appearance of the Energy Riders, you can say that things are turning sour for our Armored Riders.

[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderOOO

With the appearance of the Energy Riders, you can say that things are turning sour for our Armored Riders.

Because someone has to: UNACCEPTABUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There I made the joke, now no one else can.

Anyway...a lemon, interesting. I like his visor.

[Startaiger]

Sigurd, Marika & Duke are just AWESOME!!!
On the other hand, I prefered the first Zangetsu, but Shin Z is not that bad...

[ComicGuy89]

Wow, all the Energy Riders look awesome. I love Malika's look the most and the water droplets in their visors are terrific touches.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderOOO

With the appearance of the Energy Riders, you can say that things are turning sour for our Armored Riders.

Duke looks so awesome =)

[baltmatrix]

These guys looks freaking awesome. I'm loving Sigurd. I think it's cool that these guys appear to be evolutions of the others. Duke, Marika and Sigurd appear to be advanced forms of Baron, Ryugen and Gaim.

[Battlizer]

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Originally Posted by baltmatrix

These guys looks freaking awesome. I'm loving Sigurd. I think it's cool that these guys appear to be evolutions of the others. Duke, Marika and Sigurd appear to be advanced forms of Baron, Ryugen and Gaim.

Sigurd's kind of his own thing, I think, being viking-based and all. If anything Shin-Zangetsu's more of an a counterpart to Gaim, despite appearing as a non-energy rider first.

[NGW]

Quite curious to see how their henshin works, since these are clearly not going to just fold out like the current arms do.

[Locke]

The only thing I'll question is...what is the point?

I dunno whether it's confirmed or speculation but just keep that in mind for my whole post so I don't have to state it over and over.

The opening scene is Gaim's future, people take this as gospel for how the show will transpire and from hints, this looks to be very true. But with no Energy Riders does that mean they're going to be introduced, and then all be dead before the final arc swings in? Sounds like they're gonna be pointless in the scheme of things.

[Deathryuger]

Holy shit, the energy riders look "pah-fect". I like Sigurd's Viking-esque design, but the colors on Duke are just plain sexy. I wish that they each had their own signature weapon, but since it seems the energy lock seeds are more of a creation of Yggdrasil it makes sense they all use the bow.

Second, as to the point of these guys. I think the opening battle scene is more of a red herring. It seems to me that after the base camp was saved by a "street urchin", Zangetsu decided it was time to change up the game. At first the beat riders were just guinea pigs, but it seems they are more of a real threat now.