Shadowmoons Epilogue from Kamen Rider Black RX

Kamen Rider RX has definitely been interesting. Nobuhiko has returned from the dead however not as himself but as a hate golem with one mission; destroy Kotaro Minami, Kamen Rider Black RX!

I find his return interesting because RX is a direct sequel to Black and for the most part has disregarded any theming or direct relations to black as a series. The closet acknowledgement as a sequel series we have is that Acro-batter evolved/transformed from Battle Hopper, the motorcycle from Kamen Rider Black.

Shadow Moon really has a two to three episodes that I can recall and they're sandwiched between some decent monster of the week episodes, one particularly good episode is 26, 'Bosgun's Counter Attack'.

The end of episode 21 introduces Shadow Moon, or at least the homunculus of a vessel that is walking around the world. Battered, beaten, and looking as though he literally crawled out of the Golgom headquarters after its collapse.

Episode 22 is an episode spent exploring the VERY loose way that Shadow Moon came back and is ever so briefly partnered up with the Crisis Empire. Being forced to work with the Maribaron, Gatezone, Bosgun, and Gedorion Shadow Moon begins to actually overtake RX. However, General Jak's commanders turn on Shadow Moon using one of Gedorion's demon, the ant lion, to attempt to take out Black RX out of fear that they're capacity for promotion in the Crisis Empire was about to be superseded by Shadow Moon. Honestly that is a really interesting motivation for some of the main villains of the cast and I appreciate the dimension of depth they added to them.

Episode 27 has Shadow Moon convincing one of Jak's Commandor's Monster, Demon Alien Matt Bott, to work with him so that they can take down Black RX. Matt Bott's goal was to put a bomb into a volcano and ignite its interruption to better make a climate fitting of the Crisis Empire, the cost being human cities destroyed. Briefly working with Shadow Moon this partnership fails as Jak's Commandor's retaliate against Matt Bott.
More interesting Shadow Moon appears to fight Black RX in what is the beginning of the ultimate showdown. Having just started, they're interrupted by Matt Bott who has kidnapped Akane and her brother Hiroshi to lay a trap for Shadow Moon and Black RX.

Blinded by his hatred and what I believe to be the last of the programming by Golgom, Shadow Moon and Black RX continue to fight as the children are chained to a pillar and a fire is lit around them.

This battle is amazing! Black RX begs Shadow Moon to find Nobuhiko inside. In some capacity he still believes he could be in there. With no other path to the children Black RX resolves himself to finish off Shadow Moon. Black RX slices and stabs the King stone used to defeat Nobuhiko, Shadow Moon.

Shadow Moon has fallen.

Kotaro saves the children however at the very end Shadow Moon truly was defeated and falls to the ground.

These Shadow Moon episodes are truly some of the better aspects of the show and I didn't expect them to be. They actually tie RX to Black and provide MORE depth to Minami Kotaro and the loss he faced with the Golgom Cult.

My initial expectation is that the rest of RX will be on a downward trajectory with the death of Shadow Moon, but hey!, I was surprised by these episodes. Here's to hoping for some good episodes in the back half of Kamen Rider Black RX


Shadowmoon Episodes:
21 - The Front of Love and Friendship
22 - Shadowmoon!
27 - Great Counterattack! The Prince of Shadows

Retro FPS Update and Kamen Rider Black RX

New updates on the Retro FPS. Been making a lot of quick progress which has been nice. The asset pack has a lot of enemies that I've implemented however I need to work on their AI. I have a lot to learn from that. Slowly the features of this project are amlagamating into the ludology of a game.

UPDATES:

• Gold Door that opens with Gold key.

• Silver Door that opens with Silver key.

• Implemented the rifle and crossbow.

  • this includes ammo counters.

• Updated UI to include score and new ammo types.

• Created Score in UI.

• Created dollar, dollar bills, dollar bag, gold bar, and gold coin to add to score.

Changed the exterior walls of the desert sand level to be a real wall instead of the rocks.

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今日はしましたょ。

I absolutely adore Showa Era Tokusatsu. There is something about their production pre-ubiquitious CG that has such an alluring charm.

I finished Kamen Rider Black a while ago and have constantly started and re-started watching Kamen Rider Black RX.
The show is just SOOO different than Kamen Rider Black that preceded it and that it is a direct sequel too, something that no Kamen Rider series has done since.

Black was a show about Minami Kotaro who he and his adoptive brother, Nobuhiko Akizuki, had been candidates for a secret organization Golgom, to be mutated in to Black King(Kotaro) and Shadow Moon(Akizuki) and fight for the title of Century King to lead the Golgom Cult. Nobuhiko's real father and Minami's adoptive father broke Minami's mutatification process and busted him out before he could be brainwashed, a fate that Nobuhiko would subcome to.

The show spends the remainder of the 50ish episodes showing Minami Kotaro fight back against Golgom and their monsters in their attempt to retrieve Minami and at the same time fulfill the prophecy of the Century King, which Minami and Nobuhiko are fated to battle and eventually become.

The show is great, it's dark, atmospheric, and took a lot of bold risks with the production I feel like. I cannot recommend Kamen Rider Black, it is the pinnacle of what the Showa Era has to offer.

Kamen Rider Black RX however is very different in regards to it's setup. After the Golgom Cult is defeated Minami Kotaro becomes a helicopter pilot(sure I guess?) and works for the Sahara family and I guess casually lives in their house? During a flight the Crisis Empire kidnaps him and offers him a place in the Crisis Empire. He rejects them and the King Stone that allows him to turn into Black is broken and he is thrown into space. Somehow the Suns radiation mutates the King Stone and allows him to transform into Kamen Rider Black RX.

I feel like this setup is just so different. Instead of his family, someone he is close to, he is spending time with the Sahara family. This is a family that really is just played to max as a foil for comedy for the monsters of the week that show up.
The Crisis Empire feels like it doesn't really have any backstory besides wanting to conquer earth? Which I'm not sure why? They say the want to rid humans on earth and take it over? Because?

Besides the weak plot setup the show is amazing production-wise. Every monster-of-the-week is so well designed and looks like a main villain. RX just LOOOKS cool.

"俺は太陽の子！！！”

Not sure what happened but after RX aired it would take until the year 2000ish to get a new Kamen Rider Series.

Watch some old Tokusatsu, it's good stuff.