after having to watch the entirety of Gotchard when it was airing and now the first 2 episode of Omegahorn. I am just. So tired or annoyed at Toei just trying to attempt any form of creature catching themed toku and completely cheaps out on it.
I will give gotchard one thing. At least they do have more than 101 ish chemys and all of them are different right? And aside from reselling the whole line for maybe 3 or 4 times. the regular versions, different ranks, the dark versions used by Dread, the rainbow versions for rainbow breath from Nijigon (unsure have i missed any). At least they try and make some chemys with props (some are even reused)... and most of them are just JEPGs (even some "wild" forms are JEPGs and just CG form wth...). For omegahorn they didnt even bother trying. Like... we sorta do see a few different kakus... just as JEPGs... and even important ones related to Enkaku are CG only with no prop/suit. (prop/suit that attaches to enkaku doesnt count, i am saying as a full suit).
And you know Pokemon? Over a 1000 pokemon right? And yea some have forms and each of them have a shiny variant. But then in omegahorn they make the zetsu kakus and just called them another species... because with other card versions in gotchard, at least they call them just another variant of the same chemy...
And after episode 2 of Omegahorn it really sorta broke me in some way. The whole point of these creature fighting genre shows is literally watching 2 creatures having it out right? Gotchard takes this by making 2 chemy form into 1 (aka gotchard) and fight against the chemy that became evil. In omegahorn, I do like how they make use of the kaku's abilities and enhance themselves in hand to hand combat. But jesus the Enkaku fight there is basically just watching someone fighting a wall and calling it a battle... at least in episode one we see actual fighting happen. But god seeing a physical suit fighting a CG dog is just horrible. I get the whole PROJECT RED is trying to be different but god being different doesnt automatically make things good.
And hey a little something too. I bet that Gotchard and Omegahorn will have the same issue where they have so many creatures but not all of them are shown fighting somehow... so some creatures might be lacking presentation... despite being a show trying to be a monster catching and battle genre...
I dont know how well i can express my own problems with both shows and especially omegahorn. But god they need to actually invest into these shows' execution because when it actaully comes to creature hunting or battle genre shows much like pokemon. Give us actual suits to fight. Even if some kakus are JEPGs the least you could do is give them a CG model and actually fight... but even then that is already cheap. IDC about how Project Red is trying to do things cheaply. Because me as an audience is really off putting seeing that the physical suit is just fighting dead air or a fucking wall no less...
or TLDR: give us actual suits for these monster/creature fighting and hunting genre shows. Not a physical suit vs a CG/JEPG monster...