Trivia / Kamen Rider Battride War

• Dummied Out:
  • Unused data on the Battride War 2 disc suggests that Kuuga and Kabuto were planned to get Ultimate States — Rising Ultimate Form and Hyper Form's Hyper Clock Up Mode, respectively^note Kuuga's was more than likely left out because the playable Kuuga, Yusuke Godai, never achieved Rising Ultimate. There's also a model of Ryugen with the Melon Energy Arms armor part, which may have simply been a rigging test for Zangetsu Shin.
  • By modifying the data in Genesis, it was found that Riderman and Ryugen were fully playable, despite being relegated to assist only characters, which means they were most likely cut at some point during development.
• The Other Darrin: More or less carried over from Climax Heroes. The Japanese wiki confirms the following, at least until Genesis where some original actors reprise their roles.
  • Kuuga (Yuusuke Godai): Joe Odagiri to Nobunaga Shimazaki
  • N-Daguba-Zeba: Kenji Urai to Rintarou Sakai
  • Knight (Renn Akiyama): Satoshi Matsuda to Yugo Sasai
  • Faiz (Takumi Inui): Kento Handa to Ichitaro Ai
  • Kaixa (Masato Kusaka): Kohei Murakami to Hiroaki Miura
  • Horse Orphenoc (Yuji Kiba): Masayuki Izumi to Shintaro Ogawa
  • Albino Joker (Junichi Shimura): Yuuki Kuroda to Yohei Azakami
  • Hibiki: Shigeki Hosokawa to Keiichirou Yamamoto
  • Ibuki: Joji Shibue to Ryosuke Kanemoto, back to Shibue for Genesis
  • Kabuto (Souji Tendou): Hiro Mizushima to Tsuyoshi Takishita
  • Den-O (Ryotaro Nogami): Takeru Satou to Yuuta Kasya
  • Zeronos (Yuto Sakurai): Yuichi Nakamura to Kenji Akabane
  • Kiva (Wataru Kurenai): Koji Seto to Akihiro Nozawa
  • Skull (Sokichi Narumi): Koji Kikkawa to Nobutoshi Canna
  • Eternal (Katsumi Daido): Mitsuru Matsuoka to Kohei Matsumoto, who reprises the role from Heroes Vs.
  • In Genesis, the Philip half of W, as well as Fourze, have been replaced.
• Pre-Order Bonus: The first print run of Genesis will include a download code that unlocks Takeshi Hongo in a Shocker Combatant costume.
• Role Reprise:
  • Like in Climax Heroes, most actors from Decade onwards (as well any characters that use regular voice actors, such as the Imagin) keep their original actors (barring the 2 listed above). When an actor from a show before then returns, it then becomes a notable point. Examples in the first game:
    • Toshiki Kashu as Agito (Shouichi Tsugami)
    • Takamasa Suga as Ryuki (Shinji Kido)
    • Takayuki Tsubaki as Blade (Kazuma Kenzaki)
    • Kousei Amano as Garren (Sakuya Tachibana)
    • Ryoji Morimoto as the Joker Undead (Hajime Aikawa)
    • Yuuki Sato as Gatack (Arata Kagami)
    • Tak Sakaguchi as the Cassisworm (Reiji Nogi)
    • Keisuke Kato as IXA (Keisuke Nago)
    • Shouma Yamamoto as Dark Kiva (Taiga Nobori)
  • In II:
    • Kento Handa as Faiz (Takumi Inui)^note Likely, Handa was on hand because he had recently appeared in Heisei vs. Showa: Kamen Rider Wars.
    • Takamasa Suga as Ryuga
    • Musashi as Caucasus (Issei Kurosaki)
    • Hiroyuki Watanabe as Gaoh
    • Kohei Takeda as IXA (Otoya Kurenai)
    • Mitsuru Matsuoka as Eternal (Katsumi Daido)^note Matsuoka expressed interest in being in the first game but said Bandai never got in touch with him..
  • In Genesis:
    • Hiroshi Fujioka as Ichigo (Takeshi Hongo)
    • Tetsuo Kurata as Black and Black RX (Kotaro Minami)
    • Satoshi Matsuda as Knight (Renn Akiyama)
    • Kohei Murakami as Kaixa (Masato Kusaka)
    • Shigeki Hosokawa as Hibiki
    • Joji Shibue as Ibuki
    • Yuichi Nakamura as Zeronos (Yuto Sakurai)
    • Ryouta Murai as Kuuga (Yusuke Onodera)
• What Could Have Been:
  • With Battride War II, the staff reportedly considered giving Ultimate Forms to Kuuga and Kabuto — Rising Ultimate and Hyper Clock Up, respectively. They decided against Rising Ultimate because the playable Kuuga is supposed to be Godai rather than Onodera; no reason was given for Kabuto.
  • Early screencaps showed Ryugen was intended to be playable, but he was demoted to Assist Character in the final release. Datamining the disc turned up a model of Ryugen with Melon Energy Arms; this may suggest that he was intended to become Zangetsu Shin for his Super Mode (though the Gaim plot is based off of Sengoku Movie Battle, Micchy had already made his Face–Heel Turn in the show at that point). Datamining Genesis revealed that it happened in that game too, with Ryugen having incomplete playable data before being set back as an assist. The same goes for Riderman.

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