It's certainly unlucky if you get a set of silver cards in a draft, but this is absolutely crazy. Because I am a new player I thought that getting an ltm card in a draft was impossible unless you had a hacked (or jailbroken) version of the game. But this is in the base game. now I'm confused. If I got this, I want to know if other people (if any) got this too? I'm not trying to brag about it, but how lucky would you have to be for this? And I think most people will think that I photoshopped this, but even if you manage to get the original file itself and put it into it you would see nothing because I am not good at Photoshop. So now I want to know how rare this is in happening.

Hi. I recently went for holiday and purchased a local sim card. Now that I’m back overseas, I can no longer use my previous physical sim card, it shows up as “no sim” on my XR. How to fix this please? The sim card works when I inserted it on my mom’s android dual sim phone.

Ride Kamens (ライドカメンズ) is a game based on Kamen Riders that allows you to ride them interact with them, increase affection and train, the usual stat raising sim deal. The game is developed by Liber Entertainment (A3!, 18TRIP) and published by Bandai Namco (Dragon Ball Legends, One Piece Treasure Cruise); it has a positive reception in Japan so far (although the same can't be said for Global fans of the franchise since the game deviates a lot from the usual KR stuff).
So, third husbando game this month, and this one is purely for the geis lol not really, but kinda... The default MC is called Noah, so there's that. You can change the MC's name and your username at the start and choose your first person pronouns ("watashi" is the first option, "boku" is the second: the last one is more masculine, white "watashi" is used a bit more generally, so it's the option if you go by feminine or non-binary pronouns).
I couldn't connect to the game since the gameplay is mostly idle-ish, but I'm still somewhat enjoying it (you'll see the reason: the designs interest me a lot!). That being said, this post probably won't be as detailed as my usual reviews, but I'll try to objectively present the game features like any other review I write.
Have a cookie before we start.

IMPORTANT!!!

If you can't start the game (forever on loading screen after downloading the game data -- 1.8GB for the basic download or 3.3GB for batch download), you'll have to change your phone region to the US and the language to English. Japan/Japanese probably works as well, but English will be easier to understand for most people, since your phone and a lot of apps will change the language as well.
On Android, you can search for "language" or "region" in the Settings app (in your own language, of course) and youll find the option. Or (at least in my case, for Android 14) you can go to Settings - Additional settings - Language & region.
Previous to this game, an "Episode Zero" has been released in two formats: novel and audio drama (do not confuse it with the in-game Chapter 0). The story is a prequel to the game, focused on the protagonist's father. You can check it in the links at the end of this post. I don't have any knowledge about translations of this material, but the PDF is available for free and it's easy to translate it via any screen translator (since it's not written, but in image/scan format).
Take my hand and let's review this game!

BOYS

Once again, we have the unit/team-based husbandos, bringing the number of boys to 16, divided into five teams. And, surprise surprise, it's another game where all the characters are white and pretty slim, but the designs are great imo, and their Kamen/masked versions stand out a lot and make me appreciate the game more. So, here are the boys (2 images of each team, one with them in day-to-day clothes and the other with the battle uniforms):
https://preview.redd.it/xv6d51m6wt3d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86217def897264bfb9f52ad3f5ec5a4d55706434
Justice Ride
https://preview.redd.it/egzpb51gwt3d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee096d6def9ea27bdabd8bf3566743b074eb5a2f
Madguy
https://preview.redd.it/traitaaiwt3d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7f151c3d57fca332643d3170b124f8bd1cb343f
Slam Days
https://preview.redd.it/y5xq3ffkwt3d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a967068f5dd2a68fcf8fc512b139e7e02a8a017d
Wisdom Thinks
https://preview.redd.it/69cscd5mwt3d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0257980056107f08ecdf5d5dfbae097dd73a4b61
Tower Emblem

STORY

Since I'm not fluent in Japanese and the pace of joseimuke games is crazy lately (I'll have another one to try on June 3rd), I've only read the 4 segments of chapter 0 and a couple of entries from Chapter 1 (the segments are pretty short, there are 15 chapters available on release :O). That being said, the game is written by Yuya Takahashi, a known author for the KR franchise, so that information might be useful for fans out there (source).
The game is set in its own universe and it's its own thing. You're basically a clueless MC that wakes up in close to a museum, where you find a glowing mask that opens a dooportal to a Kamen academy area, where you discover the existence of the riders and also discover about how chaos is taking control of the society through an evil organization called Chaosism. It's basically the introduction, but a bit of spoilers ahead: you're introduced to this organization through the form of the academy's president, who's actually a member of the Ulseven, an influential Chaosism group consisting of seven members.
MC will discover they're actually the descendant of a previous leadeagent(?) of the Kamen RIders, and their butler Leon will help them follow their father's footsteps to bring order to this world controlled by chaos.
\"Playing for the plot\". The plot ↑

GAMEPLAY

The gameplay loop consists in using cards to do exploration missions in order to get chaostones, which you use in battles. So basically, you'll want to auto the whole exploration, which is basically a training segment that takes several minutes with training, resting, encounters and a final battle to get a chaostone.
You select a leader card, other 3 cards (and it's also possible to bring a friend to support you), plus a chaostone you already own; these elements ideally have to excel in two attributes (there are four of them: red, blue, green and yellow), which are the two from the area where you're sending the leader boy to explore. Complete this exploration/training and you'll get a better chaostone than you already have. These stones have a combat power that will be the main stat to win battles. Cards are leveled up with materials obtained via stages and missions, but chaostones are mainly obtained via exploration. Exploration also levels up your cards a bit. VERY IMPORTANT: the chaostone you get from exploration will be from the same boy as you set up as the leader card (each card has with two arts: the standard one, and the chaostone one).
You'll encounter battles in a couple of story stages and on daily grind for materials, so you'll use your chaostones quite frequently (these battles are the usual chibi ones you see in most 2D games, oh well...). For some reason, you have 2 different energy/stamina types: 100 energy for your exploration (consumes 20 per exploration), and 3 BPs daily for the grinding stages (consumes 1 BP per battle). Battle is basically auto and you only have to tap once to finish it; you'll need a higher battle value than your enemy to win (the grade of your chaostones will define the battle value of them, grind exploration for better graded stones -- grades are the exam format, as in A+, D, F etc.). After you finish a daily battle, you can skip the other 2 battles instantly (thus consuming all the 3 BPs).
There's also a Camouflage Cafe where you can set four boys to hang out with and interact (3 times daily for each boy) in order to increase their affection. This feature also uses the chibi versions, unfortunately. You can also gift them (gifts are mostly obtained for free while playing and completing missions --there's apparently no daily limit for gifting). Besides interacting and gifting, it's also possible to increase your affection through battling.
Battle interface.
Café interface. You can remove their masks in the \"private\" option.

GACHA AND MONETIZATION

Among the three games released this month (the others being Break My Case and 18TRIP), this one is the game where I've felt less the greedy hands from the devs (even though it's a game published by Bamco). There are lots of 10 (standard) pulls given for completing the first handful of chapters, free pulls from starter rewards, free gems from newbie missions etc. but we still have to wait for future events to understand the actual pulls income in the long run. And the pity is quite okay: 100 pulls guarantee a random 4 stars card (the highest rarity in-game).
There are 2 special paid-only banners that require a paid 10-pull ticket with a 4 stars guaranteed for each. But I guess the game has some sort of bug, where I see the prices of both packs as 108 yen each. Since I'm not from Japan and I've downloaded the game from third party apps, I can't confirm the right price. I also can't see the price for 10 pulls and other stuff, I'm sorry (if I click any paid pack, it gives me an error and it brings me back to the title screen).
Every 10 pulls guarantee a 3 stars card, and currently there's no limited banner per se, only a standard banner and specific banners for each team of riders, and these team-only banners have a deadline of July 16 (probably for a pity/spark reset). One 4* card only for each boy so far. A pull costs 200 gems (2k per 10 pulls), and the odds are 3% for four stars and 18% for three stars (the other 79% is probably the odds for 2 stars, but the in-game notice doesn't add up to that, so I can't confirm that, although it's very likely). Just for reference: a story stage gives 30 gems for the first completion, story with battle gives 60 gems, and daily battles give 50 gems.
Not everything is a strawberry field (forever), so there's a catch in this apparent less-greedy-game-of-May-2024 (phew, that was a mouthful): the cards require dupes to increase their max level. 2* cards start at 40 max level with no dupe, 3* have a max level of 60 and 4*, max level of 80. All the cards can have up to 4 dupes, each one increasing the max level by 5 (so respectively the max levels are 60, 80 and 100).
Quick observation: the team-specific banners are tricky, be careful! The odds are really low: team-specific 4* cards only have a 0.25% chance to be rolled, and the rest of the 3% odds is divided by the other boys (so it's usually around 0.17% per off-banner 4*). The catch is: these banners have a spark of 250 pulls, so after 250 pulls, you can get a specific card you want from that team. The team banners have exclusive spark currencies (5 teams, 5 different sparks) and they don't share pity. Not clear enough if the pity will carry over to other banners of another kind, but the spark won't. You can also get other cards from the specific team and materials if you don't reach 250 pulls.
IMPORTANT! At the start there's a free 10x pull that guarantee a 4* card. This pull only guarantee one 4*, so get the boy you like the most. You can get more than one 3*, though (you can even get none at all).
Random UI drop.

CONSIDERATIONS

I haven't been exposed to the Kamen Riders franchise that much, but I do believe this game can be quite interesting for people interested in joseimuke/idol games AND tokusatsus (or specifically Kamen Rider since it's written by an already established Kamen Rider author). If you don't know Japanese and you don't have those interests, it might be a hard sell.
Overall, I really enjoyed most things about the game, even though the gameplay is really weak in my personal opinion. But everything else is pretty well done, the live2D lives up to the modern standards, and I personally love the music and the riders' transformation segments (it's pretty mahou shoujo -ish). Also love the fact that you can obtain backgrounds (and a background song or two) from missions to customize your homescreen for free; costumes aren't that hard to obtain either: they come from gacha cards, and not only 4* ones: 3* cards also come with costumes!
Minor complaints: even though I love the batch download, the game isn't really that well optimized and there's a bunch of loading screens. Not to the point of making me give up on the game because of them, but still quite noticeable and tiresome. I can see this and the fact you need to change your phone's region to impede some players of downloading it. The UI (image above) is very appealing aesthetically to me, but the navigation can be prett confusing, and the menu (top right button) has too many options, more than it'd be necessary.
And a last request: please, check the links at the end of this post. There are several useful ones: besides the usual download links, there are links for the fanmade English Twitter and Discord accounts, an UI navigation guide (this game is the really intricate menu-wise). The Discord community, along with the Twitter account, are translating some bits of the game, like voicelines and personal stories, and they'll potentially make some story translations available as well.
Oni-inspired suit? Peak design!

TL;DR

Pros:

• High quality (specially in character design and live2D);
• Free costumes, backgrounds, customization, not many things paywalled;
• Seems to be free to play friendly (-ish);
• Story written by a previous Kamen Rider author;
• Pretty active English community support;
• No geoblock, so no VPN required.

Cons:

• You might need to change your phone region/language;
• Not available in English;
• UI can be hard to grasp;
• Card level is tied to dupes;
• A bit too much of loading screens.

Unsure:

• The gameplay: it's probably a love-it-or-hate-it case since it's idle-ish.

Glorious card art!

LINKS

Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandai.ride_kamens&hl=en_US
Appstore: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA/id6446847122
Qooapp: https://m-apps.qoo-app.com/en-US/app/31648
Taptap: https://www.taptap.io/app/33672271
Official website: https://www.ride-kamens.com/
Episode Zero novel: https://www.ride-kamens.com/special/episode_zero.php
Fanmade English Twitter: https://twitter.com/ride_kamens_en
Ride_Kamens_EN UI guide: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGGtRqtvlE/R1QvULVocurzmRj1dDWtRA/view?utm_content=DAGGtRqtvlE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer
Unofficial English Discord: https://discord.gg/7xHg29QQBW
Ride Kamens wiki entry: https://kamenrider.fandom.com/wiki/Ride_Kamens
Thank you for reaching this point! See you husbando enjoyers soon!
Edit log:

• Added a "con" to the topic "TL;DR": "Card level is tied to dupes";
• Added an excerpt to the "GACHA AND MONETIZATION" topic: "(but) we still have to wait for future events to understand the actual pulls income in the long run".
• Added the last paragraph to the "GACHA AND MONETIZATION" topic, about the initial guaranteed 4* card.

Hi all, Just wanted to share my experience with a dumb phone experiment (Lumia 950).
Firstly my use case/life requires use of authentication apps, and in recent times (unfortunately) Teams for meetings. So I could not completely dispense with an Android/iPhone. Next, I organise myself using a digital calendar and have found that a life saver. By a very kludgy route I got my google calendar to display on my 950 but unfortunately no way to add tasks/appointments without completely breaking it. The first thing I noticed when not using the Google message app was how much SMS spam Google Messages saves me from. A constant game of whack a mole blocking/deleting numbers vs the "hive mind". I also need a working turn by turn GPS having moved to a bigger city. So I have retained my Samsung phone and have been carrying two phones around. When I need the Samsung phone I hotspot from my 950. It does work but I multiple devices a drain. Before anyone recommends the S22 I also want a decent display and camera, plus the best multi band coverage. So a non starter. I don't regret buying the 950 as I have been nostalgic for one ever since I installed WP7 on a HTC HD2. But my sim card is going back into the Samsung for now.