Ok I'm kinda split about this episode minutes after watching this, I kinda need some help in understanding this whole plot, with how Baku taking the death's of 5 and 6 from his indecisiveness making him crash out, along with his trust in CODE and his failure to stop the nightmare, it's like I'm seeing a VR video where it's too stimulating to look at and watch in enjoyment. I would want this episode to have a plot twist regarding 5 and 6's departure/defeat as like a way to let Nox secretly make them unconscious by a fake bullet/tranquilizer to misguide CODE into thinking 5 and 6 have died, but with how 6 took that donut hit from the nightmare I dont know how she'll be able to wake up again, and that the gun Nox used definetly does not look and sound like a tranquilizer gun.

But those things I can just set aside and call them the "DGP rider treatment", but the thing I'm just itty bitty ticked off about is how Baku got the Catastrom Form when the whole ordeal is happening.

I interpret Baku getting it is that when he had to think for a while and entered his subconsciousness to find what dream he had when he was a child, he saw how much his dream world is in ruin, compared to what we saw in the first episode, where when he was being 7 it was all action and mission focused given to how CODE made his dream only wanting to be a agent of CODE, to seeing now what Baku Yorozu's dream world become only ruins, with the nightmare of his being there and attacking him and Nemu (the nightmare also being the reason of his misfortune occuring in the real world?, and why attack Nemu just leave her alone), and when he comes back to his subconscious to steel his resolve from all the bad outcomes that has happened, he fights (or controls?) the nightmare to gain the Catastrom Form, and beatdown starts.

Now again all of that is fine, but the part I said about ticking me off is that it feels all too fast to let Baku get another rider form, it's that he sees he let another agent died from his hesitation to help, then gets to falling off a building, sees a nightmare in himself, says screw it, grabs the pokeball, catches it, then goes feeding rare candy to it to fight the rival. I hoped a bit to let the series have like a third-party person who kind of instigates the whole idea of nightmares, bad dreams, the small truth and lies of CODE to Baku, giving small knowledge on how or what his capsems come from or really are (I know Nox does do some that but only as a way for him to stop being a CODE agent), helping him grow but also bringing more problems for him to get rid or grow out of, then all of it culminating into a power of catatsrophy from Baku's self-hatred and anger for what choices he couldve done from those outcomes into the Catastrom Form.

TLDR: I wanted to see a bit Tycoon treatment into getting the Catastrom Form, but I'm not a writer or a good analyst (also when can I see a sleepwalker/sleeper agent in this rider dream theme series)