More than a "Step in the Right Direction" - Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon 

18:07 On Ian Flynn’s weird podcast thing, he mentioned how the true name of Super Sonic 2, is Starfall Super Sonic.

to be fair the game teaches you to use the dodge to get behind enemies while blocking which culminates in the Knight boss fight where you can dodge to get behind his shield to skip a phase

This is an awesome review! It’s amazing to think how much Frontiers has revitalized the franchise.

Glad to see this! You've had some great takes in the past and they only keep getting better!

OMG! I’ve missed your content, glad to hear your takes!!!

The last update gave me hope that Sonic is finally coming back to having cool stories and character gameplay again. And the fact Sonic Team said this was their last chance to making a big Sonic game like this again made me sympathetic to them moreso than their previous works in the 2010s.

The super sonic 2 transformation itself was a bit lackluster in my opinion, but the supreme end fight was something I need in future boss fights. Also hot take I think, I don’t really like the fact that the ancients made the chaos emeralds.

5:03 you lost me here this is just completely wrong. Would love for you to cover the murder of sonic since that I feel is a much better interpretation of Amy

The Final Horizon update was a good step towards seeing what the future of Sonic & Friends will be like for a potential Sonic Adventure 3. I didn't enjoy it much then, but I really like what they were doing. Besides that: WAS THATT THE FFXVI REMIX?!

This video is incredible. Showing the sonic team wanting to get the achievements what should be long time ago. The platforming is by far the best part of it, is just the difficulty is a massive step up. And the story direction is well restored. Shadow generations is building from this and I can’t wait for the foundation to be better upon since now the team knows what we like.

Lol I was just thinking about you what a coincidence , glad your back man 😁👍

20:38 So uh, sorry but I’ll have to crush your dreams, that scene isn’t always meant to play. It plays when you get hit by one of the spheres during the 2nd phase of that fight. If you are below 100 rings when that attack hits, the cutscene will still play but the chaos emeralds don’t stick around and Sonic falls to his doom.

20:45, I think, in that scene, Sonic was actually losing rings in-game. If you didn't have enough, you would die to the End.

Frontiers is going to be some kid's SA1. Absolutely incredible and such a special game.

Making Tails and Amy as Pure Good characters was the best choose for the series.

even the original ending had hints of Sage returning, so no matter which ending they choose to be canon, Sage will be back, and may already be if the murder mystery visual novel is canon

FINALLY. I keep finding reviews that are lukewarm about the update and i have nothing but praises. Maybe i'm not a true sonic fan, they usually are more strict than me i guess.

Yes!!!! The return!

This game maybe a pain in the back with the Master King Coco Trial, but I will always enjoy it!

16:37 please idk the source can someone tell me😢

20:41 If you don't parry all the orbs & don't have enough rings, you'll die during that part.

Damn now you are reviewing the final horizon i actually thought you are gone you are very late for the party lol but in all honesty good a video 👍👍 and subscribed

that amy analysis….yeeesshhh…

5:49 As a Sonamy fan, (while I respect others opinions and you can ship whatever you want) this statement couldn’t be more agreeable on my end. 🤷‍♀️👍

That attack then quickstep mechanic in the final boss was in the Knight fight too. You could do it when it blocks your attacks with its shield, however, the game never told you about that mechanic during the fight. They updated the Knight fight around the time of the final DLC, so you could know about that quickstep mechanic. Honestly they should had put the prompt during the final boss too, seeing how they updated the Knight fight to show that prompt.

7:37 well...i kinda like the more calmer amy but hey maybe that's just me (og amy fans please don't dog pile me for having a different opinion and liking her character in frontiers or god sake.)

Well, I guess it's more like _Two_ steps in the right direction, and one step back.

17:46 much easier? It's the exact same as far as I know

Welcome back Nick! 🤗

16:42 wtf is this remix OMG

Almost as if twitter wasn't representative of anything

To be fair, about the attitude of sonic. if i remember right i think it was ian that wrote the dialog but he still had to follow the story sonic team layed out for him.

What music did you use for 16:37? it sounds sick as!

24:53

Just when the world needed him most he returns 😍😍

Sonictube's potential man returns

Two steps in the right direction :O

Final boss made me feel like a kid again. It was so cathartic seeing Sonic beat the crap out of Supreme and showing off lol. But, playing it a second time made me realize how janky it is. Like the game doesn’t tell you you need to snap the cord that Supreme has in his neck, and you’re left to guess how to switch between hitting his head and taking the gun out of his back. It was kind of frustrating and honestly, I wish they would fix this in future titles. They nailed spectacle but they really need to fix the base game. Otherwise, this was good besides the stupidly high difficulty spike.

HE'S BAAAACKKKK

I like this direction with Amy too, I just had two problems with it. A) it felt like there was 0 transition between the old Amy and current Amy. Her love for Sonic just completely vanished as if it never existed and her cards suddenly reappeared as if they were always there. B) They haven't fleshed out this version of Amy enough, and thanks to that her personality seems extremely stereotypical and bland.

There's actually a 1.4.1 update that fixed a whole bunch of stuff. The difficulty is much lower, it is still much more difficult than the base game but it is not frustrating, for example in the Titans Trial you now have 600 rings and your attack is 25 instead of 1 and the perfect parry is much easier to use. Knuckles glide is fixed. There is now an option to Restart a cyberspace level faster. And more

This is why I watched the Japanese version of the story. Different script writers, better voice direction, and more epic.

Been a while.

oh cool you didn't die.

I probably would've lowered my score for the game if this DLC was mandatory lmao

SEGA needs to make a sequel and perfect this new gameplay style, instead of making an entirely new game with a completely different style like they usually do. 🤦

Really the only character I don't like is Amy, and as someone who has her as her favorite character it's a problem. I've never been a fan of how Ian Flynn writes Amy because he doesn't write Amy as Amy, he makes her a completely out of character and just a different character entirely. And going by things he's said its clear he's not a fan of the character and why she feels different when he writes her. I'm not against the idea of the cast being more mature since that's obvious in this new direction and I DO think exploring more elements of Amy is a good thing, but Amy doesn't feel organic in the slightest. I also don't like the VD for Cindy Robinson because she doesn't really emote very well, when Amy's previous VAs had a sense of energy to their tone. I can't really expect Amy to just go back to how she was, but I feel a much better compromise would be her approaching her feelings about Sonic in a different way and doesn't really think about marriage. The Japanese dialogue handled it much better and I'm glad Sonic Team leaned in with that over making Amy a different character and passing off as "development" when she didn't really develop as a character. She's better in the IDW comics for sure and you do get to see glimpses of her character, but her writing is also just all over the place. If you ask me Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is really the best Amy has been in any modern media. It captures all sides of her personality well and doesn't make her a boring mom character. When it comes to "Amy is Sally" comparison, this was mainly in earlier IDW issues where its clear that a lot of how she's written and her banter with Sonic comes off as very Sally like. This is just female characters nowadays period, they are in this lose/lose situation. If they are passive, they're weak, if they're aggressive their "promoting gender double standards" if they kick butt "girlboss". It's like Princess Zelda being playable in the new Zelda game, people wanted this, now all of a sudden its "woke" and "ONLY Link should be playable" I just hate how passive Modern Amy is, because her only character trait is she's a boring mother hen character who's only character trait is compassion with no flaws whatsoever, the generic passive female voice of reason who's only defined by kindness. Which is not only MORE out of date than the obsessive fan with a crush but is what solely defined females back in like 70s, 80s or even early 90s, critics criticized female characters for these, but its progressive for Amy? When they weren't just the person the protagonist had to rescue their only trait was, they were passive and kind. Which is further notified by how less her Piko Piko Hammer is used (even in Dream Team) and in Frontiers is replaced with Tarot Cards a more passive form of attacking that just reskinned moves utilized by her Hammer because "she can't be seen as rough or aggressive because it's bad for a female to do that" that to me is the main issue with her Tarot Cards in Frontiers, outside of that cycle move all of her moves are just reskinned abilities of moves she could do with her Hammer in previous games, which lessens in intrigue of her using magic. It would've been cool and sold the "Mystic" element had the cards been used for different purposes or displayed abilities couldn't do with just her hammer, instead they just took moves she did with her hammer and made them cards, which makes the "mystic" element less distinct and more they just want to throw it in your face. Amy using Tarot cards is fine, and I'm not against it, I just don't think it should displace her Hammer or vice versa. Because it now creates a bigger problem, what's so special about her Hammer now that she can perform the same acrobatic maneuvers she could with her Hammer? And what makes her cards special other than just being duplicate hammer moves? Frontiers just doesn't make them interesting enough for the "mystic" thing to come into play. Not only is this regressive for Amy, but fans who use to criticize Amy for having a temper are basically saying that her being passive and motherly as a direct correction to that is progressive, which to me feels sexist. It's basically treating Amy (a female) as having a temper is bad and that she's ONLY good if she's as good as YOU want her to be, and Sega appealing to this further condones that because it makes no sense to change Amy to appeal to people who don't even like the character to begin with, especially when nothing was ever said as an alternative solution they just complain about her existence. In Sonic Dream Team, Amy's only personality is that she's a female Sonic, which is another dose of double standards because people criticize her classic design for being Sonic, but girl, yet her modern personality of Sonic, but girl is fine? I think the main problem is guys for some reason want Amy to be this perfect flawless character with no negative characteristics. I just don't like this precedent that female characters have to be unfathomably nice and kind just to be good, yes these are traits you want to have to make someone likable, but it's also interesting to make someone with rough around the edges and still be a good person. Amy needs to have more to her character than "Motherly and Kind" or in Dream Team's case "Sonic, but Girl" considering her only personality in that game is female Sonic. It's also just not realistic, even the nicest people can have a rough side. As an Amy fan I just hate how her only role to the group is now just going to be "Sonic's friend who is a girl".

I'm in the small 2% of people who hates this game. 😎

I disagree heavily story/character wise but all I'll say the comment bout "evolution" is stupid cus evolution inherently is a change. Vocab man.

My favorite version of Amy is honestly the boom version

LOL Sanic 21?!!! More like 56. Pushing old age, tired, unlike Mario

Dude. Sonic X Amy in the games is one of the most horrendous ships imaginable in this series. It would be so much better if they stopped doing any sort of teasing let alone supporting involving that ship and completely scrap it entirely. That’s one of the worst aspects about any Sonic game that has Amy in it truth be told. Also, in the IDW comics specifically, Ian Flynn did forcibly made Amy into Sally and gotta be honest, that is one of the worst creative decisions ever made in this series. Sally is meant to be Sally. Not Amy. You trying to fill that void with an already annoying and tiresome character only makes the issue worse and less enjoyable for the reader. I’ve had enough of that. Stop it entirely.

Missed your content but i disagree with your and most of the fandom's opinion about this game. It is a small step in the right direction and a big step in the wrong.