Sonic Frontiers Final Horizon Elevates Amy 

What I hope they do in her next playable appearance is A. Double down on the acrobatics of her gameplay while easing up on the Sonic similarities. Really make her the platforming queen. B. Make the hammer how she performs her abilities and combat with the cards serving to enhance the hammer and perhaps have a few unique moves of their own like the wheel boost. C. Let her interact with others more casually. Final Horizon's dialogue is very... how shall I put it? On topic. All very focussed on the imminent threat or clarifying certain lore tidbits. This is fine given the context of the story... but I adore these characters and their dynamics and really like seeing them interact in more casual settings so I hope we get some more of that going forward. Probably my favorite bit of dialogue so far is Amy talking to Sage and seemingly getting a little jealous and possesive of Sonic.

I love the seemingly magical elements they're adding to Amy with the tarot cards, though I guess I'm in the minority there. I have recently been seeing people complain about the inclusion of her tarot cards and I'm not sure why. Regardless, for me personally this was probably the best outcome. I hope they continue to expand on her tarot cards and "magical abilities."

Amy's moves does look like so much fun! I've seen a lot of love for her play style. I kind of got excited seeing her spindash. If a fox and an echidna can do it, why not girl hedgehog? Seeing so much focus on her cards and how being in cyberspace affects them is so unique. It is strange we don't get too much of her hammer, but I like the magical girl aspects she got. We might not get that mechanic outside of Frontiers, so I'm enjoying while we have it.

I love that they included her tarot cards because it was a core part of her classic version and it’s something mentioned throughout the comics as well in various places!

Amy also uses homing attack in SA2B multiplayer so it wasn't just Heroes. She also can get dizzy using her card spin unless you upgrade it and have full rings so it takes that from her hammer spin from SA1 too. The poison parry likely takes from her Tarot Draw move in Chronicles which had a chance to curse a foe. Anyways I agree, Amy feels great to play here. It's not my ideal moveset for her since I would like more emphasis on the hammer but I do like the cards giving her more versatility plus leaning into her magical capabilities which hasn't been delved into much since her debut. P06 would definitely be my definitive Amy moveset too but if you had to incorporate the cards as well then I think the card float from this game is how I'd do it.

I much prefer playing any character other than sonic as they can move around faster. I would personally say that i found it very easy to figure out what was going on and i leveled up fast-i can see how others would struggle tho 😅. And becuase i love breaking games and not playing it properly i figured out how to get amy to do parkour. How to get tails to infinitely fly(cyclone,wrench platform and tails normal fly ability) and how to get knuckles to be able to jump infinitely(his 5 lvl punch combo ability where you can spam x to get a bit of height and pressing a constantly-without gliding to allow you to spam x again)and cheese the game. The only part i found hard was the sonic gameplay 💀. Tails is the best tho bc you can infinitely fly no competition.

Honestly, I found her gameplay really fun. The only thing I would really change is just add more things she can do. Perhaps you could get an ability that recreates her hammer jump from sonic adventure (while you’re running, if you press square when there’s nothing to help me a tech onto she’ll simply hit the ground and launching to the air. Combined that with her two additional jumps, and you could get some insane height. In addition, I think her Perry should allow her to get a special attack like what sonic can do. But instead of rolling up into a spin dash, she’ll quickly Leap at the enemy, and slam them with her hammer. It effectively does the same thing a Sonic’s, but with a different animation. I’m sure you could think of more abilities she could have (maybe instead of just swinging some cards she could use some of her kickboxing skills to deal out damage?) Considering this move set was created within a year along side, three others and several massive changes to the base game, and quite impressed with what they were able to do when a relatively short amount of time. I’m excited to see how they could expand upon this in later games (assuming saga doesn’t just throw out this entire frontiers game play style like they did with the adventure gameplay)

Hi! :D It's very interesting where Sega decided to take Amy's moveset in this game. As you've shown, some parts of it are derived from her moves in SA1 and Advance 1 but as I saw another person comment, why not double down on the acrobatic side of Amy we got in Sonic Boom? I think that would be interesting but maybe it's a bit *too* different from the slower yet unique playstyle she had in the past. I'm not sure. When you said she could float, I got Peach vibes ngl lol. Video games tend to do this with female characters but I think what they did with her tarot cards were unique enough to be different from that common trope. I just wonder which way Sega will take Amy in the future because she has now shown us like 3+ ways to play her basically over the course of 20+ years. Will we get a more magical girl/magic using Amy? Will she summon the power of a specific tarot card as a move now? Like would selecting say, Strength, boost her hammer attacks? Would Death have a status effect on enemies? I think the tarot cards (I know a lot about them personally lol) could be a very interesting avenue if done right because it can be very cheap and boring if they are not careful in my opinion. Or will they sort of revert back to SA1/Advance 1 Amy where she is slower and can't really curl up but her hammer attacks make for unique ways to traverse the stage? Or will they go back to acrobat Amy where she is flexible and agile? There's so many opportunities to take Amy that I worry because of that lol. I think a more magical Amy would set her apart more and could possibly remedy past issues of struggling to not make her a Sonic clone but then having to contend with the fact that she's too different from Sonic that it's a turn off. 🧐 Great video! 😀

Because no one pointed that out, the homing attack with the hearts and all is actually an attack that chains to 5 enemies at once, it's mostly useful for platforming because of the cannons and to clear out low level badniks though.

In short, while Amy has regained a bit of kindness compared to the other two, I was worried that she might be written as a woman who is only a man's man, as seen in Prime. As seen in IDW Amy Special, she has her own strength, but she is also a ladylike character who has gained her own strength and courage.

Love Amy!! ❤

I have a question for you, as someone who loves the adventure games and with Izuka saying Frontiers will be a testing ground for a new adventure game, how do you feel about most characters possibly having the boost. I thought they'd remove it for the next game but here they've tied a lot of important functions like tail's cyclone and knuckle's drill dash to it. They could've easily done this without the boost like in other adventure games but they chose to so that might be how they plan to implement it. They're still putting emphasis on the boost even in some of the cyberspace stages showing their not done with it. They do this with the spin dash too but I thought they'd slowly edge it out of the formula and continue to flesh out the spin dash like update 2. Other evidence shows one line where eggman is plotting to use the technology from the Island's to steal the master emerald and knuckle's interrupting him. I'm just curious because whilst this is not that big of a problem for me I'm sure other fans are going to have an uproar at the reveal of next Sonic game.

Amy's too good in this, we got to remove the spinball moves for no good fucking reason

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Honestly i never really feel excited or hyped when they do something with Amy's character. I always viewed her as kinda an entertaining/okay character. Everything they've been doing with her character in the idw comics and games, it's just meh to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that fans of her and sonic fans in general are enjoying her character growth and everything else Sega is doing with her, but me personally i could care less.

Honestly, her gameplay here doesn't interest me at all and it just seems extremely weird for her to be using tarot cards as part of her actual gameplay, as it used to just be a small hobby she had just like every Japanese girl had at the time too. But no, she now has to be this "strong', "magical" girl that has to remind everyone that she's no longer a damsel-in-distress even though it was literally only one freaking game where she was and that was back when games never had a story. Don't like how her hammer is literally non existent, especially compared to P-06 and how much more fun she played there, she's quite literally the best she's played there in 3D. Her hammer is so synonomous with her, you can't just throw it in the bin. But yeah, I'm probably just really tired of seeing people gassing her portrayal and Frontiers in general up as this greatest achievement ever known in this franchise, when it's really not. Her portrayal and dialogue is literally just as bland, vague and dry as ever, just like every single performances within the past decade, and the performances lack energy. I've seen people hype up Roger's performance in Frontiers as the best he's ever sounded and even the best in this franchise and I'm just like really?? He kinda just sounds like he's simply speaking in his own voice. I guess when you're used to getting mediocre to bad content for the past decade, anything that's slightly above that is simply worthy of praise. Maybe I'm missing something, but honestly, after the debacle at the game awards two years and whatnot, I think I'd rather want nothing to do with Frontiers in general.

Amy's gameplay was great in update 3. Her magical powers was nice. Amy had the homing attack in sa2&sa2b multiplayer. That's my favorite part of update 3.

I like playing as amy but I don't like the fact that basically all her moves are tera cards like the card swing and spin they could just used her hammer, and if they want to make future telling part of her personality why stop at tera cards there are more things to future telling like crystals balls and Japanese shrines for example

I can’t believe these characters are finally playable again. Imo this update is nothing short of a huge w I really do trust the team with the next sonic game. Can’t wait to see how these characters differ in gameplay in the next game cause come on they’re definitely gonna be playable in the next game no doubt

Amy Rose is a magic girl?! 😱

4:02 She just spins her hammer in Heroes. Maybe some pedals appear as well, but she mainly uses her hammer. And she also does some flying by spinning in Generations. In one of her missions.

4:46 You don’t need to as some of the elder Koco can level you up for you. I forgot what the requirements were, I think it was the Koco or something, but it was really quick for me. Mainly because of how many you get from the Starfall events.

If I can describe each playset. Amy: RANDOM BULLSH!T GO! Knuckles: STANDING HERE I REALIZE! Tails: “So anyways I started blasting.”

Now give her a game to rival Peach

I’m not opposed to Amy having more magical abilities and them showing off that side of her more, but I kinda miss her using her hammer though since it was a major part of her identity. Pole vaulting with her hammer always looked like an awesome move

The cards are made of organic matter , which can absorb her energy over time. Metal can conduct this , even store as data , but metal does not generate the stuff. Life energy is CAN be drawn out of machines to damage them , like Badniks. And life growing in a death powered robot would act like a poison , so there you go.

Maybe a harsh opinion but about the homing attack: It felt just as vital to the move set as the cyloop. It needs to stay - there’s a reason Tails was my least favourite to play.