The Evolution of Amatsu in Monster Hunter - Heavy Wings 

Hope you all enjoy this Monster Hunter Evolution episode! The next will be the very last one!

My absolute favorite monster, ever since he was leaked for sunbreak, i couldn't wait, hope to see this guy flying across mountains like a raid boss in a possible open world.

5:35 I like how the absence of the pillars is explained in Amatsu intro. When it creates the big cyclone, it takes away with it the pillars.

The amount of fanservice they managed to pack into the Sunbreak final boss quest for P3rd players is genuinely impressive to me and felt SO good, so glad they brought it back for Sunbreak

I can't wait for the evolution of Steel Uragan video. Might be the best video yet! 😂

another nice detail is that in sunbreak they use the old gen sound effects in his quests. gathering items, carving and picking up items all use the og sound effects. he is a real visual treat in sunbreak and is very fun to fight

I like how the longer whiskers and new abilities kinda hint at Sunbreak Amatsu being an older and more experienced individual. Perhaps a variant of sorts. It also seems the thunder and more extreme phase 2 color shift take inspiration from the Frontier exotic Amatsu with its dragon mode.

Amatsu in sunbreak is probably my favourite looking fight in the series, phase 2 and beyond I'm just in awe every time.

Something (apparently I haven’t fully tested myself) but in Sunbreak the damage on his ultimate (the attack you use the great wirebugs to dodge) can be reduced the more parts you break on him to the point where eventually you can heal through it easily. Seen some speculation that the wirebugs were added to prevent an Alatreon situation from repeating which makes some sense but also feel amatsus “dps check” is much easier to hit than Alatreons element check. Also kinda disappointed you didn’t bring up the old sound effects used in the Sunbreak fight too since the entire sequence felt like a huge love letter to portable third.

I can't believe Zinogre was at one point considered a significant monster. Seems like just another monster now.

Valstrax showing up in the hunt is actually a reference to Universal Studios Japan and the Monster Hunter exhibit a few years back. You join some hunters in the USJ armor to battle Amatsu, escaping on an airship when the fight starts going south. Then Valstrax ambushes the airship and is about to finish you off, when it notices the storm being whipped up by Amatsu and flies towards it, seemingly going to fight Amarsu itself.

Amatsu is THE Elder Dragon for me, it just checks every box for the role: weird looking, mysterious, living remotely and thus hardly seen, great powers that affect the entire environment and escape our understanding, deity status, strongly ties into the story and lore of the game (especially in P3rd with Yukumo and Zinogre) and an absolute banger of a fight and theme. I wish he was tied more heavily to the lore of Rise/SB beyond the letter posted by the developers, and I think they really missed a chance by not tieing him with Gaismagorm, as they feel like natural opposites (the archdemon from the underground abyss VS the sky god from the heavens).

The sound effects of how you pickup item/carve also plays the old sound effects instead of the new one. A really small but nice throwback

Amatsu in Rise was a spectacular fight

Thanks for the great vid🙏 Amatsu is in my eyes one of the best designs in mh MH history and my all time fav. Elder Dragon ive ever fought since P3rd and SB really did it justice🔥. Really hope we will see it soon back in the series🌪️🐉

Never got the chance to face him in P3. But goddam he gave one hell of a fight in Sunbreak. Capcom did outdone themselves with this one alongside Fatalis in World.

I never played the old games, but I really liked how they used some of the old sound effects for this particular quest. Playing the old jingle when you carve/pick up items, even when you start the quest it plays the old battle horn. Thought those were nice touches

My fav elder dragon and close to my fav monster overall. Its important to mention that Amatsu's body and the plants still moving in P3RD and GU is likely because the engine didn't allow the devs to delete the "wind" effects without resetting the area. Also, while the track is identical, the Sunbreak version of Amatsu's theme is higher quality because the PSP had lower bitrate limitations on audio samples and tracks. Meanwhile for Sunbreak it seems like they went back into their "sound" archive and made sure the track used the lossless versions of those samples.

9:41 OMG I didn't know that!! That's awesome!🤩

Man I remember back when around a month after Sunbreak came out, I had a dream that Amatsu was in the game and I was fighting it in a similar area where it was fought in older games. Fast forward just a week before my birthday, it got announced for Sunbreak. Amatsu ended up becoming one of my favorite monsters thanks to this, and its fight in Sunbreak is one of my favorite fights in the entire series too

a great finish to a great series. BRAVO!

Shout out to how you wove the different themes together at 13:52. I imagine that must have taken quite some time to get right, and you did!

Used to be my absolute favorite monster of any generations until i fell in love with the insane pace of primordial malzeno. Now they are both on my S tier 🤩 (his frontier fight was not it for me)

Sunbreak did an amazing job with Amatsu.

It's so beautiful 😭

Sunbreak finally gave us the Zinogre vs Amatsu fight that has been building up since P3rd. Zinogre wasn't on the approved hunting monster list, it was relatively peaceful but when Amatsu drove it out of it's home Zinogre became a menace all around the world which is why Zinogre is now a monster we can hunt lorewise. Thunderlord Zinogre that was introduced in Generations was a Zinogre that was approaching it's peak of mastery over it's Thunderbugs and Apex Zinogre is just a scuffed port of Thunderlord so when Amatsu finally came to Sunbreak and we finally got that Thunderlord/Amatsu revenge fight it felt like a true conclusion (Way better than whatever the hell that Kagerou and Yomigi shit was trying for)

7:22 for those attacks if you use a great wirebug and you hang up there you'll be safe

I like how the menu sfx changes to that of the older games during the amatsu hunts, it's such a neat detail

Such a cool and wonderful Monster

I’ll always love Amatsu’s theme, it just oozes Panzer Dragoon energy!

I just fought him in GU the other night so this is amazingly timely XD and honestly I feel Sunbreak does it best for him Especially with how he is tied in to the story, even if as you pointed out it made more sense to be in base game Both still fall to my Dual Blades though >:3 Also I didn't know that you could get Apex again that way o: that's cool And Valstrax is a nice little nod at a clip from something which shows a Valstrax going to go fight one I think that was a clip from a park ride or something

I loved his sunbreak fight. I never played generations or portable third. Ive only played MHWI and Sunbreak. I have been playing MH4U though. Albeit slowly.

I haven’t fought Amatsu yet (cuz I don’t have Sunbreak), but judging from all the videos I’ve seen about him, he’s one of my favorite elder dragons.

I could totally buy that Sunbreak Amatsu was made on a tight budget, and I can see the potential intention to have this quest in base Rise (I forgot you couldn't ride apexes, and them specifically adding the apex wirebug stagger only to have it enter the proper wirebug state really shows there was attention to detail there). My biggest peeve was the reused arena, and if they had more time to set the stage properly for Amatsu then I feel like it'd have been much more impactful. Now that I know there's a hazard version of the quest I want to give the fight another shot. I didn't find it appropriately difficult, so maybe a harder version would be more engaging.

I think you forgot to mention that in Sunbreak you have the old school item collect sound that plays if you pick up an item

I think overall, Sunbreak is definitely my favorite. In general, I don't like how powerful the hunters are in Sunbreak, not just with the access to wirebugs but the various other "QoL" changes that 5th gen and Rise specifically brought to the table. However, despite all of that, I feel like Amatsu got a great upgrade and managed to do a great job at holding his own against the OP Rise hunters. I especially love that they added thunder element to a bunch of attacks in phase 2, really solidifying the "living storm" theme.

Amatsu's aerial wind tunnel attack is actually Eo Garudia's move from Monster Hunter Explore.

I don’t see the fact that Amatsu not getting his theme remade as a sign of the developpers running out of money but moreso that it’s a mark of respect towards who is Amatsu : he was the final boss of the best selling monster hunter game (before World that is). And so, in my opinion, Capcom not remaking Amatsu’s theme is just their way of paying respect to Amatsu. After all don’t fix it if it ain’t broken.

The pillars aren’t there because they get picked up by the storm in the cutscene it’s a cool detail

The sound effect of old world item obtaining is played during this quest

i think this is a similar story to modders seeing alatreon's id in base world amatsu is another boss planned for the base game that got pushed to the expansion... in fact this amatsu and all the elements of its quest are related to base rise and not the expansion (or almost all elements)

Iirc some their sunbreak attacks arent entirely new but borroweed from frontier. i've heard it somewhere.

Amatsu and its arena somehow look better in MHP3rd for PSP than it those in Generations, including the Switch port. The area itself with the lighting and colour scheme has a darker, more foreboding atmosphere

What videos are you gonna do after this series is done?

What about the mh frontier Z Amatsue? Because it has like 3 phases

I really wish amatsu could have been made the final for rise especially if they had deviants instead of the crap apex monsters, because then you could have paired him with thunder lord zinogre

Les go im kinda early

@HeavyWings are you not gonna discuss of why crimson glow valstrax appear when you don't bring utshushi as follower like with apex zinogre that makes some sense like that specific zinogre before he was an apex could posibly be a zinogre that was born FROM the mountain in portable3rd where the zinogre used to live before got drived away by amatsu and the reason why it is being lured so easily by utshushi is because the zinogre now became an apex zinogre wanted to get revenge on the amatsu who drived it away from it original home while crimson glow valstrax need some explanation Note: explain to the viewers who didn't know (i know the reason why crimson glow valstrax appear) but some people probably didn't know.

wait, they gave him lightning? why lightning?

Fish

My favorite elder dragon: 🅱️mastu

Such an awesome monster. His gear, themes, set piece, and design makes it an instant favorite!! His roars both old and Sunbreak is badass!!! Especially the theme. It’s better off with having no remixes. NEVER FIX WHATS NOT BROKEN.