There’s another thing about Amy’s portrayal in Superstars that puts her into Elite: her kindness to Trip in Lagoon City is what convinced Trip to definitively abandon the villains and join up with the rest of the heroes, just like she did with Gamma and Shadow
Trip is the Anti-Knuckles. Only dudes on an ancient ruined islands that know the place and dabble in treasure hunting. They serve as Eggman mooks only that Knuckles is competent and gullible. While Trip is a klutz being held at literal gunpoint. And both have connections to both the emeralds and a world ending monstrosity that Eggman tried and failed to control.
I think it was more they didn’t want to have a Peach or Pauline parallel for Sonic at the time. They didn’t want him to have a girlfriend. Amy was made into a fangirl as a twist on the archetype. She’s in love with him but Sonic isn’t interested. However annoying it might be to him though, he still saves her since it’s the right thing to do. This is why I don’t mind her having a crush on Sonic. The writing of it may vary but I like that it was a different spin on the typical platformer damsel in distress scenario which is probably why they changed their minds.
@@oliverhedberg3831 They didn’t add a Peach……(until 06). They created Amy. A character that takes on a similar role gameplay wise, but is completely different in terms of her relationship with the protagonist.
I do get what your saying and you have a valid point its just to me when I think of Amy in Sonic CD I think of the part where metal takes Amy so to me I was thinking Metal = bowser and Amy = Peach also then if you just look at how Peach was portrait in Mario games up until the release of Sonic CD Peach is more or less an older Amy that's also a princess
Plus, the only non gameplay part of sonic CD Amy appears in are the cutscenes where again she is shown as mostly a damsel and destress and in Mario games leading up to Sonic CD you could easily believe that peach is in love with Mario this idea is then pushed forward with the first ever Mario movie [the 2d animated one]
@@Abner-gu3ve Well he's not entirely wrong. The way Amy is written in any adaptation tends to vary drastically. One moment, she shows a more caring side to her (like in Sonic Adventures 2). The next minute, she's written as a possessive psychopath who can be downright unlikable (like how she was flanderized in the later seasons of the anime Sonic X). Amy has grown recently, but she also has been a victim of bad writing in certain adaptations.
@@Abner-gu3veshe’s became more bland over the years They literally use to cue Amy music when she would come on screen. Frontiers Amy is literally depressing
@@Sebo994 I’ll take Amy being “bland” over Amy being an annoying obsessive fangirl. Also the whole story of Frontiers is depressing so ofc Amy and the other characters will behave as such
Yeah at least Sega are trying to do better to redeem her character arc like with her inclusion on Origins, Frontiers and Superstars I've felt like there doing her justice! I hope they can keep that up for her and yes her inclusion in the movie would help her out so much and I pray that she's in the movie as well! 🙏
@@Sonamy_fan Tell a better joke. A shitty character isn't excused because they're meant to be a joke. Not when their "joke" actively makes the story and whatever's going on at the moment worse.
@@espurrseyes42 ugh its so tiring being an amy fan (even a sonic series fan) sometimes. sick of them ditching story and character continuation in place of comedy.
You can’t blame it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ he is the mascot of Sega and always deserves more than others , and Sonic games, obviously Sonic will be the protagonist. Well actually Shadow had been once before
1. Amy was in Sonic CD because of her tarot cards. She and Sonic were destined to meet and he's canonically known her even longer than even Tails. Amy and Sonic's feelings fluctuate due to them growing up as the series goes on, but they genuinely care a lot about each other despite getting on each other's nerves sometimes. 2. Unleashed is probably where Sonic genuinely starts to truly reciprocate her feelings since she supported him even in his Werehog form. He even agrees to go on a date with her. (Unfortunately, it's the same date he was late for due to Black Knight.) 3. Amy was essentially the second-in-command for the Resistance in Forces (and was frankly, a better leader than Knuckles was). This is brought up in the canon-compliant IDW comics where they discuss her role a lot and even have her lead the Restoration efforts for SEVERAL arcs. Sonic is very supportive of her efforts and admires her desire to help others.
@@GarryDumblowski It's based on established lore. Amy went to Little Planet because her fortune told her she would meet Sonic. Amy has been known to dabble in fortunes and magic ever since. Her tarot reading showed up again in Sonic Chronicles. Most recently it has shown up in both the IDW comics, as well as the Sonic Frontiers DLC, etc.
Ikr? I do too she's always been my favorite female Sonic Character ever since I've always been in love with the character when I was little and i have strong respects for her.She had some flaws bur who cares? No one is perfect and I'm glad she's growing to be a much better character and in the recent Sonic games there making her inclusion happen more especially with her being badass as she can be! 😍
yeah she is also my favorite character, happy to see that she evolved from being a yandere princess into someone with a greater personality. Although I prefer to stay away from the sonic fandom B)
Amy's history throughout the series is rather interesting. You can tell that Sega have been struggling to figure out the ideal way to portray her in both gameplay and narrative with the constant changes made throughout the decades. I think they have finally settled on what they want to do with her now that Sega are marketing her along with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles as a group. I'd like to see some return of her advance gameplay. While being unable to curl into a ball was annoying (and made no sense considering she is also a hedgehog) I always enjoyed the added height she got with her hammer jumps and the double height on springs when hit by the hammer. Advance 3 got it right when you made Sonic her partner as she kept those perks while still being able to curl into a ball.
All the characters were meant to have thier own stories, but they ran out of time so they dialed it back to just the hedgehogs cause it was easier to just focus on them and tell a 3 perspective story. Even then Sonic's story is the least important ironically cause like most games of that era, Eggman was at most a catalyst for the REAL threat, but in Sonic 06.... even he had no idea Elise's death would release the flames of disaster and kill everyone. If you took him out of the story entirely, the story would make just as much sense only without Sonic having anything to do.
there are two things that S06 failed to completly fuck up 1: The Level Design (hence why Project 06 works) 2: The non-Elise parts of 06's story. note that i'm not saying if its good or bad, just that they didn't completely fuck it up. Seriously, how is this game one of the ones that didn't screw up Shadow's character
@@jeremymklinger Yeah 06 has a lot of underrated portrayals. it has THE best Shadow the Hedgehog characterization. While he does seem stoic and unnecessarily rude at first, by the end of the game, you see how much he really appreciates Rouge and Omega as friends and allies after realizing how much they did for him and how Mephiles tried to break them apart. and he absolutely COOKED that ending where he says "I will fight like I always have" before eviscerating Mephiles's clones with Rouge and Omega behind him. Rawest cutscene in the series, or one of them. People see him as angsty caue of the memes, but he really is just focused on the mission and keeping the world safe. Similiarly, when you ignore the numberous "AMy only exists to swoon over Sonic" she is shown to be capable. Sonic X protrayed her as the power house of the team who uses her streght to destroy any threat without hesitation and doesn't actually swoon over Sonic as much as the trailers and screenshots imply. She genuinely tries to fight Eggman's threats. She also was alot more serious in the Fleetway comics, mostly being the "Take this serious for once" member of the team who kept Sonic in check when he got rude and slacked off. and of course, She was excellent in Prime, even if she was usually the sympathetic antagonist, it was a great way to show how misunderstood her character has been and give people a fresh view on what Amy really means as a character.
I’m so glad you mentioned Amy helping Shadow realize there’s good in people. I feel like even Sega tries to ignore that by changing that role in adaptions of the story and people just straight up ignoring it.
In Frontiers, I’d put her in Elite, she cared for each of the Koko the second she was freed and helped them solve each of their problems, without having any clue who or what they were. When Sage warned Sonic of his actions, Amy defended Sonic and his honor for protecting the world and his friends. And of course, played a major role in Saving Sonic’s life and helping with the cyber corruption, helping Sage defend against The End with that shield, and finding the Chaos Emeralds. I’d honestly say this is her best portrayal
Rating Amy as “sorta capable” in Sonic Frontiers is absolutely criminal bruh💀 she was written as well as her other “elite” rankings and had the best Amy gameplay we’ve had in over a decade
That and I also don't get why everybody shits on the way she functions in the Advance games. If anything, Amy in advance is peak because she gives you a challenge. She makes the game challenging, which I can understand if that's not everybody's cup of tea. I guess not everybody likes a challenge, it seems. 🚶🏾♀️
i think sonic unleashed deserves to be a bit higher up... I really enjoyed the interaction she had with werehog sonic, accepting him even in his toughest condition.
3:49 just a fun fact: if you are playing the Big Bad (doing only bad routes) as Shadow and go to a level with Amy, then playing a Big Good (doing only good routes), then the ending will be called Miracle Of Love! so, she might be barely doing anything, but she at least can convince Shadow to do good again SA2 style
I just realised, Sega and Sonic team always listen to their fans and Sonic Frontiers is an example, tails realised he should independ from Sonic, Knuckles can't always be on the island
To be honest, I don't think Amy is as useless in some of the games. Yes, she got kidnapped before, but then she learned to be more independent when Sonic isn't around especially when she got the flicky to reunite with its family and took down Zero all by herself. At least she didn't coward in fear like Tails did Sonic Forces. Amy is the heart of the team and she deserves better.💖🩷🌹🥀
What many don't notice is that in the original (I don't know if this is available in the new versions), Sonic is hugged by Amy, with hearts! A unique scene, in which game is Amy's love for Sonic portrayed so dramatically? That's why she's really cool, especially in Sonic CD.
Fav character but too bad he doesn’t have that much games instead of fishing. Tbh we need more games with Big but with more depth and combat to him instead of fishing to save Froggy all the time.
I oughta make a note about this, the world not saved in another story for frontiers. Final Horizon is the alt timeline, where the other characters are actually putting up a fight to get the emeralds for sonic. I think they should all get elite. Tails especially since hes the most op in that game
Funny how I watch the tails and knuckles videos just a few hours before this came out.also it's funny how you put amy In sidekick tier in heroes when she is literally the leader of the team.
Good question, as both can become the most broken characters in gaming history, with even Sonic getting frightened when Amy brings out her hammer, and need to say more about Cream and Cheese in Sonic Advance 2
@Libbysteintorres.easily Amy, she’s more experience combat than Cream but she’s less faster than Cream so yeah. And I know that Cream has two Chao but even that if Amy think bout Sonic a lot and that she wants to win for Sonic, then yeah goodbye Cream
6:57 ehh frontiers amy is just meh, I like that they write with respect, but they take out a lot of her character out , she can be super deep and understanding but they make her this depressing 40 year old woman, also she hasn't shown any affection toward sonics since generations in 2011,lol
another reason why i want the adventure series to come back. adventure 1, 2 and 06 were by far the best and most consistent portrayals of her character in any of these games. she had a big crush on sonic, but was kind-hearted, caring and pretty compelling considering she doesn’t have any special abilities like the others. with the obvious exception of frontiers, her only modern character trait is just being mad in love with sonic.
I'm a full grown adult almost 30 years old but I will always love Amy😭Every game she's in feels like the writers threw darts at her personality chart to see which trait they should amp up to 11. She's for sure inconsistent, but I think the newer games and media present her in a more positive light, and she's really grown into her own. Another reason I love her so much is because of her sprite work in Advance 3. There was a ton of love poured into her sprites; I especially love when she's play companion to Sonic and has little hearts above her head. Adorable
I know this is a main series ranking but I kinda wish you included Sonic Chronicles and The Dark Brotherhood, Sonic The Dark Knight, and Sonic The Secret Rings
I'm going to disagree with the placement of sa2 amy for one tails saved her from eggman, she did let sonic out of prison but tails was going to do that any way and tails took out the gun robots on their way to sonic cell, amy didn't do anything to help with the pyrimid plan, and yes amy is the reason shadow turn good i would argue that if she wasn't on the ark then the plan to destroy the cannon would work. I don't hate amy i just realize that if she wasn't in the plot so many situation situations would have been for the better
Finally someone who’s agree on the SA2 takes. This game doing dirty to some characters like Tails, Amy and maybe Knuckles (not in writing character tho, he’s a black swaggy but his levels omg boring 👎🏾).
After seeing a certain video, Amy definitely grew on me a lot, and I think Amy has gotten much better as a character over the years. Now I think she's a pretty essential character to the Sonic franchise. Her characterization in the Sonic comics is really good a lot of the time - she's frequently the leader / one of the high ups in the anti-Eggman Resistance, and she's also typically more independent and capable than in a lot of the earlier Sonic games. I like the IDW version of Amy a lot.
3:34 I don't like heroes portaly of Amy much, but I wouldn't go that she's toxic and fights sonic for his marriage , that scene is just for lauaghs and not to be serious at all, but I hate how amy sounds genialy serious about it when in sa2 it was clear she was joking and doing it to annoy sonic, they kinda do it to cause when they fight sonic is”knock it off Amy i don't have time for you're games” implying Amy just being a rascal lol, heroes Amy gets a lot of flack like she also cares about her friends she's actively helping them to help them find chocola and froggy lol
I thought she basically did only two things throughout SA2: Break Sonic out of prison, and Convince Shadow to help stop the ARK from crashing into Earth. Which would fall into the 'barely does anything' category.
Technically, only 1: Convince Shadow. Breaking Sonic out of his cell is immediately negated the moment you remember she wouldn't be anywhere near that cell (or alive, for that matter) if it wasn't for Tails saving her butt and doing all the heavy lifting on their way towards that cell. Keep in mind they never even bothered to explain how she got to Prison Island in the first place nor what her was plan to, y'know, stay alive without her only means to defend herself aka her hammer? So, why doesn't she have her hammer? Oh that's right, because Maekawa's "we must have damsel in distress scenes!" wouldn't work otherwise, so he had to downgrade her and only have her do the bare minimum minutes before freaking Armageddon to justify her presence, with half it being out of mere luck.
Cool Video Bro. And Amy Rose's 🌹 Nintendo Counterpart is Princess Agitha who we meet in Twilight Princess. And Sonic Unleashed is Sonic's version of Twilight Princess.
3:27 The marriage line was a joke and besides she was on the journey for Cream and Big and too clear up if Sonic took away their pets. Also in the og Japanese, the marriage line has Amy say she’ll convince Sonic to marry her, not make him her husband by force or anything actually toxic
I'm not sure whether I would put Amy at elite in Sonic adventure 2 because she isn't playable except in the multiplayer except that multiplayer is Sonic adventure 2 battle the remake on GameCube or I guess the GameCube port of the Dreamcast game. But even so that's not even the main story it's just the multiplayer. Prior to Amy making all the difference with Shadow she whines a lot in that game. I mean she realizes it before talking the shadow but still she is just kind of along for the ride and useless
I 100% agree with you with Amy on Sonic Origins Plus. While her Hammer Rush is not as good as Sonic's Drop Dash, there are some positives with that move. If you need to start running after you get on top of a platform while jumping up (Collision Chaos 3 after you defeat Eggman) use Hammer Rush to get to the capsule instead of using Spin Dash & if you drop off from a platform (Labyrinth 2, for example), you can do a quick turn to the opposite direction while falling down, too bad it doesn't work in S3&K for some reason. Also, her Hammer Attack destroys Bosses, if only that attack has i-frames like Sonic's Insta-Shield. I forgot to mention that water physics (aka slowing down while running underwater) while using Hammer Rush maintains her running speed.
Interesting video essay. That being said, honestly i dont mind Amy at all. i think shes an integral part of the cast, and the fact she has so many glaring flaws is what makes her a good character. Not every character has to be useful, OP, etc. sometimes it's okay to have a character just be "there". And I do feel Amy is a fan favorite, no matter which game much like Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, Cream, etc. Plus when the chips are down, despite her flaws Amy will always step up and have your back
In Frontiers, amy helps Tails and Knuckles retrieve the chaos emeralds which helps sonic defeat THE END. I think she should of been in elite, as she did her role to help aswell.
I would put her as elite in sonic heroes, yeah her personality sux but she is one of the best speed characters cause of her hammer still losing to espio for his shurikens and invisibility
3:26 wanna know an even worse portrayal of Amy? In sonic battle for the gba, which she is playable in. The story is about Emerl the Gizoid who was beaten up and presumably tortured by Baldy Mcnosehair after failing to comply his orders and washed up in Beach, Sonic finds him first and somehow triggered it till Rouge shows up knowing he set a "link" with Emerl, Shadow also shows up to surrender Emerl, they fight till Emerl somehow copies the two of their movesets and what not. Tails goes to study him while borrowing a Chaos Emerald from Knuckles, then absorbs it to get more powerful yada yada yada, till in episode Rouge, Amy shows up and Tails accidentally calls Emerl Sonic's "Baby", leading Amy to go full psychologically marrige mode thinking she got her fangirl wish dating back in SA2 which did the "will you marry me" joke first till it got worse in Heroes and so on. And if Sonic Heroes does get a remake, by good they need to fix her behavior cause SEGA would probably become woke either way.
I like Amy’s character a lot throughout all games because though on a surface level she may seem one dimensional. But, she isn’t. She is courageous, caring, strong, rambunctious. I’ve been very attached to her for these very specific reasons, and since she is not treated like damsel any longer, she can now have more instances to be a character that we can continue loving and being entertained by on a larger scale.
With how popular Sonic is right now, Sega and Sonic Team should capitalize on her character. As seen in Frontiers and Boom, she can be a cool and caring character, the type that draws new fans to the series. She can turn into a money machine if they start putting her on the spotlight more often.
Huh I predicated this and also in the knuckles I made someone see the value of Amy and how in adventures 2 and o6 she may not be much of a fighter but she has compassion
I recommend using the original japanese stories of the sonic games and not english ones i understand you maybe dont know japanese and that is why you dont use them but windii has translated lot of the japanese cutscenes. (unfortunately most of her videos were deleted but there are some repost i have made a playlist of most of the reposts on my channel.) but other than that good video. There are also a few retranslated mods you can use. And the voice acting is just way better.
Battle is a fighting game, the other boom games would be the same as rise of lyric, and dream team I just haven’t played. Not doing all handheld games just the bigger ones
Amy is my favorite character. And I have always enjoyed her kindness and being able to speak with her heart, and learn to be more independent without sonic. If she’s ever in the movie, I hope they make her character like in Sonic adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, and maybe even frontiers.
I love Amy so much, I hate how she was created as the damsel in distress and how even though she has grown into a better character she still will have that relation to her that she’s useless or just the love interest. She deserves better 😭🫶🏽
I like that Amy's single-minded obsession with Sonic has gotten toned down a lot more in recent years to the point that Sonic actually is shown enjoying being around her now. It was always really weird how they always were around each other, but Sonic seemed to hate her guts.
*my ranking* Sonic CD - worthless (oh boy, here comes the hate from people who thought she was fine in Sonic Free Riders) Sonic Adventure - elite (this was where I started to love, or at least respect Amy) Sonic Adventure 2 - sidekick caliber (while one of the highlights that make the sixth-gen home console versions, the original Dreamcast version in particular, so good, almost as good as the original DC version of its predecessor, is undoubtedly the multiplayer mode and the last story where she, unlike Chris Thorndyke, was the one who changed Shadow the Hedgehog for the better... but oh boy, while nowhere near as bad as in future Sonic games, some if not all of her agency has been stripped away from her and when she told the most in-characters versions of Sonic & Tails that she hated them, that was where she started to disappoint for the second time; first if you count the infamous Sonic Shuffle where she would complain about her dress, which isn't just a harmful stereotype of young women, but she said it when her dress looked like it always did; not sweaty or dirty, so I don't even get where that came from) Sonic Advance trilogy - sorta capable (I mean, then again, I guess that's kinda sorta the point of Amy, that she may not be as strong as other Sonic characters but can still hold her own in her own ways... even though in SA2, she could actually roll up in a ball and grind, so while she can be fun to play as, she can take some time to get used to) Sonic Heroes - sidekick caliber (I'm just surprised "sidekick caliber" was ranked higher than "sorta capable", especially because of the fact that this was one of the first Sonic games besides Sonic Battle where she made Sonic look worse than her enemies just because he didn't fall in love with her, my man deserves better) Shadow the Hedgehog - barely does anything Sonic Rush - worthless (even as a fan of this game, I'll just run away from one of this of her that was flanderized because she's gonna hit me with her hammer for what I said!!!!) Sonic 06 - sidekick caliber (despite the fact that she did try to make herself useful alongside this version of Team Rose with Blaze and Silver... and mostly won despite this game's, ahem, bugginess, she still had some qualities that don't make her elite like in Sonic Adventure 1, like the fact that even when no one else seemed to unlike in Sonic Adventure 2, she took her sweet time figuring out it was Silver, not Sonic. But that's far from the worst thing about Amy in this game since like Princess Elise III, she literally admitted that she'd choose Sonic being her boyfriend/future husband over the world being in one piece) Sonic Unleashed - worthless (I mean, I could barely give her credit for her interactions with Professor Pickles, but outside of that, she decided to revert back to, like you called her in the description, the Princess Peach of the Mario franchise like how Sonic is Mario, at least before every game after Super Mario Odyssey, had to call Sonic out for his "misogyny" in case the player of the game selected the option for him to say he only likes her as a friend... and that ending in Sonic and the Black Knight... *shudders)* Sonic Generations - worthless (just like the rest of the overrated if somewhat enjoyable game's characters that ruined the story) Sonic Lost World - barely does anything (I mean, despite the game's lack of personality, especially when it comes to Tails and Knuckles and everyone else being abusive thus ruining the writing, she no longer hates Sonic for stupid reasons, so that's a plus, I guess) Sonic X - sidekick caliber (same as Sonic Heroes) Sonic Boom (games) - sorta capable Sonic Boom (series) - elite (there, I said it! In this episode, she's both nuanced, funny and adorable, just like her friends!) Sonic Forces - barely does anything (I love that comparison between this game's version of her and Tails) Sonic Origins - sidekick caliber (if I ever wanted to play a compilation of the Classic Sonic games, I'd just stick with Sonic Jam, the closest thing to a 3D Sonic platformer on the Sega Saturn via the hub, probably because Sonic X-treme got sadly scrapped) Sonic Frontiers - elite (I know I should vote for a slightly lower rating, but compared to her writing in mid-2000s to very early 2010s Sonic games and her writing in other modern games where they make her feel free of personality starting with Sonic Lost World, and considering the fact that alongside Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, she was playable, I think she earns this spot) Sonic Prime - elite (as her alternate dimension counterparts, as her regular self, alongside Sonic's other friends here, "barely does anything") Sonic Superstars - sidekick caliber (if this game were so much better, she'd definitely earn "elite")
@@mantheray6109 Exactlyyy, like they focus on ever mischaracterization and everything she’s NOT. Then when she’s accurately portrayed, they ignore it and stick with calling her “obsessive and annoying”, as if that’s what they want her to be.
When I was a kid I didn’t like her because she was the only Girl of the group and I didn’t want to associate myself with the crazy fangirl but it was because I had the wrong games. Now she grew on me, she’s nice and determined and her Sonic obsession is kind of endearing
Im so sorry but I really disagree on the SA2 take. I can agree that she helps the villains and heroes at « saving the world » kinda but she’s just there with the gang because she’s there. Nothing extraordinary in this character compared to the precedent game SA1. Which in the first SA game, she built more of her character a lot than just being useless or relying on Sonic all the time (which in SA2, she did just two things to helping both sides but even that, it’s just completely mid or not that much work). I’m sorry but SA2 must be a little down than « ELITE »
That’s a valid point, I probably have her high for the game, but I stand by the choice because without persuading shadow to help, the world probably would’ve gotten destroyed
@@jeremymklinger Yeah I can agree but I wish she was kinda playable in that one final level, it would be so awesome but nah they would ditched that idea not gonna lie 😭👎🏾
There’s another thing about Amy’s portrayal in Superstars that puts her into Elite: her kindness to Trip in Lagoon City is what convinced Trip to definitively abandon the villains and join up with the rest of the heroes, just like she did with Gamma and Shadow
Exactly!
Forgot to mention that but you’re 💯
@@jeremymklinger Well thanks you
Trip is the Anti-Knuckles. Only dudes on an ancient ruined islands that know the place and dabble in treasure hunting. They serve as Eggman mooks only that Knuckles is competent and gullible. While Trip is a klutz being held at literal gunpoint. And both have connections to both the emeralds and a world ending monstrosity that Eggman tried and failed to control.
NOW YOUR DEFINITLY ASKING FOR A BUTT KICKING@@jeremymklinger
Sonic 1: we don't want Sonic to have a damsel and destress
Sonic CD:
I think it was more they didn’t want to have a Peach or Pauline parallel for Sonic at the time. They didn’t want him to have a girlfriend.
Amy was made into a fangirl as a twist on the archetype. She’s in love with him but Sonic isn’t interested. However annoying it might be to him though, he still saves her since it’s the right thing to do.
This is why I don’t mind her having a crush on Sonic. The writing of it may vary but I like that it was a different spin on the typical platformer damsel in distress scenario which is probably why they changed their minds.
@@starfalchion4404 Right, but I swear I heard one of the designers of sonic say they didnt want a peach or something
@@oliverhedberg3831 They didn’t add a Peach……(until 06).
They created Amy. A character that takes on a similar role gameplay wise, but is completely different in terms of her relationship with the protagonist.
I do get what your saying and you have a valid point its just to me when I think of Amy in Sonic CD I think of the part where metal takes Amy so to me I was thinking Metal = bowser and Amy = Peach also then if you just look at how Peach was portrait in Mario games up until the release of Sonic CD Peach is more or less an older Amy that's also a princess
Plus, the only non gameplay part of sonic CD Amy appears in are the cutscenes where again she is shown as mostly a damsel and destress and in Mario games leading up to Sonic CD you could easily believe that peach is in love with Mario this idea is then pushed forward with the first ever Mario movie [the 2d animated one]
In retrospect, Amy is easily the most inconsistently written character of the entire Sonic franchise. Sega just doesn't know what to do with her.
Yeah, but to be fair when they write her well, they write her _well._
Ima have to disagree. Amy’s one of the few characters in recent years to have grown the most
@@Abner-gu3ve Well he's not entirely wrong. The way Amy is written in any adaptation tends to vary drastically. One moment, she shows a more caring side to her (like in Sonic Adventures 2). The next minute, she's written as a possessive psychopath who can be downright unlikable (like how she was flanderized in the later seasons of the anime Sonic X). Amy has grown recently, but she also has been a victim of bad writing in certain adaptations.
@@Abner-gu3veshe’s became more bland over the years
They literally use to cue Amy music when she would come on screen. Frontiers Amy is literally depressing
@@Sebo994 I’ll take Amy being “bland” over Amy being an annoying obsessive fangirl. Also the whole story of Frontiers is depressing so ofc Amy and the other characters will behave as such
Amy is an amazing character when done right. She deserves so much more respect and if she’s in the movie, i think she could be portrayed amazingly.
Too bad she's rarely ever done right because the writers would rather play the tired stalker fan girl card than follow up on her arc from SA1.
Yeah at least Sega are trying to do better to redeem her character arc like with her inclusion on Origins, Frontiers and Superstars I've felt like there doing her justice! I hope they can keep that up for her and yes her inclusion in the movie would help her out so much and I pray that she's in the movie as well! 🙏
Yeah I hate people disrespect Amy and saying she is a STALKER FAN GIRL ??!!! While this element is included to be a joke
@@Sonamy_fan
Tell a better joke. A shitty character isn't excused because they're meant to be a joke. Not when their "joke" actively makes the story and whatever's going on at the moment worse.
@@espurrseyes42 ugh its so tiring being an amy fan (even a sonic series fan) sometimes. sick of them ditching story and character continuation in place of comedy.
I hate sonic games where Sonic only acts as the main character and the other characters become just background npcs
To be honest, you’re right af and we need more games with others characters than Sonic (he needs vacations/holidays fr).
So...
Just Generations and to a much lesser extent Lost World...
Barely 2 games
What about Mario ?
You can’t blame it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ he is the mascot of Sega and always deserves more than others , and Sonic games, obviously Sonic will be the protagonist. Well actually Shadow had been once before
@@Sonamy_fanLuigi’s mansion games, Yoshi games, Peach games, a freaking Toad game! damn Mario gets more of a vacation than Sonic.
1. Amy was in Sonic CD because of her tarot cards. She and Sonic were destined to meet and he's canonically known her even longer than even Tails. Amy and Sonic's feelings fluctuate due to them growing up as the series goes on, but they genuinely care a lot about each other despite getting on each other's nerves sometimes.
2. Unleashed is probably where Sonic genuinely starts to truly reciprocate her feelings since she supported him even in his Werehog form. He even agrees to go on a date with her. (Unfortunately, it's the same date he was late for due to Black Knight.)
3. Amy was essentially the second-in-command for the Resistance in Forces (and was frankly, a better leader than Knuckles was). This is brought up in the canon-compliant IDW comics where they discuss her role a lot and even have her lead the Restoration efforts for SEVERAL arcs. Sonic is very supportive of her efforts and admires her desire to help others.
for the forces thing he's going off of what the games say, not supplemental material.
@@polocatfan Even in the game she is clearly highly-ranked.
Wait, that little cutscene with the cards in Origins is canon?
@@GarryDumblowski It's based on established lore. Amy went to Little Planet because her fortune told her she would meet Sonic.
Amy has been known to dabble in fortunes and magic ever since. Her tarot reading showed up again in Sonic Chronicles. Most recently it has shown up in both the IDW comics, as well as the Sonic Frontiers DLC, etc.
@@michaelcarlton1484wouldn't say she's clearly highly ranked forces considering she has little screen time and isn't really giving any orders.
In this household, we LOVE Amy Rose. Seriously, I love how the fandom has just been giving her her flowers recently. It makes me SO happy
Ikr? I do too she's always been my favorite female Sonic Character ever since I've always been in love with the character when I was little and i have strong respects for her.She had some flaws bur who cares? No one is perfect and I'm glad she's growing to be a much better character and in the recent Sonic games there making her inclusion happen more especially with her being badass as she can be! 😍
yeah she is also my favorite character, happy to see that she evolved from being a yandere princess into someone with a greater personality. Although I prefer to stay away from the sonic fandom B)
In Sonic Boom, she's pretty great!
@@manuproulx2764
Amy Rose is a MVP CHAMPION IN 2024! 🩷🏆🇦🇹
@@bngln1712 What's MVP? I've never heard of it.
Amy's history throughout the series is rather interesting. You can tell that Sega have been struggling to figure out the ideal way to portray her in both gameplay and narrative with the constant changes made throughout the decades. I think they have finally settled on what they want to do with her now that Sega are marketing her along with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles as a group.
I'd like to see some return of her advance gameplay. While being unable to curl into a ball was annoying (and made no sense considering she is also a hedgehog) I always enjoyed the added height she got with her hammer jumps and the double height on springs when hit by the hammer. Advance 3 got it right when you made Sonic her partner as she kept those perks while still being able to curl into a ball.
Amy in Advance 2 is also this way. In fact, I think this game and SA3 had the best gameplay aspects for her imo
Amy is in a better place than ever right now, she's more consistent nowadays
I love how all of the hedgehogs in 06 got so much respect compared to everyone else
All the characters were meant to have thier own stories, but they ran out of time so they dialed it back to just the hedgehogs cause it was easier to just focus on them and tell a 3 perspective story. Even then Sonic's story is the least important ironically cause like most games of that era, Eggman was at most a catalyst for the REAL threat, but in Sonic 06.... even he had no idea Elise's death would release the flames of disaster and kill everyone. If you took him out of the story entirely, the story would make just as much sense only without Sonic having anything to do.
@@MarioMastar so we almost had sa3
there are two things that S06 failed to completly fuck up
1: The Level Design (hence why Project 06 works)
2: The non-Elise parts of 06's story. note that i'm not saying if its good or bad, just that they didn't completely fuck it up. Seriously, how is this game one of the ones that didn't screw up Shadow's character
@@gypsysprite4824 and the funniest part
This is the game where shadow and silver peaked this was their game, not sonic’s
@@SparklingJamGotta love how Silver peaked in his first game lol
06 Amy is so underrated, people only remember her for "I would choose Sonic" and then ignore how well she's used and characterized.
I agree there, her portrayal is pretty great in 06
That’s true. She was really good in that game.
@@jeremymklingerI agree. Amy was great in 06
@@jeremymklinger Yeah 06 has a lot of underrated portrayals. it has THE best Shadow the Hedgehog characterization. While he does seem stoic and unnecessarily rude at first, by the end of the game, you see how much he really appreciates Rouge and Omega as friends and allies after realizing how much they did for him and how Mephiles tried to break them apart. and he absolutely COOKED that ending where he says "I will fight like I always have" before eviscerating Mephiles's clones with Rouge and Omega behind him. Rawest cutscene in the series, or one of them. People see him as angsty caue of the memes, but he really is just focused on the mission and keeping the world safe. Similiarly, when you ignore the numberous "AMy only exists to swoon over Sonic" she is shown to be capable. Sonic X protrayed her as the power house of the team who uses her streght to destroy any threat without hesitation and doesn't actually swoon over Sonic as much as the trailers and screenshots imply. She genuinely tries to fight Eggman's threats. She also was alot more serious in the Fleetway comics, mostly being the "Take this serious for once" member of the team who kept Sonic in check when he got rude and slacked off. and of course, She was excellent in Prime, even if she was usually the sympathetic antagonist, it was a great way to show how misunderstood her character has been and give people a fresh view on what Amy really means as a character.
Overrated*
I’m so glad you mentioned Amy helping Shadow realize there’s good in people. I feel like even Sega tries to ignore that by changing that role in adaptions of the story and people just straight up ignoring it.
In Frontiers, I’d put her in Elite, she cared for each of the Koko the second she was freed and helped them solve each of their problems, without having any clue who or what they were. When Sage warned Sonic of his actions, Amy defended Sonic and his honor for protecting the world and his friends. And of course, played a major role in Saving Sonic’s life and helping with the cyber corruption, helping Sage defend against The End with that shield, and finding the Chaos Emeralds. I’d honestly say this is her best portrayal
All of Sonic's friends were useless in the game.
@@is17a985in the main game, yes. But in the free dlc update, they’re useful.
Rating Amy as “sorta capable” in Sonic Frontiers is absolutely criminal bruh💀 she was written as well as her other “elite” rankings and had the best Amy gameplay we’ve had in over a decade
Only in DLC - if you want her Elite in Sonic Frontiers, then she should be playable from start, not only in DLC.
HE DID WHAT!? >:(
Keep in mind he's not rating her characterizations for the most part
*Just one thing: Amy with her Piko Piko in total destruction.*
It's funny that Amy's gameplay in SA1 is basically a survival horror game that rips off Resident evil 3.
sonic adventure release year: 1998
resident evil 3 release year: 1999
hmm....
@@yaysuu You cooked my boy.....
@@MarioMastar bro made a 5-star meal
who's gonna remind him that SA1 came out in 1998?
@@Freerangeflareon we already did, check the first reply
She single handedly defeats eggman in the Advance games yet gets lower rated, while having a minor role in sa2 and gets top rated..
SA2 Amy Rose is overrated (I mean, the whole SA2 game in general is overrated as hell).
i mean u gotta give her credit for being part of the reason why shadow chooses to be good in SA2
@@mantheray6109 SA1 Amy was the best
That and I also don't get why everybody shits on the way she functions in the Advance games. If anything, Amy in advance is peak because she gives you a challenge. She makes the game challenging, which I can understand if that's not everybody's cup of tea. I guess not everybody likes a challenge, it seems. 🚶🏾♀️
@@KeltkeGH Fr
i think sonic unleashed deserves to be a bit higher up... I really enjoyed the interaction she had with werehog sonic, accepting him even in his toughest condition.
3:49 just a fun fact: if you are playing the Big Bad (doing only bad routes) as Shadow and go to a level with Amy, then playing a Big Good (doing only good routes), then the ending will be called Miracle Of Love!
so, she might be barely doing anything, but she at least can convince Shadow to do good again SA2 style
I hate that the damsel in distress means worthless. Because that literally makes that person the whole plot of the show.
He’s specifically talking about how the character helps in defeating the villain not how useful to the plot they are
I just realised, Sega and Sonic team always listen to their fans and Sonic Frontiers is an example, tails realised he should independ from Sonic, Knuckles can't always be on the island
To be honest, I don't think Amy is as useless in some of the games. Yes, she got kidnapped before, but then she learned to be more independent when Sonic isn't around especially when she got the flicky to reunite with its family and took down Zero all by herself. At least she didn't coward in fear like Tails did Sonic Forces. Amy is the heart of the team and she deserves better.💖🩷🌹🥀
Amy is Elite in Frontiers. The entire finale after the DLC couldn't have happened without her leadership, she basically orchestrated the entire thing.
Idk why but the fart at 5:44 made me laugh so hard lol
gotta love how sega threw the development she had in SA1 through the window in SA2
Honestly, Amy's personality is just all over the place. She's so inconsistent as a character that it's difficult to have a definite opinion on her.
Amy is a sweetheart whenever she's not simping on main
What many don't notice is that in the original (I don't know if this is available in the new versions), Sonic is hugged by Amy, with hearts! A unique scene, in which game is Amy's love for Sonic portrayed so dramatically? That's why she's really cool, especially in Sonic CD.
Can't wait for the "ranking big the cat" video
Fav character but too bad he doesn’t have that much games instead of fishing. Tbh we need more games with Big but with more depth and combat to him instead of fishing to save Froggy all the time.
Can't wait for shadow
@@mantheray6109 Heroes Big would be either elite of the brawn
@@jamiegioca9448 tbh
I oughta make a note about this, the world not saved in another story for frontiers. Final Horizon is the alt timeline, where the other characters are actually putting up a fight to get the emeralds for sonic. I think they should all get elite. Tails especially since hes the most op in that game
*Knuckles:* I'm the strongest character in physical way! I can even break the mountain!
*Amy:* 5:27 hold my beer
Funny how I watch the tails and knuckles videos just a few hours before this came out.also it's funny how you put amy In sidekick tier in heroes when she is literally the leader of the team.
Her personality and being a roadblock for team sonic hurt her a bit
Good question, as both can become the most broken characters in gaming history, with even Sonic getting frightened when Amy brings out her hammer, and need to say more about Cream and Cheese in Sonic Advance 2
@Libbysteintorres.easily Amy, she’s more experience combat than Cream but she’s less faster than Cream so yeah. And I know that Cream has two Chao but even that if Amy think bout Sonic a lot and that she wants to win for Sonic, then yeah goodbye Cream
This is a really justifiable tier and an entertaining video to watch. Subscribed
"Sonic CD is the only Classic Sonic game with any trace of Amy"
Sonic R:
Also sonic fighters
“Everyone’s favorite obsessive pink fangirl”
Sakura: 🥲
carfax🤣🤣
While we’re on the subject, I always thought Amy’s modern designs looked like Sakura (especially Boom Amy)
Yuno: 👁️👄👁️
Sakura is shit ngl (my opinion, dont be mad, cuz being mad is just fuck3d up and it means your a Sakura fangirl/fanboy)
4:22 ITS NO USE
Amy actually uses the spin dash in Advance 2 like the other characters. Also, you forgot to mention the 2 3DS Sonic Boom games. She's in both. :3
0:00 that face
That damn face 💀
6:57 ehh frontiers amy is just meh, I like that they write with respect, but they take out a lot of her character out , she can be super deep and understanding but they make her this depressing 40 year old woman, also she hasn't shown any affection toward sonics since generations in 2011,lol
IDW comics:
She shows a little bit of affection for him in Lost World and Forces
@@Shonin23 yeah but I'm taking about the games, in idw Amy is awsome
@@naitsabes6222
Fair but the IDW comics are canon so I thought I’d say it
And the fact that the voice direction wanted Cindy to sound even more mature, even though she reached her freaking zenith, doesn’t help either
another reason why i want the adventure series to come back.
adventure 1, 2 and 06 were by far the best and most consistent portrayals of her character in any of these games. she had a big crush on sonic, but was kind-hearted, caring and pretty compelling considering she doesn’t have any special abilities like the others.
with the obvious exception of frontiers, her only modern character trait is just being mad in love with sonic.
sometimes, i just think. Why can't y'all just go through the bars- 1:25
5:23-5:31 couldn't it said it better than myself which is why im glad they changed those cutscenes.
I'm a full grown adult almost 30 years old but I will always love Amy😭Every game she's in feels like the writers threw darts at her personality chart to see which trait they should amp up to 11. She's for sure inconsistent, but I think the newer games and media present her in a more positive light, and she's really grown into her own. Another reason I love her so much is because of her sprite work in Advance 3. There was a ton of love poured into her sprites; I especially love when she's play companion to Sonic and has little hearts above her head. Adorable
I know this is a main series ranking but I kinda wish you included Sonic Chronicles and The Dark Brotherhood, Sonic The Dark Knight, and Sonic The Secret Rings
I'm going to disagree with the placement of sa2 amy for one tails saved her from eggman, she did let sonic out of prison but tails was going to do that any way and tails took out the gun robots on their way to sonic cell, amy didn't do anything to help with the pyrimid plan, and yes amy is the reason shadow turn good i would argue that if she wasn't on the ark then the plan to destroy the cannon would work.
I don't hate amy i just realize that if she wasn't in the plot so many situation situations would have been for the better
Finally someone who’s agree on the SA2 takes. This game doing dirty to some characters like Tails, Amy and maybe Knuckles (not in writing character tho, he’s a black swaggy but his levels omg boring 👎🏾).
She's a walking plot device, only there to move the story forward, cause drama, and Deus ex Machina the cast out of a bad situation when needed.
After seeing a certain video, Amy definitely grew on me a lot, and I think Amy has gotten much better as a character over the years. Now I think she's a pretty essential character to the Sonic franchise. Her characterization in the Sonic comics is really good a lot of the time - she's frequently the leader / one of the high ups in the anti-Eggman Resistance, and she's also typically more independent and capable than in a lot of the earlier Sonic games. I like the IDW version of Amy a lot.
3:34 I don't like heroes portaly of Amy much, but I wouldn't go that she's toxic and fights sonic for his marriage , that scene is just for lauaghs and not to be serious at all, but I hate how amy sounds genialy serious about it when in sa2 it was clear she was joking and doing it to annoy sonic, they kinda do it to cause when they fight sonic is”knock it off Amy i don't have time for you're games” implying Amy just being a rascal lol, heroes Amy gets a lot of flack like she also cares about her friends she's actively helping them to help them find chocola and froggy lol
I thought she basically did only two things throughout SA2: Break Sonic out of prison, and Convince Shadow to help stop the ARK from crashing into Earth. Which would fall into the 'barely does anything' category.
even with only those two things she's literally the singular reason everyone on earth didnt fucking die
Sounds like she saved tge world to me. Just because she wasn't busting heads with her hammer doesn't mean her role wasn't pivotal.
Technically, only 1: Convince Shadow.
Breaking Sonic out of his cell is immediately negated the moment you remember she wouldn't be anywhere near that cell (or alive, for that matter) if it wasn't for Tails saving her butt and doing all the heavy lifting on their way towards that cell.
Keep in mind they never even bothered to explain how she got to Prison Island in the first place nor what her was plan to, y'know, stay alive without her only means to defend herself aka her hammer?
So, why doesn't she have her hammer? Oh that's right, because Maekawa's "we must have damsel in distress scenes!" wouldn't work otherwise, so he had to downgrade her and only have her do the bare minimum minutes before freaking Armageddon to justify her presence, with half it being out of mere luck.
I love how in the first game Amy appears in is Worthless, but in the right next two games She's all the way up in Elite.
Cool Video Bro. And Amy Rose's 🌹 Nintendo Counterpart is Princess Agitha who we meet in Twilight Princess. And Sonic Unleashed is Sonic's version of Twilight Princess.
Sonic Mania: We don’t want to have Amy in our game. Every other game after that: You’re still just a fan game.
0:43 as if 3D blast was a mainline sonic game
3:27 The marriage line was a joke and besides she was on the journey for Cream and Big and too clear up if Sonic took away their pets. Also in the og Japanese, the marriage line has Amy say she’ll convince Sonic to marry her, not make him her husband by force or anything actually toxic
So, the mistranslation attacked again. Typical
2:16 is sonic adventure 2
so many sonic games had no idea
I'm not sure whether I would put Amy at elite in Sonic adventure 2 because she isn't playable except in the multiplayer except that multiplayer is Sonic adventure 2 battle the remake on GameCube or I guess the GameCube port of the Dreamcast game. But even so that's not even the main story it's just the multiplayer. Prior to Amy making all the difference with Shadow she whines a lot in that game. I mean she realizes it before talking the shadow but still she is just kind of along for the ride and useless
Just going through the Sonic Adventure characters? Can't wait to see the Big and E-102 videos.
4:13 I’m always like: how de f- did you mistake a blue thing for a black and white ones?
I 100% agree with you with Amy on Sonic Origins Plus. While her Hammer Rush is not as good as Sonic's Drop Dash, there are some positives with that move. If you need to start running after you get on top of a platform while jumping up (Collision Chaos 3 after you defeat Eggman) use Hammer Rush to get to the capsule instead of using Spin Dash & if you drop off from a platform (Labyrinth 2, for example), you can do a quick turn to the opposite direction while falling down, too bad it doesn't work in S3&K for some reason. Also, her Hammer Attack destroys Bosses, if only that attack has i-frames like Sonic's Insta-Shield.
I forgot to mention that water physics (aka slowing down while running underwater) while using Hammer Rush maintains her running speed.
I wish the spin-offs and sidegames were included.
Great list overall.
2:00
That gasp
Can we talk about how weird the cutscene running animation is in sonic 06
Interesting video essay. That being said, honestly i dont mind Amy at all. i think shes an integral part of the cast, and the fact she has so many glaring flaws is what makes her a good character. Not every character has to be useful, OP, etc. sometimes it's okay to have a character just be "there". And I do feel Amy is a fan favorite, no matter which game much like Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, Cream, etc. Plus when the chips are down, despite her flaws Amy will always step up and have your back
In Frontiers, amy helps Tails and Knuckles retrieve the chaos emeralds which helps sonic defeat THE END. I think she should of been in elite, as she did her role to help aswell.
Fair points 👍
That’s definitely not worth elite, since it’s only at the very end of the game.
Only in the non canon DLC.
Amy is supposed to be the Hard Mode in Sonic Advance how is her being unable to spindash a con
If she’s harder to use she’s less useful 🤷♂️
@@jeremymklinger Well on the contrary she adds a ton of replay value imo
@jeremymklinger
That honestly sounds like a skill issue,
I would put her as elite in sonic heroes, yeah her personality sux but she is one of the best speed characters cause of her hammer
still losing to espio for his shurikens and invisibility
I love how amy has been portrayed in the recent games.i feel like sega finally learned how to properly handle her character
Makes sense to put SA2 in ELITE because she is overpowered with the Amy Flash(Timestop)
That moment on 5:55 cracks me up! ✨😂✨
2:23 maybe they have planned to make her playable
3:26 wanna know an even worse portrayal of Amy? In sonic battle for the gba, which she is playable in. The story is about Emerl the Gizoid who was beaten up and presumably tortured by Baldy Mcnosehair after failing to comply his orders and washed up in Beach, Sonic finds him first and somehow triggered it till Rouge shows up knowing he set a "link" with Emerl, Shadow also shows up to surrender Emerl, they fight till Emerl somehow copies the two of their movesets and what not. Tails goes to study him while borrowing a Chaos Emerald from Knuckles, then absorbs it to get more powerful yada yada yada, till in episode Rouge, Amy shows up and Tails accidentally calls Emerl Sonic's "Baby", leading Amy to go full psychologically marrige mode thinking she got her fangirl wish dating back in SA2 which did the "will you marry me" joke first till it got worse in Heroes and so on. And if Sonic Heroes does get a remake, by good they need to fix her behavior cause SEGA would probably become woke either way.
I like Amy’s character a lot throughout all games because though on a surface level she may seem one dimensional. But, she isn’t. She is courageous, caring, strong, rambunctious. I’ve been very attached to her for these very specific reasons, and since she is not treated like damsel any longer, she can now have more instances to be a character that we can continue loving and being entertained by on a larger scale.
Yeap...Called it! And Ty for last time! I Really needed that Sound effect!
Sorry this might be off topic, but are third party switch docks ok to use now?
I love these kind of videos
5:28 Amy got that pimp arm 😭
Bruh that sound 6:23
0:57 She has a bag of groceries and there's not a baguette sticking out the top? Is that even legal?
I really love these videos hope you cover more of sonic not just the games
With how popular Sonic is right now, Sega and Sonic Team should capitalize on her character.
As seen in Frontiers and Boom, she can be a cool and caring character, the type that draws new fans to the series.
She can turn into a money machine if they start putting her on the spotlight more often.
Huh I predicated this and also in the knuckles I made someone see the value of Amy and how in adventures 2 and o6 she may not be much of a fighter but she has compassion
I recommend using the original japanese stories of the sonic games and not english ones i understand you maybe dont know japanese and that is why you dont use them but windii has translated lot of the japanese cutscenes. (unfortunately most of her videos were deleted but there are some repost i have made a playlist of most of the reposts on my channel.) but other than that good video. There are also a few retranslated mods you can use. And the voice acting is just way better.
You still forgot Dream Team, Battle, and the other Boom games. Not gonna stop mentioning it until you bring them up
Battle is a fighting game, the other boom games would be the same as rise of lyric, and dream team I just haven’t played. Not doing all handheld games just the bigger ones
@@jeremymklinger Wow you actually replied to me. I don’t know what to do now.
Let’s just hope Amy in the next game will be very good due how well she was in frontiers
That bird that Amy is holding is a "Flicky"
Amy is my favorite character. And I have always enjoyed her kindness and being able to speak with her heart, and learn to be more independent without sonic. If she’s ever in the movie, I hope they make her character like in Sonic adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, and maybe even frontiers.
well i was about to get mad but you did point out some pretty solid points so like for this video great
I love Amy so much, I hate how she was created as the damsel in distress and how even though she has grown into a better character she still will have that relation to her that she’s useless or just the love interest. She deserves better 😭🫶🏽
I like that Amy's single-minded obsession with Sonic has gotten toned down a lot more in recent years to the point that Sonic actually is shown enjoying being around her now. It was always really weird how they always were around each other, but Sonic seemed to hate her guts.
*my ranking*
Sonic CD - worthless (oh boy, here comes the hate from people who thought she was fine in Sonic Free Riders)
Sonic Adventure - elite (this was where I started to love, or at least respect Amy)
Sonic Adventure 2 - sidekick caliber (while one of the highlights that make the sixth-gen home console versions, the original Dreamcast version in particular, so good, almost as good as the original DC version of its predecessor, is undoubtedly the multiplayer mode and the last story where she, unlike Chris Thorndyke, was the one who changed Shadow the Hedgehog for the better... but oh boy, while nowhere near as bad as in future Sonic games, some if not all of her agency has been stripped away from her and when she told the most in-characters versions of Sonic & Tails that she hated them, that was where she started to disappoint for the second time; first if you count the infamous Sonic Shuffle where she would complain about her dress, which isn't just a harmful stereotype of young women, but she said it when her dress looked like it always did; not sweaty or dirty, so I don't even get where that came from)
Sonic Advance trilogy - sorta capable (I mean, then again, I guess that's kinda sorta the point of Amy, that she may not be as strong as other Sonic characters but can still hold her own in her own ways... even though in SA2, she could actually roll up in a ball and grind, so while she can be fun to play as, she can take some time to get used to)
Sonic Heroes - sidekick caliber (I'm just surprised "sidekick caliber" was ranked higher than "sorta capable", especially because of the fact that this was one of the first Sonic games besides Sonic Battle where she made Sonic look worse than her enemies just because he didn't fall in love with her, my man deserves better)
Shadow the Hedgehog - barely does anything
Sonic Rush - worthless (even as a fan of this game, I'll just run away from one of this of her that was flanderized because she's gonna hit me with her hammer for what I said!!!!)
Sonic 06 - sidekick caliber (despite the fact that she did try to make herself useful alongside this version of Team Rose with Blaze and Silver... and mostly won despite this game's, ahem, bugginess, she still had some qualities that don't make her elite like in Sonic Adventure 1, like the fact that even when no one else seemed to unlike in Sonic Adventure 2, she took her sweet time figuring out it was Silver, not Sonic. But that's far from the worst thing about Amy in this game since like Princess Elise III, she literally admitted that she'd choose Sonic being her boyfriend/future husband over the world being in one piece)
Sonic Unleashed - worthless (I mean, I could barely give her credit for her interactions with Professor Pickles, but outside of that, she decided to revert back to, like you called her in the description, the Princess Peach of the Mario franchise like how Sonic is Mario, at least before every game after Super Mario Odyssey, had to call Sonic out for his "misogyny" in case the player of the game selected the option for him to say he only likes her as a friend... and that ending in Sonic and the Black Knight... *shudders)*
Sonic Generations - worthless (just like the rest of the overrated if somewhat enjoyable game's characters that ruined the story)
Sonic Lost World - barely does anything (I mean, despite the game's lack of personality, especially when it comes to Tails and Knuckles and everyone else being abusive thus ruining the writing, she no longer hates Sonic for stupid reasons, so that's a plus, I guess)
Sonic X - sidekick caliber (same as Sonic Heroes)
Sonic Boom (games) - sorta capable
Sonic Boom (series) - elite (there, I said it! In this episode, she's both nuanced, funny and adorable, just like her friends!)
Sonic Forces - barely does anything (I love that comparison between this game's version of her and Tails)
Sonic Origins - sidekick caliber (if I ever wanted to play a compilation of the Classic Sonic games, I'd just stick with Sonic Jam, the closest thing to a 3D Sonic platformer on the Sega Saturn via the hub, probably because Sonic X-treme got sadly scrapped)
Sonic Frontiers - elite (I know I should vote for a slightly lower rating, but compared to her writing in mid-2000s to very early 2010s Sonic games and her writing in other modern games where they make her feel free of personality starting with Sonic Lost World, and considering the fact that alongside Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, she was playable, I think she earns this spot)
Sonic Prime - elite (as her alternate dimension counterparts, as her regular self, alongside Sonic's other friends here, "barely does anything")
Sonic Superstars - sidekick caliber (if this game were so much better, she'd definitely earn "elite")
can you make a video like this but with toad?
There's a game that I'm surprised is missing. Sonic Battle (a GBA game). Actually super underrated
She’s my favorite character in sonic
You could also do a "how evil is" once you run out of side characters for this format.
Like with bowser, dr Eggman etc.
If I hear someone say she’s “obsessive” one more time 😞
Yeah sometimes ppl mischaracterized her and it’s sad but she was kinda in only the 1990s-2010s
@@mantheray6109 Exactlyyy, like they focus on ever mischaracterization and everything she’s NOT. Then when she’s accurately portrayed, they ignore it and stick with calling her “obsessive and annoying”, as if that’s what they want her to be.
@@mymyj.k2745 And in the Archie/IDW, she became so mature also lmao
@@mantheray6109that's not being mature, that's a characterization that resulted from hate from critics. Like every sonic character.
@@BlurBlizzard tbh you’re right
Amy is in Sonic Colors... On the DS.
4:42 i watched sonic run off with the ¨f*** this s*** i'm out run¨
When I was a kid I didn’t like her because she was the only Girl of the group and I didn’t want to associate myself with the crazy fangirl but it was because I had the wrong games. Now she grew on me, she’s nice and determined and her Sonic obsession is kind of endearing
Im so sorry but I really disagree on the SA2 take. I can agree that she helps the villains and heroes at « saving the world » kinda but she’s just there with the gang because she’s there. Nothing extraordinary in this character compared to the precedent game SA1. Which in the first SA game, she built more of her character a lot than just being useless or relying on Sonic all the time (which in SA2, she did just two things to helping both sides but even that, it’s just completely mid or not that much work). I’m sorry but SA2 must be a little down than « ELITE »
That’s a valid point, I probably have her high for the game, but I stand by the choice because without persuading shadow to help, the world probably would’ve gotten destroyed
@@jeremymklinger Yeah I can agree but I wish she was kinda playable in that one final level, it would be so awesome but nah they would ditched that idea not gonna lie 😭👎🏾
@@mantheray6109 that would be so sick if they did that!
@@jeremymklinger FRRR
Amy deserves her own game more than shadow.
COME AT ME YOU HEDGELORDS!
“It’s no use!” -Silver the hedgehog, Sonic 06