The Evolution of Amatsu in Monster Hunter - Heavy Wings

[@HeavyWings]

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

[@TheRaceMaster11]

If Wilds is now released, do you tend to remake the evolution videos again or are you just now retiring?

[@nothing-of5yc]

Good to know

[@itapproaches3484]

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.

[@eladblaier898]

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

[@FTG_SOLAR]

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

[@HeavyWings]

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[@barrybeakdriver]

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

[@lubbo5261]

It felt like a perfect final TU for Rise considereing all the similaritys base Rise had to Portable 3rd.

[@EchoSierra120]

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.

[@magnabueno5360]

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.

[@S.I.L.]

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.

[@HeavyWings]

I never fought Frontier Amatsu, probably should get back on that game one day.

[@dralakba-dusk31]

​@@HeavyWings Exotic Amatsu going into Dragon Overdrive is a sight to behold, you definitely should someday :3

[@pandre5458]

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

[@HeavyWings]

Visually it's so good, even if a bit much on the Nintendo Switch lmao

[@superbones5000]

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.

[@HeavyWings]

I was going to mention the sound effects but I cut it out. Felt like if I mentioned them I would have to show the sounds being played, and that kind of felt like an interruption.

[@iziimz8253]

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

[@lubbo5261]

Also, if you grill during Amatsus Quests the old grilling music plays.^^

[@matteolucarelli4615]

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).

[@HeavyWings]

That Gaismagorm/Amatsu connection is a really cool one! And it can still exist as a paralel even if not mentioned by the game. Like how Nergigante and Velkhana are opposites despite not being directly tied to eachother.

[@jordanmane2897]

I think that Gaismagorm is supposed to be the opposite of Ibushi/Narwa

[@Wario-The-Legend]

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

[@HeavyWings]

The fate of most flagships lol, Rathalos was That Guy at one point, now everybody clowns on him.

[@Wario-The-Legend]

How the mighty fall.

[@lazarusunkwon6]

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.

[@nargo9734]

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🌪️🐉

[@HeavyWings]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lucasmujica3084]

Amatsu in Rise was a spectacular fight

[@MidnightDragonProductions]

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

[@MeneerSoepgroente]

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!

[@bloodasp8028]

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

[@HeavyWings]

Yeah, they're good sounds. Wouldn't mind an option to have them all the time!

[@elsienova4269]

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.

[@HeavyWings]

Yeah that figures. Still a very nice looking effect though!

[@LargeFryingpan]

a great finish to a great series. BRAVO!

[@HeavyWings]

We're not done yet!

[@midlayf167]

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

[@kip4993]

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

[@moodygecko]

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

[@Evan-mt7bc]

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)

[@zander2758]

I think the kagerou and yomigi stuff was nice to have, they were driven out of their homes because of amatsu like zinogre and were just trying to live peacefully since, it helps build up the fight against amatsu as this walking calamity that spread zinogre across the world and destroyed the lives of many people.

[@Aeon-the-Voidmind]

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.

[@lubbo5261]

His fight in Sunbreak is one of the best in the whole series.

[@EyeZee]

Before I even had a good grasp on monster Hunter I saw a video of this guy and he became my favourite monster up until Namielle came out. I love it when games have creative ways of showing things with water elemental affinity

[@lubbo5261]

Sunbreak did an amazing job with Amatsu.

[@shutup1037]

It's so beautiful 😭

[@Hastalis]

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

[@HeavyWings]

I've heard of that game, never played it though.

[@7thAlchemist_0174]

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.

[@jordanmane2897]

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.

[@lubbo5261]

Also, during Amatsus hunt the old sounds of gathering, etc play insted of Rises. Not remaking his theme was 100% intentional.

[@theshepherd6930]

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)

[@thechugg4372]

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

[@ivarramirezpaulsen8212]

Such a cool and wonderful Monster

[@somerandomdude7785]

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

[@HeavyWings]

Huh, who would have thought!

[@_Tzer]

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

[@HeavyWings]

Wouldn't surprise me.

[@lubbo5261]

A lot of Monsters in Sunbreak use attacks from Frontier Example: Silver Rathalos new Meteor attack is from Frontiers Hardcore Silver Rathalos.

[@_Tzer]

@@lubbo5261 iirc didnt some of the frontier staff move to the portable team once it shutdown. or am i misremembering.

[@lubbo5261]

@@_Tzer from what i know the director of Frontier also helped with Sunbreak

[@xemiii]

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.

[@HeavyWings]

Hazard version was harder for sure but it just has too much health, makes it kind of drag. I was disappointed at the reused arena too but the weather effects made up for it imo

[@xemiii]

@@HeavyWings the weather certainly makes it look cooler

[@omega13whitelucario95]

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

[@randomnpc445]

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.

[@Nerdgaming101]

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

[@HeavyWings]

It's pretty nostalgic! I hope they make it a proper option one day

[@Colton42-d7b]

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

[@HeavyWings]

And they would have gotten in the way too lol

[@andre51605]

I'm not too sure if it's just me or if they took inspiration from Frontier's iteration of Amatsu to rework the Sunbreak one

[@Falcion-FF]

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)

[@HeavyWings]

Alatreon is speculated to have been cancelled for World after they decided to do the FF14 or Witcher 3 collab. Wonder what specifically happened with Amatsu.

[@randomnpc445]

@@HeavyWings Given Rise already had a messed up development cycle and they had to release it unfinished to then push the rest of the content as "title updates," I imagine they simply didn't have the time to finish developing Amatsu for base Rise before starting work on Sunbreak.

[@stormerjc9493]

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

[@MisoCat-bk7jh]

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

[@HeavyWings]

Got plans for another, different series and of course normal videos.

[@dianslabbert504]

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

[@zander2758]

I think MHP3rd might be my favourite looking game in the series, it has such strong usage of colour and atmosphere all over it and i think it goes above all the other games in the series (even world) for its insane strength of aesthetics

[@Anonymous-ul4xt]

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

[@TheTyrantAussie]

I was really hoping gog would be in TU5 for sunbreak as considering he is based of a demon he would fit the theme, but moneys a bi-

[@Blaiyak168]

Les go im kinda early

[@Dres2000]

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.

[@HeavyWings]

Ehhh maybe but I'll always welcome new takes on old themes. I love the Sunbreak Astalos theme for instance, and the original was pretty good!

[@daeamiralis]

wait, they gave him lightning? why lightning?

[@lubbo5261]

Because of the Storm Amatsu causes.

[@windup13ird60]

I have some kind of hypocritical thoughts on Amatsu. I tend to like the slightly sleeker and more pared down monsters and yet, having never played Portable 3rd, Amatsu to me reeks of Narwa/Ibushi at home. It is a big flying seahorse. That's really cool, but I felt like it walked so that the twin serpents could really run with much more stunning and memorable designs. I'm also pretty disappointed in that Amatsu was my first true "end of game" monster (still missing quite a few hunts like Primordial and Risens, may have this info wrong) and I managed to beat it solo first try by mostly just messing around on IG and playing like a coward. After all I heard about Atal-Kha, Fatalis, Alatreon, etc, it was a big "that's it?" Probably more a Rise fault than an Amatsu one. 4/5 I guess. Cool, but absolutely lackluster compared to the others in its endgame tier.

[@TheTrueUltimateGenLifeform]

My favorite elder dragon: 🅱️mastu

[@mchag1802]

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