Why Isn't Amy Playable?

[Everybody do the flop]

I get she isn't normally playable, but since Sonic, Tails and Knuckles seem to be playable in all of the titles, including ones they weren't even in, shouldn't Amy be playable too? Heck, throw Metal Sonic in there too! Metal Sonic should have Sonic's moveset with slight changes like reaching top speed sooner, but at the cost of control. Maybe he could be a bit slippery like in SA2.

[NBOX21]

The funny thing is, Amy is already technically playable in both Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 thanks to ROM hacks and fan mods for these games where she plays very similarly to how she did in Sonic Advance.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674641221
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2797484272

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

The funny thing is, Amy is already technically playable in both Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 thanks to ROM hacks and fan mods for these games where she plays very similarly to how she did in Sonic Advance.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674641221
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2797484272

I mean for the remastered game. I get they put a lot of work in this game, but it's weird how Amy is featured, despite only being in one game, along with Metal Sonic. I just feel like that implies they'd play a more major role.

[Retro Joe]

I know, right? Amy and Metal Sonic always get the short end of the stick. Those two are iconic and classic characters who have great chemistry with Sonic, but never seem to play a major role in newer Sonic games.

Metal Sonic gets the worst of it in my opinion. Amy's existence is at least ACKNOWLEDGED in most games, but Metal almost never shows up outside of spin-off titles.

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

You can always play Sonic Advance series to play as Amy.

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by Sylvia🍃:

You can always play Sonic Advance series to play as Amy.

That isn't the point... classic games keep on excluding Amy for whatever reason. Also I don't consider the Advance games as Classic era.

Additionally, that brings up another problem... no Advance ports since the N Guage.

[Tham Kanu]

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Originally posted by Sylvia🍃:

You can always play Sonic Advance series to play as Amy.

That isn't the point... classic games keep on excluding Amy for whatever reason. Also I don't consider the Advance games as Classic era.

Additionally, that brings up another problem... no Advance ports since the N Guage.

Sonic Advance 1 was available on the Wii U eshop and mobile phones (though only in japan)

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by Tham Kanu:

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

That isn't the point... classic games keep on excluding Amy for whatever reason. Also I don't consider the Advance games as Classic era.

Additionally, that brings up another problem... no Advance ports since the N Guage.

Sonic Advance 1 was available on the Wii U eshop and mobile phones (though only in japan)

That's why I don't include it.

[Phoenix808]

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Originally posted by Sylvia🍃:

You can always play Sonic Advance series to play as Amy.

That isn't the point... classic games keep on excluding Amy for whatever reason.

Because she was never a playable character in the classic games. All they did was add Tails and Knuckles to Sonic 1, they were already in 2 and 3.

Also nobody likes Amy. Not even Sonic.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Phoenix808:

Also nobody likes Amy. Not even Sonic.

Amy Rose is just a pink Sonic and honestly she wasn't well written and the only good incarnation was in Boom.

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by Phoenix808:

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

That isn't the point... classic games keep on excluding Amy for whatever reason.

Because she was never a playable character in the classic games. All they did was add Tails and Knuckles to Sonic 1, they were already in 2 and 3.

Also nobody likes Amy. Not even Sonic.

I like Amy and it doesn't matter if she wasn't playable because Mighty and Ray weren't playable in the MD games either, yet they were still included in Mania. You're just making excuses for SEGA's bad decisions.

Also, Knuckles isn't playable in Sonic CD apparently, yet Tails is. How do you excuse a character with a full moveset from being excluded from one of the games?

[Duckilous]

Originally posted by Phoenix808:

Also nobody likes Amy. Not even Sonic.

Just because you personally dislike the character doesn't mean there's no fans of her, and Sonic does in fact like her as a friend despite his aversion to her advances which is really the only thing Sonic finds annoying about her.

[Owlet VII]

Because she's an NPC in Sonic CD and was never playable in any of these games before.

Also, making her just a reskin of Sonic would be lame, and making her gameplay like in Advance 1 would require redesigning the levels too much.

I would much rather they implement Knuckles into Sonic CD instead. Maybe add Mighty and Ray from Mania instead of Amy and Metal, since those are already playable in a classic-style game.

[🐠🍑]

Originally posted by Duckilous:

Originally posted by Phoenix808:

Also nobody likes Amy. Not even Sonic.

Just because you personally dislike the character doesn't mean there's no fans of her, and Sonic does in fact like her as a friend despite his aversion to her advances which is really the only thing Sonic finds annoying about her.

Why was sonic not interested in her advances?

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by Owlet Z:

Because she's an NPC in Sonic CD and was never playable in any of these games before.

Also, making her just a reskin of Sonic would be lame, and making her gameplay like in Advance 1 would require redesigning the levels too much.

I would much rather they implement Knuckles into Sonic CD instead. Maybe add Mighty and Ray from Mania instead of Amy and Metal, since those are already playable in a classic-style game.

Again, Ray and Mighty weren't even IN the original classic games, yet people don't complain about how "difficult" to make them playable.

I don't get why people are so against Amy and Metal being playable. I'd take them ANY day over Mighty and Ray again, especially since Amy hasn't been playable in a main Sonic game (as in not a spin-off or Boom) since Secret Rings two-player mode.

[Owlet VII]

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Ray and Mighty weren't even IN the original classic games, yet people don't complain about how "difficult" to make them playable.

Because they're already player characters in a game on the same engine.

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

Amy hasn't been playable in a main Sonic game (as in not a spin-off or Boom) since Secret Rings two-player mode.

Secret Rings IS a spin-off.