. Giganto/Sachiel: a double reference to one of the first Angel's in Evangelion. The colors and pose are very similar to Sachiel, and also has the same pose and long arms (seen in the first comparison image below.





. Giganto/Mass Production Eva: Giganto is mostly unrelated to this design, but the face is very clearly based on a mass production eva's smile with no other facial features.





. Wyvern/Gaghiel: one of the looser comparisons that is much more clear in the "Scene Recreations" part of the guide. For now, the similarity is mostly just two serpents. One that flies, and the other swims.





. Knight/Unit 05: this reference is not from the original Evangelion show or ending, but from the Remake/Sequel movies. Unlike the previous Titans, Knight is not based on an Angel but instead one of the mechs piloted by a new character in the second sequel movie. Both are surprisingly fast and can slide around on their "wheels".





. Supreme/Mass Production Eva: while Giganto has the face of the mass production evas, the colors, and wings are much closer to Supreme instead. Especially noticeable when the MPE's fold their wings.








. Supreme/Unit 0: similar weapon and and angles taken to Unit 0's rifle. A more minor reference, but when grouped with everything else, its easy to see that it was intentional.








. The End/Black Moon: both are moons, both have similar colors. The End is a character, while the Black Moon is a thing that mostly exists for a visual.

. The Grab: a very very quick cut near the start of the game, where Giganto grabs Sonic and is about to throw him. Evangelion has an identical shot that lasts almost a minute and is a major scene in the show.





. Growing Wings: probably the most obvious reference in the game. At the start of phase 2 of his boss fight, Supreme grows wings in a near identical scene to Evangelion's opening where Unit 01 does the same.





. Serpent Finishers: both Titan and Angel are defeated in near identical ways, and identical camera cuts. From Super Sonic and Unit 02 opening the enemy's mouth and allowing a ton of missiles to crash and explode.





. Possessed Supreme/Berserk Unit 01: another obvious example, but Possessed Supreme in Final Horizons has many similarities to Unit 01 when it goes out of controls. Specifically the scene where Unite 01 begins to walk on four legs and act like an animal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3QksApbCvs

(^10:51 shows the similar crawling Possessed Supreme does if you fail the parry).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNjtaBFWt7E

(^2:22 for the shared and similar scene)

. Sage/Rei: both Sage and Rei have the same voice actress both in English (Netflix dub), and Japanese. Megumi Hayashibara and Ryan Bartley. A very intentional choice as both characters are not human and share a similar character of not knowing how to show emotions, and have issues with their scientist fathers.

. this section is pure coincidence, but an entertaining one to think about. Both Frontiers and Evangelion (the original show) ran into some time and budget problems near the end.

. For Frontiers: this is more easily seen with the final two islands in the main game being sections of the first island that were cut out and moved to the end of the game instead. Kronos island originally meant to be big enough to also contain the final two islands of the game, and Supreme being almost a repeat of Giganto.



. For Evangelion: this is easily seen as the series reached its finale episodes. The memorable "1-minute grab" shown earlier in the guide holds on that pose for almost a minute with no movement and only music. A bit of tension for the scene is fine, but it was clear a cost-saving choice too. The final two episodes of the show, while excellent, have a much cheaper style as the show turns into sketches and still drawings.

So with both Frontiers and Evangelion having good, but unfinished elements, they both took very similar approaches to achieve similar and different results.

"We gave you what you wanted". A phrase that summarizes the intent of both, with very similar subversions.

. Frontiers Final Horizon: so the final island has been reworked to be much longer, with new challenges, stronger enemies, more experimental cyber stages, 3 new playable characters, and a new final boss. For an optional ending, thats a lot for a new free update.

. So you want to see all that? Well, they won't just give it to you, you have to work for a more positive ending. So to make that part really obvious, they took some notes from platforming games like Getting Over It to really make the originally easy 4th island tower climbs into something much more interesting. Unless you decrease the difficulty to add more failsafes, climbing the new towers is much more difficult, and will filter out players who aren't used to the platforming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHaftI-mpg

. Climbed all the new towers and finished their combat puzzles? Still not the hardest part. Now you beat 3 bosses in the game, in a row, with no ring recharges.............and an 8 frame parry window on Hard Mode.........4 frames on Extreme. If you really want that new final boss and ending, then it will take at least another hour of getting better at the parry timings. This was made easier a year later with an update, but the original parry window is still present in Extreme. So setting the game to Easy will make it doable on a first try, but the original intent was clear. You're supposed to struggle to get what you wanted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Fcc6s3yZ8

. The End of Evangelion: as a movie that fills in many gaps that the original finale of the show had, its also an alternate scenario that shows exactly how the main character should NOT be acting if he wants the more positive conclusion of the show. You wanted to know the gaps that the show skipped and wouldn't stop pestering the writers after they made it clear that "the shows over"? Annoyed about the lower budget finale even though they made it work well?

. Well you get to see the best fight scene in the entire series......followed by the worst events possible that could happen to every character.




You get what you want, but probably not in the way you wanted. And thats used by both secondary endings either for difficulty or for showing things you probably really did not want to see.

. Possible Music Similarity: this is most likely a stretch. But I think there are some similarities between the initial piano part of Frontiers original ending music, and End of Evangelion's lyrical beat in its big song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw4W5puUZk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ

https://soundcloud.com/dplexhd/dear-sweet-death-sonic-frontiers-x-evangelion

(go give credit to the only mashup ive seen of both songs. Does a good job showing some similarities in the music)