Today I’m going to show off just two new amiibo figures I got recently, but these were pack-ins with games. There’s a robot and a wolf.  Let’s check them out!

The first is a gold Mega Man amiibo that came with the special edition of Mega Man Legacy Collection for the 3DS. Here it is inside the packaging:

The cool thing is that the box comes with more than just the game and the amiibo. You also get some Mega Man postcards, stickers, and codes for a couple of Mega Man based 3DS themes, and another code to download some Mega Man music at Capcom’s Web site.  I think it would’ve been cooler if they included a CD soundtrack instead, but oh well.  Anyway, here’s what you get inside the box.  I included the back of the box in the picture as well, since it has some sweet artwork on it.

The Mega Man Legacy Collection has the first six NES Mega Man games on it. That’s pretty cool, but back during the PS2 and GameCube days, the Mega Man Anniversary Collection had more games included, so I was a little disappointed.  But the Legacy Collection does have TONS of artwork, packages and promo material for all the games, including Japanese and European versions.  It’s very thorough.  And you can listen to all the music from the games.  Best of all, you don’t have to unlock any of this stuff.  It’s all available at the start.  Which is cool because Mega Man games are pretty hard, so it would be tough to unlock everything.  There are also special challenge stages you can try, which have you going through certain sections of stages or bosses as quick as you can.  It’s kind of NES Remix-ish.  The gold Mega Man amiibo is just a repaint from the Smash Bros. version.  When you scan this amiibo, or the regular Smash one, you can unlock ten new challenge stages.  But you have to scan the figure again if you want to play them again as well.  It doesn’t permanently unlock them, which is annoying.  And the games themselves run pretty smooth, so it’s still a decent collection.  It’s kind of small on the 3DS screen, though, and I think I’d rather play these games on a big TV, like I used to as a kid.  I wish the Legacy Collection was available for Wii U or PS3, and I don’t know why it isn’t.  I don’t have a PS4 or Xbox One.  Oh well.

Next up is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, and the special edition comes with a Link Wolf amiibo. Here’s the box:

And here’s what everything looks like out of the box. You get the game of course.  The amiibo comes in a special blister pack, unlike the Mega Man one which just came in a clear blister pack.  And since I reserved the game at GameStop, I also got a soundtrack CD, which is pretty cool.  The back of the soundtrack CD has a warning that I thought was kind of funny.  It warned that if you are a first time player of Twilight Princess, some of the songs may reveal story sections.  Really?  People are so sensitive about spoilers.  Anyway, here’s a picture of everything you get in the box:

Since the Link Wolf amiibo was so detailed, I decided to take a separate picture of it so you could see it close up. It’s one of the bigger amiibo figures, as you can see.  It overlaps the base quite a bit.

I remember playing the original Twilight Princess on the Wii when it came out nearly ten years ago. Has it really been that long?  I didn’t like Twilight Princess as much because the graphics were so brown and muddy that it was hard to see where you could and couldn’t step sometimes.  And some of the gameplay choices kind of bogged the game down.  Well, now I have a much better TV, and this game looks way clearer in HD, although I still think the graphics are pretty brown.  At least you can now see things.  But while this wasn’t my favorite Zelda game, I’m willing to give it a second chance.  It has some great dungeon designs, and two of my favorite Zelda characters come from this game (Princess Zelda herself and Agitha).  The year that the original Twilight Princess came out, 2006, was also the year that another Zelda-like game starring a wolf came out, and it was a much better game.  I’m talking about Okami.  Yeah, I went there.  Man, that game’s almost ten years old, too?  Okami was my Game of the Year back in 2006, and I liked it way more than Twilight Princess.

Aside from better graphics, they also added a Hero Mode to the HD version of Twilight Princess, which makes you take double damage and no heart pickups. So if you want a challenge, there you go.  They also added Miiverse stamps you can find in treasure chests.  You use the Wii U gamepad or Pro Controller to play, not a Wii remote.  So I guess it’s more like the GameCube version, but you can still aim with the motion controls on the Wii U gamepad, which works nice.  Also, Link is left-handed in this one, so I don’t know if the world is reversed still like it was in the Wii version.

And finally, they added amiibo support. Scanning the Wolf Link amiibo unlocks a special challenge cave thing.  Other Zelda amiibo figures do things too..  Link and Toon Link refill your arrows, and Sheik and Zelda amiibo refill your hearts.  But you can only use them once per day.  The Ganondorf amiibo makes you take double damage!  I wonder if anyone will try and play the game on Hero Mode and scan the Ganondorf  amiibo for four times the damage!  Yikes!  None of the other amiibo work with it, just the Zelda ones.  Or at least I tried my Kirby and Pac-Man amiibo figures and nothing happened.  Although the Little Mac amiibo gives Link boxing gloves!  Just joking!  I just wanted to see if you all were paying attention.  That’s all for now! Later!  –Cary

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