{"id":14783,"date":"2016-03-25T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14783"},"modified":"2016-03-05T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T18:24:40","slug":"amiibo-robos-lobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/25\/amiibo-robos-lobos\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiibo Robos & Lobos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AMIIBO_LOGO\"<\/a>Today I\u2019m going to show off just two new amiibo figures I got recently, but these were pack-ins with games. There\u2019s a robot and a wolf.\u00a0 Let\u2019s check them out!<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

\"MEGA1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2019s Web site.\u00a0 I think it would\u2019ve been cooler if they included a CD soundtrack instead, but oh well.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s what you get inside the box.\u00a0 I included the back of the box in the picture as well, since it has some sweet artwork on it.<\/p>\n

\"MEGA2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Mega Man Legacy Collection has the first six NES Mega Man games on it. That\u2019s 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.\u00a0 But the Legacy Collection does have TONS of artwork, packages and promo material for all the games, including Japanese and European versions.\u00a0 It\u2019s very thorough.\u00a0 And you can listen to all the music from the games.\u00a0 Best of all, you don\u2019t have to unlock any of this stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s all available at the start.\u00a0 Which is cool because Mega Man games are pretty hard, so it would be tough to unlock everything.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of NES Remix-ish.\u00a0 The gold Mega Man amiibo is just a repaint from the Smash Bros. version.\u00a0 When you scan this amiibo, or the regular Smash one, you can unlock ten new challenge stages.\u00a0 But you have to scan the figure again if you want to play them again as well.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t permanently unlock them, which is annoying.\u00a0 And the games themselves run pretty smooth, so it\u2019s still a decent collection.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of small on the 3DS screen, though, and I think I\u2019d rather play these games on a big TV, like I used to as a kid.\u00a0 I wish the Legacy Collection was available for Wii U or PS3, and I don\u2019t know why it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a PS4 or Xbox One.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n

Next up is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, and the special edition comes with a Link Wolf amiibo. Here\u2019s the box:<\/p>\n

\"ZELDA1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s what everything looks like out of the box. You get the game of course.\u00a0 The amiibo comes in a special blister pack, unlike the Mega Man one which just came in a clear blister pack.\u00a0 And since I reserved the game at GameStop, I also got a soundtrack CD, which is pretty cool.\u00a0 The back of the soundtrack CD has a warning that I thought was kind of funny.\u00a0 It warned that if you are a first time player of Twilight Princess, some of the songs may reveal story sections.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 People are so sensitive about spoilers.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s a picture of everything you get in the box:<\/p>\n

\"ZELDA2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2019s one of the bigger amiibo figures, as you can see.\u00a0 It overlaps the base quite a bit.<\/p>\n

\"ZELDA3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember playing the original Twilight Princess on the Wii when it came out nearly ten years ago. Has it really been that long?\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like Twilight Princess as much because the graphics were so brown and muddy that it was hard to see where you could and couldn\u2019t step sometimes.\u00a0 And some of the gameplay choices kind of bogged the game down.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 At least you can now see things.\u00a0 But while this wasn\u2019t my favorite Zelda game, I\u2019m willing to give it a second chance.\u00a0 It has some great dungeon designs, and two of my favorite Zelda characters come from this game (Princess Zelda herself and Agitha).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about Okami.\u00a0 Yeah, I went there.\u00a0 Man, that game\u2019s almost ten years old, too?\u00a0 Okami was my Game of the Year back in 2006, and I liked it way more than Twilight Princess.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 They also added Miiverse stamps you can find in treasure chests.\u00a0 You use the Wii U gamepad or Pro Controller to play, not a Wii remote.\u00a0 So I guess it\u2019s more like the GameCube version, but you can still aim with the motion controls on the Wii U gamepad, which works nice.\u00a0 Also, Link is left-handed in this one, so I don\u2019t know if the world is reversed still like it was in the Wii version.<\/p>\n

And finally, they added amiibo support. Scanning the Wolf Link amiibo unlocks a special challenge cave thing.\u00a0 Other Zelda amiibo figures do things too..\u00a0 Link and Toon Link refill your arrows, and Sheik and Zelda amiibo refill your hearts.\u00a0 But you can only use them once per day.\u00a0 The Ganondorf amiibo makes you take double damage!\u00a0 I wonder if anyone will try and play the game on Hero Mode and scan the Ganondorf \u00a0amiibo for four times the damage!\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 None of the other amiibo work with it, just the Zelda ones.\u00a0 Or at least I tried my Kirby and Pac-Man amiibo figures and nothing happened.\u00a0 Although the Little Mac amiibo gives Link boxing gloves!\u00a0 Just joking!\u00a0 I just wanted to see if you all were paying attention.\u00a0 That\u2019s all for now! Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I\u2019m going to show off just two new amiibo figures I got recently, but these were pack-ins with games. There\u2019s a robot and a wolf.\u00a0 Let\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14785,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions\/14785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}