{"id":16809,"date":"2017-09-01T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2017-08-15T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:25:52","slug":"three-squids-and-some-pikmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/three-squids-and-some-pikmin\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Squids and Some Pikmin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I got another batch of amiibo figures I wanted to share pictures with you all today. Three new squid amiibo from Splatoon 2 and a Pikmin amiibo.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a look!<\/p>\n

So first let\u2019s take a look at the squid kid amiibo.\u00a0 They coincide with the release of Splatoon 2.\u00a0 There is a girl squid, boy squid, and a squid squid.\u00a0 Here they are in their boxes.<\/p>\n

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And here they are out of their boxes.\u00a0 They are in different poses and have different clothes, weapons, and colors from previous Splatoon amiibo figures.<\/p>\n

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All Splatoon amiibo are compatible with Splatoon 2.\u00a0 Even Callie and Marie (although they won\u2019t give you their goods until you beat the single player mode).\u00a0 When you scan one, they\u2019ll give you a piece of an outfit with the promise of more later.\u00a0 And you can also take pictures with them.\u00a0 I have to say that I am a bit disappointed with the features that amiibo give you in Splatoon 2.\u00a0 In the first game, you got whole new gameplay modes as well as being able to unlock whole outfits and even neat arcade mini-games.\u00a0 I guess I can kind of understand why they toned it down for this one, so that you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019re missing out on too much by not getting amiibo figures.\u00a0 But they said they\u2019d give me more pieces to outfits when I battled more.\u00a0 So I did and even participated in the first Splatfest (ketchup vs. mayo), and they still don\u2019t give me any more.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 I still like Splatoon 2 a lot, but since it\u2019s just more of the same, it won\u2019t win my Game of the Year award like the first Splatoon game did two years ago.<\/p>\n

Next up is the Pikmin amiibo.\u00a0 It was included with copies of the new 3DS game Hey! Pikmin, but you could also buy it separately.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I did, but I ended up getting the game, too.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the Pikmin amiibo in the box.<\/p>\n

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And here it is out of the box.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not a big Pikmin fan, but I have been enjoying Hey! Pikmin quite a bit, since it\u2019s more of a 2-D puzzle platformer.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of a mix of Chibi-Robo Zip Lash and Kirby Mass Attack.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read that some Pikmin fans don\u2019t like this change, but I think it\u2019s great.\u00a0 But then, I\u2019m used to playing Kirby games where they can change the gameplay drastically from one game to another.<\/p>\n

I have to say that amiibo support for Pikmin is great!\u00a0 First of all, at the end of each level you take Pikmin to a safe haven Pikmin Park.\u00a0 If you scan the Pikmin amiibo, it\u2019ll level up when you get more Pikmin.\u00a0 Once per day, you can scan the Pikmin amiibo into a level to give you more Pikmin.\u00a0 The higher your level of your amiibo, the more Pikmin you get to use.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of how the amiibo support works in Chibi-Robo Zip Lash.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all!\u00a0 You can also scan many other amiibo to get statues the Pikmin can collect in the game!\u00a0 The Pikmin amiibo and Olimar Smash Bros. amiibo are compatible, as well as all the Mario series amiibo, most of the Splatoon series (not the new ones from before, though), and ALL the Animal Crossing figures.\u00a0 Not sure why other amiibo like Zelda, Fire Emblem, Kirby, or Smash Bros. ones aren\u2019t compatible, but oh well.\u00a0 Maybe it has something to do with copyrights or ESRB ratings.\u00a0 But even if you do scan a non-compatible amiibo, you can get 10 Sparklium per day.\u00a0 Olimar is trying to collect Sparklium in the game so he can power his ship to go home.\u00a0 Considering you need 30,000 Sparklium, that\u2019s just a drop in the bucket.\u00a0 Compatible amiibo give you much more, though.\u00a0 In fact, by the time I had scanned ALL the amiibo into the game, I was halfway to my goal and I was only on the second world!\u00a0 I love the descriptions Olimar gives the amiibo in the log screen, too!\u00a0 So yeah, Hey! Pikmin is certainly a fun little game.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got another batch of amiibo figures I wanted to share pictures with you all today. Three new squid amiibo from Splatoon 2 and a Pikmin amiibo.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a look! So first let\u2019s take a look at the squid kid amiibo.\u00a0 They coincide with the release of Splatoon 2.\u00a0 There is a girl squid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16809","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\/16809","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=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16811,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions\/16811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}