Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival

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Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival
AnimalCrossing AmiiboF boxart.png
Developer(s) Nintendo EPD
Nd Cube[1]
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Aya Kyogoku[2]
Producer(s) Hisashi Nogami
Series Animal Crossing
Platforms Wii U
Release date(s) NA 20151113November 13, 2015
EU November 20, 2015[3]
JP 20151121November 21, 2015
AUS November 21, 2015[4]
Genre(s) Party
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival is a party video game for the Wii U, developed by Nintendo and Nd Cube.[1] The game is a spin-off of the Animal Crossing series, and was released worldwide in November 2015.

Gameplay

Gameplay Screenshot at E3 2015

amiibo Festival is a virtual board game similar in style to the Mario Party series.[5] Playable Animal Crossing characters include Isabelle, K.K. Slider, Tom Nook, and Mable—four of the eight characters to have amiibo based on them. The game also supports the amiibo cards first being released alongside Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer,[6] and requires amiibo for play.[7]

Development

Director Aya Kyogoku stated that the game was conceived as a vehicle for the creation of the first Animal Crossing amiibo: "[H]onestly, we just wanted Animal Crossing amiibo. We wanted the company to make Animal Crossing amiibo, so that's why we made a game that works with them."[2]

The game was announced during Nintendo's June 2015 Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference for release in Q4 2015 during the holiday season,[5] later specified as November 2015.[3] Kyogoku distinguished the game from Mario Party by stating that the latter is more focused on minigames, while amiibo Festival is more of a board game. The game uses Nintendo's amiibo to insert characters into the game, with eight different amiibo bundled with the game's release.[8] The characters each have personal characteristics, including a house associated with the character as designed in Happy Home Designer.[8]

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic 46/100[9]
Review scores
Publication Score
Famitsu 32/40[12]
IGN 5/10[10]
Nintendo World Report 4.5/10[11]

Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival received "generally unfavorable" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[9] IGN rated the game at 5 out of 10, saying that the amiibo integration is "cumbersome" and "hard to play with" and that the gameplay is a boring and slow "snooze fest"—having actually fallen asleep while playing. The game was praised as "undoubtedly charming", relaxing, and best played with friends.[10] Nintendo World Report gave the game a 4.5 out of 10, citing "Boring, repetitive gameplay" and "Taking an hour to get anything good."[11] GamesBeat gave the game 3.3 out of 10 and condemned it for being "a blatant attempt to get you to buy more amiibo, and it’s not even a good one at that."[13] Not all reviewers were so critical; Famitsu scored the game 32/40, with each of the four reviewers giving it a score of 8.[12]

References

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