Animal Crossing amiibo Fest
If the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in 2020 proved anything, it’s that people without a doubt love the Animal Crossing series. It’s cute, simple, and allows people to be creative. Its simulation and town-building mechanics are fun to come back to every day too, and give a “home away from home” feeling.
So what if the developers took all that away and made one of the most readily apparent black sheep games ever?
Animal Crossing amiibo Festival is a party game that incorporated amiibo, Nintendo’s little action figures. If you had one of the Animal Crossing characters’ amiibo, you could play as that character. Given the shortage issues that plague amiibo though, this wasn’t the best premise for development.
It was also just a boring game overall. It wasn’t a party game like Mario Party, as there were no mini-games, and all you did was roll a dice and automatically move forward. There wasn’t any strategy, and there was nothing to really get you excited for your turn in any way.
To top it all off, it was made as a marketing ploy. In an interview with USGamer, the series director stated that the only reason they made the game was that they “wanted the company to make Animal Crossing amiibo.”
With this kind of reasoning for making the game, Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival was doomed from the start. Every other Animal Crossing title is miles better than this one.
