Reviewing Amiibo, not as toys, but as in-game content. 3 games, functionality, and (potential) future use are factored in.
Retailer listings indicate that there'll be a price increase for various Nintendo amiibo that have been announced for 2025.
$40 is absolutely ridiculous. $15 made sense, but you can literally get full on games for $40… what in the hell is going on?
$40? wtf that is insane. I got a few sometime ago and those things should be more like $15 tops for the quality of them. Nintendo going to Nintendo though, people will still pay $40 and scalpers will charge double that and idiots will still pay.
NE: "Today, we're looking at the most and least useful amiibo characters when it comes to Nintendo Switch games."
All of the Super Smash Bros. games are incredible, but which one stands as the mightiest of them all and has the best modes?
To me smash brows Melee is my all time favorite. I can't tell you how many hours I played that game between friends and family. When I was a kid, my parents couldn't afford a gaming console so I had to go somewhere that had an arcade like setup with the only difference being instead of arcade cabinets, they had big screen crt TV's and gaming consoles setup. I would go with my friends on special occasions after school or with my family on the weekends.
I would meet and make new friends at that place as we were all gamers and we also brought our game boys and would trade pokemon. I don't think those places exist these days but back then, it was easy to meet like-minded people and have fun for hours.
Well, I’ll add my extremely subjective ranking too. I won’t include the 3DS version as I don’t owned it. I did play it for a few minutes though.
5. Brawl.
4. N64 Smash
3. Ultimate
2. Wiiu Smash
1. Melee
Amiibo are currently useless and boring. I like them for their collector's value but as already stated in the article, as DLC, they're a ripoff. Bedt to buy them for fun and just get DLC and general functionality as a bonus.
No hardcore SSB player will get any better from Amiibo, just arguably worse if you play with them more than people.
I'm sure though that most Amiibo will eventually break even with their cost as DLC so I wouldn't worry with that frame of mind.