Live Magazine September 2014 Volume 9/2014 | Page 77

Mario Party 8 is also another completive title that Amiibos will play a
role in. Their role is a little harder to
guess, but it can be assumed that
they would store data from your
Mario Party stats. Maybe there are
special minigames that you can
only play with only using an Amiibo,
or maybe like Smash they make the
AI more aggressive. Bumper Balls
could become real intense now!
Curiously, Amiibos are also planned
to be used in non-competitive titles.
The new upcoming Yoshi platformer Yoshi’s Woolly World, is one of
these games. Since there appears
to be no competitive mode in the
title, what would Amiibos do? A
CPU-controller second Yoshi could
be summoned to help out in levels?
Are there going to be special minigames like in previous Yoshi games,
this time focusing on Amiibo? Even
stranger a title to be compatible with

is Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker,
a single-player game. Potential applications for Amiibos here could
be storing your best course times
to send over to a friend, or maybe
create a rival Toad who you race to
beat the course.
So far, Amiibo is shaping up to be
an interesting and unique addition
to the Toys to Life category of gaming. The great thing about them is
that Nintendo seems implementing
them in unique ways to enhance
the experience; making them an
optional feature, rather than being something you need to buy to
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