Four new Animal Crossing Amiibo have been confirmed by Nintendo and will be available in stores beginning March 18.
The new Isabelle Amiibo will be the second Isabelle Amiibo to exist. Isabelle’s Amiibo predecessor, which you can see below, launched alongside Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival on Nov. 13, 2015.
Isabelle is super popular and cute no matter what pose she’s in or what outfit she’s wearing, so a second Isabelle figurine makes perfect sense. As for the other characters, it’s their first time at the Amiibo rodeo. Brief impressions: the Tommy & Timmy Amiibo is adorable, no one cares about Rover, and the Kapp’n is a legend whose Amiibo is well-deserved even if he is kind of (read: really) ugly. Still, Kapp’n rows you between the mainland and the island, gifts you with incomprehensible but enthusiastic rhymes, and whispers private secrets of his marriage to you, so surely he merits at least as much consideration as having his own Amiibo might imply.
Another collection of Animal Crossing Amiibo will be available on Jan. 22, including Kicks the sneakerhead, Mr. Resetti to frighten your kids, Blathers to bore them and Celeste to fall asleep upstairs. Lumped in with the Animal Crossing crew is Lucas from Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance.
In further Amiibo news, the Wolf Link Amiibo for Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD will allow you to play the extra dungeon “The Cave of Shadows.” Other Legend of Zelda Amiibo such as Toon Link, Ganondorf, Zelda, Sheik, and regular Link will all have some manner of function. You can check out more here or watch the video of Legend of Zelda Amiibo functionality below:
Series director Aya Kyogoku previously stated Amiibo Festival was created pretty much for the chance to create adorable Amiibo.
“Initially when the Amiibo was announced, there was nothing really said about Animal Crossing Amiibos or any plans for that matter,” Kyogoku said to USGamer . “But as the Animal Crossing team, we were confident that if there was one, it would be really cute... honestly, 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."
Previous Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival include local shop sheep Cyrus and Reese, as well as the inimitable K.K. Slider himself, among others .
