Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (Wii U)

Can't wait for this game if its like Mario Party I'm in for a treat!!

I will get the Animal Crossing amiibo but will pass on this game.

Now THIS is "milking" a brand.

wow.. had really big hopes for animal crossing wii u... and when this came on i was happy.. for 1 second until my dreams crashed and burned

Don't know if anyone noticed on the tree house, but they said they were just showing off the board game "mode"... does this mean there is going to be mini games and other stuff too? I'm not sure but I really think people are jumping to conclusions thinking it's just one board with a bunch of amiibo for the entire game. I'm willing to keep my eyes on this especially when we know so little about it.

Just glancing at the screenshots and this looks fun. I realize it's not the game the hardcore Animal Crossing fans wanted, but it might just broaden the audience with more casual fans like myself. I'm actually really interested in this game since I like the Wii U and want more good games for it.

Everything I have seen about this game is not good. If mini games are in it, why is Nintendo not showing them? All I see is an Animal Crossing Party game for the Wii U, but without the mini games to make it an actual game. Call it what it is, a interactive story book!

Well, I think they've made the decision with certain franchises to try to appease the demand, but because the focus presumably is getting together a must-have launch line-up for the NX, compromises have had to be made. I don't really mind this, but my goodness did that E3 presentation being more bare bones than it needed to be make it easy to get wound up (Chibi-Robo, Project Treasure, Neo Racing, Devil's Third, Fatal Frame, upcoming eshop games, and a buy more save more eshop discount offer, all could have padded it out just fine and made it seem far less embarrassing to reduce your big announcements to board games and mini games). Even that upcoming release schedule missed out loads like Might No. 9, Rodea, Legend of Kay, Lego Marvel, so they're really not doing themselves any favours.

This game looms sweet. Given the amiibos and cards aspect, the game itself had better be cheap as the accessories are clearly going to be desirable to many out of sheer cuteness and novelty.

Details for this not doing anything to make me change my mind about this being a poor premise for any game. Bill Trinnen called it "a simple board game" (Treehouse footage of amiibo). That's what this game is then, a board game and all features will be subsidiary to that.

You need the actual amiibo to play as the characters that go round the board, but the amiibo cards will open up mini games. Note that it's minigames, not party games, minigames like the ones shown in the trailer with the spinner. Doesn't look much fun. You go round the board land on a square and get a bonus or detract card. One with the most points wins. Whoop-de-do!

Cards will also let you import the houses from HHD to the game board, but then you only get more minigames for that board.Would have been a cool feature in an actual AC game. Here,not so much.

The board will change according to the seasons. Still underwhelmed.

Supposed to be a free game and that, frankly, reflects the research and development that's gone into it. AC, yes, but not much of a game and not really free either because you must have to amiibo to play.

I'll pass, not because it's not the game I wanted, but because it's just not really a game at all - more like a slideshow. Has some potential to grow into something desirable, but not much.

@Jetset

Pre-orders are up in the UK too (£40 at GAME and £55 on Amazon), but other sources have confirmed it to be free to download, but one that you need the amiibo to play.
http://www.nintendofeed.com/2015/06/e3-2015-animal-crossing-amiibo-festival_17.html

The bundles are confirmed to include amiibo and cards and possibly a copy of the game. Details are really sketchy, though as you can't play the game without the amiibo, it would make sense that the bundles at least contain amiibo.

Would love it to be good, but does just not look promising. More info is needed, but that in itself does not bode well, since it would be madness to not show off something epic this close to release (autumn/fall) if they indeed have it. Honestly, I'd rather have the AR app to do the AC photos for the 3DS.

I adore Animal Crossing and whereas I liked the diary entries etc, I just couldn't see any game here (something I used to say a lot about the original on GC if I am honest before it became a daily addiction!).

I looking forward this, not only for the amiibos, but I love Animal Crossing ^^

OK ONE THING THE ANIMALLE CROSSING BORD GAME LOOKS GOOD BUT SERIOSLEY WE WANT NEW LEAF ON THE WII U IF THEY DID THAT I WOULD BUY IT JUST FOR THAT GAME I WOULD PAY UP TO LOIKE 60 POUND FOR THE GAME I HAD NE WLEAF ON MY 2DS BUT IT BROKE IV BEEN SECHING THE WEB HOPING THEY MAKE IT ON THE WII U

This is a full price retail game now??

@mozie Because of those two Amiibos and three cards. Without those, it'd certainly be 50% less at least.

I might get it for Christmas to try it out

This game is okay, I haven't fully dived into it. I'm not crazy about their amiibo implementation in the game so far. I'm confused why I can't use my special cards in place of their figure equivalent in the main board game mode. Amiibo is just a fad right now, it's on Nintendo to make the use of them compelling in the game, and placing arbitrary limits points to poor use of existing amiibo in the future. What good is your Isabelle amiibo festival figure, if they're going to make you buy a new one with slightly different outfit to use in the next game? Too expensive to be so limited in use. Maybe if the price drops or they put on the eshop for a discounted price. I don't see this game being a big hit.

Got it today. It's perfect for me to play with my 3 year old girl. That's the target market.

The wife and I are having ridiculous fun with the balloon popping minigame available in the menu screen plaza!