Video: Enjoy Some Perky Music in This Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge Trailer

Still waiting for a European release date Nintendo... still waiting.

I don't have a single Mario-themed amiibo and don't intend to get one ever. This is definitely not for me and I'm fine with that.

I've been wanting to get this since I own all of the Smash Bros Amiibo. I hope that maybe later on Nintendo will make some kind of adventure type game using all of the Amiibo. But this is great too I bought them all just to collect them and now it's paying off in little ways in many games

I beat it a while ago, it's a nice game to take advantage of the Mario Amiibo with. I also think the characters having different abilities is great. However, it would be nice if you could scan in a character once and not scan it again. They probably do that because Nintendo doesn't want people to unlock the characters for free by using their friend's Amiibo.

@buildz My guess is that it'll just come out on the day the exclusivity ends.

I'd love a new game with those concepts. As it is, I have none of the required amiibo...

I have the silver Mario, 30th anniversary "block" Mario, and yarn Yoshi amiibo. I wonder if these have different powers from the Smash Bros and Mario series amiibo.

@manu0 Of course I think that. But it's still weird why Nintendo of Europe hasn't even acknowledged the game at all. Well, we'll just have to wait for the next Nintendo Download and see if it appears there or not.

@abbyhitter Silver Mario works as Mario, can't tell it's Silver. Same for green yarn Yoshi, though I don't have blue or pink or any other Yoshi, but I'd guess they are the same. We also own DK and Bowser from Skylanders but we haven't tried those yet, but I'm guessing they work the same as SSB and the Mario line for DK.

And since the article didn't make it very clear - to me anyway - you can play about 11 levels with ANY amiibo, they show up on screen as a little black square robot walking bomb thing. You do need to take ownership and give the amiibo a nickname first, and the nickname shows up on screen next to the score after you finish a level. I used Meetwo. Haven't tried the Dark Meetwo amiibo card from Pokken yet, maybe later.

@buildz They literally just did the same thing with the Jockey-Solitaire game.

Diddy Kong needs to invade more games.

That is one lame video. I know that's all there is to the game, but spice up the video a bit with some editing.

Is "amiibo Touch and Play" Greatest Bits in the US? That's a horrible name, like pedobear should be promoting it.

We picked this DL up at our local Target. It's awesome for a free game. The coolest thing is the different abilities. The thing that sucks the worst is the scanning.

It's pretty cool, though I wish I could have used the ridiculous amount of non-Mario amiibo at my disposal as well.

@rjejr I enjoyed the game for what it was. I purchased a Toad amiibo to get it early (and try the toad DLC stages of Captain toad). Between him, Luigi and Link I enjoyed the parts of the game I got to play.

I'm excited for this anyway. I've got most of the Amiibo associated with this as well. It's a nice little extra to have to take advantage of Amiibo for no reason other than having fun.

If this was compatible with non-Mario amiibo I would love it a lot more, but most of my amiibo collection is non-Mario. Oh well...

Free is good

Whenever this come to Europe,I'll give a try(I have a SSB Peach amiibo).

@LegendOfPokemon It is.By tapping a non-Mario amiibo you'll get Mini Speck,a character whitout special abilites.

This looks really fun! Can't wait to try it! I think Luigi has the most boring ability (higher jump) compared to wall jumping, floating, crawling, etc. But I'm just glad Luigi's in the game. Reminds me of all the Tipping Stars levels I made; all staring Luigi, as you could probably guess.

@rjejr Tried both Skylanders DK and Bowser in this game, and weirdly enough, got a Mini Speck for both.

I'll definitely check out the demo.

@whitespy12 Man, my kid told me the same thing this morning and I am so PO'd!! I was going to go try it myself after breakfast, but you saved me the trouble, why anger myself further?

But I am mad. Reggie himself was on that E3 NDE saying how these were amiibo. But if they don't work in a Ntineod made game, argh that's so annoying.

Any idea were to complain? I am seriously annoyed and the game needs to be patched, I dont' care if it's free, I bought those amiibo to play as DK and Bowser as Reggie said, that's a lie they need to correct. I know I can pester on Miiverse and Twitter but I want to send them one of my "concerned parent" letters, I'm pretty good at those. Not like my insane ramblings on here.

I've played the whole game through already except the Rosalina levels and the very final level, since I would have to purchase her amiibo to play them and I'm not willing to spend over retail for any amiibo, let alone for a "free" game. If you wanted to play every single level, you'd have to spend at least US$130. I don’t consider the game free, just a fringe benefit for having bought so many amiibo...