Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival

The Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival game is a brand-new way to play with your favorite Animal Crossing characters. Your amiibo figures are front-and-center in this party game, and you’ll get to use them with…

52 12 November 2015

What Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival is

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival is a puzzle game developed by NDCube and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival game is a brand-new way to play with your favorite Animal Crossing characters. Your amiibo figures are front-and-center in this party game, and you’ll get to use them with fun content. Bring to life an expansive and dynamic board game where the board is based on the months of the year like the core Animal Crossing series. The goal? Make your villager the happiest in town and party hard with your friends.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Animal Crossing series

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival is the 76th of 85 entries we hold in the Animal Crossing series. The next entry was Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome Amiibo! in 2016. Its critic score of 52 is 31 points below the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack Two at 96.

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How it was received

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 2,792 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival launched on 12 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition and Star Wars Battlefront. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, Star Wars Battlefront.

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