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Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge

In the free-to-play game Mini Mario and Friends Amiibo Challenge, Tap an amiibo figure on the Wii U GamePad controller or New Nintendo 3DS system (or to a Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL or Nintendo 2DS system…

60 28 January 2016

Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge is a platform developed by Nintendo Software Technology, released 28 January 2016 on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

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What Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge is

Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge is a platform game developed by Nintendo Software Technology and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. It runs on Nintendo Web Framework.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the free-to-play game Mini Mario and Friends Amiibo Challenge, Tap an amiibo figure on the Wii U GamePad controller or New Nintendo 3DS system (or to a Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL or Nintendo 2DS system using the Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer accessory) to guide one of 11 minis across more than 60 levels. Players can tap any compatible amiibo figure. Or, by tapping specific amiibo figures, players can guide minis that have exclusive level sets or their own unique abilities, like mini Mario’s wall jump or mini Yoshi, who can eat enemies.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge is the 547th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games: Arcade Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge launched on 28 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.

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When did Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge come out?
Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge was released on 28 January 2016 for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

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