Age of Calamity: amiibo Support

Thanks to the previews we now also know how the amiibo will work in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Well, it's exactly the same as in Hyrule Warriors... Who would have thought? You can scan five per day for random materials and weapons and if you scan an amiibo of a character who's playable in the game, then you will get a weapon for this character... 

The latter will most likely only work for Link, Zelda and the four Champions. Too bad that there hasn't been a single amiibo for Impa yet, so you're out of luck if you want to easily get some weapons for her. And if there are any more playable characters, then they won't most likely be covered by this either.

Well, it's nothing special, but still useful. I personally enjoy scanning amiibo for some daily rewards, where this used to be quite the ritual during every day of playing Breath of the Wild. And in the least they aren't locking an entire moveset behind the figurines, like they first did with the Spinner in Hyrule Warriors on Wii U.

Overall amiibo seem to be something that Nintendo slowly, but surely likes to forget about. There haven't been any amiibo for Animal Crossing: New Horizons for example, even though the franchise was previously littered with that stuff. Only Super Smash Bros. Ultimate seems to be getting new ones, but here there are also only doing the bare minimum (no female variant of Byleth) and they will take forever to come out.

This most likely has to do with current production shortages, but it might also simply be that the age of amiibo will be coming to an end. When it began I used to be heavily against the practice, but I became a small collector over the years, at least when it comes to the Zelda and Metroid figurines. And when they still offer some small rewards like in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, then it's certainly nice to have them, without taking away anything for the people who don't.

Apropos, Breath of the Wild had many exclusive amiibo weapons and armor items, mostly things based on other 3D Zelda games like Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask. Seeing how most of Link's armor collection got ported over, it will be interesting to know whether these items are actually also available in Age of Calamity or not.