It turns out that the capability of being able to scan the Shovel Knight amiibo through its packaging is meant to be that way. This design feature was apparently approved by Nintendo after being pitched by Yacht Club Games. Because it didn’t want to force amiibo collectors to unbox the figurine in order to use it, the developer chose to opt for none of the blocking strips found in the boxes of other amiibo.
“We got a lot of feedback from fans before release who wanted to be able to scan the amiibo inside the packaging so they could still use the figure [in-game] while keeping it as a collector’s item,” said Yacht Club Games’ David D’Angelo.
“We didn’t see much issue with their request: while you can stand with a 3DS in store and try to scan it — we didn’t think that was actually something people would do due to the nature of the content we were making.”
so it wasn’t an oversight as i thought it was, in either case its good from a collectors standpoint. i kinda wish all amiibos are like that and even though people can scan them, they can always restore them to its original state in the amiibo settings, its not like people are stealing the nfc chip, just the data.
I’m guessing most aren’t like that because you just need them to unlock data. Shovel Knught is needed every time you want to use him.
Knight* lol
Fact is there still will be idiots that’ll name those Amiibo stuff like “penis” or “Vagina” And then Nintendo gets the blame again for being lackluster by crazy Amerikans.
Good Nintendo should follow their lead, i got an ike and Captain falcon i don’t want to open, that lil feature would’ve been nice
This may be the ONLY amiibo I have that will stay in its box since he’s a 3rd-party character, so thank goodness for this. It’s cool that it’s NOT a fluke.
I meant indie, which is still technically 3rd-party but this one being indie is much more impressive.
“while you can stand with a 3DS in store and try to scan it — we didn’t think that was actually something people would do due to the nature of the content we were making”
People will do another and everything, that’s the issue. But at least they considered it.