Video summary
The video provides an initial look at a new free-to-play game called Amiibo, which appears to be in early access on Steam. The narrator guides viewers through the core loop of exploring diverse environments like Bloomville and the Sea of Flowers to collect creatures known as amiibos. A significant portion of the gameplay involves interacting with Dr. Lewis to receive missions, such as delivering dew drop crystals formed from condensed vein energy, which are essential for character progression. The player discovers that these crystals can be farmed by exploring specific areas and catching various creatures, setting the stage for a grind-heavy experience typical of this genre.
As the player delves deeper into the mechanics, they encounter complex systems involving character leveling, star ranking, and evolution. To advance their team, characters must first reach level 35 before they can be "starred up" to increase their power, a process that requires specific resources like dew drop crystals. The video highlights the importance of managing different currencies, including glimmer for cosmetics and lumen crystals for other upgrades, while also exploring the cash shop options. The narrator notes that while the game is free-to-play, investing in a monthly pass might be worthwhile for hardcore players who plan to grind extensively, as it offers significant bonuses and resources.
The gameplay experience is further enriched by strategic elements such as elemental types, combat abilities, and talent unlocking. Players can evolve their creatures into more powerful forms, like the Universal Convergence or specific elemental variants, but must carefully manage their team's composition based on Combat Power (CP) and rarity. The narrator expresses some frustration with the steep learning curve and the sheer number of systems to master, including collection badges, pathfinder challenges, and auto-recycling unused items. Despite these hurdles, the game is described as fun so far, with no major progression walls hit yet at level 29, though the ultimate level cap is set at 35.
In conclusion, the video serves as an enthusiastic recommendation for players interested in creature-collecting RPGs with a focus on strategy and collection. The narrator plans to continue playing the game off-stream but encourages viewers to check it out themselves given its free-to-play status and early access availability. The series wraps up after this fourth episode, promising future content if the game continues to offer value, while urging the audience to engage by commenting, liking, and subscribing for more updates on their gaming journey.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the video. We
are back for episode four. I don't know.
We're on episode something. And uh yeah,
we just got this next alpha, the dark
one. And uh I think we have to go here
next, right?
To Bloomville
and then we'll head east to the next
marker.
There we go.
Not enough space here. Action failed. Is
there auto run? Let's check.
Controls.
I don't think there's an auto run.
They allow you to edit, too. That's
good. Some of these games don't allow
you to edit. Oh, tab locks on. I didn't
know that.
No, I'm going to have to manually hoof
it.
manually hoofing it to this next guy
from Wall-E. What's up, Wall-E?
Catching that
scatterbrain.
Understood.
Mhm.
What are you looking at?
Look around for clues.
Absory.
Transformed earlier. Could it be
gathered some kind of beneficial
substance? The flowers seem to be
blooming more brightly here. There are
traces of condensed vein energy. Must be
what Wally was researching. Florence
fragrance is refreshing. It seems to
carry a mysterious power. I remember
institute handbook
observe.
That's enough info.
Awkward.
Do drop crystals. Can I get the summary?
After discovering a mysterious object
connected animal growth, you contact Dr.
Lewis and learn that what is called a
dew drop crystal, a substance formed
from a condensed vein energy. Dr. Lewis
immediately sends you to the re the
relevant information and ask you to pass
it on to Wall-E. And who has forgotten
his name?
Let's
do drop crystal. Honestly, I didn't
think I had anything with the help of
your observations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Skip SC
start challenge.
Start duel.
It's time to
Nice.
What type is that? Grass. I'm going to
lead with the lion.
Oh, that's cool.
Grace wing kind of sucks. Just healed
all that damage.
Spam Q.
Get him out of that grace swing.
I'm pouncing everybody.
My shield's blocking everything.
Easy.
That was kind of cool.
Battle one.
And those looks are funny.
Wallally gives you full marks and
directs you back to the outpost to
complete the rest of your assessment
with Dr. Lewis.
Okay.
Sun-kissed
skills.
Sun-kissed. Yours learn automatically
equipped active skill.
Oh, I was using this before.
Replace.
Actually, I want the pound. Wait, no,
no, no.
Oh, yeah. Siss there. There we go.
Nice.
I want to keep that pound on Q. I've
gotten used to that.
Okay. USA 1,169
billion
outposts.
What's up, Doc?
Well done.
I'm ready.
Came from Astro to explore Idol. What is
our mission?
I didn't pay attention, so I'm going
with common sense or which ain't so
common.
Wait. All the above.
Let's go with all the above.
All the above. Is this all the above
quiz?
Wow. Every answer was all the above. Oh
my gosh.
Unlock talent.
Okay. Um, dream song. What does that do?
Drupal's exceptional evolution.
Oo.
increases damage out of a mega mega
mallet.
I want that.
I want that
gravity pull.
I want the mallet.
I want dream song.
I want breaker.
I didn't know I had arrow board
equipped.
Wait, is this
Oh, was that combat? This is combat. I
don't want the board during combat. I
want heal during combat. And I think
this is outside of combat.
Heal outside of combat. And then I want
the mallet.
Yeah. Mobility skill set. Okay, makes
sense.
Oh,
things
at some point they will mean something
to me. As of now, they do not.
So, dream song is Drupal's exceptional
evolution. Who is Drupal?
Let's see.
Uh, got P.
The heck is a Drupal?
I don't know what a DBLE is.
How did I get that?
I don't know how that came up, but that
was the the damage chart I need to see
or the uh
you know what I mean. I haven't caught a
duple yet.
Very impressive. Tank head
resin lets you strengthe your immunity
will do drop crystals. Each resin
increases star rank. Oh, there we go.
Star up.
Uh, training.
Do I have to do him? I want to do him.
Start up.
Reach level 35.
I see. I see.
So, I think all of these need to be 35.
So, let's start with Helion.
Can I even get 35?
Yes. Now we can star him up. I hope
training.
Ascend.
There we go. Star up.
Insufficient items.
How about you? Can I star you up?
reach level 35. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I forgot
about that.
I can tell right now I'm gonna have to
start doing some grinding soon.
Send
the stage two star up.
There we go.
Yeah, I'm out of mats now.
Breezy Planes do drop crystals is what I
need to farm. Okay, these guys are two
star now, I think. Right.
Yeah, you can see it on their icon next
to their name. T2 star.
I think I can level up these guys though
at least, right?
Yeah.
Get these guys to level 35.
at the minimum. So now if I need to star
him up, I can once I get the mats for
it, which I need new drop crystals.
Makes sense. Makes sense. Makes sense.
Makes sense. Okay. Go to the sea of
flowers. Face is a sea of flowers.
Teleport.
I haven't caught anything here.
You can tell on the map when you click
on the crystal, it shows you everything
you you've caught and the percentage
you've caught. And I've only seen three
different things. So, I need to explore
this a little bit more.
So, we're going to take a break from the
story and just um
open that chest over there. Got
sidetracked. Uh, and then we'll start
trying to catch some more amiios.
That
Okay, there's another one over there.
Pay me my money.
I don't think this goes further, right?
Mayhap. It's kind of dark in here. It's
a little dock. Don't go in there, Doc.
It's dark.
Okay.
Got to catch them all. Got to catch them
all.
Might as well get this clue while I'm
here.
Oh,
a flower that can't wait to grow up.
Go to the sea of flowers.
I didn't even see that over there. Let's
get this flurin in them.
Okay. Don't know me own strength.
Sheesh.
I stomped him into the ground.
I should probably lead with that
ability, huh?
Yeah,
that made him pretty weak.
Let's catch one.
Catch two.
Did you just hit me?
I'm going to be upset about that. Raar
go.
Get him.
>> Go.
>> Did he died?
He may have may have perished there. We
got a few of those.
Oh, chest just dangling. Keys jangling.
Can I climb this?
Okay. Which key is it to see the area?
Pokemon's new chapter unlocked. Claim.
Whoa.
There's a lot of things to claim up
here. Hold on.
I didn't realize that.
Wait, what's
in progress?
No, I don't want to track that. No,
there's a lot of stuff in Bloomville I
got to catch, too.
Uh, Path of Splendor.
I don't know what they want me to click
on the core courses.
Earn four collection badges in four
areas or earn collection badges in four
areas. Own five amiibo with an elite
rating. Own one aneo. I said amiibo,
didn't I? Ano with the resonance at Nova
stage three. I don't know what that is
yet. Auto recycle 10 unused anopods.
How you do that?
Go to inventory, I guess.
Sell.
No, I don't want to sell all of them.
Lots of systems to learn. That's
something I'm getting from this. There's
a ton of systems.
I guess the more you play,
the more the more you remember these
things, I guess.
Pathfinder challenge.
Interesting.
Okay, we'll try that.
Go for that one first.
It's Pathfinder challenge.
And let's try my
Oh, there's a timeout on it. I'm gonna
try my my boogie board.
I challenge you to uh
He's level 31, chat. I should
should probably knock him out. My head's
bigger than him.
Okay. Uh, let's go.
I don't know what element this guy is.
Boom.
My guy's getting wrecked.
Shield up. Damage boosted.
Man, he is wrecking me.
Clone.
I don't think I've defeated any of his
dudes yet. Oh, we only had one guy.
That thing was ripping me to shreds,
man.
Sheesh.
That was frightening. Honestly, I don't
even know what health I started with. I
could have been like not healed.
Oh, we beat him.
So, that's good.
I want to call.
Okay, everybody got healed. So, we did
that.
They're going to be marked as done. No.
fuse energy.
I don't know what I just
Okay, I did the thing.
I don't have anything to give it. Okay,
let's start the nurture game play.
I just got roped into something.
Some kind of nurturing stuff.
Something about capturing rare
amiibo
bloom.
Oh,
I didn't No, I didn't mean to do that.
Oh, no.
I'm just catching everybody. Chat, I got
him.
>> So, what do I just keep killing these
guys and capturing them?
>> Get him.
>> Jeez.
Get him.
>> Get out of there. People trying to
sleep.
>> Get him.
>> I got killed.
I got overwhelmed.
Oops.
What do I have to do here?
Animal appeared here.
That message is really annoying. Got to
kill everybody here or something.
Let's do this
clone.
Okay, I guess I just had to survive
that. Each time a bloom releases
prismatic, there's a chance a prismana
amiibo will appear.
Okay,
get him.
Get him.
>> Which one of these guys has heal? Is it
You have heal, right? Yeah. Hey E,
get him.
Get him.
Go.
Get him.
>> Backstab.
I don't know if catching them helps with
this or not.
I think it does cuz when I did the
nurture thing.
>> Get him.
Get him.
>> Go
get him.
Huh?
Go.
>> Yes sir.
>> Get him.
Get him.
Like, how come I can't um
There we go. I can do the pounce now.
Pounce everybody.
I'm just going to try to kill as many as
I can.
I was trying to capture them before and
I don't think that's I don't think
that's a play.
It's almost full.
That one was almost full.
I don't know if I'm doing this right.
So, we're going to keep banging our
heads against the wall until we get it.
Oh, I could I could capture them after I
killed them, too. That's not just
bosses. Ew, nice.
Oh, that that was big.
I need to kill a bunch of these from my
analog. So,
oh, turbo.
Crap.
Go.
I killed them all.
Hey,
auto recycle six unused anopods. That's
just happening. Oh crap.
Dude, all these people putting these
messages around here is so annoying.
Oh, I can't nurture anymore.
Well, I got a turbo,
right?
Yeah, I got another turbo.
So, I guess that was the purpose of all
that is to get a turbo.
I got a ton of these skippies. Like,
what do I do with them?
Training
star up. Oh, now we can do him.
send.
Now we need some more of a do drops.
Is there a way to tell at a glance who's
elite?
Cuz you're elite
and
Okay. Can't start him up yet either. I
don't think there's a way to tell at a
glance. I can filter by them, right? Or
I can sort by
is it rarity?
I don't think that worked.
Sort by
rating, I guess. Let me try that.
No
potential score. Oh, that's cool. Sort.
Oh, short.
Uhoh.
There we go.
You sure this is potential?
Interesting.
I thought potential would be CP.
Nope.
Okay.
Uh, wait a second. My um Where's my
turbo?
My turbo that low?
This one? I mean the level 35 turbo.
Where is it? Oh, it's at the top. H. Uh,
so
I am missing
the mage. Oh yeah, she's not um,
she's way down there in levels.
That CP that is is sorting by. No,
like somehow he's a higher level.
I thought I already leveled him up.
Yeah, we need some more of these uh do
drop crystals for him. I'm I'm slowly
getting this trying to get the power
scaling and what you should focus on
that kind of stuff, you know.
Rating. Oh, there we go. elite.
So, these are all elites. Oh.
Oh, I should have been leveling these
guys up.
Yeah, I should have been leveling these
guys up.
And then the blues are the next one up.
And then we got just him.
Oops.
Now I see.
evolve.
Okay,
that's how you get one of those.
So, now we have another Solaris.
She's blue.
So if you sort by rating, it should
really should
do that. There we go. Yeah. Yeah.
So it is sort by rating, which is what I
want.
These are goods.
And we have I thought we had another
elite.
We did have another elite.
Is it just that box? Oh, maybe it's just
that box.
No, it should sort all boxes. Let's see
all my elites.
We got Pranky, which is water,
and we got this guy, which is wind. And
we got this guy, which is wind. They're
all elites.
Let's level up this guy. Now, I hope
there's a way to like star
or like favorite people.
What's this? Evolve. Oh, you can evolve.
Hold on. Let's see who else I can evolve
before I do that.
Okay, they have a little icon next to
them to evolve.
I see. All right, let's evolve this one.
Universal convergence. Sure.
Ooh,
nova stage. Ain't you pretty
927
CP
cannot evolve you yet or star you up,
but I do plan to. Dude, there's got to
be a way to favorite it.
Huh?
You can release people, too. That's
good. Okay,
dude. His CP is low. This flamethrow
I'm gonna change him out.
Let's
sort by uh
rating.
Yeah, we're going to take you out. Well,
you're CP 927 as well.
Okay, this is starting to make more
sense.
Oh, we can evolve the crab.
Oh, can you feel it? Shrub claw. Heck
yeah.
Can you feel it, Mr. Krabs? Can you feel
it, Mr. Krabs? Okay, I don't want to
evolve you again. I already got two of
these.
I don't think there's any way to
combine.
We can evolve another ember pup. We can
evolve one of these guys, which we've
already done up here.
I don't know the benefit of evolving
these guys.
Yay yet.
Interesting.
I can't nurture you. All right.
So, that was quite educational. Um,
quite educational.
I don't know what that cloud is for.
Only one way to find out. Let's just go
in soon as I loot this. Yoink. And
uh I don't have fire, do I?
I want to pound this. Thank you. Wait,
what?
Ah,
that's taking a while to burn.
Yeah.
patience.
It didn't work.
Can I like uh
I don't know what to do.
I want this
I don't know. Heal.
I need to heal myself, too.
I think the only way to do that is to go
to a camp
and rest.
I could do that in um
Oh, wait. I'm healing here.
Cool. Okay.
That's good.
Let's go in here and see what is in the
cloud.
Cloudy
seems to be an amiibo. What?
Blessed by lumen amber.
Did he fly away?
And that sheep
I don't know how to shoot things out of
the sky yet.
Oh well.
Well, there's that.
Hit the open world to set off now.
Snap shop seasonal hub. I just hit F1
for the first time.
Okay, I don't think I will.
Uh, claim tomorrow
not owned.
Who's that?
Okay, F3.
F3.
Have we claimed everything here?
Probably not.
But it still says I need stuff, so I
don't know. Let's grab this. Grab that.
This and that.
So forth.
F4.
Claim that. Daily activity. Nice, nice,
nice. Lots to do, man.
We got these two here.
A lot of XP.
F9 has some stuff
that they want me to buy.
Negative. I have no budget.
I think we leveled to 29,
right?
Yeah, we leveled to 29. This game's
pretty fun, man. I'm impressed. This uh
it's impressing me.
I haven't hit any kind of walls yet. I
know these types of games tend to be
fun.
They tend to be pretty fun, but if you,
you know, sometimes you hit a wall on
progression or end game hits a
ridiculous grind level. I can't really
say
um if I've hit that yet, but I've got
almost 30 30 levels,
right?
I'm at level 29. My level cap is at 35.
seen the skills, seen the badges, we've
seen the training.
Um, seen a little bit of the cash shop.
I mean, I don't understand a lot of the
currencies yet. I mean, we got this
thing here, the glimmer, and then you
have the lumen crystals,
right? And then we got the cosmetics
here, of course.
And um,
companion handbook unlock now. 20 bucks.
No, thank you.
monthly pass seems to be the cheaper
option, $5, if you're going to invest
probably a couple months in these. I I
mean, I always say if you got a if you
if you play a free-to-play game and
you're planning on grinding that
hardcore and you got $5, you might these
monthly passes are worth it cuz you get
a lot of bonus stuff, right? You get a
lot of bonus stuff. What is this
appearance?
A left side thumbs up. That is Oh, these
are emotes.
Starlight watches you spark of hope. How
to obtain curio corner shop.
Uh oh. You exchange these these Doritos
for that. Okay. I say if you got the
money, you know, and it's disposable
income, I say go for it, you know.
Um I did that with AFK Journey when I
played that game. I gave them like $5 a
month for a couple months and I spent
pretty much the whole time grinding and
it was worth it. Definitely worth it.
All right, guys. I think we're going to
end the series here. There's like five
episodes of this. Give you my first look
into Amiibo. The game's pretty good, and
I'm probably going to continue to play
it here and there off stream and off
video, but I I think you should check it
out. It's free to play. It's on Steam.
Uh I believe it is early access. I'm not
sure. So, yeah. I hope you enjoyed the
series. Make sure you comment, like,
subscribe, and I'll see you next time.
Take care.