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Samus amiibos look tragic. Why?

Berordn said:
I like how they look.

I just wish they realized to give Samus supports sooner because armored Samus looks disappointing with the lean they've got going on.
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Armored Samus be like:

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Many early amiibo in general seem to be a different world of quality than later amiibo. Just compare the first Smash Link to later Zelda amiibo.

Just need a new Metroid game for more amiibo (I actually believe we will get another Metroid eventually).
 
Sammy Samusu said:
Both Zero Suit and Varia Suit amiibos are tragic looking, especially if compared to other amiibos.

The Animal Crossing and Splatoon amiibos are full of life and rich in details. Megaman and Waluigi are awesome too.

Why did Nintendo pay dust to Metroid?
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The Splatoon and (especially) Animal Crossing amiibo designs are much simpler. It's easier to render a Squid or Isabelle in physical form than it is Samus, who is pretty complex, especially in Zero Suit form.
 
I like 'em both. Varia Suit Samus was the first amiibo I bought; she's to blame for all the money I wasted consequently, and she looks dope. You crazy, OP.

Obviously not the best when we live in a world with Mega Man amiibo, but what can you do
 
They look like trash compared to the Waddle Dee amiibo, but that can be said about any non-Waddle Dee amiibo.

I own 8 Waddle Dee amiibo
 
A lot of the early amiibos had a few things changed over their annoumcement designs because of thin parts or cost, such as removing peaches undies, making fingers fatter, point tips were rounded off and a lot of amiibos were given support beams (links yellow piss beam)

For what they are samus and zss look fine to me, they could be better sure, but they are £10 plastic figures.
 
Mokujin said:
HAHAHAHA nice!!!

But 2D should have been Prime ;P
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Nah. It's been 13 years since the last 2D Metroid and we've had 3 Prime games since then.

It's time to give Metroid Dread the respect it deserves.
 
The case of the Varia suit looking tragic; it is easy. Only one arm has the cannon on it but with a surrogate Samus you can fix that:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Double-Arm-Cannon-Samus-Amiibo/
the lower arms are separate parts glued into the upper arm so you might be able to use heat here that than just cutting completely
Plus end up with a two left handed freak who can join female Corrin on the sidelines is she ever comes out (
the original official artwork for Corrin which I linked clear shows her with two left feet, sadly this artwork was corrected and no game models depict her with two left feet.
)
 
I always thought Varia Suit Samus was actually one of the better Smash Amiibo. I'm not sure what the OP is on about.
 
I really like both of them, I think Varia suit Samus was one of the best of the first wave. I mean compare that to the first Link, now that one was bad.
 
Sammy Samusu said:
Both Zero Suit and Varia Suit amiibos are tragic looking, especially if compared to other amiibos.

The Animal Crossing and Splatoon amiibos are full of life and rich in details. Megaman and Waluigi are awesome too.

Why did Nintendo pay dust to Metroid?
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It's almost like the cartoony amiibos look better because the details are more simple.

They're about $10, don't expect much.

Having said that, I think Samus's amiibo looks great, especially when you can find one without the leaning issue. ZSS looks solid too.
 
They don't though...especially the full suit Samus Amiibo, it's one of the better looking Amiibo from the first run.

Now Marth on the other hand...yeesh.
 
Zero Suit looks absolutely fine considering the size. Samus is a victim of being on the more detailed side, and being a part of the first wave. If the first wave only contained simple characters, Samus would have looked a whole lot better later on.
 
I would love a Zero Mission Samus Amiibo

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A big issue for me is I don't really like Smash, but so many Nintendo characters are represented by their Smash appearance, rather than their actual games. How about a Blue Falcon, Star Fox ship etc. At least there are finally some non-Smash mario and Zelda ones.
 
Sammy Samusu said:
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Lack details and the painting is horrible.

Now look at this:

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I mean the difference is clear. 👀
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The only thing that's clear is the picture quality difference between the first one and the other two. I mean, yes all the human characters look worse than the cartoony characters when it comes to amiibo. ZSS is still one of the better human amiibo, and there is nothing wrong with the Varia Suit Amiibo.
 
Nintendo cares as much about Metroid amiibos as they do about Metroid games.

Ie just enough to churn out a shit one.

Then again in my opinion all amiibos are cheap plastic tat.
 
The type of color used (shiny "metallic" vs. bright and clean) makes a huge difference. The bright cartoony ones look so much better. The simple fact that they are cartoony means they look miles better even tho there are still lots and lots of details that look terrible at close inspection.
I mean, look at the shoes on the Splatoon ones. Especially the ones on the boy. That is a sloppy paint job! But is it as noticeable as the sloppy details on the Smash Amiibo? Nope.

Most Smash ones look terrible because of scale, them being the first and the different types of colors used. The cartoony Smash ones look way better than the others.
 
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