Not exact matches
Other amiibo can be used with the game as well, each
providing different boots and more.
The Zelda
amiibo (Zelda the character, that is) will
provide you with plants that you can combine with
other items, and shields you can use to protect yourself.
One of the
other big pieces of news
provided in the April Direct was Nintendo's announcement of
amiibo cards.
So in
other words, a convenient bit of tech that tricks the Wii U into thinking its communicating with an
Amiibo while actually
providing data from its own software instead.