Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Amiibo support in the Roost

If you started playing the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update as soon as it dropped and followed my advice, you got on today to find you have a coffee shop in your museum. If you don’t have it yet, get on it because it’s wonderful. If you already had it, stop time traveling, that’s no fun for anyone.

But once you have The Roost, you can begin the gradual quest of befriending the barista Brewster who, like Sable in the Able Sisters shop, starts befriending you the more you talk to them and actually gives you more options to play with. Plus it gives you a chill place to wind down after your job over at the Happy Home Paradise island makes you work with some sort of toilet creep.

But one cool thing that few people anticipated was that there’d be an amiibo phone in the back of the place which allows you to scan amiibo, calling those characters over to a booth so you can sit and have a chat with them. And as some readers might now, I LOVE amiibo so I got a few. Any Animal Crossing cards you have will call them over so you can speak with them, even villagers that don’t live on your island. It gives you more lore on these adorable characters.

Better yet, if you happen to have amiibo or amiibo cards of the NPC characters like Isabelle or the Nook Twins, you can also invite them over. This even extends to the characters from older Animal Crossing games who have never made an appearance in New Horizons as of yet. Sometimes they’ll bring friends to. For example, I used Lyle’s amiibo and he invited his cousin Lottie, Isabelle’s brother Digby and good ol’ Tom Nook. They sat around, talked and just enjoyed coffee.

I experimented with a bunch of them, surprising absolutely no one, Redd showed up by himself. His dialogue teaches you nothing new about Redd, only further driving home the point that he is a garbage person. He talks about how he wants to convince Brewster to give him the rights to his name so he can work on branding deals. And about ways to use the coffee shop in order to make money for himself.

I also experimented with the amiibo cards from the Nintendo x Sanrio collection and found out you can invite them as well. I haven’t encountered any of them inviting anyone but it’s still interesting to get to learn more about these bizarre villagers. But…mostly I just wanted to invite Chai to see if anything gets mentioned about the teacup on her head.

But this is a great way to get more personality from the characters in the game. Isabelle laments about the dangers of overworking. Resetti tells you about the anger problems in his past and how he’s working to center himself. If only I had a Brewster card. I’m really curious what happens if you invited him for coffee. I found it only for $20 bucks but oh my god if I’m trying to convince my kids that we can’t go out to eat all the time I’d never be able to justify spending $20 to have fake coffee with a fictional pigeon.

What cool interactions have you found? Found any neat combinations of people that have shown up? Comment below and let me know if there are any cool appearances I’m missing.