At each level, you’re able to find three diamonds. While the ultimate objective at each stage doesn’t change – Captain Toad is always looking for that shiny gold start at the end – the biggest challenge resides in getting all the collectables and completing an extra objective. Each stage seems to present a brand new mechanic, or at least a smart spin into what you have seen before. However, the main catch of Captain Toad resides on how many surprises you’ll encounter on each level, both when it comes to collectibles and on the level design itself.Ĭaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker truly transpires with creativity. Some levels seems so small, with such a clear objective, that you may wonder where the games appeal lies. When you compare that to other platform games, it may sound odd. When you begin to play each one of the diorama-like Captain Toad stages, you’ll often have a zoomed out vision of what seems to be the entire level, sometimes even including your ultimate goal – a golden star you need to reach. Previously launched in 2014, in this adventure starred by the titular hero (and Toadette), you’ll be presented to almost a hundred bite-sized stages in which you must use Captain Toad’s skills – or lack of – to defeat enemies, overcome obstacles, and gather collectables, all while you manipulate elements from the scenario, as if the level itself was a small puzzle-box that you’re holding on your hands. If Super Mario Odyssey was the Mario take on the sandbox genre, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is basically the Mario universe turned into a puzzle-platformer game. So, when I encountered Captain Toad in Super Mario Odyssey, I was left wondering which kind of adventures that single Toad has got himself into – until now. As a member of this group, every time a previously exclusive Wii U title is ported to Switch, it opens up an opportunity to experience a unique and often amazing game that was inaccessible to those who skipped the Wii U. There is a demo available in the Nintendo E-Shop if you’re interested, but purchasing the game via cartridge allows it to be shared between more than one Switch if you have them.A treasure puzzle-box at the palm of your hands.Ĭonsidering the difference in numbers between the Wii U lifetime sales and Switch current sales, I think it is safe to assume that the Switch was, to many people, a comeback to owning a Nintendo console. While mastering the controls has a slight learning curve, my 6 year old niece was happily traversing through the first few levels in no time. The game mechanics are unique in that instead of just running and jumping to the right to reach a goal, you must carefully follow paths and actually rotate the world in 3D view to be able to keep track of where Toad is going. Getting 100 coins adds an extra Toad life to your game. If he doesn’t find a mushroom to become large again, running into an enemy again means that level is over.Īgain, similar to Mario Brothers, there are coins located all over in the open, and hidden in plants you need to pick and caves.
Similar to Mario Brothers, If Toad is caught by an enemy, the first time he ‘shrinks’ a bit.
CAPTAIN TOAD TREASURE TRACKER EPISODE 2 FULL
Various types of paths and traversable land and water are full of items and tools used to collect coins or disburse adversaries or blow up walls to gain access to otherwise hidden areas. With over 80 levels of diverse and increasingly complex ‘lands’ to explore to find gems, defeat or avoid enemies and discover the all important coins to add extra lives, this game is one of the best.Įach level consists of a 3D, rotatable world, in which the goal is usually to locate 3 gems and finally a big star in order to complete the level. I have been a fan of most Nintendo games, especially in the ‘Mario World’ for decades.Ĭaptain Toad:Treasure Tracker is a welcome departure from the 2D platform and party games.
Excellent game to teach puzzle solving and orientation in 3D space while being extremely engaging addictive.
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