You can’t see every part of a level from one angle - how you position the camera and where you look is always important. As we noted in our 2014 review of the Wii U original.Ĭaptain Toad is less about action, and more about deliberation. Those movement and ability restrictions underpin the game’s understated puzzle design. Toad, encumbered by a weighty backpack filled with adventure gear, can jog and pull turnips up from the ground, but he can’t jump or butt-stomp his enemies. Nintendo later spun off the concept into a full game with more than 70 levels that expand on Captain Toad’s inability to run and jump through Mario’s world. The character and the puzzling dioramas he explores first appeared as a smattering of levels in Super Mario 3D World for Wii U. Ĭaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker has its roots in the Super Mario Bros.
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The game is still a smart, charming series of puzzles starring Toad and Toadette as they hunt for treasure with a disarming cheerfulness. Not much has changed for the Switch version of Captain Toad. One of the Wii U’s best efforts, the charming puzzle-action game Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker comes to Nintendo Switch (and Nintendo 3DS systems) this week, giving Nintendo fans an opportunity to atone for the sin of missing it the first time around.
With the Switch, Nintendo has a platform that offers a second chance to games that were criminally overlooked when originally released on the company’s previous system, the poorly performing Wii U.
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