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Smash Ace
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker:
Release Date: 05/12/2014 - USA, Japan and Canada / January 2015 - EU and AUS
Genre: Puzzle / Adventure
So, amongst the Smash Bros., Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2 and numerous other games' hype trains that accelerated during E3, I feel that this unique little gem, featuring Captain Toad, who appeared throughout the past few Mario entries gaining Power Stars through small exploration-based puzzles was hype-worthy as well.
Summary:
Captain Toad, who first appeared in Super Mario Galaxy and continued on toward Super Mario 3D World as an explorer to aid Mario and friends on their quest to gain Power Stars is embarking on his own adventure. The game consists of a multitude of levels similar to that of his puzzle levels in SMG and SM3DW.
Some key features and interesting things to note:
- The stages, although similar to to their host games, are no longer time limited; this encourages exploration.
- Additional to the Power Star at the end (instead of Green Stars), there are three Gems in each level to collect. There are also potentially Stamps, but it's not known for sure yet.
- The Game Pad will probably be the key controller to use, given there are multiple levels requiring you to touch things on it to activate them (platforms, elevators, switches etc).
- Captain Toad will have access to power-ups such as a Pickaxe, Mushrooms and others.
- The plucking reference from Super Mario Bros 2 returns. Often, Captain Toad will pluck a Turnip in which he can throw at enemies.
- There will be levels that allow you to shoot Turnips in a 1st person shooter type view to hit enemies and collect Gems while riding a mine cart.
- The Gems are used for something, but what this is remains a mystery.
- Some stages are rumoured to have side missions such as collecting a certain amount of Coins, defeating enemies and other tasks.
- Although just a theory, there's reason to believe that "worlds" may be represented by books. Each book contains (possibly) 20 pages (meaning 20 levels) per book.
- There are at least 70 stages.
- Some levels are shown to have a mysterious Golden Mushroom in seemingly inaccessible regions of the level. How the Mushrooms get there and what they're for is currently unknown, whether they are power-ups, collectables, or part of some kind of side-mission is unknown.
GameXplain analysis -
Treehouse gameplay -
Older Comic-Con gameplay -
What do you guys think of this game? It may seem pretty modest / boring to some, but I personally liked Captain Toad's little interventions, and the puzzles look like they're pretty unique and interesting from what I've seen so far.
Release Date: 05/12/2014 - USA, Japan and Canada / January 2015 - EU and AUS
Genre: Puzzle / Adventure
So, amongst the Smash Bros., Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2 and numerous other games' hype trains that accelerated during E3, I feel that this unique little gem, featuring Captain Toad, who appeared throughout the past few Mario entries gaining Power Stars through small exploration-based puzzles was hype-worthy as well.
Summary:
Captain Toad, who first appeared in Super Mario Galaxy and continued on toward Super Mario 3D World as an explorer to aid Mario and friends on their quest to gain Power Stars is embarking on his own adventure. The game consists of a multitude of levels similar to that of his puzzle levels in SMG and SM3DW.
Some key features and interesting things to note:
- The stages, although similar to to their host games, are no longer time limited; this encourages exploration.
- Additional to the Power Star at the end (instead of Green Stars), there are three Gems in each level to collect. There are also potentially Stamps, but it's not known for sure yet.
- The Game Pad will probably be the key controller to use, given there are multiple levels requiring you to touch things on it to activate them (platforms, elevators, switches etc).
- Captain Toad will have access to power-ups such as a Pickaxe, Mushrooms and others.
- The plucking reference from Super Mario Bros 2 returns. Often, Captain Toad will pluck a Turnip in which he can throw at enemies.
- There will be levels that allow you to shoot Turnips in a 1st person shooter type view to hit enemies and collect Gems while riding a mine cart.
- The Gems are used for something, but what this is remains a mystery.
- Some stages are rumoured to have side missions such as collecting a certain amount of Coins, defeating enemies and other tasks.
- Although just a theory, there's reason to believe that "worlds" may be represented by books. Each book contains (possibly) 20 pages (meaning 20 levels) per book.
- There are at least 70 stages.
- Some levels are shown to have a mysterious Golden Mushroom in seemingly inaccessible regions of the level. How the Mushrooms get there and what they're for is currently unknown, whether they are power-ups, collectables, or part of some kind of side-mission is unknown.
GameXplain analysis -
Treehouse gameplay -
What do you guys think of this game? It may seem pretty modest / boring to some, but I personally liked Captain Toad's little interventions, and the puzzles look like they're pretty unique and interesting from what I've seen so far.
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