#CAPTAIN TOAD TREASURE TRACKER AGE RANGE FULL#
It allows the player to maintain full control and still accept feedback from the others in the room. The best thing to do when playing Captain Toad with friends and family in the room is to pass the Joy-Con back and forth, instead of playing 2 player. Solving puzzles together means that you have more than one set of eyeballs on a level, giving you a better chance of seeing hidden secrets (like golden mushrooms or one of Captain Toad’s friends) and picking safe paths through challenging environments. It’s fun to play with others in the room, of course. The co-op (2 player) mode is novel, but it doesn’t give either player much in the way of meaningful decisions with the Joy-Con they’re using.
You get to keep your level unlocks, thankfully.Ĭaptain Toad is best played in solo mode. The diamonds are persistent between lives until you reach zero, so that’s the only drawback. It’s a relatively low stakes game in that even if you lose all of your lives (because there are some tricky levels that require quite a bit of fine motor control), the effect is minimal. “How else can we look at this space? How can we move Captain Toad through his environment so he stays safe? How should we move the camera? Is this a secret? Let’s explore!” It’s a fantastic way to teach young children to move through virtual environments by using their imaginations. There’s very little in terms of reading, so kids of all ages should be able to pick up and play in docked mode easily. It engages their spatial learning and forces them to look at the game environment from a number of different angles in order to find a path through hazards, enemies, and tricky terrain. Even younger kids can enjoy Captain Toad sitting next to you on the couch, rather than you intervening and solving puzzles for them. It requires quite a bit of coordination, but when it works, it really works. You can turn on “2 player” mode so that one person controls Captain Toad (or Toadette, in later levels) and the other controls the pointer (for poking at blocks and revealing hidden coins) and the camera. There are enough levels (and challenge in those levels) that replaying doesn’t feel tired or stale, even when you play together. Unlike many puzzle games, like Burnstar, where the difficulty ramps up quickly, Captain Toad eases the player in, providing the odd “easy win” and ensuring that a level can take the “critical path” to the star, without needing to get diamonds along the way. If you or your kiddo have played either of the Monument Valley games, you’ll find a number of similarities in how the game mechanics unfold. Toad has to use his environment to get through a level without succumbing to the dangers within it (because he can’t move quickly, nor can he jump).Ĭaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a puzzle game that lets players use spatial learning and awareness to manipulate the landscape, gather coins, collect diamonds, defeat (or avoid) enemies like Shy Guy, and collect the star. In Episode 1, you play as Captain Toad as he works toward rescuing Toadette from an evil bird that stole their first star and kidnapped Toadette. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is another game that comes by way of the Wii U, with a number of subtle updates and changes that take advantage of the Switch’s touchscreen in handheld mode.
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