One of the new titles announced during today’s Nintendo Direct was Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, a new game developed by Nintendo’s EAD group.
The game expands upon the Captain Toad levels found in Super Mario 3D World and forms them into a unique puzzle adventure game for the Wii U.
According to to Nintendo’s Tree House coverage Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is set at a more relaxed pace than a traditional Mario game. Toad does not have the ability to jump, but instead must rely on manipulating different aspects of the game’s environment and various objects in order to collect a star in each level, as well as uncover the plethora of secrets hidden throughout the different stages.
Gamers will also be able to use the Wii U game pad to change the camera perspective of the levels in the game.
Nintendo is aiming for a Holiday 2014 release window.
You can track the trailer for Captain Toad right below this sentence:
I can’t wait for this!!! My son and I played through Super Mario 3D World together and we were both really excited when we stumbled across Captain Toad’s levels. I’m pretty sure I remarked that there ought to be a whole game expanding on the ideas!
Holiday 2014 isn’t too very far off, but lately Nintendo has been bad bad bad about pushing games back 4 to 6 months further from their initial expected releases.