Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker was a perfect example of a “Budget AAA" title done right. For a cheaper price tag than the average Nintendo release, it expanded upon a unique, camera-centric puzzle mechanic with light platformer elements and offered up a creative, surprisingly content-heavy package. We awarded it an 8/10 in our review, primarily praising its charm and expanded focus on the GamePad. Although the game is more than complete in its current form, owners of particular amiibo will have a dash of extra content to look forward to next week.
Shinya Hiratake - the game's director - confirmed in an interview a while back that Captain Toad would be receiving amiibo support in a future update. While it had been previously confirmed that older amiibo would award players a 1-up mushroom for each, he didn't really go into specifics as to what the Super Mario range launching on 20th March would add, mysteriously saying that it would “open up extra tasks of finding pixel Toads in levels". Nintendo of Japan just posted a video showcasing the new feature and it offers a clearer picture of what this means.
Upon touching the amiibo to the GamePad, it seems that players will be dropped into a particular part of a level and given ten seconds to pan the camera around and find a pixel Toad hidden in the environment somewhere. Players will need to ensure that the pixel Toad is within the zoomed frame when the countdown reaches zero to complete the mini-game.
What do you think of this? Will you be taking advantage of this feature when the new range of amiibo launches? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Um, Looks ok. But I feel like finding that little Pixel Toad is like finding a needle in a haystack. I never was good at finding the Pixel Luigi.
...I would love to do all this if I could friggin buy one in the first place.
Actually I believe you just have to find the 8-bit toad in the level, but it is just played normally. It zoomed in to give viewers a hint as to where road was as a demonstration before revealing it after the countdown.
What I would like to see is that you can use any amiibo in a game in special levels for example.
I don't see why they couldn't just put the hide and seek minigame in the game without requiring an amiibo. I dislike using amiibo to unlock content in the game since its too similar to DLC. I would prefer it if Amiibos were used in ways that would be impossible to do without them, such as in smash bros.
cool amiibo-seller feature
I have a Toad preordered just for this (and to collect). Ironically the first one that isn't compatible with Smash Bros. I may be dreaming, but hopefully they do a Waluigi and Daisy at some point.
@crimsontadpoles Most valuable amiibo comment ever. Smash-type functionality is precisely why i was interested in amiibo in the first place and yet we've seen precious little of it so far.
Seems lame to me.
Budget AAA title?? £35 in Game, yeah right!!!
I have pre-ordered a Toad amiibo from GAME (please don't get cancelled) for this purpose and because the Toads are my daughter's favourite Mario characters. Anything it does in a game is bonus and the mini-game isn't a must-have feature. Unlike the Smash series I can see the Mario series of figures having a longer lifespan as they'll no doubt be used in future games.
Oddly enough this is better then I expected which was just a pixel toad added in game like pixel Mario with no mini game.
I have mine preordered since I'm not only planning to use it for Captain Toad, but also Mario Party 10 in which the only amiibo I have that is capable for this game is Rosalina (and Luma). Also the future is still young for other capable games.
Uhm. Yeah. This isn't really something I'd get an amiibo for. I was planning on getting the Toad amiibo anyway though, but this is kinda.. uhm.. I 'unno. I don't really see what the point is! I hope you get something extra if you manage to find them all. Even if it's just an extra costume/color for Toad.
Lame. Disappointing.
Eh, not that cool. I won't bother I don't think.
I'm getting a Toad amiibo for Mario Party 10 but I don't know if I'll be using this feature. Seems like it could've been more.
I love Captain Toad but I am not getting this. Sounds way too simple and since we are not getting a Capt. Toad figurine but a generic Toad then I don't want the figure either. He and Mario are the only ones from that range I am skipping.
This reminds me I still have to finish those five super-hard final levels from the bonus chapter. The DKC trilogy and Majora's Mask 3D have put Captain Toad on the backburner for me, but I'll certainly get to it.
@ricklongo - "This reminds me I still have to finish those five super-hard final levels from the bonus chapter."
Forgot all the about the Bonus levels, been busy playing Kirby. Though I think I thought the 4th or 5th one was too hard for me so kinda stopped anyway.
@Captain_Gonru - "At the risk of sounding argumentative"
May I borrow that as my new screen name? I'll let you keep the spaces
While I don't think its awful they're doing this, this was a $40 game that came out months ago and was short enough most people probably already got through it long ago. This may be interesting for people new to the game but hardly seems worth it to go back to replay it. If I could dress up Toad as Mario and have him jump, or Link and use his weapons, or roll up in a ball like Samus, then I'd play it again.
HW DLC comes out in the US today. Costs me $20 for the 4 packages but it gives real extension to the life of the game, not half-arsed.
Nintnedo's implementation of amiibo has too much "try", not enough "do".
seems like a cute little extra. people are expecting way too much from amiibo. you should keep in mind that amiibo are going to be little extras for many games, not one huge extra for one game.
Meh! ...
thats all it is...? I've already 100%ed the game and I was hoping amiibo support would give me a good reason to play through again....oh well. (i'm still buying that toad amiibo. Gimme)
...Smash still the only one doing interesting stuff with Amiibo. :/
Was Captain Toad really a AAA title???
Haven't actually picked up Captain Toad yet was going to very soon but now I see that Toad packed in the box .... Anyone know if such a package will make it to the west ? Would I probably be wasting my time any way ? (Another sold out amiibo product)?
Disappointed.
Looks like a pointless way to cram in extra replay value.
not as cool as I'd imagined, but I still want a Toad amiibo, if I can freakin' get one for under $100000
@Thecoolmana777 I would consider it so. It was certainly a cut above Nintendo's other eShop games, like Pushmo, and it received a physical release as well. It could be argued as being less, but I feel like the sheer amount of content and creativity put it above.
Awesome, time to pickup Treasure Tracker finally
Awesome, time to pickup Treasure Tracker finally
@EvisceratorX hmm maybe its just I consider gigantic games like CoD and Assassins Creed to be AAA, and although Captain Toad is quite nice to look at I don't really see it in the same league as Shadow of Mordor or Smash Bros for example.
Is there a reward of some sort for finding these pixel Toad's? There are pixel Luigi's cleverly hidden in some of the levels as well which I always thought was cool.
@Captain_Gonru - Stop making sense, you're giving me a headache
I can see why people call this DLC and dislike it, and I can see why people hate Day 1 DLC, b/c there's really no reason to like that. I think my problem w/ this is it's such a small little thing it should have been included from the start, but if they want to add amiibo support later it should be something that makes people want to go back and replay the game. So I guess I see this more as a "why even bother" than a happy medium. But it is free, so whatever.
How long until MK8 tracks come out, I paid for those last Nov and I'm still waiting? (just kidding, I know its May, probably whatever day Splatoon comes out, as my son likes to say "Nintendo logic". It's funny when a 10 year old says it.)
Finding the 8-bit toad did not seem very fun...
@GreatPlayer I agree, this just looks kind of... tacked-on.
@Captain_Gonru - One man's "overstep" is another man's "that's how it should have been done in the first place". Says the guy who owns all 4 Skylanders games and both Disney Infinity games.
Animal Crossing has never been my thing but it might be about the right time in my life to get caught up in something so sublime that I can go back to day after day and mess around with. Like Hyrule Warriors, but w/o all the violence. If they made it work w/ 4-player split screen - see Minecraft on PS3 and Go Vacation on Wii - we might look into it. It would need to have more level editing than I think it does though. Not total like Minecraft, but at least Disney Infinity home remolding. You ever play the Dark Cloud series waaay back when on PS2? It was mostly JRPG but you built villages and got to mess around in them. White Knight Chronicles had a similar idea.
And surely Nintendo will have something family oriented like that this holiday announced at E3 like you say. Nintendo Land 2, Pokepark 3, or overstepping w/ amiibo Crossing. Zelda U, Star Fox and XCX will sell well, but Nitnedo always has a family game, even if its as terribly received as Wii Music.
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