Just yesterday, Nintendo released the full DLC package for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker on Switch and - being the ever helpful folks that we are - we thought we'd give it a go and share our findings with you lovely lot.
The DLC, called 'Special Episode' contains 18 new challenges (some new, some remixes of old) among five new courses. There's a nice variety here - as mentioned in our video above, one minute you'll be taking a ride on a haunted train full of ghosts, and the next you'll be exploring a sweet and sugary world. We're also incredibly pleased to discover that Nintendo has squeezed in another minecart level. Thank you!
Providing players with another three hours or so of gameplay is great in our view, and it's full of all the charm present in the main game, although we did feel that the DLC might be slightly too biased towards co-op play on the whole. For some, this will be a bonus, but it might cause just a touch of frustration for solo players. We explain all in the video.
If you like what you see, you can grab the DLC from the eShop right now for £5.39 / $5.99, and it's also available in a bundle with the main game if you don't own that yet. We'd argue that it's definitely worth a go if you've enjoyed the main experience, and especially if you like playing with a friend.
What do you think? Have you already tried it? Will you be giving it a go? Let us know in the comments.
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Not unless it comes out for the Wii U...can't justify rebuying anything when I've got another console that works perfectly well (and I love).
Kek, how can someone love WiiU after all these years, get with the times old man.
I love Captain Toad but i did absolutely everything in the Wii U version and have no desire to experience it again.
Selfishly i wish i could just buy the DLC and play through that, but i understand from a business perspective why that will never happen.
Oh ya.
For $6 I'm all on that.
It's already a nice surprise we get a DLC for this game. Hope they will release more !
Most of the time, Nintendo's DLC are real DLC. Meaning they have been developped after the game was released. We should support that.
I bought the DLC right after it was announced in the Direct but I have yet to play it. It still strikes me as odd that this game received DLC before Super Mario Party.
Needs to be on 3ds.
Eh. I'll stick with my Wii U version. This DLC doesn't look good enough to justify a repurchase of the entire game.
On one hand I completed the game on the Wii U and had fun playing it on the Gamepad; but on the other hand I do want to play together with my girlfriend and the dlc.
One of these days I will crack and double dip.
I played it in coop in tabletop mode last night and it was a blast. Such an incredibly well designed and fun game! And it runs at a perfect 60 fps too!
It’s great and I love it. Great price too
I did double dip but no regrets. Coop works great
People who haven't bought the game will be pleased i'm sure. It's always nice to get some extra gameplay to the game you like
I had this on Wii U but hardly played it. Re-bought it on my Switch & really enjoyed it. It’s such a perfect game for handheld mode. No reason to skip the DLC since it’s only $5.99
@thesilverbrick SMP is a lot* more effort to concept and program for. For Toad all they have to do is ideate a little, come up with a couple themes, then implement the design and programming exactly as before. I'd personally actually buy SMP if they let me play the game online with strangers. *lot meaning a "lot more" in relativistic Nintendo terms
I love Captain Toad! I will be getting this soon
I can't wait to play this! Oh, wait no it's not on Wii U? Nintendo likes to stab people in the back a lot oh, this is definitely one of those moments I would buy it in a heartbeat for the Wii U.
@Danrenfroe2016
Wait...you follow a Nintendo News site looking for Wii U releases? That console is dead and it’s not coming back, I hate to say it to the 3DS folks but that’s another one on its way out after a hugely successful run, Nintendo announced new 3DS sales slumped by 60% last year as more consumers choose switch.
I understand feeling bad betting on a loosing horse, I bet on Sega during the Dreamcast era, and while I LOVED that friggin system, Sony killed it by simply adding a DVD drive to its PlayStation 2. I still wish Skies of Arcadia or Record of Lodoss war would one day hit switch.
I’m just saying, it’s a pretty safe bet now 2 years in, looking at the sales charts that the switch is here to stay. Spend your money and join in. Unless you are still in middle
School or something, then yea that stinks you gotta wait on a good birthday or Christmas.
Would have been cool to see it released for 3DS for parity sake as I prefer that version to the Switch version. Alas, it wasn't meant to be. This DLC was obviously planned out in advance so I wonder why cut it from the 3DS though when they already built the game from the ground up for 3DS
Needs to be on Gamecube, that console is still perfectly good.
I guess I would get it if I owned it. But as a WiiU owner of this game, it is not enough to make me double dip.
@Dilated Yes love my switch, but i'm not going to buy it again.
@Dilated let's look at it objectively Sega killed the Dreamcast. It was poor decisions on previous consoles that led to poor sales in Japan. If the Japanese weren't going to buy it then you will struggle. As for the ps2? The PSOne had already laid the foundation for the success of the PS2. I personally never liked the PS2 I played a lot of bad games on there(my poor choices) but I loved the Dreamcast Crazy Taxi and Sega Bass Fishing with the fishing controller was a great way to waste a weekend.
@KingdomHeartsFan when has any console company given meaningful support to their older ones 2+ years after the release of the new one?
Oh, it's never happened!
Bought the Wii U version day one. Will wait for a sale... then POUNCE.
@KingdomHeartsFan I understand that you don't understand business decisions, and I understand it taking "minimal effort" to put these games' DLC on multiple platforms is a disingenuous statement.
There are very, very few people buying anything on Wii U now. I can't imagine choosing to optimize this DLC for Wii U would be a worthwhile time or financial investment. It's also probably much more complicated than you think.
@KingdomHeartsFan
A tiny tensy little bit.
I mean your complaint is like screaming at SONY, or RCA for building Blu Ray players and not supporting HD DVD because a small percentage of people bought the doomed format.
Then you might as well get angry with other companies for putting music out in digital form because you bought a CD player.
The Wii U is dead, complaining doesn’t fix that. Nintendo struck gold with the market they found on the switch, and like Steve Jobs never mentioning the Apple 2 team when presenting Macintosh releasing stuff on the WiiU is looking backward at exactly the wrong time.
It’s fine to be upset about this, and even hate on the system for its “old” games. But the Wii U isn’t portable outside of 12 feet, the switch is something different. This is why it’s selling at a record clip. The switch is offering two things the competition doesn’t care about, big games on a portable, and couch style multiplayer with fun games.
Fun Fact- most the public actually didn’t even realize that the Wii U was a new console while they were selling it, customers believed it was another Wii accessory.
@KingdomHeartsFan Spot on.
Because I loved the WiiU I bought this game and didn't want to rebuy it again so I got the 3DS version (which actually plays incredibly well). I'm annoyed the DLC is switch exclusive and not wanting to buy the game for the 3rd time just to enjoy it 😡😡😡😡
@Dilated Mate I loved the WiiU and was a huge supporter and will have a special place in my heart for what it offered (affordable space adventures is true the example of what the console was meant to do). Your not wrong. I'm with you. It's marketing was an extra device for the Wii at the time where you had a closet full of wiiJunk, the console was hard to develop for outside Nintendo and your VERY generous with 12ft of rage... the switch is the true successor and I'm glad "old games" are coming to switch. I hate rebuying, but I will because the WiiU games are incredible. The world needs to have them.
The co-op mode just garbage, you battle for a camera or blindly follow the leader. A pointer instead of a touch screen is the awful substitution. The only good side of this port is a DLC, but from my point of view, it doesn't justify rebuying this game. Wii U version, despite lack of the additional content, is still a top notch.
@KingdomHeartsFan They'd be throwing money away if they ported it to the Wii U at this point. Maybe it made sense shortly after the game came out originally, but, it's way too late for that now; there aren't enough Wii U Captain Toad fans. The Wii U was unpopular, and now it's been a legacy system for 2 years, so it has an even smaller audience, and then Captain Toad isn't even a popular game itself, so, the potential sales they'd make from that are incredibly small. It would without a doubt cost them more money to implement the dlc into the Wii U version than the money they'd gain trying to sell it. Nintendo is a business, they have to make a profit to survive.
If Wii U was dead I wouldn't find players on Mario Kart 8 at any time, would I? I don't understand this obsession with killing a console that many people enjoy and has the same games that are praised on Switch. The sole fact that you enjoy Switch should be enough to respect Wii U and if you want to be respected as a Switch fan you should start by respecting people that are Wii U fans. Besides, you are also going to be left in the dust when Nintendo finds a new idea to sell so it's not that Switch is more reassuring, especially considering its lack of backwards compatibility and abundance of ports. Do not forget that Wii U fans are also Nintendo fans!
Obviously, Nintendo just wants to force people to "upgrade" to the Switch version (which is kind of a downgrade in this case), as simple as that. It's just a business decision but Nintendo doesn't pay me anything but I pay them for what I want to, same for all of us, so it's not our job to justify their business decisions.
It's absolutely shameful and greedy to not release DLC that they have already developed on two systems (3DS and Wii U) that belong to THIS generation and that have a version of the game up and running. Nobody is asking for a new Wii U game here. It is also a shame that Nintendo didn't add the (already fixed) battle mode on Mario Kart 8 after the lazy and disappointing battle mode of the Wii U version that didn't even resemble any other Mario Kart battle mode to date and that it was obviously rushed and the result of a lazy effort. Although Miiverse was shut down Nintendo hasn't even bothered updating the frame rate that still is 59 fps on the Wii U version because of (dead) Miiverse and MKTV, not to mention that they didn't even polish the frame rate in the villages of Breath of the Wild even though they updated the Wii U version to remove smaller issues and glitches that were detected on both versions. All of this is made because of their business decisions that we don't need to support and that are damaging their reputation in recent years after being considered "the good guys" for many years.
The fact that the Switch ports are overpriced and that there's no cross-buy option or discount for loyal customers says enough about Nintendo's current philosophy. As long as I know, Microsoft and Sony also care about business and they aren't as stingy with their fans. Even the Switch cartridges are overpriced and third parties have a hard time releasing games for it when Nintendo is asking a fortune for a load of 32 GB flash memory cartridges. I don't believe that Nintendo will be able to stay on top like this in the long term because people get fed up after a while.
@KingdomHeartsFan nobody is saying it should be all about the company, but this really is common sense. Sales on 3DS have plummeted since the Switch release as well despite that actually being a successful system with continued support. This proves your argument holds no water.
Should I be upset that the Wii store channel was shut down?
Should I be upset that there haven't been any GameCube game releases in 12 years?
@Luigi_Mario It can be as dead as you want it to be and as I said nobody is asking for a new Wii U game here so your comments sound kind of silly. You are the one in denial here oversimplifying things like a mediocre PR spokesperson that uses a word to justify business decisions and trying to void what other people think.
@Luigi_Mario I am already disappointed and don't expect anything else but still have the right to express myself every now and then.
I beat Xenoblade Chronicles X recently and although flawed it's one of the best RPGs I've played (still playing for 100%). Overall, I consider Switch more disappointing than Wii U although Switch is of course alive (at the moment) and Wii U is dead (commercially). I wasn't talking about commercial performance but about why I think that Nintendo should support a console of THIS generation (you went all the way back to N64) with at least a minimum amount of work, like fixing issues and releasing the DLC on it as well as on Switch. Same for the 3DS version.
@Luigi_Mario That's not what I am saying but we aren't going anywhere with this discussion, are we? Let's agree to disagree
You don't get it. I am not expecting anything, I am saying what I think. I don't need to agree with Nintendo to say my opinion, do I?
This is the same as saying "Switch ports are overpriced" and then you saying "Unfortunately you can't change that". What's the point? I already know what Nintendo does, that's the reason I have an opinion in the first place.
From January 1st 2016-December 31st 2016 the average first party software sold about 540,000 copies
From January 1st 2017-December 31st 2018 the average first party software sold about 162,000 copies.
That's also ignoring that total software sales from the January 1st 2017-December 31st 2018 are down 65% from just 2016 alone (6 million from 2017-2018 vs 17 million from 2016).
Nintendo knows barely anyone buys Wii U games and DLC anymore and have moved on. Nintendo won't make new E-reader cards for SMA4, Nintendo won't release OOT MQ on N64, and they will not release this DLC on Wii U.
@Luigi_Mario
He keeps calling the Wii U a “current gen” console then calls US the delusional ones.
Lol.
@KingdomHeartsFan so what you're doing is whining toward no end.
I'm not arguing for the company. I'm arguing for common sense.
It makes zero sense to offer meaningful support beyond major technical issues. It takes time away from actually moving forward and supplying the much larger and more recent Switch install base with games and content. It doesn't make sense to most consumers to release content on the Wii U. The extreme vast majority want Switch stuff. It was obviously clear the Wii U was on its last legs 2.5 years ago when the Switch was announced, nevermind now.
@KingdomHeartsFan yes, you're whining, and I respect where earned. You've earned none.
As I said, most of the consumer base (15-20 Switch players per Wii U player if I had to make a guess), would prefer Nintendo work on Switch content. This isn't what the company wants, it's what consumers want.
When you buy a game, there are no promises of further content releases for that game 4 years down the road. People did not buy Wii U Captain Toad expecting the DLC that came out this week. If you enjoyed the game as advertised when you bought it, you got your money's worth.
The Wii U came out 6.5 years ago, and despite its lack of success, Nintendo supported it quite well for 5. But the new thing is out, now, and has been for a while. Like every console generation, the Wii U's days are behind it.
@KingdomHeartsFan mature people just report without announcing it. The announcement part is really quite unnecessary. Could be referred to as baiting, actually.
This is getting slightly heated - can we try and end this conversation please?
So, is this DLC actually any good?
@Dilated Wii U belongs to the current generation and not because I say it but because it's an objective fact that you can read anywhere. What generation do you think it belongs to? Think (or learn) before trying to make fun of others.
Still not sure how I feel about Nintendo porting Wii U titles with most of them having nothing or barely anything new, for the same price and or even more, then having paid DLC on top of that. At least for Captain Toad, they didn't bump up the price, actually added a few new levels & co-op, and the paid DLC is only $6. Much better than what they did with the Pokken port, which I'm still REEing from.
@BlueOcean
Let me show you how you argue, it’s much like a 12 year old, here goes...
Switch is current gen, it’s a complete undisputed fact! You can’t argue against this, as it’s fact!
There it, is, what ever comes after switch is next gen and you can’t win this argument because as I mentioned it’s fact!
Also you can read anywhere online that current gen is switch, made obvious by all the players gaming on it right now and people comparing its sales to PS4 and Xbox one.
The Wii U is last gen, and abandoned. You are on a current news site somehow upset about a console that is done for. Children do this sorta thing so I have to assume that’s what you are between the age of 12-17. If you are an adult, then this thread is really sad.
@KingdomHeartsFan
Reported him for disagreeing with you?
Kids today man, this is that participation trophy generation in action friends!
@Dilated No, I am not sad but you, after writing such silly and ignorant comments typical of a blind fanboy (that is not a boy, sadly) without arguments, should. If you are trying to hurt my feelings with that childish (or any) behaviour you are wasting your time.
Not sure if you'll understand but give it a go:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_generation_of_video_game_consoles
TL, DR: you are wrong, Wii U is not last-gen. It's current-gen. Now stop embarrassing yourself with those rude and wrong comments that you keep writing. You are welcome.
@KingdomHeartsFan I only wrote to back you up as you were right. They don't have arguments so they can only use personal attacks and expect people to stay quiet. I proved him wrong and still won't admit it so his opinion is worthless anyway. They also lack any kind of empathy, they can only think as a Nintendo businessman and that's "common sense" for them.
@KingdomHeartsFan Somewhere along the way they forgot that we all are gamers and Nintendo fans or they became Nintendo's (bad) PR.
@KingdomHeartsFan Let's hope it stays like this.
@KingdomHeartsFan
Ah my apologies.
I might grab this if I ever finish the main game. I played a few levels, and I kinda liked them. Might play through with my little bro or something on stream. Depending on what I think, I MIGHT get this DLC.
@StooBush,
Agreed!
@BlueOcean
I think where we got off wrong was this generational thing, admittedly I didn’t look at the wiki article, I was more looking at current trends and how most news publications tend to pit the switch and it’s sales numbers vs PS4 and X1 so I’ve always considered the switch “current gen” what ever that means in today’s world.
In effort to keep this community legit, I’ll admit my part in poking you to get a response so my apologies for that.
I just see people mentioning the WiiU and I do understand you wanting them to support you as a long time customer. Just from my point of view, I see the switch as Nintendo’s only focus so even though it’s messed up to long time supporters, it’s just not likely for them to release anything new for the system.
Again, apologies it went south as it did. I’m sure I’ll see you in the treads, I check here, IGN, and PC gamer daily.
@Dilated Apologies accepted. I have all Nintendo consoles since SNES when I was a kid so I have been a Nintendo fan for a long time (all my life).
Wii U was released in the beginning of the current generation and Switch just four years later. Instead of making more powerful hardware to compete with Xbox One and PS4 and get some decent third-party support, Nintendo decided to create a "hybrid" console (portability is the main selling point in my opinion) with roughly the same power as Wii U but mobile architecture and they have been releasing some new games that could run on Wii U as Switch exclusives plus all the Wii U ports, full-priced and with no cross-buy option ports. This is the first time that any company has done something like that so quickly. I am thinking now of Sega when they ditched Saturn and Dreamcast quickly but Saturn was in the 90s when lots of consoles were released and Dreamcast was their last effort as hardware developers.
I think that Switch and ports are fine but not the way Nintendo handles them. I still play Wii U because of backwards compatibility and Wii U games, it's also one of the most reliable consoles I have ever owned without failures of any kind and it's versatile because of the backwards compatibility and the GamePad. I am aware that Nintendo abandoned Wii U very soon and I don't like how they have treated the most loyal fans during the current generation. I do not understand why some people keep justifying that just because oh well it's Nintendo, they can shoot half of the world and it would be fine because it's Nintendo. I also don't understand why some people say now that Wii U is the worst thing ever, it wasn't perfect but Switch isn't either and Switch is recycling some of the Wii U ideas... and games. At the end of the day they are similar.
I'll see you around then and we may discuss about gaming and whatever, you seem to be a nice guy. Have a nice day!
@KingdomHeartsFan What I'd really like is a couple days reactivating the DS servers so I can unlock all of the bonus content on my Professor Layton titles
@KingdomHeartsFan Yup. Same as when it ended for the Wii https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/vyWpoM6CBIe6FjW8NIY7bvzOrgBURhzw
Though now I see there may be a workaround after several years... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Sh0AZR-tKwM
Turns out the workaround is real, and works perfectly. The WFZwei server here: https://github.com/barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator/wiki/List-of-Servers
My faith in the world is restored, since I don't want to have to mod or hack my 3DS.
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