Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker releases in just a couple of days! Reviews are flowing in. For the moment I'll quote Zero until I can flesh this information out later today or tomorrow.
Mostly in the 7-9 range. Averaging an 80% exactly between 16 reviews right now. About what I expected. Should be fun.
I think it's about dang time for Toad to get his own game and deeper personality. Captain Toad is so ridiculously adorable that I think he needs his own amiibo too. Sounds like there are a lot of stages to be had with a lot of uniqueness.
I look forward to sharing tips, strategies, thoughts, and scores(?) come Friday the 5th.
After playing the demo at Best Buy, my wife and I need this game. The addition of turnips to defeat enemies, and the little details added to the levels, such as a group of lazing Toads, really add to the feel of the game.
I think it was the moment in the first stage, when you can meet up with the other Toads and fall asleep under a tree (by pressing the action button) that sold it on me. Silly, I know, but it's just so darned cute.
I was luke-warm on the Captain Toad stages in SM3DW, but these feel "better" somehow.
The amount of people calling this Toad's first game really goes to show how nobody knows about Wario's Woods. Which is a bit of a shame, as that's still one of my fave puzzle games.
I know all about Wario's Woods. It's not the first game Toad headlined, this is. Toad was a playable character in a single-screen puzzler. I like those games but when others like myself say that phrase we mean it in terms of doing more than what Toad does in Wario's Woods.
Mine came in yesterday but I haven't had a chance to play it yet. I am surprising my girlfriend by shipping it to her place but FedEx/Amazon kind of suck shrooms when it comes to delivering to her. I don't understand it. I hope she gets it today.
Future Shop or Best Buy, I presume? I have an order placed with both stores (Best Buy originally during E3 then Future Shop during a $10 off sale a couple weeks ago). Both stores shipped the game yesterday, which is weird because I usually have good luck getting games on release day from them. Oh well, I can wait a couple more days, and there's always a chance that Canada Post will deliver the game today or tomorrow now that they're doing weekend deliveries during the Christmas season.
@DrFinkelstein This does seem like a good game to "play" together, even though only one person is controlling the character at a time.
@canonj FutureShop. I actually ordered 10 games during their E3 deal and, 4/5 of the time I receive the game on release. Smash came on its release day, and that was the most important.
Aside from Toad (which I also ordered during the $10 off dealy), the only games that didn't show on time were A Link Between Worlds and Mario 3D World, which both released on the same day.
I should clarify that there's two copies here. I try to discourage us buying the same games or me buying her a game I own because well, when we move in together there's going to be a lot of redundancy then, but Toad is her all-time favorite character so I had to surprise her with it. She can't use funds on it herself right now. So I have my copy less than 6 inches from my fingertips but hers is on a FedEx truck somewhere. Luckily the tracking finally updated and I'm seeing it's out for delivery. She'll get it today. Very excited.