Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

CAPTAIN TOAD: TREASURE TRACKER

Today, we'll cover Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker, a spinoff puzzle game starring Toad in his Captain persona, after the success of his small test levels in Super Mario 3D World. Typically, each level would be a small self-contained cube or other shape that Toad would have to traverse without jumping, using lifts, touch-screens, and other items.

So, I suppose the real question here is, will Captain Toad gain enough to earn a separate spot from the regular Toad, similar to Vacuum Luigi or F.L.U.D.D. Mario. On the one hand, it is a game unique unto itself with its own special mechanics, but the core premise of it is that Captain Toad himself doesn't do much. Across the game, his moveset consists of pulling up and throwing vegetables (a move he already had) and making use of the pickaxe that acts similar to the hammer from Super Smash Bros. The double cherry item also appears in the game, and he can use his flashlight to kill ghosts but that's about it. Toadette appears as an alternate playable character, doing the exact same things.

Our main villain is a giant bird called Wingo, who steals the star they were after and ends up abducting both at different points in time as well. He can fly obviously, but he can also teleport and whip up strong winds to blow you off the stage. Draggadon is a giant dragon that acts as another boss who rampages around a lava pool and breathes out pink fumes. He can also be ridden by our Toad friends.

Most of our enemies are common Mario enemies, specifically several appearing in Super Mario 3D World. They include Shy Guys, Bullet Bills, Piranha Plants, Cheep Cheeps, Boos, Chargin' Chucks, Goombas, Peepas, Spikes, Fuzzies, Fire Bros and Hammer Bros, Magikoopas, Charvaarghs, Biddybuds, Ant Troopers, Walleyes, and Conkdors. New enemies include Flaptors, birds who try to divebomb you; Stumpers, living stumps of wood; Mud Troopers who march toward you; and Mummy-Mes, who mimic you.

As for stages, well, there's about sixty-three of them, so I'm not even going to try to list them all. Just generally speaking, they are small, self-contained cube-like stages that act as puzzles for you to figure out how to get through, of all manner of biomes common to the Mario series, but more specifically with the general aesthetics of Super Mario 3D World. To be honest, a stage based on any of those from this game would probably be really cool.

As for items, we have mushrooms, turnips, and stars, alongside the Double Cherry and the Pickaxe. In general, I think Captain Toad will not be his own, but his moves will simply be added to the pre-existing Toad character, as many already exist among his moves already.

Now, let's see what we've got:

Characters:
Luigi: vacuum, suck up, flashlight, fire, water, ice, Game Boy Horror, examine, inflate balloon, flash, DS, Dark-Light device, slam around, plunger, super suction, blast up, Virtual Boo, Gooigi
E. Gadd: made all the stuff, Pixelator, polish
Gooigi: walk through walls, melt
Mario
Toad: flashlight, pickaxe, pull up vegetables, double cherry
Toadette: same
Princess Peach: run, jump, float, kick, boat, submarine, shield, hit with Perry, zipline, Anger, Sadness, Joy, Calm
Perry
Polterpup: steal stuff, sniff out things
King Boo: paintings, warp reality, control Bowser, crown laser, trap in paintings, lightning, bounce, spike balls, roll, energy gates, fireballs, slam and sweep tongue, cry
Bowser: stomp, breathe fire, ice, throw spike balls, charge, floating head, Vibe Sceptre, ground pound, hammers, grow giant, column of flame
Kamek: float, grow giant, teleport, cast spells, summon minions
Wiggler: charge, bounce ball
Petey Piranha: fly, spit up Nippers, wind gusts
Koopa
Dry Bones
Goomba
Piranha Plant
Blooper
Boo: float, hide, bombs, get bounced
Lakitu
Chain Chomp
Hammer Bro
Spike
Shy Guy
Chargin' Chuck
Hellen Gravely: hotel, shoot lasers, Polterkitty
Ghosts (general): jumpscare, punch, grapple, banana peels, ground pound, drop bombs, roll bowling balls, skeletons, serve food, play with objects, hide, sneak, spit mud, possess, levitate, mirrors, twin tongues

Bosses:
Chauncey
Bogmire
Boolossus
King Boo
Possessor
Poltergeist
Three Sisters
Big Boo
Hellen Gravely
Polterkitty
Various Ghosts
Hoo
Gooper Blooper
Blizzaurus
Wingo
Draggadon

Stages:
Luigi's Mansion
Professor E. Gadd's lab
Evershade Valley
Gloomy Manor
Haunted Towers
Old Clockworks
Secret Mine
Treacherous Mansion
The Last Resort
Various Floors
Vibe Island
Ladida Plains
Hoo's Wood
Shriek Mansion
Fury Volcano
Wavy Beach
Gleam Glacier
Giddy Sky
Bowser's Villa

Items:
Treasure
Medallions
Mario's Things
Elevator Keys
Virtual Boo
Vibe Sceptre

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's begin our character sheets. We'll start with Mario!