Join Captain Toad in his globe trotting adventure to track down the infamous multi-dimensional criminal, Pixel Toad. The courts never forgave him for what he did, and neither has Captain Toad.

A neat gameplay idea executed well with a lot of level design ideas they threw at the wall. It all works, but by the halfway point of the third chapter I was pretty burnt out by it. There's like only a handful of chapter bonus objetives/gems/actual levels that are even mildy hard, and I found myself pretty bored most of the time, while occasionally enjoying the novelty of the puzzles.

Still, this game has a surprising amount of content in it. there's around 50~ levels in just the base game alone, most of which you'll have to play through 2-3 times to full clear. After beating the base game a hearty chunk of bonus levels open up, and there's also a whole dlc chapter that I got because I got this game when walmart fucked up and accidentally sold the base game and the dlc for the price of the dlc.

I've had my fill of captain toad, but i'll probably break it out whenever my power goes out and carve through the extra levels. You'll get your bang for your buck, and its a perfectly good game, but there's only so much gas you can get out of toad's tank.

Nintendo’s recent exploration of 2D surfaces in 3D space (via cat suits, wall-melding bracelets) finds its most charming expression in Captain Toad. Who else could make such delightful dioramas? Who knows better the pleasures of space and all its secrets? This is the game Monument Valley wishes it could be.

But the Nintendo limits remain. Each jeweled micro-world is perfect in its way, and yet I can’t help but long for a way out of these immaculately manicured 3-secret cages. To explore a wider world of topological play. With secrets more radical, yet still uncovered with Toad’s deliberate little steps.

Como ideia e até como jogo é muito legal e bem feitinho. A ideia dos puzzles nos dioramas, tem muitas fases realmente criativas e interessantes, que conseguem espremer de poucas mecânicas muita diversão. Mas tem muita fase bem chata e repetitiva, com uns controles zoados e que me faz pensar que o jogo devia ser uns 25% menor. O port de 3DS funciona, mas o portátil pena pra rodar, alguns controles ficam bem ruins e tem fases muito detalhadas que fica confuso de verdade de jogar (e não usam o acelerômetro pra visão de primeira pessoa, o que fazem literalmente desde o começo do 3DS). É divertido, vale a pena, mas não se culpe se começar a ficar cansativo depois de um tempo.

very fun visually, but difficult to sit down and play unless it's in short bursts. it gets to a point where it feels like the game should have ended way earlier than it did, even though it's only like ten-ish hours long.

like the mainline 3D Mario games, it likes to reuse levels/gimmicks and bosses. this gets particularly annoying here, where there are only two bosses, and barely enough mechanics to make playing through similar/identical stages any more interesting.

i can't complain too much, though, since i got the game with all the DLC for only five bucks (thanks Walmart lol). i wouldn't recommend you buy it at anything near what Nintendo wants to sell it at, so pick up the 3DS/Wii U versions if you really wanna play this