Playing docked on Switch with motion controls should solve that problem, but a giant cursor hovers over the screen at all times, which is hardly the most elegant solution. There’s a little too much reliance on the touchscreen, which becomes annoying when your own fat hand blocks your view of a threat. Some of the original’s little problems persist.
It feels like the best solution for co-op play, however - having two entirely separate characters would require many of the existing levels to be redesigned, and that clearly isn’t part of the brief here. At best it feels a little redundant, and at worst it makes certain combat-focused levels completely pointless, as every threat can be cleared before the person controlling Captain Toad reaches it. With one player controlling the lead character, the other can use a Joy-Con to point at elements in the world and fire turnip projectiles at them - think Super Mario Galaxy’s Star Bit-firing second player. The levels themselves are only slightly altered: on Switch, there are no platforms that require you to blow into a microphone to move, while 3DS has had the number of enemies reduced in most stages, probably to account for the drop in movement accuracy when moving from analog stick to Circle Pad.Ī new two-player mode on Switch is welcome, but probably won’t be of interest to many. If you ever wanted to demonstrate why people talk about Nintendo designers in hushed tones, this might not be the absolute best example, but it’s certainly the most efficient.Ĭhanges from the Wii U original are minimal, on the whole. Ideas are introduced and thrown away at crazy pace.
There are minecart dashes, timed chases, battle arenas. Others are more like Rubik’s Cubes, needing to be physically shifted into new positions to let you get around. Some levels are more like optical illusions, twisting in on themselves and asking the player to swing the camera around to find hidden doors or sneaky secrets. Each of Treasure Tracker’s levels (not counting the bonus remix stages) is a miniature obstacle course with a Star to collect and hidden Gems to uncover, but the pleasure is in how many ways that single thread is spun into different shapes.
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