Meet Toadette in this new trailer for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

By Will Fulton Published December 8, 2014

The latest trailer for Nintendo’s Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker provides an extended look at the actual gameplay, and also introduces Toadette (rank unknown) as the game’s other main character.`

Treasure Tracker will be a full-realization of the Captain Toad mini game that was introduced in Super Mario 3D World. Jumping and reflex-based platforming has been replaced by puzzle solving. The self-contained stages can be rotated to grant you a new perspective on their secrets. A growing number of special abilities, like a block-destroying pickaxe or cloning, will be your toolbox for unpacking these dense, little worlds.

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PFC Toadette is disappointingly introduced as a damsel in distress, but the trailer goes on to show her as a playable character in her own right.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker will be exclusively available for the Wii U on December 5, 2014.

Will Fulton

Former Staff Writer, Gaming

Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective…

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