Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Violence — cartoon/stylized
AdventurePlatformerPuzzle

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Bright cartoon action in which the player defeats storybook enemies by tossing plucked turnips; no blood, injury, or gore, and characters simply vanish when hit.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a Nintendo puzzle-platformer in which Captain Toad and Toadette explore small, rotatable diorama levels to reach a star and collect gems. Because the characters carry heavy backpacks they cannot jump, so play centers on solving spatial puzzles, spinning the camera to find hidden paths, and plucking turnips to toss at simple cartoon enemies. The tone is bright and lighthearted throughout, with no blood, no language, no substances, and nothing sexual. The only conflict is gentle slapstick chase-and-rescue plot involving a large bird that grabs the characters. The base game is single-player; the Switch version adds an optional local two-player mode where a second person helps by tossing turnips, and there is no online play, chat, or purchases.

How it's framed

The game frames its action as playful, consequence-free problem solving: enemies are comical obstacles, being hit simply costs a hit point and can restart a level, and the story is a good-natured treasure hunt and rescue with no darker themes attached.

Details

Developer
Nintendo EAD
Publisher
Nintendo
Released
2014
Metacritic 81critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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