Touchstone Mines

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Captain Toad Treasure Tracker is a gem, a masterpiece regarding level design and creativity. Super Mario 3D World introduced Captain Toad puzzle levels, but these are lackluster compared to the stages you can find in Treasure Tracker. It came as a surprise that this game was not only re-released for the Nintendo Switch, but also introduced multiplayer and the Special Episode DLC. The base game also features four very large and creative levels based on kingdoms from Super Mario Odyssey.

Likely by accident, the Nintendo Switch version covers a large portion of unused content. This includes debugging assets, various leftover models from Super Mario 3D World, prototype models, unused objects and tons of unused stages. Among these are the levels that were shown in the E3 2014 trailer. One unique level from that trailer is seemingly lost in the final game, but its unfinished assets still exist! I wanted to restore the unfinished concept and turn it into a well-polished level. This includes improved lighting, object placement, sounds for objects, a setup for Pixel Toad, custom text and a preview picture. It was a lot of fun to mess around with this level. Maybe there will be more custom levels for this game in the future.