Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker was originally imagined as a Zelda game

[Clyde32]

irstupid said:

Mystro-Sama said:
Sounds like they just want us to buy it. "Hey! It plays like Zelda."

Sounds like you didn't read it at all.

The only reason he used Link instead of Mario was because the game concept required no jumping and it felt weird to have Mario not jump.  Link has been a non-jumper in many games.

It was just a joke.