{"id":24375,"date":"2024-04-05T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=24375"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:57:18","slug":"best-of-princess-peach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/best-of-princess-peach\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Princess Peach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Princess Peach is one of the most popular Mario characters and she\u2019s recently getting her own game on the Switch called Princess Peach Showtime!\u00a0 And that\u2019s not even the first time she\u2019s gotten her own game either!\u00a0 And even though she spends much of her time as a damsel in distress waiting for Mario to save her, there are plenty of other times when Nintendo lets her shine and be a hero.\u00a0 So in honor of her new game, I thought I\u2019d go back and look at Princess Peach\u2019s best moments.<\/p>\n

Super Mario Bros. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

It really didn\u2019t take long for Peach to become a playable character and be a hero.\u00a0 Only the second game in the Super Mario Bros. series, in fact.\u00a0 Now granted, everyone knows the Super Mario Bros. 2 wasn\u2019t the TRUE sequel and it was only released in the US at first because the actual sequel was just a harder version of the first game. But I still consider it to be a true legit Mario game because the game it was based off of, Doki Doki Panic, was still developed by Shigeru Miyamoto and used a lot of the ideas he wanted to implement in the next Mario game.\u00a0 And now many of the enemies in the US Mario 2 are staples in the series.\u00a0 And here\u2019s an unpopular opinion I have: I enjoyed US Mario 2 more than Mario 3.\u00a0 Granted, I still think Mario 3 is a masterpiece, I just liked the other one better for some reason.\u00a0 Anyway, US Mario 2 did a lot to enhance Princess Peach\u2019s personality.\u00a0 She finally looks like her artwork now, because if you\u2019ve ever saved her in the original game, you know she looks totally different!\u00a0 This was the game that also gave her the skill of floating for a bit after a jump.\u00a0 Perfect for novice 2D platform gamers and I certainly used her and Luigi a lot as a kid.\u00a0 Since I\u2019m a bit better at 2D platformers now, I mostly use Toad.\u00a0 But anyway, this game did a lot to further the princess\u2019 presence.\u00a0 Although back then, she was still called Princess Toadstool in the US.\u00a0 She was always called Princess Peach in Japan, but it took until Mario 64 before she was ever called that here.<\/p>\n

Super Mario RPG<\/strong><\/p>\n

This game is novel for many reasons.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first Mario RPG, obviously.\u00a0 But it\u2019s also a big deal that it was made by Square.\u00a0 And Princess Peach is one of the characters you can have in your party.\u00a0 At this point, it was still pretty rare to have Peach be playable in games, so this was novel, too.\u00a0 And she\u2019s one the best characters you can have.\u00a0 She has an awesome move called Group Hug that heals most everyone\u2019s HP as well as cures all status effects!\u00a0 And some of her attacks are pretty funny, too, as she uses slaps, fans, a frying pan, and even bombs!<\/p>\n

Multiplayer Madness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever since the Mario sports games on the N64, Peach has always been a staple character you can play as, whether it be Golf, Tennis (which was actually first on the Virtual Boy), Baseball, Soccer, and more!\u00a0 She was also there from the beginning in Super Mario Kart on the SNES.\u00a0 She\u2019s been playable in every Mario Party game, and was even a fighter from the second game onward in Super Smash Bros.<\/p>\n

Paper Mario Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second big Mario RPG series was Paper Mario.\u00a0 Even though Peach wasn\u2019t in your party in any of those games but one, and was captured by Bowser or some other enemy most of the time, the first two games let you play as her in certain spots.\u00a0 Paper Mario on the N64 and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door on the GameCube had spots where you could control Princess Peach and it showed that she didn\u2019t just wait around for Mario to save her.\u00a0 I won\u2019t go to any more details about those since we are getting a remake of The Thousand Year Door this year, but those spots where you could play as her were pretty neat.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s Super Paper Mario on the Wii.\u00a0 This game combined RPG aspects and visuals from the Paper Mario series and put them into a 2D platformer.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll eventually get to play as Peach and use her floating skills to bypass obstacles.<\/p>\n

Super Mario 3D World<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was originally on the Wii U but was ported to the Switch, and is also kind of a sequel to Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fixed camera 3D platformer and Peach is playable in this one and even has her float jump move from Mario 2.\u00a0 But one cool thing about this game is that in the beginning story section when Bowser comes out of a pipe to reveal his latest evil plan, do you know who jumps in the pipe first to go after him?\u00a0 No it\u2019s not Mario!\u00a0 It\u2019s Peach!\u00a0 She jumps in first without hesitation to chase Bowser!<\/p>\n

Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not really big into strategy tactical games, but one way to get me to try one is to put Mario characters in it and then also mix them with Rabbids characters for some extra weirdness.\u00a0 The game was pretty humorous, but ultimately my tastes in games won out and I didn\u2019t really like it and never finished it or even got the sequel.\u00a0 But Princess Peach is playable in it and there\u2019s even a Rabbid Peach who is obsessed with taking selfies on her cell phone!<\/p>\n

Super Mario Bros. Wonder<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest game in the Super Mario Bros. series has a lot of playable characters, including Peach.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t have her float jump here, as that\u2019s reserved for a badge skill you can get.\u00a0 But she can still turn into an elephant just as good as the rest of them!\u00a0 There\u2019s one cute online video that Nintendo used to advertise this game and it showed Bowser giving Peach a single flower.\u00a0 But then she turns into an elephant and Bowser puts away the flower and gives her a bouquet instead!<\/p>\n

Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/p>\n

This next paragraph has spoilers, so if you don\u2019t want that, just skip this one.\u00a0 Anyway, even though Peach spends most of the time in this game captured by Bowser, it\u2019s the ending that lets her shine.\u00a0 At the end when Mario and Bowser are both begging for her to marry one of them, she gets a bit overwhelmed but finally has enough and shoves them both out of the way, shouts \u201cEnough!\u201d and goes on her way leaving them behind.\u00a0 You can then see her in the other levels vacationing and in different outfits.<\/p>\n

Super Princess Peach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like I said earlier, Princess Peach Showtime isn\u2019t the first time she had her own game.\u00a0 On the DS there was Super Princess Peach.\u00a0 It was a pretty standard 2D platformer, but Peach could use a talking umbrella named Parry to attack enemies, guard, and float after a jump.\u00a0 On the bottom touch screen, you could choose from four different emotions to give Peach some special powers.\u00a0 Anger set her on fire and let her burn things.\u00a0 Sadness made her cry a river of tears.\u00a0 Happy let her fly, and calm let her heal herself.<\/p>\n

This game got a bit of flak because people said it was sexist that this game starring a lady who used emotions as a major part of the gameplay.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t think they were looking at the whole picture.\u00a0 Princess Peach is on a quest to save Mario, Luigi, and Toads from Bowser, who kidnapped them and took them to his vacation villa on Vibe Island.\u00a0 This island is magical and enhances anyone\u2019s emotions to give them special powers.\u00a0 So it\u2019s not just Peach that\u2019s affected by this.\u00a0 A sad Goomba can run at you crying.\u00a0 An angry Hammer Bro. can throw hammers faster.\u00a0 Even bosses use emotions as attacks.\u00a0 So she\u2019s not being singled out here.\u00a0 Also, who says being emotional and sensitive is a bad thing?\u00a0 I think that\u2019s what makes the world go round and keeps us non-sensitive types in line.\u00a0 So I think it\u2019s something that we can celebrate within reason.\u00a0 But if you still think I\u2019m being sexist by saying that, than I apologize.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s as bad as some make it out to be.<\/p>\n

The other notable thing about Super Princess Peach is that it was made by Tose.\u00a0 Tose is a Japanese game developer that is kind of the workhorse of the industry.\u00a0 They\u2019ve helped out in a lot of games, and often go uncredited.\u00a0 This is one of the few times they got credit.\u00a0 They also got credit on their other 2D platformer series: The Legendary Starfy.\u00a0 That was another cartoony 2D platformer that was like a mix of Kirby and SpongeBob.\u00a0 We only got one Starfy game in the US, but Japan got three on the GBA and one other one on the DS.\u00a0 They\u2019re really fun games as well and Starfy even makes a \u2018blink and you\u2019ll miss it\u2019 cameo in Super Princess Peach.\u00a0 All in all, I think Super Princess Peach was a pretty darn fun game.<\/p>\n

Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n

They really let Princess Peach shine here because she fights alongside Mario through most of the movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s Luigi that gets captured here.\u00a0 While I hate that Luigi gets less of the spotlight this way, it kind of makes sense for the plot of the movie because if Mario goes to this strange new world to rescue someone he doesn\u2019t even know, why would he do it?\u00a0 But if he goes to rescue his brother, who he already knows and loves, then that makes more sense.\u00a0 This movie won\u2019t win any awards for plot or story or anything like that, but it\u2019s still a fun and entertaining romp if you just turn off your brain for a bit.\u00a0 And that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 A must see for Mario fans.\u00a0 We won\u2019t talk about that live action movie they made in the early 90s.\u00a0 That one didn\u2019t even have Peach in it anyway.\u00a0 I think it was Daisy instead.<\/p>\n

Mario cartoons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Princess Peach was also featured a lot in the Mario cartoons from the late 80s and early 90s.\u00a0 Granted, she was called Toadstool back then.\u00a0 First there was The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which was based off of the first and second games, but also put them in movie, TV, literature, and other parodies.\u00a0 The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 came next, and it was probably the best of the three cartoons.\u00a0 Then came the Super Mario World cartoon and that was the worst.\u00a0 I love how in the Mario movie, they use the rap from the cartoon and the voice of the lady in the commercial is the same voice actress as the Princess from the cartoon as well!<\/p>\n

Super Nintendo World<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Universal Studios in Hollywood, they have an area of the theme park based around Mario games.\u00a0 I went there last year, and if you haven\u2019t read about it already, you can by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 They have walkaround characters that you can get your picture taken with, and the neat thing is they put voice clips in them so it seems like they are talking.\u00a0 Mario and Luigi will say stuff like \u201cSmile and say \u2018Luigi\u2019\u201d and \u201cThat-a was pretty good!\u201d\u00a0 When I got my picture taken with Princess Peach, she asked, \u201cAre you enjoying your stay in my kingdom?\u201d\u00a0 But my favorite part was when a little girl would walk up to her, they\u2019d have a voice clip that had her say, \u201cOh look, another princess!\u201d\u00a0 I thought that was cute.\u00a0 They also had a Princess Peach cupcake in the caf\u00e9, but I didn\u2019t get that.\u00a0 I should also mention that Peach is my mom\u2019s favorite Mario character, and at the souvenir shop I got her a zipper pouch that had Peach on it and said Super Nintendo World.<\/p>\n

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Princess Peach Showtime<\/strong><\/p>\n

And finally, we come to her most recent game.\u00a0 As of this writing, I haven\u2019t played this game yet.\u00a0 But by the time I decide to post this, or by the time you read it, I may already have played it.\u00a0 It just depends. Anyway, in this game, Princess Peach attends a play but a baddie takes over and Peach must save the day.\u00a0 From what I can tell, this looks like a fixed camera 3D platformer where you are on a stage setting and Peach can don different outfits that give her different skills.\u00a0 Depending on how much I like the game, and how much time I have, I may even write another blog about her different outfits or what play stages there are.\u00a0 But no matter what, I\u2019m sure looking forward to playing it at least!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for now.\u00a0 In the comments section, let me know what your favorite Princess Peach moments are.\u00a0 Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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