2023-06-25 05:40:02
Game news Peach Switch: The princess is no longer a damsel in distress, Nintendo must absolutely remember that!
Published on 06/25/2023 at 07:40
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Peach will soon be entitled to a new game, almost 20 years after the release of Super Princess Peach on DS. We only hope that Nintendo will avoid sexist controversies.
Peach is back! On the occasion of the Nintendo Direct on June 21, we were able to discover a new game centered on the famous princess, planned for next year. No name on the program yet, but we got a brief glimpse of the heroine in a theater set, accompanied by a partner who looks like a star. If the Japanese firm did not want to show more, did you know that this is not the first time that madam has the right to her own title? As early as 2005, on the Japanese Nintendo DS, players were able to discover Super Princess Peach, which was very popular… but sometimes qualified as sexist. A mistake that Nintendo should not repeat.
Super Princess Peach puts the princess in the spotlight
Of course, it didn’t take until the 2000s to discover Peach for the first time. It was in 1985 that the heroine took her first steps, in Super Mario Bros. Very quickly, she became the girlfriend of the famous plumber, but also the damsel in distress of almost the entire franchise. Over time, we no longer count the number of times we have been able to embody it (Super Mario Bros. 2, Mario Kart or Paper Mario). It’s simple : “Princess Peach has appeared in more video games than any other female character”rapporte The Gamer.
However, it was not until 2005 that she was finally at the head of her own story (if we exclude Princess Toadstool’s Castle Run on Game & Watch)… or almost. Super Princess Peach (on DS) follows her adventures on the Island of Emotions. At the bend of a walk, Mario, Luigi and Toad are kidnapped by Bowser. The heroine then leaves to save them with the help of Perry, an umbrella who, once, was a man. Upon release, the game was fairly well received. At JV, we gave it a 17/20. Only, if its gameplay is the strength of the title, it has also been under fire from critics.
Unlike other Mario games, Peach doesn’t jump on turtles or eat mushrooms. Instead, she uses her emotions. Joy allows him to float in the air, sadness to run and water the plants, anger to explode with rage. Only, with this formula, the game sinks (no doubt awkwardly) into gender clichés that want women to be guided by their feelings. “There’s something rather sexist about the idea that Princess Peach’s great weapon is that she can get way too emotional in the blink of an eye,” Gamespot alludes to in its review.
His sidekick is also problematic insofar as he steals the show. Here, the gameplay phases are interspersed with cinematics where Perry, once human, will tell his past and his ambitions, leaving Peach without any development. ” Peach is just a means of transport for the Perry trip“, underlines the YouTubeur The Completionist. A bit of a shame when she was finally to be the star of the show. To make matters worse, he is the one who allows you to attack enemies, and each of the improvements is dedicated to him. IGN’s Craig Harris meanwhile said that the copy Nintendo sent him came in a scented box.
Super Mario the Movie and the New Peach
Except, as we saw with the recent movie adaptation of Mario, Peach can be much more than an overly emotional companion. In the feature film, the heroine has evolved enormously. She definitely says goodbye to her role of damsel in distress to become “badass”. She fights, rides a motorcycle, completes all levels on the first try and forges an image of a strong woman who no longer needs the plumber . The princess almost steals the show. In the production, she even explains to her Toads that Mario is “not important”. You will understand, we are far from her image in Super Princess Peach.
Peach’s return to Nintendo
Now the question is: will she keep this personality in the next game Nintendo gives her? Because yes, fears are already emerging. The “girly” and light side that we discovered could quickly lead Nintendo to reuse, without wanting to, sexist clichés.As in the previous opus, she again seems unable to fight in hand-to-hand combat, or even to jump on enemies. Farewell to the halberd of the film. Instead, she will send her companion (a shooting star) who will transform into a kind of gymnastic ribbon to attack. Yes, just like Perry, a prop will likely fight instead of the princess.
At the very end of the trailer, we could also glimpse a change of dress, of which we do not know much for the moment. However, it is possible that the outfits serve as gameplay elements. We would find a game that associates – again – women with changes in clothing and their dressing room. However, there is no need to make plans for the comet. These wardrobe changes are very common in Mario games (it’s even one of the strengths of the license). The plumber himself dresses in white, to shoot fireballs, or as a cat, and will soon be an elephant in Super Mario Bros Wonder. In addition, this new Peach game takes place in a theatrical setting, and who says dramaturgy, says costumes. If Nintendo goes on this track, the change of dresses for the princess will be consistent.The most important thing will be to dose to be “girly”, but not too much.
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