Nintendo is a family-friendly company and tries as hard as possible to maintain that stance, at least when it comes to the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom.
However, just like in Jurassic Park, life – or should that be a horny sub-section of the gaming community – finds a way. In this particular case, it's having a cheeky look up Princess Peach's skirt, a realm that has previously been tantalisingly off-limits.
To protect Peach's modesty, a black void has been employed in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, preventing lusty eyes from gazing upon her royal undergarments. This inky blackness has been taken as a challenge by some players, who have tirelessly toiled for many hours (rather than doing other things, like actually enjoying the game itself) in order to concoct a means of banishing it and getting full, unfettered visual access to Peach's bloomers.
According to one post on Twitter, "if you use the light from Ness’s forward throw you can penetrate the Princess’ dark matter." Ahem.
And what has all this painstaking research told us? What can possibly lie up Peach's skirt? Outside of some rather unexciting pink knickers, not much. Because believe it or not, Peach is not a real person with proper reproductive organs – 'she' is an assemblage of polygons in a fighting game set in a cartoon fantasy world which exists only within the memory banks of your Switch console. This news is apparently a shock to some people.
Nonetheless, according to SoraNews24, there was general merriment amongst a small group of Japanese fans when the 'exploit' was found, but one astute commenter really hit the nail on the head:
I wonder if these guys know there’s a whole bunch of games on the PS4 where you can see women’s underwear.
Sigh.
[source soranews24.com]
Comments (99)
With every new Nintendo game comes a plethora of new perverted cults...
It's the natural cycle of life.
Must be a really slow news day...
Going back to the 3DS/Wii U versions of Smash, I nicknamed Rosalina "Upskirt".
When I transferred Falco over to Ultimate, I noticed that I had nicknamed it Carrie On and it had taken me a couple of minutes to get my own lame joke.
"You can penetrate the Princess’ dark matter"
OMG Did you really just say that?!!
Sorry I don't care if it's cultural but they're #Perverts
Why can't these perverts use this power to find the cure to cancer or various diseases?
Surely finding that will give them unlimited access to real womens' dark matter?
Gfk Chart-Track have put up the Individual Format and All Format UK chart info this morning. Can we have that instead of this nonsense?
prefer her mk8 outfit wowser!
Are these the same persons that complain that it takes too long to unlock all characters? Lol
No wonder if they do these pointless stuff. But why does nintendo life even bother to post this?
Unfortunately, this is a thing??
@MagnaRoader not sure i see the correlation between the two things
@Folkloner Posted this morning, chap.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/12/uk_charts_super_smash_bros_ultimate_becomes_the_fastest-selling_smash_game_of_all_time
These people want to take a look nier autamata. They will soon forget about Peaches frillies.
@Damo Ah okay. I should've been more specific. The GamesIndustry.biz one only shows the top 10 all format chart.
I meant the one on the actual Chart-Track site which has the full UK top 40 individual and all format chart. I enjoy more detail, plus who doesn't want to know that Mario Kart 7 is back in the UK top 40 again. :]
http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index.jsp
Peach... isnt real?
@quinnyboy58 I mean if they have the will to find an imaginary panty, using that will power and relative computing knowledge (haxxors & all that crap) might score them actual panties if they did something meaningful to the world. I mean peach is cute and all but nothing beats real fruit
the internet once again proving how stupidly immature it is
@MagnaRoader
That's boring, this is fun!
OK. I hope they have fun with that.
Not sure why this is "news" on NL, though.
"I wonder if these guys know there’s a whole bunch of games on the PS4 where you can see women’s underwear."
Maybe, but if Sony's recent policy changes are any indication, such content will be all but extinct on PS5.
@Xaessya k
When I was a kid my friends and I would pause melee during certain instances to look up her dress.
What is this, a article from Kotaku judging and degrading a small group of people? Stick to some real news, sheesh.
This always struck me as the kind of non-issue they could have kept a non-issue by stylizing the under-skirts and bloomers sufficiently.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Good ol' silly perverted gaming time!
Back in early 2015 I did a 3 hour test to find out which WoW and FFXIV female races had the best breast bounce while walking/attacking/etc.
WoW - Undead/Dwarfs/Pandaren
FFXIV - Miqo'te/Huer
I found this rather funny.
The news themselves, the article sounds like a teenager trying to act all grown up.
Have you all forgotten you could see underneath her dress in Melee using her forward tilt? You act shocked like it's new or you haven't tried it.
They should have given Peach bicycle shorts under her dress, and if anybody asks, say “Well, Peach saw this coming a mile away, so she took precautions!” :3
How is this even an article?
@MysticX
LOL, that would have been great for a laugh!
Sneaky Smash Virgins*
fixed the title for ya.
The dark matter is where Toad dwells until he's needed.
@MagnaRoader How very political correct of you.
Peach has been my main since Melee, but I’m no deviant. drinks milk straight from the carton
@brunojenso gee...thanks.
@Ralizah It's clearly marked as a 'Random' item.
Sorry but your comment was a bit jerkish. These 'perverts' are probably just daft teenage boys with an immature sense of humour. Following your logic, maybe we should all give up our sillier hobbies and dedicate all our time to finding a cancer cure?
I love Peach's facial expression in the image. "First Bowsette and now this... Luigi, get your mind out of the gutter."
Great. Now we need to find Rosalina’s groin the galaxy beneath her dress.
@brunojenso they choose to share it in a public place which means public comment.
It's not jerkish to reply to public comments or to call it perverted. Political correctness gone wrong. We should be able to use the word pervert.
As a teen player of 64 original and gamecube melee my friends and I would pause the game to see how much we could see. No harm done.
LOL.................MTS
This is hilarious
@Dualmask I get it, it's Monday, slow news, gotta have something no matter how insignificant.
@LUIGITORNADO I did too but come on, this so isn't news worthy.
@lanceorr you'd think they'd knew that. I guess not apparently since this is considered news worthy material.
Blocking black zones always gets someone to remove it. I think they are trying too hard to block this that someone finally took them to task.
Everything about this is awesome!
What is this? Text for me to read free of charge? Well, I for one am going to complain. To the keyboard!
“if you use the light from Ness’s forward throw you can penetrate the Princess’ dark matter." LOL
To quote the great Ian Malcolm.
“Pervs uh... find a way.”
Side note, the pink for the headers and hyperlinks actually look really good on the mobile version of the site.
It's not about being a "pervert", it's about people taking pleasure in out maneuvering some parental [Nintendo] action. It's like farting in church next your parents, when you didn't want to go or something.
I remember you could see them in Melee and Brawl when you paused the game. Even back then in my younger days I always wondered why Nintendo let that happened, but whatever. I didnt think it was a big deal. However, now the big question is will this trick work on Daisy? 🤔
@saintayu Sure you're right. It was more to do with the idealism of how dare we we do anything stupid when we could be curing cancer.
But I don't agree we should 'casually' use the word pervert online either. That isn't political correctness gone mad – calling someone a pervert is quite a thing to say – unless you are just fooling around with your mates and they can tell by the tone of your voice that your just jesting them. Online you don't have that context and pervert can mean something way worse than this article's harmless nonsense.
@TricksterZero I’ve had my moments where I questioned Nintendolife’s content (mostly when they try to write more standard news pieces, but they throw some biased unneeded opinions), but in hindsight video game journalism isn’t even journalism. It’s blogging, and this is a typical blog topic.
It's not like this is the first time peach has visible underwear.
I mean....if that's your thing.....isn't there a DoA spinoff to be gawking at? Or any of the Nintendo sports games were the princesses are in catsuits because sports reasons?
@MysticX Peach gets "abducted" for forced marriages about once a year. Precautions aren't exactly her thing..... I'm starting to wonder if Peach's Castle is just the name of the brothel she owns....
@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, I was going to mention that....Nier gets a little....a lot....carried away with odd upskirt, downskirt, and "is there even a skirt?" shots. Love the game...but...wow they went for the Skinemax approach there.... Then again it shares some staff with Bayonetta, so......
I’m surprised it took Nintendo this long to do something about it. This has been a thing since Melee.
Wait....NL now has a tag for Peach related articles that turns the whole site theme pink?
Pervs gonna perv. Seriously how pathetic can you get? Reminds me of that Robin Williams joke about only having enough blood to run the brain or the pants at a time. I can hear their brain cells dying slow deaths in agony.
@brunojenso I was more pointing out that with any other word, people act like it being used is fine and everyone else should have tougher skin.
Then with pervert, suddenly it's hurtful. I would gurantee there is crossover in the people upset with pervert who regularly use other words that could be harmful to people regularly.
Not you personally ofc.
@Ryu_Niiyama Aww, now you make me miss Robin again....
Still, I suppose it's a little funny, especially since this seems to be Japan based obsession. A bazillion quietly risque games, a bazillion loudly soft-porn games, and an internet full of actual porn, let alone rule 34'ing the same Nintendo characters, and these guys dedicate countless hours to trying to remove a filter from Princess Peach in Smash. Hooray for Japanese attention to detail and excessive effort for minimal reward!
Princess Peach's Knickers can be seen in super smash brother melee.
i only noticed that because some 10 year old that i was playing against pointed it out and started playing as her because of that.
personally, i do not care. Nintendo should turn off that stupid filter. either let them see Princess Peach's Knickers or give her a change of cloths. besides she doesn't wear her dress in all of her games.
Forget it, most women are lesbians these days anyway.
Do these guys not know that Senran Kagura exists?
Ah I love this site, but I honestly don't believe that any other corner of the internet has so many prudes.
You can look freely up her dress in Melee. I know because that's what I did when I was 12.
@TheFongz same. It's fun to trigger them too, to a fault. I like women with sex appeal. Let's pretend game characters qualify.
I'm petitioning for more transparant thong shots!
@saintayu I think I understand and agree. It's a strange world like that.
I find more humor in the fact that some folks got mad about the article existing. Oh, and then proceeding to act offended.
Her panty shots are most pronounced in Brawl, I think.
There's a move where her legs are spread wide open and you can upskirt her, and take snapshots if that's your thing. Lol
Yeah, there's tons of borderline-porn games but I can see that the appeal here is seeing something that you don't normally get to see, an OFFICIAL portrayal of a family-friendly character you grew up with (and probably had a crush on at some point) in a very sexualized position. Lol
Yup. Not being a full on perv but I noticed Peach and Daisy are also more busty now in games like Mario Tennis Aces and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Has anyone the only female in Super Smash Bros (N64) is Jigglypuff? Unless you count that Jigglypuff as a boy but tbh, it SCREAMS feminine-ness.
EDIT: Sorry,Samus, I forgot you sniff
Minnie Mouse has had her toosh on display for 80 years! ...It’s time for Peach to get with the program.
Damn pervs! Christ get over yourselves posters of NL.
"I wonder if these guys know there’s a whole bunch of games on the PS4 where you can see women’s underwear."
Tsk. Tsk. Too soon to joke like that.
@LUIGITORNADO I know that, but this is like hitting News Lows I guess.
Fun Fact:
PornHub is a thing.
@NEStalgia I was surprised by the pink theme as well.
@Liam_Doolan lol, i think @damo is having too much fun with this
I am surprised they even have modeled any panties for her. I guess they suspected people could get rid of the void and given her a butt and panties just in case?
As for the "plenty of games on PS4 to look up underwear on": recently Sony has been even more puritan than Nintendo! In a few recent eroge Switch versions have light censorship (like more hair covering a character's nipples than in the PC version), while on PS4 it's basically nothing but faces and giant white spaces. Including underwear or bikini shots. Completely missing the point of an erotic game.
@InklingLegend Good
@Illusion I used to pause Street Fighter 2 during Chun-Li’s high kick.
@SwitchForce I mean why bother texturing in panties at all if you’re just gonna cover it?
@NEStalgia Peach gets abducted on purpose so they can have an adventure; this was explained at the end of Mario Odyssey. But she’s not at all interested in marriage (probably doesn’t want to share her wealth)
@Kriven Yeah, clearly those who got through the Void enjoyed it in their own way
@Quincy Lol, so true
@BlueTubby01 Since I was introduced to Jigglypuff through the original anime show, I’ve always considered it female. And I believe that’s the one in Smash (look at the hats). I’m still disappointed none of her specials is drawing on sleeping people’s faces with a black marker. That was freaking hilarious
@MagnaRoader Cause most of them probably don't have that level of scientific expertise?
Also do you realize how dumb that cliched "Why don't they do X?" thing sounds?
@MegaVel91 sarcasm, ever heard of it?
@MagnaRoader Nothing about your statement looked sarcastic? ._.
How dare you!
Real Love < Fictional Love >: (
A lot of effort considering how Palutena's are a lot easier to see, and she has better legs.
"I wonder if these guys know there’s a whole bunch of games on the PS4 where you can see women’s underwear."
Are any of those women Princess Peach? If not, those women can off.
@NEStalgia I just. I don’t get it. There is so much to see and do in life. There are so many amazing women that are incredible people with such joy and knowledge and I see mess like this and go “that’s it? All the facets of people and life and the best one can come up with is being invasively, annoyingly and predatorally sexual?” After all that is the appeal. One more way to bludgeon others with desperation. After a point it isn’t even sexual. It’s just obsessive and creepy.
@Ryu_Niiyama to be fair, when they say "people" they probably mean adolescents. Adolescents aren't people. We all know that. . Granted Japanese adolescents are more person-like than Western adolescents, but they're still not actually people.
In that context its more understandable.
On the other hand "invasive predatorial sexual" behavior is probably the only reason the species still exists at all..... Current Western and Japanese trends could probably use more predatorial behavior if it's too exist a few generations from now. Then again if all that effort is directed toward Princess Toadstool, were effed with way.
@NEStalgia these aren’t adolescents. Or at least not just adolescents. This is behavior that is a hallmark of macho culture. But im at the point that I am ready to just exit most social situations. People are exhausting.
Gosh if that’s the only way y’all procreate then what is the point of existence? Eat sleep and if so inclined breed? No thought no discourse no ambition? Also it will take more than a few generations of slow birth rates to put a nation on the endangered species list. The world could do with a little more control and a lot more personal refinement.
@Ryu_Niiyama i don't know, i can't imagine too many other then adolescents are really hacking switches to edit smash to try to see nothingness behind the dress. Even if adults considered it i can't imagine many actually doing it, let alone having the time, especially in Japan, other than the dregs of society that are already somewhat outcast socially. I'm not sure "macho culture" is really bothering with this. Id say macho culture is more interested in bikini armor on ps4, but even that's mostly adolescents (and existing dregs and outcasts)
Truthfully if discourse and ambition drive breeding society would have ended in the bronze age....
I agree with you completely on population but the problem is while the discourse focused West (including Japan) stagnates in breeding, the primitive backwaters of the world are breeding 10 fold and living like rats. You don't need to be a statition to guess how this movie ends. Seeking enlightenment is kind of a synonym for cultural death. In ending the traditional family cycle we never considered a replacement for it and instead are heading to societal death where breeding is limited to status symbols of wealth.
We could have a lovely curated, enlightened world of well maintained population if only the rampant thoughtless breders were halted. There's an app for that!
I think the whole draw of this is seeing what you're not suppose to see. Part curiosity and a dash of fetishism. It's really not THAT weird, when you put it in that context. But then again, I'm not terribly bothered by what people do, as long as it's not hurting anyone. Just not enough energy or time for that.
Lol, great news! The world is saved!
@Antraxx777
Yeah, that should be Jigglypuff's final smash as a patch for Smash Ultimate, instead of growing to a huge size, tho that would be too similar to Bowser Junior turning into Shadow Mario and drawing a huge X on the screen!
It was stupid to censor Peach's panties in the first place. In Melee, they covered more than one of Samus' zero suits in the later games.
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