New Princess Peach: Showtime! Trailer Reveals Four New Outfit Transformations

My Uncle told me about this.

Looks good for now on paper, the reviews would say more about if the game worth the time and money put to it. Daisy's cameo?

"a full-fat February Nintendo Direct is probably off the cards..."

Thankfully I've got a massive backlog to play, so I'm not complaining, but it is a shame. The Switch is finally running out of steam.

Would of been a nice surprise but it gives me more confidence about the length of the game.

Very Interested and will buy it I'm sure. But not hugely hyped. I like the idea with transformations.

Arr... Ninja Peach.
Just like my current avatar.

@Anti-Matter Finally you are back! I was missing your comments on the what-are-you-playing-this-weekend posts.

Do we really need a spoiler warning in an article titled "Oops! Nintendo May Have Accidentally Revealed..."? It insults the reader's intelligence.

@Croctopus
Imagine a Ninja Mermaid!

Or it could mean there WILL be a Direct soon and they uploaded these new transformations early by mistake. Could be they were meant to be go up after being revealed properly in a Direct.

Nice that we get more useful transformations, Mario, Mega Man, Kirby, Balan, Roger, Firebrand, and Goku (characters who had multiple transformations) would all be jelly.

Mighty No. Peach

Confirmed, Peach isn't allowed to show leg anymore. Figure Skate Peach would of been the opportunity, but wears matching tights as her dress. What's the point?

This look more fun than Mario Wonder

This does look like a video game.

God I hope this is good. It looks so neat. Peach definitely deserves a showcase not steeped in sexist tropes like Super Princess Peach was.

And I gotta say, Peach looks quite dashing in that thief outfit!

Looks incredibly dull, I don't understand the hype

Huh, they added Haru to the game

Lots of outfit reveals but still no gameplay……..

All I care about here is the "a full-fat February Nintendo Direct is probably off the cards..." piece sadly.
Other than older games (Ori and Metroid Dread) that I had pending and finally found the time to buy and play due to the lack of new games, there has been no Switch game for me since TOTK. Only looking forward to MP TTYD, and nothing else from Nintendo at the moment. Sad

Really beautiful costume designs by Nintendo. They are truly merging the best ideas from Disney and Mattel (Barbie) into their IP. I suspect that Peach will become another juggernaut brand from Nintendo in the coming years, with games, movies, and merchandise a plenty.

Trailer looked real simple/easy

Cool. Already a big fan of Mighty Peach.

@Fizza this. We knew more about Mario Wonder at this point before release. I can tell Nintendo desperately wants people to be excited for this, especially since this is Peach's first solo outing in almost 20 years, but they can't get excited when they don't even know what they're being excited for.

@AlexanderDaniels go play Bayonetta if you want to see some skin, lol. Seriously, it's a Princess Peach game.

just a reminder for the parents around here to make sure that safesearch is on when the children type in "mighty peach".

@Anti-Matter i thought you would never return. Well, welcome back!

Game looks nice visually but I'm sure it'll have two huge things against it, 1) there is zero chance this won't be mind numbingly easy and 2) so many power ups that none of them will have a chance to really be fully explored in interesting ways.

Donkey Kong came out in 1981, Mario Bros. in '83, and Super Mario Bros. in '85. See, starting with Wonder, Peach, and Daisy started playing 43yrs worth of power-up catch-up to Mario, and Luigi.

If I had to guess, this title is a platformer with MegaMan style elements. Peach probably has a basic attack, and defense, while certain abilities are the weakness of certain enemies, as well as certain abilities necessary to access certain areas of the play field.

So we can conclude that we won't get a February Nintendo Direct.

Maybe a partner showcase or Indie World Showcase. But not a Direct.

I'm therefore confirming for myself that we'll get a new hardware release this year which will be teased at the end of March and shown early April.

I had an actual dream last night where I was watching a Nintendo Direct and near the end a voice said “And now…” and then they showed a montage of Switch 2 games. I was so excited it woke me up and then I checked twitter but still no Direct.😢 I’ve been thinking all along they wouldn’t have a Direct until after they announced the Switch 2, which wouldn’t be in a Direct but at this point I’m ready for them to announce it in a Direct.

I may borrow this game from the library just for mermaid Peach.🤷🏻‍♂️

Where in the world is Toadstool San Diego?!?

Figure skater Peach is cute. Mighty Peach lookin like she's from Big Hero 5. She's also a Phantom Thief lol

This game keeps getting better and better! I wish this had come out when I was little, I would’ve been a Peach fan then. I hope it has lots of levels to explore the functionality of each of the costumes.

That Mighty Peach has big Samus Peach vibe.

Peach has basically become Kirby and I love it!

@PineappleLake As unfortunate as it is, I have to agree. I was initially pretty excited about Peach getting a new game, but the gameplay for this looks so incredibly basic and boring.

I also HATE the voice direction that Peach's voice actress was given for this game. She sounds NOTHING like how she should in most instances in these trailers. The SMB movie really has started to taint parts of the Mario franchise as I feared it would.

@Anti-Matter Our king anti-matter has graced us with a visit, you've been missed sir

With Mighty Peach, here literally they pay tribute to an old and classic Namco game:
Wonder Momo.
Why?, because they transform into a heroine warrior ("power ranger or ultraman" style) and they are on their adventure, which is shown to take place in a teather stage

Mermaid peach.......10/10

The designs are clean! Best part is that these will come as free Switch avatar icons to everyone with NSO!

Only speculation but this has Next Level Games written all over it if EPD aren't developing this

@SakuraHaruka Not only that but what does Momo mean in Japanese?

Peach, of course

@SakuraHaruka Thanks for the heads up. I’d only seen Wonder Momo in Baten Kaitos so had no clue her source material. Will pick up the arcade game now.

@ArcadianLegend99 Bayonetta doesn't show leg so that was a poor suggestion. A better one would be any Mario Tennis or Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games where her legs are in full view. I just find it fascinating that not one transformation where'd it make sense to having Peach show skin there, does. When did showing leg become so blasphemous, sacrilege in gaming media all of a sudden, it's a natural part of the body that shouldn't always be covered up. It feels forced here and I'm calling it out.

<+100 ESG points to Nintendo

This game continues to look incredibly charming...but it still remains kind of unclear to me what the game actually is. Is it a minigame collection? A platformer? A little of both? It's clear the gameplay will be fairly simple, but I hope it's at least fun and engaging enough to live up to how terrific all these costume designs are.

Ok, how long till Disney sues?

@AlexanderDaniels most (if not all) female figure skaters wear tights (if they are sheer or opaque depends on the skater). It functions as insulation and to help protect from ice burn when/if they fall. Many skaters that are performing for shows wear tights that match her skirt/bodysuit. This isn’t censorship. If it was it is doubtful that mermaid Peach would have shown her midriff.

@Ryu_Niiyama It coincidentally matches her dress color as I mentioned before. They could had have her wear tights that matches her skintone, yet it's covered up in blue.

@AlexanderDaniels I am assuming you replied before I edited my comment. I addressed the color/opaqueness. Plus this is based on a theater rendition of a figure skater which would be far more focused on making sure her costume is seen rather than her body. Makes more sense for her tights to be opaque and compliment her outfit. Absolutely nothing wrong with her costume.

Anyway I am sufficiently creeped out by this conversation so I shall move on.

@AlexanderDaniels in case you did not know ... Bayonetta's outfit is made entirely of her hair. When she summons Demons, her hair gets off her body and creates a portal through which the Demon's limbs can attack.

"Bayonetta doesn't show leg" !!! Lmao

@ArcadianLegend99 Reggie ex-Prez revealed before that the Nintendo Treehouse team are sent to Japan about every two months to work with the Japan devs to censor at the source instead.

https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1753988520849416404?t=QETrfaX9oQQwDpDpnb4EGQ&s=19

Doubtful but it'd be cool if they made a nod to Wario Master of Disguise as if feels like Peach Showtime is inspired by it heavily.

I like the new costumes, but I'm still not fully sure what this game is supposed to be. Other than a platformer of sorts. At least it's way more appealing to me than Super Princess Peach. I was put off of ever getting that one by the mechanics.

@Fizza We will probably get an overview trailer a few weeks before release.

I gotta admit, the more new costumes I see, the more my interest in this game increases. Still, I don't exactly see myself rushing out to buy this, especially when you consider that the target audience is young girls. This is definitely one of those games where I'll wait for the reviews to see if it's worth picking up.

As for the costumes themselves, Nintendo had to have known what they were doing with Mermaid Peach. It's Splash Woman from Mega Man 9 all over again...

Speaking of which, Mighty Peach gives me big Mega Man vibes. It's like Mighty No. 9 but actually good, hopefully. Phantom Dashing Thief Peach also looks pretty sick. If I do end up getting this game, it'll probably be for those costumes alone.

My two girls are really excited about this game now after seeing Mermaid Peach and it has nothing to do with how much leg is on display. And I can’t wait to play with them which also has nothing to do with how much leg is on display.

@Yalloo I'm referring to Bayonetta official default art, you see. I don't play the games, but every iteration of her default clothing she prowls in mostly, her legs aren't shown to be bare so I wouldn't equate it to a character with a design with leg exposed.

@beazlen1 Errm, what legs?

@Anti-matter oh hey anti...WAIT ANTI!?
Also I bet lesbians and bisexuals are squeeing so hard over peach’s new costumes. Especially the thief outfit.

@beazlen1 Next, people will find showing forearms sacrilege and refer to an M rating game if you wanna see those, I swear 😆. The censor team probably was against Mermaid Peach and suggested Scuba Peach so she'd be covered up, but the Japanese Devs were like "that's a line we won't cross, deal with the midriff".

@Greatluigi Bold of you to assume it's only those two very specific groups of people who are getting excited over Thief Peach. For me, it reminds me of Ms. Mowz from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and that's why I like it.

I have never played Persona 5, by the way.

Loving the new outfits (especially Mighty and Mermaid).

Mighty Peach honestly reminds me more of Mega Man Star Force than Mighty No. 9. Game looks like it's going to be a fun time

In the original pitch for this game, they were called Peach's "Roles" instead of her "Outfits", probably because of the term "role-playing".

They had targeted 34 roles in total, which lead to the working title of this project being "Peach's R34 game".

Balan Wonderworld is drowning in a sea of its own tears lol

@Dinglehopper I'm not really feeling her voice either and agreed that the Mario movie is influencing the games. You can see it in the talking flowers in Mario Wonder too IMO.

@Dinglehopper It's weird though as she sounds like herself when she's skating, but not at all as the thief when she says "Easy" I did see some speculation that maybe her voice is different because she's an actress in the game.

Well this leaves the Direct enigma resolved. Except, the week isn't over yet...
Fingers crossed for a TTYD remake release date soon!

@AlexanderDaniels

Hate to break it to you buddy, and I hope this doesn't effect how you spend your ... ummm ... free time?

But most figure skaters in the real world ware leggings. They are often skin colored, but almost none of them go bare leg. Because, and this is 100% true, ice is cold.

Phantom Peach! Would Stella be Morgana?

Honestly this looks like a great way to introduce little girls to various gameplay styles and heroine types without having to make a bunch of games or a team.

Remember that really old fan concept of Super Princess Peach 2 that was floating around back in the day? Mermaid Peach finally became a thing! I wonder if Nintendo was influenced by that. Coincidence!? I think not!!!

Hmmm nice try Nintendo...showing us different kind of games inside a new trailer of a single game when rumours about a direct are sky-high...not the bestest of directs ever...

Just kidding of course, and though I won't be picking up this game, I think it will be a lovely game for the young (or maybe also older) ones out there getting into gaming. Good job Nintendo .

@Ryu_Niiyama I already loved the pixelated Peach in Super Mario Bros over the other characters when I was little, but if this was around when I was was little I probably would have been a huge fan myself. Hopefully she will bring a lot of smiles to the new young ones .

@Anti-Matter I thought you were gone forever!
Welcome back.

@Eggolor true. It’s just that those two groups were apparently swooning over swordfighter peach because she was... ok I don’t really know. 😅
Edit: because people found sword fighter peach handsome. That’s what it was. I finally remembered.

I bought Super princess peach for my niece when she was little now she is 24. And I think this game gives me Kirby vibes and looks good.

@AlexanderDaniels

Nope.

You said "Peach isn't allowed to show leg anymore".

I also think you should stop advocating censorship. As a creator, I think it's important that creators have the freedom to make the products they want to make without being held to standards imposed on them externally.

Nintendo owns these IPs, so Nintendo can not "censor" this content. They are simply exercising creative control and setting a creative vision. Censorship is external. If you choose to modify your own content because your personal or corporates sensibilities have changed over time, that's maturing as an artist. If someone outside the project or a regulatory body says "you need to change your creative vision because what you are doing offends me", that's censorship.

It doesn't matter if they are offended because it's too much skin or not enough skin, as soon as you tell the IP holder they SHOULD do things the way you think things should be done, you are endorsing censorship of their work.

I mean most of the time I live in a country where you can buy legally produced Princess Peach porn at the corner store because porn is considered fair use. And if that's what people are into ... power to them. I'm glad they have that option. I'm not going to tell the people who have chosen to create that art that they should change it, or the people who enjoy it that they should stop or they are bad people.

But I'm also not going to tell Nintendo to change the art they have chosen to create, or tell the people who appreciate that direction they are wrong or bad people.

That's what respecting creative content actually looks like.

Saying all art should be created in a way you approve of and calling out anything that deviates from that is much worse then any form of regulation. It's wanting censorship, but only when you get to be the censor.

@HeadPirate I've already addressed your point; the decision of opaque tights they went with is a form of hiding legs. If it shown the skintone underneath I wouldn't consider it cover up.

Are we really on the same page? I'm not advocating for Censorship whatsoever. I abhor it. You have a misunderstanding that I'm pro censorship. Quite the opposite.

It's a known fact, publicly stated by Nintendo theirselves that they send a team from the NoA and NoE branch to Japan routinely to 'consult' with the devs current projects on ideas of censoring or further 'westernizing' material during development. Even at the source level where localizers tell Japanese devs how to change the Japanese version so there is NO uncensored version and they can release games simultaneously. These teams are parasites. Infectious. Now the Japanese games suffer.

"But I'm also not going to tell Nintendo to change the art they have chosen to create, or tell the people who appreciate that direction they are wrong or bad people.

That's what respecting creative content actually looks like."

That's exactly what Nintendo pays teams to do at the source.

Edit: Forgot to source https://archive.ph/2018.10.31-153443/https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/06/nintendo-localizers-now-work-with-japanese-devs-to-censor-games-for-western-culture/33309/

@AlexanderDaniels

We're not on the same page, and the disconnect is that you actually ARE endorsing censorship in what you are saying. I'm trying to point out how you are doing that, in the hopes that in the future you might be able to better represent your actual position (if that is, in fact, your position).

Nintendo owns the IP. If you are an artist for Nintendo, you have to agree to their creative vision. That's how it works. If you don't like it, you can take jobs with other rights holders, or create your own IPs.

If an artist produces a picture of Peach with black hair and a goatee, Nintendo tells that artist "no, that is not our creative vision for this character, change it". If they produce a picture of Peach with 3 arms and two heads, they say "no, that is not our creative vision for this character, change it". If they produce a picture of Peach with a costume that doesn't align with their corporate vision, they say "no, that is not our creative vision for this character, change it".

None of this is censorship. It is creative control of your IP. I have paid artists to draw pictures of characters I have created in written media. I have every right to tell them no and demand a rework for any reason, because the thing I am paying them to do is create a visual image in line with my creative vision. I am not obligated to publish an image that I don't agree with.

But if Nintendo produces a game and Peach is wearing a short dress that has frequent upskits and people outside Nintendo say "that is unacceptable, you need to cover her up", that's endorsing censorship. If Nintendo produces a game where Peach is waring a Burqa, and people outside Nintendo say "that is unacceptable, she's covering up to much", that's endorsing censorship. If Nintendo produces a game where Peach and Daisy get married and people say "change this, it promotes homosexuality", that's endorsing censorship. If they produce a game where Peach and Bowser get married and people say "change this it promotes ... I don't know WHAT exactly, but I'm not okay with it!" that's endorsing censorship.

It doesn't matter what your message is. Saying that you don't like something and people should change it doesn't make you special just because the thing you like is less popular or bucks a trend. You're still just advocating censorship. You just become someone else trying to pressure people to do things "your" way.

Saying "I support whatever is produced by this creative entity, even if I don't personally approve or it, and even if I don't approve of the creative entity" makes you "special", in that you are one of the few people who actually is opposed to censorship.

So whatever your actual opinion is, that's great. But make sure you're expressing it. And if that opinion is that you want Nintendo to depict character in a way that aligns with your personal sensibilities over other people's sensibilities, then don't say "I don't endorse censorship", say "I want to be the censor".

@Groovz @HatesCheese @Greatluigi @GalaxicGlobe @Morsel
Yo, what's up.
I'm back with Ninja Boxing outfits.

@HeadPirate This isn't Nintendo or the lead producer of the product or Miyamoto going back & forth with the artists, it's an outside team on the same payroll made up to influence with their own vision what they think is best for the western market, that's the difference. Treehouse is dictating the content of Japanese games while they're mid-development.

I'm not advocating change. Where have I said, 'unwanted, change this or else'? I humorously pointed out a blatant check box they met with purposely covering up one specific part of her body in all possible scenarios. We don't know all the facts, but the pattern has got me theorizing why they made an effort to bundle her up. It's not that deep.

@AlexanderDaniels

I feel ya. I'm not only commenting on the initial comment though, but on what you said afterwards. I'll take one more shot at trying to illustrate how what you said is actually pro-censorship. Again, I'm just trying to inform your opinion and make sure you're expressing your own side accurately.

I am an artist and I work for Nintendo at any level. I create the following versions of Peach.

1 - Holding the flag of contrary involved in a global scandal.
2 - With a tattoo of a contraveral organization
3 - With a goatee
4 - In a state of undress that would require a rated that would not allow the game to be sold to children
5 - With 3 hands
6 - With 2 heads
7 - Showing a bit of skin, but nothing that would effect the rating.
8 - Something completely inline with the creative vision of Nintendo.

Who should get to decide which one of these it's "okay" for Nintendo to reject?

If your answer is "Someone else at any level of Nintendo", then you do not support censorship. You endorse Nintendo having creative control. Sure, it might suck if that person is a CEO and not a creative director, but that's how owning an IP works. The guy at the top owns it and you just work for him, creating the vision they want you to. He could just fire the creative director, after all.

If you're answer is "someone who will make sure the CEO doesn't infringe on the creative vision" that might sound great, but that person, but definition, is a "censor". That's what the word means. You want someone else to be able to tell the IP owner what they can and can't reject. That gets real bad, real fast ... look at options 1 and 2!

I also don't think Nintendo's changed at all. They have always focused on family orientated products that align with the sensibilities of parents. Those sensibility have changed, not Nintendo. It's a political discussion as to if those changes are positive or negative, not a video game discussion for this forum.

You don't have to say change it or else to advocate change. My comments have always been about what you SUPPORT, not what you are advocating or working to change. Censorship is also the status quo, so you support it by not actively supporting anti-censorship. Your comments have not supported an anti-censorship position, but it looked like you wanted them to.

I'm offering suggestions at to how you might fix that.

@AlexanderDaniels
Female ice skater with legging on it is something normal.

Peach might as well have her own calendar at this point. All those different styles lol!

More one ultra easy game for 2-years old babies.
Just like Mario Wonder, Yoshi, Toad, Kirby, Mario vs Donkey Kong .....
Boring.

I respect if you like.I don´t have fun playing ultra easy games. I dont need Dark Souls, only more difficult adventure games, like Rayman Legends or Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.

More and more I like the look of this game, but I still want to really know what the gameplay is like? The action/platforming stuff ooks good, but is it a major element? They have not done a great job at conveying that.