Nintendo's New Princess Peach Game Appears To Be Powered By Unreal Engine

Yeah, I'm thinking this game's being made by Good-Feel, given their last Switch game with Nintendo was also made with Unreal Engine. Mameda no Bakeru was apparently handled by their recently established second studio, so the team that's been collaborating with Nintendo for a long time's been free the last 5 years, and the overall vibe just strikes me as in line with their work. I can't quite put my finger on why, but certain musical cues and designs have certainly reminded me of their past games, they have dabbled in gameplay roulette elements over the years (Crafted World had a lot of unusual levels from what I recall), and I imagine all their work on arts-and-crafts visual styles translated over quite well to designing areas meant to be stage play sets.

I always find it cool when we learn certain games are made with things like Unity or Unreal, the idea that we have access to similar tools to the people making these amazing games is kinda inspiring.

Very intrigued by this game, hope its good

@chiiizu This is kind of true, but also not really. I think big companies mostly create their proprietary engines within these creative tools, so it's not much different than it's ever been.

i wish nintendo would focus on the various games that people are actually asking for (and in some cases for literal decades.)

@-wc- Mario RPG remake, Thousand year door remake, a 2D Mario that wasn't in the "new" series, an F Zero game, pikmin 4, metroid prime remastered

Just to name a few recent games people have wanted forever

Not to mention loads of people have been wanting another peach game

This to say, I think Nintendo is doing just fine

@HatesCheese

I'm truly happy for you if you are satisfied with that lineup.

you might be right that people have wanted a peach game, im probably not the audience for it 👍 in any case, i will give it a chance if it reviews well (as i did all the other games you listed, besides the ones i played the first time around.)

f zero 99 is not the particular game anyone asked for though. i personally hate it and ive loved every other fzero game to pieces. 😟

@-wc- reasonable, I understand those games might not be for everyone I suppose

What games are on your wishlist?

@HatesCheese I can't think of a better gen for Nintendo games, personally. Maybe I'd rather have a Wii with a bunch of GC and VC games than a Switch? But that is cheating. Portables are my jam, so maybe not.

@LikelySatan I know right, were living in a golden era, let's hope history doesn't repeat itself and the switch 2 can carry this momentum

@HatesCheese yeah I want a Switch 2 bad, but only if it is 100% bc. I might never finish all of the games I have in just my Switch backlog. Good problem to have.

@LikelySatan Wont be a deal breaker for me I guess, but would be very sad if bc isn't a thing for sure

The engine has produced some pretty cool stuff, if used well, that’s no bad thing

I do not like the Unreal Engine at all. The physics in these games are just so weird and unrealistic. I already thought that Yoshis Wooly World was made with that engine, because the physics in that game already felt very weird to me.

@heisnbrg Unreal is a graphics engine, not a physics engine.

@LikelySatan I know it's just rumours, but yesterday there were a few reports of the Switch 2 being backwards compatible for digital and physical and it will let developers upgrade the game the same as PS5 does for PS4 games.

I want it, it looks good and fun but it'll depend on how long the game is. I don't like the thought of dropping £50 on a game that's completed in a few hours.

@HatesCheese Did loads of people really want another Peach game? Didn't Super Princess Peach flop?

Have to say this does look like a game aimed moreso at little girls who like dressing up dolls and having Barbie toys with different jobs. It would make sense as it's a demographic that would've watched the Mario movie where Peach was a big character.

I hope I'm wrong but my feeling is it might be aimed very young like Yoshi's Crafted World rather than having the universal appeal of a Mario game. It looks very basic and it doesn't bode well that Nintendo is still being so coy about the genre and exactly how it plays.

I'm looking forward to this game. It seems like something completely new for once.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I think you're absolutely right, it also seems to me that this is a game aimed at younger audiences, just like the recent Bayonetta Origins and Illusion Island. Kids are also allowed to play videogames, right!

@NinjaNicky I really hope that's true.

Seems like a great idea that the majority of the industry is chained to the hip to the game engine of a CEO who will conduct a massive prolonged PR/Legal/Regulatory scheme against them when he wants a bigger piece of the pie.

@-wc- I remember there were quite a few people asking for a new Pokémon Snap game for years and they did make one.

@Clyde_Radcliffe Super Princess Peach sold 1.7 million copies.

It can run on RenderWare, Pico 8 or even Unity, but please just give it to me now

I could tell it was Unreal Engine just from the trailers

Unreal always worries me because it rarely plays well with Switch hardware, but Pikmin 4 also ran on UE4, so we'll see.

Kind of hate the unreal look, at least indoors and the shine on metals, didn't notice it before in this game though

@BTB20 and Another Code Recollections and the Baten Kaitos collection - I think they are doing a splendid job giving at least some attention to most of their series - while also making new games!!

@HatesCheese

It's the usual chorus: Mother, Fzero (a real one, in the spirit of the series,) Pilotwings, WaveRace, Punch Out, WarioLand, (and to a slightly lesser extent) Kid Icarus.

Honestly these are the only Nintendo properties i ever really cared about besides Mario(/kart) Zelda, and Fire Emblem (and probably others not coming straight to mind) and they gets no love 😟 but they all have many fans and deserve to be up here with Animal Crossing, splatoon, Toad, Luigi, and Princess games, for god's sake.

Honestly I think I'm just getting older and watching the world change, but it sucks feeling abandoned by the company that I've been such a supporter of since i was 4 years old.

EDIT - id also love it if the many spinoff games (strikers, golf, sports, etc) werent uniformly disappointing this generation. but at least they tried!

Probably builds off of what they did for Yoshi then. I'm definitely going to play this game.

@-wc- Those are some great choices, I'd love to get any of those as well, but I guess Nintendo just decides which games will sell the most and make those instead (Mario games)

On the topic of Mario sports games, yes, please give them more depth, I dont play any of them after a week or two of release

@HatesCheese

"I guess Nintendo just decides which games will sell the most and make those instead"

This strategy might make you alot of money but not much else. and I get nothing vicariously from Nintendo's profit (though some pretend they do, it's weird.)

this isnt the nintendo I fell in love with in my youth, this is my point. 👍 i really miss the old Nintendo but many on here would accuse me of nostalgic distortion.

PS - my dark twisted fantasy is that if switch 2 is simply a beefy switch, that it does somewhat poorly, and Nintendo is forced to become the scrappy, creative underdog it once was 😬 bring on Gamecube 2!

@-wc- No its not distorted by Nostalgia you are correct. Ever since Iwata passed almost immediately it felt like Nintendo was acting very different. I know Nintendo has always technically been a mega corporation but after Iwata passed away Nintendo started to feel ALOT more "corporate"

@PoeTheLizard Yea Pikmin 4 runs pretty good. I think when Nintendo handles it directly it runs on switch and I think this game is also directly from Nintendo or atleast a 2nd party studio for Nintendo

@Arcata

i appreciate the reinforcement, it really is like two worlds, here. im assuming the people on the "other side" simply dont remember the before times, or they are more sympathetic to capital/corporatism than I. ✌️

EDIT - and/or they like splatoon and animal crossing ALOT 😆

I wonder if they will be using UE more for their next-gen games. They have a very well optimized in-house engine that usually did wonders for the Switch, but how their games will look for the next console is still a curious thought.

I’m not a girl but this new peach game does look like it will be good.