Princess Peach: Showtime! Developer Seemingly Revealed In Demo's Code

If this is the case, I wonder why they’ve been keeping it… well, not secret per se, but they haven’t said anything publicly.

I wonder why?

If it's true than I called it when it was first announced! I wonder why they haven't officially disclosed it's them though

To the surprise of no one lol Nintendo keeps being cagey about who's developing their upcoming games (e.g. Super Mario RPG)

I do have hope that Good-Feel can make a truly great game here. Kirby's Epic Yarn is great, Yoshi's Woolly World is a masterpiece, and Yoshi's Crafted World...

@HotGoomba Yes? How is it Crafted World? I haven't played it, I'm curious haha

@the_beaver I mean it's alright. Very forgettable and not really all that interesting. It's technically not a bad game persay, but I'll give Chibi Robo Zip Lash credit for at least giving me a feeling during the game. It wasn't a good feeling, but at least I felt something. Crafted World felt like just a mediocre platformer that doesn't leave you with much.

Wario. Kirby. Yoshi and now Peach. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out Good Feel is working on a new Donkey Kong game next.

@Alpha008 They have a trend of not saying who’s developing what lately…wasn’t confirmed who developed the SMRPG remake until people got their hands on it, we didn’t know Eighting co-developed Pikmin 4 till it was out, Arc System Works with Another Code etcetera…

No idea why that’s the case though. Studios deserve to have their name visibly attached to their games; this way it just makes it look like Nintendo developed them (and there’s only a few studios within the company that are truly internal and can be called “Nintendo”). Maybe that’s the idea.

Not surprised. All their games I played I liked. Tried the demo, and it was very charming.

Good-Feel, huh? Good to know. On a related note, I had a decent time with the demo. I would've liked a bit more out of it, but at least I got a good idea of what the game would be like.

I do hope Princess Peach: Showtime! ends up being good in the end at the least, though. As much as I worshipped Good-Feel for their performance on Nintendo games with Wario Land: Shake It!, Kirby's Epic Yarn, and Yoshi's Woolly World...Yoshi's Crafted World became the first time I was actually disappointed in them. Princess Peach: Showtime! isn't looking to be the next "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", but at the very least its demo gave me some confidence in the final product.

What I want to know is; what are the rest of the projects? Good-Feel has only released 21games (counting SPP2). What were the other 19?

@larryisaman Pikmin 4 is especially wierd when they were up front with them doing the Olimar stuff in 3 Deluxe. They even put Kurulin in 4!

@Zeebor15 Wario Land: Shake It!, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Yoshi's Woolly World, Yoshi's Crafted World, Mameda no Bakeru, Monkey Barrels, Looksley's Line Up on DSiWare. The rest I think are mostly minor games.

Not sure if games like Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn or Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World, their minigames from Wii Play: Motion and StreetPass Mii Plaza or their contributions to the Kirby series under Special Thanks on the Credits or the giant battles in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team count towards that total.

Ever since it was announced, I assumed it was Good-Feel. This looks like the kind of game I would expect from them.

If not them, I also believed it was the work of TOSE, the developers of Super Princess Peach.

I thought that was common knowledge. I looked it up two weeks ago.

@HammerGalladeBro I counted all of that in my total. Every released game they've ever been credited on only counts up to 21. That means there are 19 projects that never made it past ideation, but they still counted internally. MYSTERY

so everyone who said this was internally developed by Nintendo themselves were wrong

That' not terribly surprising - looks like the kind of game that Good Feel would make. They are usually pretty solid, if sometimes unremarkable. I definitely want to check out the demo because I've had a hard time understanding exactly what this game is.

@Zeebor15 Probably scrapped prototypes that never went into production.

I WANT TO SEE THEM

@Zeebor15 It is strange. My most cynical guess is that’s it’s for marketing and they want people to purely associate their games with Nintendo like they’re all made under the same roof (with some exceptions). Or maybe they just don’t feel it’s important to disclose who’s making what unless they think it will help market the game (confirming Retro will be making Prime 4 versus an unnamed, unknown studio etc.). Whatever the reason might be, I wish they were more transparent with this stuff

@larryisaman I think Prime 4 is the key to this riddle. They don't want a situation where they need to restart development and embarrass some studio. It's rare enough for them to even announce a game less than 6 months away from release, but perhaps MP4 made them even more cautious about revealing developers.

Also, every time another studio develops one of their games, it's a dog-not-barking way of saying "NOT developed internally. Hmmm, what must we be working on internally?" And fueling launch lineup conversations about a new console.

Thought it was gonna be TOSE! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tose_(company)

It’s not the most ambitious game, and some people in the article on the demo thought it needed more time in the oven. But they’ve been working on it for five years?

@the_beaver I thought Crafted World was a terrific game with tremendous art and varied level design. I don't understand the hate at all. I liked it quite a bit more than Wooly World which I found too easy and less visually interesting. Crafted World isn't hard but it's just so interesting and collecting everything is a treat because of it.

@the_beaver It`s fun , get it for a good price !

Not surprised it's Good-Feel... I feel their output has been mostly positive. On a side note, I believe Yoshi's Crafted World has a demo iirc? Though endearing, I thought the whole foreground/background thing was a bit tedious and excessive.

Makes me worried that the developer is going all black hat for a game. Maybe it's normal but the fact their is a whole article dedicated to it, makes me wonder even more.

@the_beaver I had a great time with Yoshi's Crafted World, it felt just like you'd want a Yoshi's Island game to feel and the hand made levels were adorable, I just wanted to make them all. The game was as challenging as any Mario game, and similarly trying to 100% the game is the goal and it's not easy at all, there are some very difficult challenges.

I got the credits but you unlock more levels after that and I got stuck and couldn't pass one (let alone get everything), so claims that it's too easy are bogus.

Also I think the aiming in 3d aspect of it in a 2d game and playing the game from the other side were fine additions and made the game a little more interesting. And changing your view to the other side was great here because the hand crafted levels are gorgeous, and I loved how there were labels and such only visible from behind. It's nice to have an excuse to replay the levels like that.

Playing the demo it felt a lot like a Luigi’s Mansion game, so I was leaning towards Next Level. Good Feel is interesting

Wow and they just released that Goemon game (Japan only for now) so they are on a roll. This makes me glad I pre-bought Peach. Woolly world is a top ten game for me, so I’ll give anything they make a shot, even if Crafted world was kind of forgettable

@Thomystic thats an interesting theory - it makes a lot of sense

I was hoping it was NLG but thinking about it I hope they are working on LM4 and some other gems.

I hope they put a lot of effort into this one then. Epic Yarn was a pleasant surprise back then, but later I played Yoshi’s Woolly World and thought it was totally bland and lacking polish.

@LXP8 Nintendo just published the game and lend their characters. Square Enix, more specifically ArtePiazza, were the devs.

@Savage_Joe Yeah, but before launch they wouldn't tell journalists that ArtePiazza were the devs and told them to find out in the credits of the game. The trailers just stated "Nintendo/Square Enix" at the end.