Super Princess Peach

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At first glance, I thought an old school-style platformer based on a role reversal where the Princess had to rescue Mario for a change seemed like a pretty cool idea. Until I read further and found out that they managed to not only negate that potentially progressive element of the game, but actually turn it around and make it totally regressive. Get this: Peach's primary means of attack throughout the game is to battle enemies--using the power of her emotions.

Seriously.

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/662/662542/super-princess-peach-20051028061210491.jpg

On the bottom screen there are four different hearts. By touching the top left heart that’s smiling joyously you’ll put Peach in bliss state. This gives Peach the ability to fly if you hold A. Touch the top right heart and Peach will move into a rage. In this state she’ll have an aura of fire around her, which is perfect for burning bridges or goombas foolish enough to run into her. The bottom left heart draws upon Peach’s sadness. In this state she endlessly cries, but her tears can be used to grow beanstalks.

Apparently it's just a thinly veiled elemental system, but what the fuck. It actually looks like it might be a fun game, but I almost can't get by how conceptually retarded this is.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 6 November 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

she endlessly cries?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 November 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/toadstoolpowers.jpg

― caramel voltaire (FE7), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

harf

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

roffle wow

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

i wish my tears grew beanstalks

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 16 April 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9971/11449568013258hs.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 16 April 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

harrr!

i wish my tears grew beanstalks

Why does this sound dirty?

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 17 April 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Beanstalks unavoidably phallic.

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/images/ss/ss_mparty5_pre07.jpg

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 17 April 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Waluigi is possibly the lamest thing Nintendo's ever concocted, including a borderline-themed Peach sidescroller.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

but Waluigi Pinball in MKDS is fucking SWEET.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

What make Waluigi worse than Wario? The name joke is better.

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Waluigi Pinball, why weren't you on wifi?

What make Waluigi worse than Wario? The name joke is better.

Yeah, it is, but Waluigi still seems doubly derivative. He doesn't even have a distinct personality, as Wario does... unless wearing purple is a personality.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dkvine.com/features/nazis.html
http://content.ytmnd.com/content/7/5/3/753ea59c4fe7d7b7ff09c6f8b10dc82d.gif

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

doubly derivative = COMEDY GOLD

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

his name definitely improves once you learn that it's a nicely constructed japanese pun and not a mindless ripoff of "wario", but he's still a terrible character

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't the prefix "Wa?" have the same conotations as the Waluigi pun? I'm sure Waluigi would have been obvious to Nintendo.jp (and perhaps many japanese) when they created Wario.

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.smbhq.com/users/snss/Comics/Singles/WarioDream.gif

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Wa" isn't a prefix, but you're right that in both instances the joke derives from http://www.kanjisite.com/images/kanji/3k/aku_waru.gif (a root that means "bad") which is often pronounced "waru." Waluigi has a second layer to his name, though; in addition to the WARUI ("bad") pun, if you invert the first and last two syllables/kana, you get the Japanese word ijiwaru (mean, ill-tempered).

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

thank you for that explanation, Laura! I don't hate the name Waluigi any more. I had always thought it was just a lazy play off of Wario.

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow!

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Luigi:

His name is also a pun on the Japanese word ruiji (類似, ruiji?), meaning "similar", a play on the fact that his sprite was the same as Mario's in his original appearances.

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha wait, can we go back to the original game referenced in this thread and how mindbogglingly stupid it is?

― Dan (Endless Tears!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

ok can't stop staring at the Waluigi gif, no more work to be done today.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait until we get a Revolution. I'm going to go to town on some shops' used Gamecube section.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES::::

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/7/5/3/753ea59c4fe7d7b7ff09c6f8b10dc82d.gif === http://www.tcssc.com/images/popups/sportsoffered/dodgeball_stiller.gif

― JW (OTM) (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.starterupsteve.com/flash/html/son_of_a_peach.shtml (tooootally NSFW)

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Super Princess Peach is totally fun, guys. It's really easy and colorful and it's got ghost house levels.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Something about the screenshots I've seen reminds me strongly of SMB2. All kidding aside I'd probably enjoy this on a gameplay level--I don't know if I'd buy it, but if anyone wants to swap for it lemme know.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

go try it at nintendo store (take me)

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

(Not this but) next weekend? I want to see what new merch they have too.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

"warui" can also (in a subservient/polite/humble manner) be a form of flattery when used self-reflexively.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to find high res copies of the Wario/Mario comic in Nintendo power where they play cowboys.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

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