Current Events > Princess Peach: Showtime! sitting at 75 on metacritic

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Princess Peach: Floptime!

Not even our goddess Brie Larson could help the MC score.

Princess Flop Showtime

Was destined to be meh

Daisy would have pulled in 10s

Turbam posted...

Daisy would have pulled in 10s

Birdo woulda pulled in 11s

That sounds about what I was expecting. It looked like it would a solid C game.

it'll be a collector's item someday just like SPP. But it is weird that Toad, Luigi,Yoshi and Wario can get good games of their own that actually sell and are rated high yet twice now Peach has utterly failed to capture that. I wonder why.

tremain07 posted...

it'll be a collector's item someday just like SPP. But it is weird that Toad, Luigi,Yoshi and Wario can get good games of their own that actually sell and are rated high yet twice now Peach has utterly failed to capture that. I wonder why.

Probably because they just follow lazy stereotypes of what they think girls want rather than just trying to make a good game.

I mean, if nothing else, a platformer based around her floating mechanic could be a lot of fun. I don't understand why they don't just do that.

Haters gonna hate. Game is fun.

Its a game nobody asked for about a character nobody is very enthralled about, plus the added stigma of being a kid game for girls.

The game was never gonna be huge

Almighty metacritic - tell me what to think

75 is a fair score. It's a decent game that is entertaining but it's not amazing or anything.

Its 74 now. Went from green to yellow.

yeah that's an extremely charitable score lmao

zitkin's post in another topic about a mario game(hypothetical) where he could switch through the FF job classes just reminded me this exists... sucks it's so low

tremain07 posted...

it'll be a collector's item someday just like SPP. But it is weird that Toad, Luigi,Yoshi and Wario can get good games of their own that actually sell and are rated high yet twice now Peach has utterly failed to capture that. I wonder why.

SPP was a good game with some great music tho. Never understood why it wasnt well liked

My nieces love Mario but you can play as Peach in like all the good Mario games now so I can't see them caring about this. I think they tried going in a different direction but the end result wasn't very interesting.

Little girls wont care about whatever the reviewers had issues with. I predict this game will do very well.

Did she get a cool new Smash Bros moveset out of it at least?

Honestly, the big thing about the game is that while the reception towards it by nintendo fans might be vocal. in reality, the game itself was kind of destined to fail, from....

• not having a direct release date mentioned, downplaying it existing (it had like 4 foreign language ads, that fansites bought up), heck, it wasn't even mentioned on the MAR10 video. but the same video revealing Luigi's Mansion 2 HD having something more than a vague Summer 2024 release date, and Mario TTYD.
• the promotion was arguably thin online, only really getting a demo, a few twitter posts and one twitter post that's tangibly-related with pink joycons being revealed. (when it was more of a valentines thing).
• it instantly got overshadowed by Paper Mario TTYD and Luigi's Mansion 2 (i guess) when it was revealed in the same direct. if not for the lack of concrete release date for the latter, i would've assumed it was a late-arrival sacrificial lamb. but even Nintendo seemed to not be giving it much of a chance from not mentioning the developer until release, and it being released roughly one week~ before the start of the 2024 Japanese Fiscal Year.
• to a lesser extent, Nintendo drifting away from semi-regular directs gave it was less attention. internet definitely was talking about Mother 3 not being in the western direct. Switch 2 preperation probably shoved it even more. (if the sudden hard-pivot means anything).

It basically got Balan Wonderworld'd.

there's only really two extremes: on one side, it was unique for what it was with a higher-than usual budget, on a character who was kind of unexpected (despite the past happening) only to be slotted out mostly for IP-branching...and then there's Luigi's Mansion 2 where not a lot of people has hopes for it due to being a port of a 3DS game, which is honestly kind of a downfall considering the actually-unexpected explosive return the 3rd game had. even the 3DS had a remake of the 1st game that was more of a semi-Impossible Port. Nintendo even bought out Next Level Games to boot!

Honestly, i'd be kind of curious how Paper Mario TTYD could be, assuming the price point/content is OK. Super Mario RPG at least had the dancing bear of it being a remake of a game by Square-Enix, where almost everything unique to the game never got referenced/utilized later (barring Smash).

Like you know the overwhelming amount of the general audience and core Nintendo fans would definitely go ham over something like Mario Kart, and Odyssey to a lesser extent. but then it kind of dwindles down to stuff like Party and Sports. it's also a later-stage Switch game so who knows how much budget went into it (barring it possibly being a full-on port, or a remake?). it doesn't have the potential benefit of being developmentally homogenous (as in, having assets they could easily slot into other games. like soundbytes, models and images), nor did it get released during a time when the switch was far hotter.

all in all, i'm guessing that Nintendo must've really let Intelligent Systems cook. considering they were only recently let out of the Fire Emblem mines. like after 1 paper mario and warioware game, post-Engage, they've done a more true Warioware game, and remaking TTYD. they could even be sitting on a Geneaology remake, if the initial Engage screenshot leaks+text post meant anything.

HAL Labs though. they really flipped Kirby around in the switch generation when Forgotten Land was released. that the MTX games were basically necessary weasels. don't think i heard fans talking about the lore from Return to Dreamland Deluxe much, though HAL has better grasp of homogenous asset retention (they even do retro music), so i can't imagine that game was more heavier in development costs than Star Allies, and definitely not Forgotten Land.