Current Events > it annoys me that Nintendo hasn't made Super Princess Peach 2

(+) Yeah! (+)

oh well

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especially since Perry's storyline remains unresolved

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Duncanwii posted...

People criticized that game for being sexist though.

How was it sexist

I really enjoyed it. She had a bunch of mood swings and a bunch of emotions

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TheLastHero posted...

How was it sexist

People said basing the game on the vibes was a negative image of woman and that the game implied woman were overly emotional and could only get things done when using them.

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TheLastHero posted...

How was it sexist

Her superpower is that she has extreme emotions.

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Ive been saying this. The game was just alright but it had so many good concepts that just needed more tight/challenging stage design to fully accommodate them.
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Fury Volcano also had sick tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwh4RMw0kOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTlkwxLhdc

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pegusus123456 posted...

Her superpower is that she has extreme emotions.

Fun fact: an obscure Konami game "Usas" also had the 4 'cardinal' emotions as a game device
www.hardcoregaming101.net/usas/

However, Uas is a surprisingly involved game. What sets it apart from other contemporary games in the genre is the emotion system. You can switch the mood of the player character by collecting one of four different emotion kanji: (Joy), (Anger), (Sadness) and (Ease) (translated in the European manual as Happy, Anger, Sad and Good humor respectively). The moods change how the player character looks, controls and attacks, and also modulate the pitch of the background music up and down by a semitone per mood. Not only do the different emotions drastically change how the player handles, but each stage has a locked door in front of the bosss chamber that can only be opened if the player has the correct mood. There are also blocks that need to be pushed and dropped from ledges to form structures to reach higher platforms, which combined with how the effects of the mood system improves or limits the players mobility, leads to some interesting (but sometimes frustrating) puzzles.

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I dunno, at this point, avoiding accusations of every "ism" seems like an exercise in futility.

Might as well make a sequel.

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The emotions are due to the island and affect everyone. It is all stated in the game and shown. Never is it implied that her being a woman is the cause.

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ssjevot posted...

The emotions are due to the island and affect everyone. It is all stated in the game and shown. Never is it implied that her being a woman is the cause.

People are talking about it on a meta level. The game itself might justify it, but the devs thought the best way to make a game about Peach was to make her overly emotional.

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And where the Hell is Rosalina's spin-off?
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pegusus123456 posted...

People are talking about it on a meta level. The game itself might justify it, but the devs thought the best way to make a game about Peach was to make her overly emotional.

Maybe, but as I've shown SPP wasn't the first game use emotions as a gameplay device (and the two leads in Usas are guys)

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the "it's an island of emotions" thing is usually criticized because it's not like we know exactly how the game came to be
they very well could have thought up a game for peach first, and then thought up the motion gimmick because she's a woman, and then used the island to provide narrative justification

it also very well could have just been an unfortunate coincidence

pegusus123456 posted...

People are talking about it on a meta level. The game itself might justify it, but the devs thought the best way to make a game about Peach was to make her overly emotional.

Maybe, but she didn't use emotions in previous games she was playable in (most notably, SMB 2/USA and Smash Melee) and she hasn't used it again in games since that. It's a gimmick confined to that one game and not a defining characteristic of her gameplay.

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ssjevot posted...

Maybe, but she didn't use emotions in previous games she was playable in (most notably, SMB 2/USA and Smash Melee) and she hasn't used it again in games since that. It's a gimmick confined to that one game and not a defining characteristic of her gameplay.

That's an argument in favor of the game being sexist.

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