ast weekend when I stopped by Pink Godzilla Games I picked up the Japanese import Nintendo DS game Super Princess Peach. The owner of the store told me that he talked to a Nintendo employee that was involved in the localization of Japanese games. This employee claimed that there was a very low possibility of this game being translated and sold here in the US. I took a chance and got the import copy. The very next day I picked up a Nintendo Sales booklet that they had at a different store and I saw that Super Princess Peach is scheduled to be released in mid February 2006. It ends up that it was coming over here anyways but at least I get to play this great game four months earlier than the rest of US gamers. The Nintendo employee thought that the game could have been considered sexist and offensive in the US but I have been playing the game for a while and I don't think so. It might be seriously changed for the local US version.
This is a new old-school 2d side scrolling Mario style game but the story has Mario and Luigi being captured by the Koopa and Princess Peach has to rescue them with help with her magical talking parasol and her magical emotional outburst powers. The game play is quite similar to Super Mario World but Peach can whip bad guys with the umbrella, can float slower with the umbrella and she possesses a meeter for her magical emotional out burst powers. Most of the game takes place on the top screen but the lower screen is Princess Peach with icons so you can turn on and turn off her four emotional outburst powers. There is a happy power where she sings, floats and spins. You can float up higher and spin around in a happy tornado to clean up dusty air. The burning angry emotional outburst power makes her surround with a burst of fire and she can set things on fire and stomp down switches. She also looks super cute when she stomps around all pissed off. There is a singing outburst power where she can run really fast. And the final magical emotional outburst power is the crying power. She starts wailing and cartoon fountains blast across the screen. You can soak the bad guys and douse things that were on fire. There are some really good puzzles that where you have to switch from these outburst in order to solve.
This is the best old school Mario style game since Yoshi's island and it will keep me happy until the new Mario game for the Nintendo DS comes out. The graphics are happy cartoon style and are classic Nintendo. The game play is retro of old Mario games but her new powers keep things fresh and the game ends up being pure old-school Nintendo magic. The levels and graphics are supa-kawaii and I am going to have a lot of fun with this game. I think that this game is going to be gamers of any age and especially girls who are going to get a kick of having a game heroine rescue Mario for the first time in two decades of 8-bit gaming. I would not be surprised to see Nintendo release the pink Nintendo DS that they are selling in Japan when they sell this game this spring. It is a bloody shame that they don't have this game translated out in time for Christmas. There is some Japanese dialog at the store and when the talking magical parasol gives you some hints but I have not encountered any puzzles or levels that I could not get through without understanding the Japanese dialog.
This is an instant classic and is a quality addition to the Nintendo DS library. I love this game. It is Peachy!
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