The challenge of Super Princess Peach is less about making it through each stage and more finding every single Toad before facing the final boss. However, this game has nothing in the way of puzzles or brain teasers to challenge the player like how difficult reaching some of the secret exits can be in Super Mario World. The most resistance the game normally offers is placing a clearly visible obstacle that the player has to go "Oh right, I use [one of three emotions] to clear this" and badda boom, there's the missing Toad right behind it.

Between the extremely low difficulty and the complete lack of the conventional "lives" system in about every other Mario game, it very much feels like this game was designed with kid gloves (or maybe girl gloves?) on, and it's less interesting than it could be as a result.

Cute game, but not terribly fun to play.