ugh i really wanted to finish this but towards the end i just ran out of steam

i was a big fan of the original super princess peach and this was a bit disappointing to me. i've seen a lot of discourse online about the game being too easy but in my opinion good-feel never knew who their intended audience was the entire development cycle. there are definitely some levels and boss fights that i think would be trickier for younger kids, but i can't definitively say that when at the same time others can be swept through. kirby is easier and more geared towards younger players than this imo, princess peach showtime feels like it was made for people who like peach and nothing more.

the gameplay is sluggish for a platformer, and if anything it shows that the switch's hardware is aging at a breakneck pace. i didn't understand why there were long loading times and choppy gameplay when yoshi's crafted world (which i'm assuming it shares an engine with) ran just fine. i liked the idea of having multiple different powers/worlds for peach to use but none of them were very memorable.

i think what kills this game the most is that it's so detached from it's source material that it feels more like a game featuring princess peach than a princess peach game if that makes sense? like yeah there are the toads but you get locked away from them in the very beginning of the game, the stellas and theets are cute but the fact there were little to no callbacks to the broader mario series made me wonder why i was even playing the game in the first place. i don't have an issue with an original story, but it would've been nice to have some more references.

anyways if anything this made me want to go back and replay super princess peach so i'm sure i'll have a way better time with that