Princess Peach Showtime!: Transformation Trailer and more footage; Pastel Pink Joy-Cons announced

In just two months, Princess Peach is getting back in the spotlight with her very own game (the first one since Super Princess Peach on Nintendo DS, released back in 2005): Princess Peach Showtime!. It comes out on March 22nd worldwide, and promises a spectacular and colourful adventure to players of all ages.

And today, Nintendo revealed a brand new trailer for the game. It showcases some of the transformations Princess Peach will get to use in the game:

This trailer introduces two more transformations:

• Ninja Peach. Peach has to sneak into a ninja village to help its inhabitants. Enemies are on the lookout for intruders, but Peach can sneak her way through houses, hide in the grass and water, and more. She can even sneak past enemies and attack them with kunai.
• Cowgirl Peach. Peach has to free hostages from a band of bandits who are ravaging a town. Using a lasso, she can grab items from a distance. Peach also get to chase fleeing bandits on horseback. There’s also stolen treasure to recover!

Here’s Nintendo’s press release:

In her very own adventure, Princess Peach teams up with the Sparkle Theater’s guardian, Stella, to save the theater from the wicked Grape and the Sour Bunch. Using the power of Sparkle, Peach must take the stage of each show, transform and confront Grape’s evil acting troupe. Each transformation gives Peach a dramatic entrance and the abilities she needs to take back the play, including two new transformations revealed today: Ninja Peach and Cowgirl Peach!

Players will battle enemies from the footlights to the rafters, taking on the role of a swordfighter, a detective, a kung fu master, a pâtissière and more. But this is no ordinary adventure – it’s going to take even more panache from Peach to bring this play to its triumphant final bow.

As Ninja Peach, she will call upon her sneaking abilities as she uses shadows, shrubbery and makeshift bamboo snorkels to surprise and thwart her enemies. On levels where you need to be a little more brash, Cowgirl Peach yee-haws into action. Her horseback-riding expertise is matched only by her deftness with a lasso, and you’ll need both to make sure Peach rides off into the sunset …or at least into the next scene.

And if you want to see more of those transformations in action, here’s some additional footage of all transformations revealed so far:

• Fencer Peach
• Patissier Peach
• Kung-fu Peach
• Detective Peach
• Ninja Peach
• Cowgirl Peach

And if that wasn’t enough for you, here’s some additional footage of the game:

There’s still two months left before Princess Peach Showtime! hits the shelves, so we can expect Nintendo to reveal more of the game in the coming weeks (no doubt during the usual Nintendo Direct in early February). Today’s trailer didn’t come out of the blue, as Princess Peach Showtime! was meant to be playable at the Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo event last weekend (the event was, unfortunately, cancelled).

Princess Peach Showtime! is slated for a March 22nd release worldwide, and on the same day, Nintendo will also release a new Joy-Con colour: Pastel Pink. It will cost $79.99. Here’s some pictures:

Princess Peach Showtime! (Switch) and the Pastel Pink Joy-Cons come out on March 22nd worldwide.

Source: Nintendo / Nintendo PR (23/01/2024)