Monday, October 8, 2018

The Bowsette Memes Are Proof We Need Another Super Princess Peach Game


     With the introduction of the Super Crown, a Power-up item in the Switch port of New Super Mario Bros. U which transforms Toadette into a peculiar yet mysterious Peach-like being known as Toadette, we were perplexed with what this could possibly mean and how exactly this could explain Princess Peach ruling a kingdom made up little mushroom people. While we were wondering if this would solve one of gaming's biggest mysteries we weren't ready for what would come next: Bowsette.

     The Bowsette meme started when someone on the internet, Twitter user @ayyk92, made a comic that had Bowser put on the Super Crown and change into a evil version of Peach which people named Bowette creating be a big wave of Bowsette memes. With the up rise and recent popularity of Bowette memes, one thing comes to mind, Super Princess Peach.

     If you don't remember Super Princess Peach, it was a platformer staring everyone's favorite pink clad mushroom monarch this time saving Mario, Luigi, and Toad from the evil clutches of Bowser. It was your standard Mario platformer, only with a bit of feminine flair as along the standard 2D Mario gameplay we all knew and love, by with Peach having a vibe meter which allows her to solve puzzles by being happy and fly, cry and run super fast, stomp angrily and pretty much be invincible, and heal herself by being calm. But like all really nice things, we get only one and we've never got a sequel which a lot of people want, mainly Peach fans.
     I know what you're saying. Why bring up Super Princess Peach when it has nothing to do with Bowsette memes? With the Bowsette memes and Peachette, they all have one thing in common. Both, do involve Princess Peach, but both also involved creatively playing around with Peach in a interesting unconventional way and in the end had amazing and interesting results. With Super Princess Peach, it flipped the script with Peach no longer being the damsel in distress and showed that Peach could handle her own in a Mario-esque game. With Bowsette, Peach is used as an avatar to get out of the role you usually see her in most Mario games. Hopefully Nintendo is paying attention and sees a good reason to give us another Princess Peach game, or at least give Peach her own franchise. They gave one to Luigi.

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