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.

Should We Be Worried About the Spyro Reignited Trilogy?

     Nostalgia has hit us hard like a tsunami this week. We're getting a Spyro game. Not a brand new game, but a remaster anyway. There was an apparent leak that revealed that Toys for Bob was going to give Spyro the remaster treatment, just like Crash Bandicoot and the N. Sane Trilogy, and now everything has been confirmed. We will be getting the new, yet old, Spyro Reignited Trilogy this September, if it doesn't get delayed. It will be published by Activision who published the remastered Crash games and if that doesn't get you running down memory lane like it's an marathon on your childhood, Tom Kenney who voiced a majority of the old Spyro games will reprise his role as Spyro for the entire remaster.

      So for the millennials out there Spyro was platformer that came out during the golden era of 3D platformer games like Banjo-Kazooie, Conker, Super Mario 64, and another series that we've gotten the remaster treatment Crash Bandicoot. With this remaster everything should be cool right? Right?

       I'm sure lot of people had their nostalgia goggles as soon as they heard the news and thought back to days playing the game when they were young and how awesome the game was back then. I'm not saying that the series suck, it did everything but suck. I'm saying that maybe the gameplay could come off as a bit dated as in most cases things do not hold up as time passes. Things may not be as awesome as we remembered it and time has a funny way to make us aware of that by showing us how outdated things can be.
     We've seen this with Yooka-Laylee. Yooka-Laylee isn't what you call an old game, but Playtonic, the studio who developed the game, treated as a spiritual sequel to the popular Banjo-Kazooie series and got us all in the nostalgia feels.We were partially disappointed as we were treated to old and dated gameplay that gave the game a stale taste.
     Luckily this wasn't the case when remade Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy where Vicarious Visions did much more than just give the first three Crash games a facelift with updated graphics. They tweaked gameplay mechanics a bit that made it a bit more challenging and felt new. Hopefully that is what Toys for Bob has in mind for remastering the Spyro games as well.

What are your thoughts?