Peachette: There's Something About Princess Peach

   

      The Toad. The citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom. If you could describe toads you could call them little fungi people. Basically hobbit folk with mushroom hats. Cute and adorable people that sound like they constantly smoked cigarettes for the 30 plus years we've been introduced to them in the first Super Mario Bros. game in 1985. If mushrooms that make you grow and flowers that turn you into a firestarter haven't boggled your mind over the years, what is really weird is that these mushroom munchkins have been ruled for years now by a human girl, Princess Peach. Or is she?

      One of the greatest mysteries of video games was how the monarch of the Mushroom Kingdom inhabited by fungi-humanoid people came be ruled by a human. With the recent Nintendo direct, we may have an answer to this enigma.

      Nintendo introduced us to New Super Mario U deluxe which will be coming out soon this year. What's new is that Toadette will be a new playable character. Along with Toadette being playable there is a new item called a Super Crown which gives Toadette an interesting power-up. She becomes Peachette, a character that closely resembles Princess Peach and even has her floating abilities like in Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario 3D World.

      For years we've speculated that Princess Peach was just purely human. Is she a more human version or more evolved toad?
     There may have been some hints to Peach's toad heritage. In Super Mario RPG, Peach's grandmother was a toad. Other than that little is known about her parents. The only glimpses we see of her father was in the comics which could be non-canon and an official strategy guide for Super Mario Bros where she too is depicted being toadlike sporting a mushroom hat as well as a crown. But we can't really go with that as her official artwork is vastly different (Bowser looks different too).

     This all, however, could all just be mere coincidence and the Super Crown could just transform Toadette into a copy of Peach just like how the hats worked for in Super Mario 64 DS which Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario could transform into each other. Also, there's the fact that when Toadette, I mean Peachette, will turn back into her Toadette form if hit by an enemy meanwhile in games where Peach has been playable, Peach is shown to revert to a mini version of herself when hit just like Mario and Luigi. But this could mean that her toad evolution is more permanent. There seems to be a huge mystery around Peach and Peachette and hopefully we can all figure it out soon.

Characters We Probably Won't See As DLC in Super Smash Bros... Maybe

     It's December which could mean only one thing, no not Christmas, the Super Smash Bros themed Nintendo Direct is almost here. Nintendo announced that for the month of December, there will be a Nintendo Direct dedicated to Super Smash Bros. We could be treated to new characters or new stages for upcoming DLC. Since the recent announcement of Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII being added to the roster, you could almost add any popular character to the list, that's ever been on a Nintendo console or handheld, almost. While these characters might be cool to be added, they most likely won't. Goku and Shreik need not apply.


King K. Rool

 

If you don't know King K. Rool was the main antagonist for the Donkey Kong country series as well as Donkey Kong 64. He would torment the Kong family by stealing DK's bananas in the first game and would later on kidnap DK and Diddy in the later sequels. In Donkey Kong 64 he even went so far as to threaten to blow up Donkey Kong's home DK Island. When Rare was purchased by Microsoft that was the last we've seen of K. Rool and his Kremling klan, I mean clan, as the more recent Donkey Kong games moved on to more enemies that DK had to defeat. So, when Smash Bros was released for the 3DS, we were treated with seeing some familiar characters returning, the Kremlings in Smash Run. With the inclusion with Kremlings, it would seem more likely that their ruler would be making a long deserved comeback since Donkey Kong 64, right. Well he did, as a costume for the Mii brawler. Since K. Rool's appearance had been reduced to a costume, it is most likely that he might not be added.

Crash Bandicoot


Yes, the former Sony mascot has been in a couple Nintendo titles. Crash and Mario had an intense rivalry during the late 90s and early millennium as both of them adventured into 3D for the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. His inclusion would have been huge as their rivalry during those times almost as big as Sonic's who is in the game. As with all things popular they become unpopular and the Crash series fizzled out with lower sales. We haven't seen Crash in anything since his last game in 2010 so we most likely won't see him in Smash either.

Banjo-Kazooie


If you were a kid in the early 00s and didn't have Banjo-Kazooie for the N64, your parents didn't love you. Banjo-Kazooie were characters in their own game during Rare's golden era of making games for the N64. Them being added like a lot of the characters here would be just for nostalgia reason, which are justifiable. They had a ton of games that made for Nintendo before Microsoft bought Rare. For that reason, they are most likely not going to be added unless Microsoft wants to loosen their grip and loan them out for a while?

Heihachi Mishima


Unlike the other characters listed, Heihachi, and other Tekken characters were actually considered to appear in Smash Bros, but due to software limitations during the developing stages for Smash Bros on the 3DS, as well as Masahiro Sakurai not know what to do for a movelist, Heihachi was dropped. That's probably why we got Ryu instead. Sakurai did give him a nod by making him a costume for the Mii fighter instead.

Ridley


OMG, he is not going to be in the game as a playable character. Give it up!

Where the f*** is Star Fox Wii U?

     Nintendo did a direct on Wednesday and we were treated to a lot of goodness. Finally we got an announcement that we are getting a Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask remake for the Nintendo 3DS. We got treated at the new DLC pack for Mario Kart 8 including seeing Link in action and the new Hyrule Circuit. We also got to take a look at how Amiibo will work on games like giving Link am new weapon for Hyrule Warriors and giving your Mii all new costumes for Mario Kart. All of these things look promising. We are going to be in for some good gaming for the Spring of next year. Despite all that Nintendo showed us one question stands: Where is the new Star Fox game?
     A while back at E3, Shigeru Miyamoto displayed a demo of what could have been a new Star Fox game. Since then, the game has been slated to appear in 2015, along with other titles. Since the announcement of the new Star Fox game, there has been a ton of excitement from fans and it is for a good reason. It's been a while since we have gotten a Star Fox game. Despite getting a remake of Star Fox 64 on the Nintendo 3DS, we haven't gotten a REAL Star Fox game in eight years with Star Fox: Command for the Nintendo DS in 2006.  We are long overhauled for a new Star Fox game. The series is still in demand.
     The weird thing is that they have been very hush on the game other than stating that they are working on it. We have seen other trailers and demos for the other games that are coming out for 2015 like Yoshi's Wooly World, Splatoon, and Zelda Wii U. Will they ever show us something other than that test demo that we saw at E3 this year?  There are a few possibilities as to why they are keeping things underwraps. The first one is that they are probably going to feature a new mechanic to that will offer something different to the series giving it new life. Whatever they are experimenting on, they would have to be cautious as it won't be something that drifts away from what made us love the series (I'm looking at you Star Fox Adventures...)
     It seems like if we are ever going to see something, we will get a chance to at least see a teaser of a new Star Fox game next year around E3. While that seem like it would be the ideal spot to announce something, it will be problematic if they give us something in the Summer of 2015 as it will be hard to build up enough hype to get everyone to buy it in the Holiday 2015 season as the game would seem a bit rushed. Hopefully whatever they are doing with Star Fox Wii U Nintendo, please don't keep us waiting TOO long...