Princess Peach: Showtime! Reviews

Princess Peach: Showtime! is ranked in the 60th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
7.7 / 10.0
Mar 22, 2024

I loved the many mini-adventures within Princess Peach: Showtime! and hope that it inspires folks to enjoy the theater with its imagination-fueled campaign full of dress-up challenges that'll make you believe you can be anything you set your heart to. 👸

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7.5 / 10.0
Mar 22, 2024
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7.5 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime could be a decent first game for young Peach fans, but longtime Nintendo players looking for the Princess’ equivalent of a quality Kirby platformer will likely be underwhelmed. Stylistically, however, the game is a success and, in typical Nintendo fashion, features an exciting finale. I just wish the difficulty had been more balanced in one direction or the other.

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Dawn
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8 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

What it lacks in depth and challenge, Princess Peach: Showtime! makes up for in variety and charm, making it an excellent entry-level point to its various gameplay styles for younger and less experienced players. Its appealing presentation style is let down only slightly by a surprisingly poor framerate during loading and transition screens that can hopefully be fixed with a performance-focused patch in the future. Although it never quite reaches the heights of a more focused gameplay experience, the variety of gameplay presented in Princess Peach: Showtime! make it an easy recommendation to make.

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Saudi Gamer
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7 / 10
Mar 21, 2024

"I actually enjoyed playing it, despite its ease, and I don't see the point in limiting it to a younger audience. It suits everyone who wants an easy platform game after a hard day's work or who is looking to try a Nintendo product at various levels.

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Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime fills its short runtime with a tremendous variety of levels and transformations, elevating each with charming details and a surprising amount of spectacle. Its only real limitation is its own lack of ambition, leaving this a memorable adventure, but not one for the ages.

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Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime is a very approachable game and tries a lot of different ideas, which makes it perfect for extremely casual players or a younger audience. It's just a shame that it doesn't capture the 'kids of all ages' feeling of Mario's adventures or the aforementioned Luigi's Mansion. It's more like Yoshi's Crafted World, which makes sense as the two games were developed by Good-Feel. Though a significant step up from Super Princess Peach, Princess Peach: Showtime tries a little too much, and that means its best performances are overshadowed by discordant notes from the understudies.

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7 / 10
Mar 21, 2024

Even with some flaws, Princess Peach: Showtime is worth its price of admission. Peach shows her superstar potential by stepping into nearly a dozen roles and nailing them all. After spending almost four decades as a princess, it's nice to see her show some range.

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GameCentral
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5 / 10
Mar 21, 2024

A disappointingly shallow and unfocused adventure that is aimed solely at a young audience – and even they're likely to feel somewhat bored and patronised by the end.

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9 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Help Peach save the Sparkle Theater from the wicked Grape and the Sour Bunch, who have set the stage for the ultimate tragedy. Joined by Stella, the theater’s guardian, Peach is ready to save the day! Review copy provided by company for testing purposes. Princess Peach: Showtime! has a surprising amount of depth, making one of the best Super Mario spin-offs to date.

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8.5 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime! is an easy-to-understand, incredibly fun-to-play game with a style and charm that is sure to delight.

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VG247
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Mar 21, 2024

Peach’s foray onto the stage is is full of whimsy and many moments of sheer joy, just as 2023's Super Mario Wonder is, but the difference is that this is Peach’s game – and hers alone. Despite the Sour Bunch trying to sully the Sparkle Theater’s reputation, Princess Peach is here - as a Cowgirl, Ninja, Detective, and so forth - to put a stop to that. And she puts on a wonderful, replayable, empowering performance while doing so.

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8.5 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime! is a treat, offering fun, approachable, and excitingly diverse gameplay as well as the most appealing (and downright cool) version of Nintendo's heroine to date. The game is fairly brief and has some performance hiccups, but its target audience of younger players, and those just wanting to see Peach ditch the damsel role, will likely be too busy applauding her latest turn in the limelight to care.

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IGN
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7 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime! is a simple, cheery romp with a variety of neat styles and a fun theater-inspired setting.

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80 / 100
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach Showtime! It's the typical case of a game that doesn't attract attention, but if you give it a chance, it has weapons to win you over. It is a simple game, for all audiences, that manages to catch you with a varied development and an overflowing sympathy. It's in a different league than Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but it's fun.

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Mar 21, 2024

A solid but not outstanding effort by the Nintendo peeps.

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9 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime! is never truly challenging and could use a choice of a harder difficulty setting to keep things more interesting. Players will have to replay levels multiple times to get 100% completion, and one drawback is that missing one item will require playing the entire level again rather than being able to backtrack, which can get frustrating. Overall, Princess Peach: Showtime! is an extremely enjoyable game, offers a significant amount of content, and is something that could be enjoyed by anyone.

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8.5 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Net of technical uncertainties and some less successful than average roles to play, the title of Nintendo and Good-Feel showcases an accessible, fun and pleasantly varied playful system, enriched by a sensational artistic direction.

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8 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

Princess Peach: Showtime! It is a game that should be looked at from the perspective that it is a product for all audiences, with all the good and bad that this entails. It may not be the game you were hoping for, but it is the one that is sometimes necessary to take care of the inner child in you.

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8 / 10.0
Mar 21, 2024

I was pleasantly surprised by Princess Peach: Showtime, and the aforementioned unpredictability is a huge reason why it will likely remain in my permanent rotation of Mario games going forward. I’d love to see Nintendo give more mascots a showcase like this, with a similar go-for-broke variety format. Keep ’em coming!

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