After 27 years, the director of a Nintendo 64 cult classic returned to lead Princess Peach Showtime
Mar. 22, 2024Why did Nintendo delay this feel-good story?
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Now Princess Peach: Showtime is out, it’s time to talk about the feel-good comeback of an old-school director we’ve got thanks to the studio behind it.
Princess Peach: Showtime was developed by Good-Feel, the same Japanese third-party responsible for Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Yoshi’s Woolly World, and Yoshi’s Crafted World. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, given that dataminers had uncovered evidence of that fact from the game’s demo. Showtime certainly shares the breezy, approachable gameplay of Good-Feel’s earlier titles.
Ahead of Showtime’s launch, I wrote about how strange it is thatNintendo keeps refusing to say who makes its games, going as far as telling interested journalists to just wait and see the credits. It’s still strange! Games are the products of hardworking people, not some magical software factory, and given how often Nintendo itself trots out legendary developers like Shigeru Miyamoto or Eiji Aonuma to serve as the faces for its games it remains bewildering to me that the company is growing increasingly steadfast in its efforts to obfuscate the third-party partners it’s been working with for years.
I can only hope that we’ll be allowed to know who’s working on the next back ofupcoming Switch games.
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