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Princess Peach: Showtime! review - the damsel in distress becomes an RPG queen

Our review of Princess Peach: Showtime! - a game that makes a star out of Peach.

Kung Fu Peach, with the artificial tang of her orange eyeshadow, is especially agile, and so she hops on candy-striped poles like she's in Lollipop Chainsaw and not a game rated E10+ for Everyone, smacking away enemy hordes with her pointed toes. But the theater backdrops and creatures, like painted tortoises that look like they're made of unvarnished plywood, or tufts of crisp cardboard fire, have the same tactile appeal of universally celebrated games Paper Mario and Yoshi's Crafted World. Honestly, I'm reminded of Valerie Solanas - the radical feminist writer best known for unapologetically shooting Andy Warhol in 1968 - who defined the slimy struggle against patriarchy in her 1967 SCUM manifesto, an instruction manual on eliminating men for the sake of world peace.

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