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My kids have thoughts about Nintendo’s new Princess Peach game
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My kids have thoughts about Nintendo’s new Princess Peach game

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Princess Peach Showtime. Screenshot: Nintendo (captured by Game File)

Last night, I asked my seven-year-old daughter what she thought of the Nintendo Switch game demo we’d just played: Princess Peach Showtime.

Her twin brother and I have played a lot of Switch games over the years, and she’d badly been wanting to play one starring Peach. 

She’d started talking about that a year ago, when we played through a Paper Mario adventure in which Peach has a non-playable role. There should be a game where you play as Peach and talk to people, she told me at the time. There wasn’t anything like that for the Switch, I had to tell her.

Things changed. A few months ago, I told her that Nintendo finally announced a new Peach game, the first since 2005. She was thrilled.

Last night, I asked her why she’d been so eager for this moment. 

“I wanted to play Princess Peach so I could be a girl,” she said, as she completed a forward roll on the couch.

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