Takemoto on why Peach isn’t playable in New Super Mario Bros. U
November 26th, 2012 Posted in News, Podcast Stories, Posted by Valay, Wii UNew Super Mario Bros. U features a few playable characters. You can control Mario, Luigi, Toad, and your very own Mii. Peach, however, is not playable.
Explaining the move, game director Masataka Takemoto said Peach wasn’t made available to players since she would likely have a different set of moves and animation. But in the New Super Mario Bros. series, the team wants all players to be on equal footing.
“In Super Mario Bros 2, Princess Peach had her own unique moves and animation. In this series, we want all the players to have the same moves and animations as Mario, and Princess Peach isn’t suited for that.”
9 Responses to “Takemoto on why Peach isn’t playable in New Super Mario Bros. U”
By Noble Wrot on Nov 26, 2012
Plus, she is normally the victim.
Well, it is time for them to revisit the style of Super Mario Bros. 2, yes? It would be nice to see a world like Subcon again.
By marioman50 on Nov 26, 2012
Because different types of characters with different moves and animations would be horrible, right?
It’s not like they could make her an unlockable reward for collecting all of the star coins and beating the game. We all hate that kinda stuff, right?
By I_am_Error on Nov 26, 2012
In other words, they got lazy. Again. Don’t get me wrong, Peach makes a great captive, but they could have introduced a playable Daisy. Having half of the player select choices use identical sprites of different colors just seems really lazy. If they could make a different animation for Peach over 20 years ago in SMB 2, they could do so today. I bought this game but I don’t try to pretend it’s not a cookie-cutter “New” Super Mario Bros. title.
By Austin on Nov 26, 2012
People need to stop asking them this question. I swear we hear it every time a new NSMB game comes out.
By Lasher on Nov 26, 2012
What about Daisy? hell, even Toadette.
By Shade on Nov 26, 2012
I don’t see the problem here with why she’s not playable. I’m not exactly clambering to play as Peach or anything, I’m just saying that their logic is flawed. She’s not playable because she handled differently in Super Mario Bros. 2? Does that mean Luigi still has his flutter jump then? No? Didn’t think so.
By Hejiru on Nov 26, 2012
What a dumb excuse.
By CactusHorizon on Nov 26, 2012
Okay, if they want everyone to have the same moveset, how about including Wario and Waluigi, and maybe still include one Toad? There’s nothing saying all of the characters have to be playable at the same time, and this would give a little more variety.
By thomas on Nov 26, 2012
Meh, if you get to call out Gearbox’ crap, replies get to call out Nintendo’s BS.