This surprising message took a particularly long time to get from Nintendo’s home country of Japan to us in Germany: Nintendo was already working on one in 2008 evil variant of the otherwise exclusively loving Princess Peach. Also a Apparently, the design of the evil Peach already existed, but Nintendo veteran and Mario father Shigeru Miyamoto balked at this unusual idea and rejected the whole project. How the evil Peach was planned and what else happened at Nintendo around 15 years ago is revealed in a Japanese interview from that time that has now surfaced again.
Old Nintendo interview surfaced
The interview was conducted at the time with shugo takahashi, today’s Vice President of Camelot Software. The company has been working for Nintendo for decades and draws for well-known ones Nintendo classic like Mario Golf, Mario Tennis and the role-playing game Golden Sun.
Nintendo wanted to create Walupeach
A Twitter user named GSK, who seems to be well connected in the gaming scene judging by the content he shares on the platform, shared the 2008 Japanese interview recently and translated the main points into English. So we learn that the evil Princess Peach was planned back then as the equivalent of Wario and Waluigi, so it should be one Walupeach will.
Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t want to
As the suggestion to the Mario inventor Shigeru Miyamoto was submitted but he immediately refused – without himself that already existing design to look at at all. His reasoning: A Walupeach would be one anyway too closely resemble a character named Doronjo. She’s the evil leader in the Yatterman series, a Anime from the late 19070s.
No Walupeach for Nintendo fans
However, according to Shugo Takahashi, the evil princess would have Walupeach doesn’t resemble the anime character at all. This is a pity, especially for those passionate Nintendo fans who have had one for a long time great sympathy for Luigi antagonist Waluigi cherish The lanky character from the Mario universe is very popular and has made many appearances in Mario games such as Mario Kart 8 or various Mario sports games. One Walupeach might have achieved similar popularity be able.
