Awesome / Princess Peach: Showtime!

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• After Madame Grape and the Sour Bunch take over the theater Peach, who saw this whole calamity unfold, decides right away to help Stella to save the day and the plays! Now that's being a heroine.
• The trailer reveals that Peach is going to have fights with a sword and through martial arts.^note Outside of sporting events, she also used barehanded slaps in Super Mario RPG.
• The Sparklas may all be imprisoned, but one single constant remains between all of them to show why they were the original leads for their plays: the moment Peach frees them or enables them to break out of their own accord, they get right back to work. Violent guards? Trapped exits? Collapsing stages? These real actors will perform come hell or high water.
  • When saving your first Sparkla, the Swordfighter, he's freed from the Darkle binding him after Peach apparently deals the final blow to the giant crowned knight guarding him. But as she approaches the Theet, he suddenly scowls as the crowned knight tries a sneak attack on Peach. The Swordfighter Sparkla stops the giant sword bigger than Peach's whole body with his rapier one-handed, showing just why the Sparklas are so admired and why Grape specifically sequestered them in separate prisons.
  • The Detective Sparkla is mostly hands-off, trusting in Peach's instincts to figure out the solutions to each of the puzzles that remain, and only directly interfering to ensure she continues making progress. If one pays close attention, it's clear he knows the plays he performs in like the back of his hand, sussing out the faulty details at least as fast as a competent player can hope to.
  • The Mighty Sparkla has been freed for about ten to fifteen seconds tops before a meteor shower threatens to smash him, Peach and the Professor into flaming rubble. He's the one that calms the Professor down before he and Peach launch to stop the shower, and he has the distinct honor of being a rock-smashing projectile in this performance, showing that his "Mighty" label isn't for show. Props to the Professor, though, for having the stones to come with Peach in the first place.
• Despite being non-combative, Detective Peach gets a moment in her second level that puts her on par with Sherlock in Game of Shadows, successfully foiling a bomb threat in the town clock tower. With very little time to defuse it, she instead throws it out of a window and into a river right before it goes off!
• You would think that there couldn't possibly be anything awesome about Pâtissière Peach since all she does is bake sweets. Well in her second level, those sweets prove tasty enough to purify zombified Theets back to normal just by eating them! That's right, Peach prevents a Zombie Apocalypse...by baking!
• The second Cowgirl Peach level has Peach foiling the Sour Bunch's train robbery. The level goes all out in the presentation. Peach chases the train on horseback, jumps onto the roof of the moving train, and makes her way to the front while the Sour Bunch blast holes in the roof and uncouple the train cars to slow her down, before finally jumping back in the saddle and taking out the engine before it crashes into a nearby town. It's right out of the climax of a Western movie.
• Swordfighter Peach defeating the Crowned Knight that's three times her size, not once but twice. Then when it comes back for a sneak attack as mentioned above, she synchronizes with the Sparkula (that she just met mind you) in a combo attack that vanquishes her adversary once and for all.
• The final battle has Peach gaining two super modes in Radiant Peach and Super Radiant Peach, powered by all the hopes of the Theets wishing that she gives them a happy ending against Grape the Great with a Kamehameha-styled finisher that would make even Goku proud. Peach truly has come a long way from being the mere Damsel in Distress.