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DS Daily: Guilty pleasures
You know what we're talking about. Everyone has that game that they just absolutely love that their friends don't quite understand. Maybe you're surrounded by Madden fans, but you just can't get enough of Super Princess Peach. Maybe you love Pokemon, even though everyone you know thinks it's silly. Sometimes, you love something so much that you just don't care what anyone thinks. What is it for you?
Mario & Peach can't shake gender stereotypes
Serious Games Source offers some heady insights into the designs of DS's Super Princess Peach and New Super Mario Bros. Despite North American and European marketing efforts to mask sexist overtones, it should be clear to anyone who's played Peach -- and succeeded using her emotions -- that the game perpetuates certain stereotypes about women. Gonzalo Frasca writes, "What is shocking is that from all the possible design options available, the creators of this game had to frame the princess as an emotionally unstable person."Digging deeper, Frasca discovers that Mario has also failed to avoid cultural imprints. Where Peach focuses on a woman's bursting emotions, NSMB follows a size-obsessed man searching for that "mega mushroom" to make himself ginormous; and thereby invincible.[Via GameSetWatch]
The REAL party is in my DS
We're not based in Kansas City, which isn't so much a bad thing, but it does keep us from receiving certain newspapers on a regular basis. One writer for the Kansas City Star had a few things to say about the DS Lite and a certain game for it known as Super Princess Peach. Stating that she "never thought I'd be one of those people who would choose a video game over a party," Jeneé Osterheldt has first-hand felt the fever we all so frequently fail from: Nintendo fever.So whether you want to consider her personal experience a downward spiral of self-loathing and disgust akin to how one gets hooked on, and subsequently dies from, drugs or a clever look at the appeal of gaming in the modern world, it's all an interesting read.[Via Go Nintendo]
March NPD Sales Chart reveals rampant heroine addiction
Though it's devoid of the actual numbers we know and love, the NPD group has released a list of the top 20 best-selling US games for the merry month of March. The list isn't terribly exciting, but it does reveal a shocking and unspeakable truth about Nintendo gamers. They've been purchasing copies of Metroid Prime: Hunters and Super Princess Peach, playing the games in grimy alleys, their depraved faces lit up only by the flicker of two LCD screens. All that for a shameful heroine fix. The Top 20 best-selling titles for March according to NPD: Kingdom Hearts II (PS2) Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (360) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360) Black (PS2) MLB 06: The Show (PS2) Fight Night Round 3 (PS2) Black (Xbox) The Godfather: The Game ( PS2) Fight Night Round 3 (360) God of War (PS2) Metroid Prime: Hunters (DS) Sonic Riders (GCN) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) Super Princess Peach (DS) The Godfather: The Game (Xbox) Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) Fight Night Round 3 (Xbox) Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) 24: The Game (PS2) Burnout Revenge (360)
