The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents
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| The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents | |||
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| World | BF | ||
| Game | Princess Peach: Showtime! | ||
| Primary power-up | Mermaid Peach | ||
| Music track | The Dark Sea Currents | ||
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The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located on the right on the bottom part of the basement of the Sparkle Theater. This stage becomes available after Blight of the Sea has been completed. It is the third level where the Mermaid transformation is used.
Layout[edit]
The level starts out with a strong backwind current towards Peach, although she can stand still in the current at that point of the stage. A group of whirlpools are seen in the background.
Large clamshells walk by in the background, and Peach has to start out by recruiting a school of five fish, and then have the fish open yellow floating clams where more fish are inside, to end up with 15 fish.
The clams walk by in groups of two, and Mermaid Sparkla is in the second one. As Peach and Mermaid Sparkla make an attempt to swim off, the currents get stronger, and both Peach and Mermaid Sparkla begins floating slightly backwards if they stay still.
With the current getting steadily worse, Mermaid Sparkla invites Peach to sing a duet, to encourage nearby sea turtles and fish. As the fish bounce back and forth between the two singers, the whirlpools calm down, and the problems go away.
Sparkle Gems[edit]
Sparkle Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.
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Found in a sub-area at the first section of the stage. Mermaid Peach must strike a pose to access the sub-area. To obtain the Sparkle Gem, Mermaid Peach must guide fish to open the glowing clam containing the Gem. |
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Reach the section where Mermaid Sparkla is saved from the clamshell.* |
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Beneath one of the floating snail-shaped pieces in the heavy-current section. |
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Make all fish in the first three of the five sections in the duet concert glow. |
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Completing the concert.* |
Stella ribbon[edit]
Multicolored Mermaid Ribbon: Ribboner is trapped in a green clam near the start of the stage, which flies sporadically quickly by in the upper right, and must be freed by guiding fish. He awards the Stella ribbon for Stella.
- Help request: "It's so dark in here."
- Rescue message: "You're a big help!"
Lobby Shop stock[edit]
Completing the level, allows Peach to buy the Special Mermaid Dress for 300 coins at the Lobby Shop.
Postgame Ninja Theet[edit]
The stage has one Ninja Theet when it is played in the postgame:
- Immediately after the start of the level.
Gallery[edit]
Pictioneer's photo of the level
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ヤミの Yami no Shinkai to Uzumaku Kairyū |
Dark Deep Sea and Swirling Currents | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 黑暗的深海与漩涡海流[?] Hēi'àn De Shēnhǎi Yǔ Xuánwō Hǎiliú |
Dark Deep Sea and Whirlpool Current | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 黑暗的深海與漩渦海流[?] Hēi'àn De Shēnhǎi Yǔ Xuánwō Hǎiliú |
Dark Deep Sea and Whirlpool Current | |
| Dutch | Draaikolken in de duistere diepte[?] | Whirlpools in the dark depths | |
| French | Abysses sombres et tourbillons[?] | Dark abyss and whirlpools | |
| German | Dunkle Tiefen, wirbelnde Strudel[?] | Dark Depths, swirling Whirlpools | |
| Italian | Oscuri abissi e correnti vorticose[?] | Dark abyss and swirling currents | |
| Korean | 어둠의 심해와 소용돌이치는 해류[?] Eodum-ui simhae-wa soyongdol-ichineun haeryu |
Dark Deep Sea and Swirling Ocean Currents | |
| Portuguese | As Profundezas Sombrias e os Redemoinhos[?] | The Dark Depths and the Whirlpools | |
| Russian | Глубины мрака и водовороты[?] Glubiny mraka i vodovoroty |
Depths of darkness and whirlpools | |
| Spanish | Remolinos de malguria[?] | Swirls of darkle |
