The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents

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Level
The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents
Album image for The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents in Princess Peach: Showtime!
Level code BF
Game Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up Mermaid Peach
Music track The Dark Sea Currents
Music sample
Normal
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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. 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 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 the two of them 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]

  1. 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.
  2. Reach the section where Mermaid Sparkla is saved from the clamshell.
  3. Beneath one of the floating snail-shaped pieces in the heavy-current section.
  4. Make all fish in the duet concert glow.
  5. Completing the concert.

Ribboner[edit]

Ribboner awards the Multicolored Mermaid Ribbon for Stella. He is trapped in a clam at the start of the stage, and will award Peach Ribbon after he is freed.

Lobby Shop stock[edit]

Special Mermaid Dress in Princess Peach: Showtime!
The dress

Completing the level, allows Peach to buy the Special Mermaid Dress for 300 coins at the Lobby Shop.

Postgame Ninja Theets[edit]

  1. Immediately after the start of the level.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japanese ヤミの深海しんかい渦巻うずま海流かいりゅう
Yami no Shinkai to Uzumaku Kairyū
 

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

French Abysses sombres et tourbillons
Dark abyss and whirlpools
Italian Oscuri abissi e correnti vorticose
Dark abyss and swirling currents
Spanish Remolinos de malguria
Swirls of darkle