Poll: How Many People Played as Princess Peach in SMB2?

[Cryomancer]

Absolutely. She offered the best control over your character, by far.

Screw gender roles, I too play females all the time. Especially in 3rd person games. My main character in PSO is usually a HUnewearl, and you'll get called gay by HUmar sephiroths all the time. Yes, i'm such a fag for staring at a female ass all day instead of a male one.

[Kejoriv]

Pink? I didn't care, that skank could FLOAT.

Haha. absolutely. It all depended on the level I was on. If it was a water level, I used Mario. If it was a level where you had to jump a lot, definitely the Skank.

[jcheatle]

Hell yes, I used the Princess all the time. I pretty much echo what everybody else said though, namely... Toad for the digging levels and I think it was 1-2 where you could get 12 coins or so at the end. Other than that, Luigi could jump, but I always overshot my targets, hence floating worked much better, so it depended a lot on the level.

As for gender roles, maybe it crossed my mind every now and again when I was younger, but not enough to matter. The older I get though, the more I pick female characters in games just to mess with my friends. Yes, I'm a guy and no, I'm not sure what that says about me...

[SuperShark]

WOW! I voted the truth, that I have never played this game (got 1 and 3, but have never gotten my hands an 2 and bought it) and there was only 1 other person like me. Who are you man, now you can now that you are not alone, I am with you, (woops, proably shouldnt have said that. now he wont come forward just to make sure that I never find him. never trust the crazy fat guy. even I know that, and I AM the crazy fat guy \\sigh\\).

[Jed]

I used Peach about 75% of the time, and Luigi the other 25%. Peach's floating was just too good to pass up.

[scooterb23]

100% Toad here.

[slip81]

I used to switch off between Peach and Luigi. I used them because of their floating/high jump abilities. Had nothing to do with their gender.

[GameSlaveGaz]

Good, I'm getting the responses I'm looking for: gender not being a matter of choice, but abilities.

I love you all (in a platonic way, of course)

[drewbrim]

I was about 50/50 peach and toad. I'm suprised at all the love for luigi in this thread as he was easily my least favorite character in that game. What was with his legs when he was jumping anyway?

[GameSlaveGaz]

I want to thank everyone in this thread for partaking in the poll and sharing your views on SMB2 character preferences. It really helped me out. I got the desired results too. But, alas, it is 11PM where I am, and my outline is done, so I think I will call it quits for tonight. Whatever the poll is at Sunday night I will include in my paper, since it's due Monday. The presentation isn't due until after Thanksgiving, but I have gotten a lot of requests to share the finished product and I will do.

Thanks again to all of you for your input and support. This is why I love Digital Press.

Good night, and I'll see (read) you all tomorrow!

[Jasoco]

Pretty much 100% Toadstool here. Until I discovered the warp to world 7 in world 5 I would warp to 4, play through to 5 then use Luigi on the right level for like 30 seconds just to warp then Toadstool again all the way.

[badinsults]

When I was younger, I always used the Princess, but now, it is all about Toad. He can jump higher and run faster than anyone while holding an item. He can also get the most coins in the reverse world. Princess is only useful for the aformentioned short cuts, or level 5-1.

[DTJAAAAMJSLM]

Luigi was my main character, but I'd always use Peach as backup due to her floatation power.

[videogameking26]

I did a few times. I really enjoyed playing with all characters in the game on different parts.

[dreamcaster]

I used Peach and Toad mostly. Peach for the floating and Toad because of his speed and responsiveness. Luigi came in handy on a couple levels too.

Mario was the most useless character.

[sisko]

I almost exclusively used the Princess. Sometimes I would play as Luigi or Toad just to mix things up though.

[Yam]

I ALWAYS used Princess Toadstool back in the day when I was 7 (and probably a lot more gender biased than I am now). Now I use Toad - go figure.

Off topic - is anyone else looking forward to Super Princess Peach for DS?

[Snapple]

Princess. Always.

It was because of the float thing though. Gender never played into the equation.

That, and I think she was also a faster jumper, if I remember right.

Although, Princess was also my favorite car in Mario Kart for the SNES. Though I preferred Yoshi in the N64 version. Why? I don't know.

[Chronodriftersx]

Shit yeah I used Toadstool. The world 4 with all the towers was soooo much shorter with her float.

Conversely, who the hell used Toad outside of the "digging" levels?

toad is the only one who can pick up all the coins twice on the first and second levels

[exit]

I usually always end up using her, especially for the ice levels. I usually end up mixing who I use half way through the game, because it usually never works out using just one person for me.