Nintendo confirms Mario and Peach's relationship: They are “good friends”

You once woke up and thought it was a normal day, just to find out that everything you thought you knew about reality was wrong? That's what happened I Today, when I woke up, sat down to work and read an article saying that Mario and Peach were obviously “good friends” instead of not knowing that I might have thought they were between each other.

“Peach and Princess Mario are good friends and can help each other at any time.”

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The discovery of this aggravation comes from the Nintendo Today app. The posts that originally contained this information have disappeared due to periodic updates of the app, but have since been saved in multiple locations Twitter user @kirpinkfuryinitially surfaced online. This post is a profile of Princess Peach, which includes “Peach and Princess Mario are good friends and help each other as much as possible.” Good friend, you said? What about all these times that are sure to encounter?

“Look,” you might say, “they may be good friends and have a relationship. It’s important to be friends with the one you love.” Of course, you’re right. But who is describing such a relationship? I won't refer to my husband everywhere as my “good friend”. That might confuse a few people, including him! The only conclusion I can draw is that Nintendo is trying to distance Mario and Peach from the very, very straightforward way before to show that they are at least interested in romance.

Nintendo has been very inconsistent with this for years. Peach is known as Mario's “special person” and has repeatedly proven that they have a certain degree of romantic interest to each other. Nintendo's Yoshiaki Koizumi Say it directly in the interview Until then, Mario “carried the torch” as a peach. Nintendo celebrates them Romantic couple, pink heart and everyoneat least once it was Valentine's Day. Mario even tried to propose to her at the end of Super Mario Odyssey. Although she refused at the time, she had just experienced a wild ordeal with Bowser, who tried to kidnap her and force her to marry he. If I had just been kidnapped in a forced marriage and then rescued and my boyfriend tried to propose to me on the second time I was rescued, I might have told him to hike too.

But whatever! I think they are just friends or something. Just like the link and Zelda, Two characters live together and absolutely sleep in the same bed. Next, they will try to tell me nothing happened between all those in Fire Emblem.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior journalist at IGN. You can find her post on bluesky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Is there a story tip? Send it to [email protected].