The Dark Ice & the Shadowy Stage

Level
The Dark Ice & the Shadowy Stage
World	BF
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Figure Skater Peach
Boss	Large Icicle summoned from Yami no Top Skater
Music track	Into The Darkness
Music sample
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The Dark Ice & the Shadowy Stage is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, and is the third and last level where Peach uses the Figure Skater Peach transformation. This stage becomes available after A Parade on Ice has been completed.

Layout

The level starts out with Peach in her Figure Skater transformation, skating rightwards and up towards an ice rink where seven Sour Bunch members stand in the way. They do however not need to be defeated to enter the portal that is past them.

Once Peach has passed through the resulting portal, she finds herself in a third bout with the Yami no Top Skater, this time under different rules than in the previous two bouts: Sour Bunch figure skater will spawn falling large icicles that Peach must avoid, in order for her to spin him around with pair dancing, during which time she has to spin or jump at snowflakes. Doing so at five snowflakes frees the Figure Skater Sparkla.

As a result of the icicles that fell during the bout, all the other icicles in the level are beginning to fall down too, leading to Peach and Figure Skater Sparkla having to flee from the icicles together.

On the advice of Figure Skater Sparkla, the escape section relies heavily on yellow spin jump snowflakes, to jump up to and across both tall and long obstacles, before escaping to safety. Some parts of the section also have blue snowflakes, with which Peach can lift Figure Skater Sparkle above her head for a double pirouette that can defeat Sour Bunch members even while the members themselves are spinning.

Sparkle Gems

Sparkle Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

Image	Location
	Defeating the seven Sour Bunch members in the initial skate rink.
	A basement pose platform is found on a platform on the left, immediately before the portal after the initial skate rink. Peach must then succeed at matching the five snowflakes.
	Collect eight Sparkle pieces during a chicane part of the escape section.
	On high ground before the ending sequence. Figure Skater Peach must backtrack a little bit to reach the Sparkle Gem.
	Finishing the show.*

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

Multicolored Figure Skater Ribbon: After the initial skate rink, if the right sidepath is taken before heading into the front portal, Ribboner will be found laying down with two Sour Bunch skaters circling him. He awards the Stella ribbon after being rescued.

• Help message: "Everything's spinning!"
• Rescue message: "Quite the dizzying spin you've got there!"

Postgame Ninja Theet

The stage has one Ninja Theet when it is played in the postgame:

• During the Sparkle piece part of the escape section, in the lower path between the sixth and seventh Sparkle pieces.

Gallery

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  Pictioneer's photo of the stage

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ヤミの氷塊ひょうかいと黒くろい舞台ぶたい[?] Yami no Hyōkai to Kuroi Butai	Dark Chunk of Ice and Black Stage
Chinese (simplified)	黑暗的冰块与黑色舞台[?] Hēi'àn De Bīngkuài Yǔ Hēisè Wǔtái	Dark Ice Cube and Black Stage
Chinese (traditional)	黑暗的冰塊與黑色舞台[?] Hēi'àn De Bīngkuài Yǔ Hēisè Wǔtái	Dark Ice Cube and Black Stage
Dutch	Schaduwpodium op het duistere ijs[?]	The shadow podium on the dark ice
French	Glace sombre et scène obscure[?]	Dark ice and dark stage
German	Dunkles Eis und finstere Bühne[?]	Dark Ice and Dark Stage
Italian	Il palco oscuro sul ghiaccio[?]	The dark stage on ice
Korean	어둠의 얼음덩어리와 검은 무대[?] Eodum-ui eoreumdeong'eori-wa geomeun mudae	Dark Ice and Black Stage
Portuguese	O Rinque Sombrio e os Sincelos[?]	The Dark Rink and the Rime Ices
Russian	Ледопад и каток мрака[?] Ledopad i katok mraka	Icefall and skating rink of darkness
Spanish	Sobre hielo y malguria[?]	On ice and darkle