The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents

Level
The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents
World	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

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

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

Image	Location
	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.
	Reach the section where Mermaid Sparkla is saved from the clamshell.*
	Beneath one of the floating snail-shaped pieces in the heavy-current section.
	Make all fish in the first three of the five sections in the duet concert glow.
	Completing the concert.*

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

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

The dress

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

Postgame hidden Ninja Theet

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

Image	Location
	Immediately after the start of the level.

Gallery

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  Pictioneer's photo of the level

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ヤミの深海しんかいと渦巻うずまく海流かいりゅう[?] 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