The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town
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| The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town | |||
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| World | BF | ||
| Game | Princess Peach: Showtime! | ||
| Primary power-up | Cowgirl Peach | ||
| Boss | Dark Locomotive | ||
| Music track | A Wild Showdown | ||
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The Dark Locomotive & the Doomed Town is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located in the fourth-from-left on the upper tier of the basement of the Sparkle Theater. This stage becomes accessible after clearing Cowgirl at Dusk. It is the third level where the Cowgirl Peach transformation is used.
Layout
The show starts with Cowgirl Peach jumping near-immediately onto the Horse that is standing nearby, taking up the chase on a train route with two lanes besides, towards Sour Bunch members on horsebacks and a train they're operating.
Having surpassed the train, Peach rescues Cowgirl Sparkla from the pole she was tied to.
With the Horse and the Cowgirl Sparkla having set up a three-wagon ride to get across broken and wonky bridges, they make a great leap across a canyon, with Peach ending up in a small corrupted village ahead. After getting across the village's four buildings, Peach jumps back onto the horse, then jumps off again to three slowly sinking platforms as the train catches up with them, then gets back onto the horse again.
With the train now right behind them, Peach catches and throws barrels at the train's front with her lasso, getting across the final jump, with train falling down the canyon in the middle. The locomotive now catches up to Peach, instead of the other way around, as Peach has to grab floating barrels and thrown them at the front of the locomotive, to keep it at bay long enough for one final jump, with the locomotive crashing into the canyon soon after.
Loss outcomes
If Peach and the horse is on the wrong lane (Top or bottom lane) when she is supposed to line up with the pole-bound Cowboy Sparkla in the center lane, they will run into the right end of the scene and lose 1 HP, resetting Peach to some seconds before the lineup.
Sparkle Gems
Sparkle Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.
- Between two rocks in Lane Two, circa when Peach has caught up with the first box of the rearmost carriage.
- Rescuing the Cowgirl Sparkla.*
- A backroom pose elevator is found to the right of the buildings before the broken bridge. Defeating four Sour Bunch gunmen will award the Gem.
- Defeat the box-carrying Sour Bunch horse rider before the second broken bridge, with the lasso.
- Doing particularly well at throwing barrels at the locomotive in the final section.
Ribboner
Ribboner is found underneath the third building of the village after the great leap. He awards the Multicolored Cowgirl Ribbon for Stella.
- Help request: "I'm stuck in here!"
- Rescue message: "Whew! That was close!"
Lobby Shop stock
Completing the level allows Peach to buy the Special Cowgirl Dress for 300 coins at the Lobby Shop.
Postgame Ninja Theet
- In the start of the second section, on top of the nearest bridge pole before jumping up on the three horse wagons.
Gallery
The horse as she appears at the start of the level
Cowgirl Sparkla posing at the end of the level
Pictioneer's photo of the stage
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ヤミの Yami no Ressha to Hōkai no Machi |
Dark Train and Collapsing Town | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 黑暗的列车与崩坏的城镇[?] Hēi'àn De Lièchē Yǔ bēnghuài De Chéngzhèn |
Dark Train and Collapsing Town | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 黑暗的列車與崩壞的城鎮[?] Hēi'àn De Lièchē Yǔ bēnghuài De Chéngzhèn |
Dark Train and Collapsing Town | |
| Dutch | De duistere locomotief[?] | The dark locomotive | |
| French | Train sombre et ville condamnée[?] | Dark train and doomed city | |
| German | Der Zug und die bedrohte Stadt[?] | The Train and the threatened City | |
| Italian | La corsa della locomotiva oscura[?] | The race/ride of the dark locomotive | |
| Korean | 어둠의 열차와 무너지는 마을[?] Eodum-ui yeolchawa muneojineun ma-eul |
Dark Train and Collapsing Town | |
| Portuguese | A Locomotiva Sombria e o Povoado[?] | The Dark Locomotive and the Town | |
| Russian | Поезд мрака и угроза городу[?] Po'yezd mraka i ugroza gorodu |
Train of darkness and a threat to the city | |
| Spanish | Asalto al tren de la malguria[?] | Assault on the darkle train |
