Princess Peach Showtime is really putting my cake decorating skills to the test. I'm suspended over a big, star-shaped lime cake on a swing, and a screen to the left shows the decorative layout I need to mirror. Peach is outfitted in her new pastry chef garb, and, armed with an oversized piping bag, I try to place blobs of cream in just the right spots. To add to the challenge, the dessert rotates below me as a timer ticks down. With more cakes to finish, I need to make quick work of this - especially if I want to complete enough of them to fill up a measuring meter and get one of the many collectible Sparkles in this stage. Not unlike the Power Moons in Super Mario Odyssey, the Sparkles can be found throughout a stage by exploring the hidden nooks and crannies of a level, completing a challenge, or interacting with my surroundings.
Once I complete the star cake just so, a different one takes its place with a more intricate design and a faster spin rate. It gets quite frantic and I lose precious seconds botching one side of the cake with a wayward line of cream.
