Dark door

Dark door
A dark door as it appears on 2F.
First appearance	Princess Peach: Showtime! (2024)
Effect	Allows Peach to enter the first four boss battles against the Darkle Bosses.

A dark door is a door seen in the maingame of Princess Peach: Showtime!. A dark door shows up in the center stairs of a floor in Sparkle Theater after the four regular levels on that floor have been completed, which Stella opens after Peach gives her some of her Sparkle Gems.

The doors work similar to ★ doors in Super Mario 64 and Mario Pinball Land in that dark doors require Sparkle Gems to open, but the Sparkle Gem requirements to open the dark doors are much more lenient than in the former two games, as it is not possible for Peach to not have enough Gems to give Stella for 1F and 2F, and very difficult to not have enough Gems for 3F, 4F and BF. For instance the known possible minimum amount of Sparkle Gems Peach can have when reaching 3F's Dark Door is 41, when the total needed to open the door is 45.

There is no dark door on 5F, to Stella's initial confusion.

Sparkle Gems given to Stella will be spent, and the required amount of Sparkle Gems collected throughout the game to reach It's Showtime, Grape! is therefore 100.

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  Stella immediately after blasting a dark door open

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  A dark door in an opened state, which is shown if Peach enters it but leaves the play before defeating the boss

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