A Kung Fu Tale

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A Kung Fu Tale
Level code	Kung Fu-1
World	4F
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Kung Fu Peach
Boss	Yami no Kung Fu Master
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A Kung Fu Tale is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located in the upper right on the fourth floor of the Sparkle Theater. This stage is unlocked after clearing all of 3F. It is the first level where the Kung Fu transformation is used.

Layout

The show starts with the Yami no Kung Fu Master and the local Kung Fu training hall's teacher Theet being seen on top of a staircase to the training hall, followed by its staircase exploding. As it turns out, the Yami no Kung Fu Master and his Kung Fu Dūke students have just defeated the teacher Theet Peach, which brings down two nearby student Theets at the bottom of the staircase. Peach brighten them up with Sparkle, and lead her to a mountain sidepath.

Getting past some Kung Fu Dūke intimidating student Theets, over a bridge guarded by a Bōjutsu Dūke, and past a boulder which is destroyed by two Theets after getting encouraged by Peach's Sparkle, the Kung Fu Dūke have placed a large gate that blocks access to the mountain sidepath, as four of them taunt Peach and the Theets. Heading further right past some kung fu trials, Peach opens a different large red gate, gets past some swinging logs, and gets the Kung Fu Peach transformation. Immediately, several Kung Fu Dūke ambush her attempting to not let her get past.

Returning to the large gate, Peach kicks her way through it and heads onto a bridge with several Kung Fu Dūke in the way. Having saved a student Theet from the Kung Fu Dūke at the end of the bridge, Peach fights face-to-face with the Yami no Kung Fu Master. To beat him, Peach has to time her attacks to circular shrinking movements, similar to those in Elite Beat Agents. One successful combo will make him withdraw for now, promising they'll fight again at the training hall.

Getting through a marketplace infested with Kung Fu Dūke and then past a ravine via pillars, she finds herself in a half-circular square with one swinging pole in the middle, kicking and spinning through several Tsubonage Dūke and a horde of Kung Fu Dūke, before then moving past another ravine with pillars and Kung Fu Dūke trying to fight her. Making her way further climbing the mountainside while encountering more Kung Fu Dūke, as well as fighting a Bōjutsu Dūke on a bridge before climbing another mountain, she finds herself at the bottom of the final staircases to the training hall before getting ambushed by an army of Kung Fu Dūke and Bōjutsu Dūke.

After defeating the army, Peach reaches the gate to the training hall on top of the staircase, and meets with the teacher Theet. She then enters the training hall to fight the Yami no Kung Fu Master a second time. After one successful combo, they continue fighting on the rooftop. Performing a second combo there defeats the Yami no Kung Fu Master and ends the play.

Sparkle Gems

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

Image	Location
	Inside and to the right of the pagoda, where three Kung Fu Dūke had just been defeated.
	After getting the Kung Fu Peach transformation, head back to the second (left) training spinner and smash it.
	After destroying the boulders where Theets are trapped behind at the gate.
	Defeat the Yami no Kung Fu Master in the first fight.*
	On top of the second rooftop in the market place.
	Eight Sparkle pieces in the jump section soon after the market place.
	Defeat all Kung Fu Dūke on the ravine pillars after the fighting square.
	Found in a sub-area while climbing the mountain. Kung Fu Peach must strike a pose to access the sub-area. The Sparkle Gem is found on a high platform that can only be reached to by jumping from a pole.
	Eight Sparkle pieces near the two-floor spin pole setup. Though it is possible to get all eight pieces through spinning and jumping alone, the intended method is to head up a nearby hill and then take to the left.
	Defeat the Yami no Kung Fu Master in the second fight.*

Dress ribbon

Ribboner's location

Kung Fu Dress: Ribboner is found the far right after the two-floor spin pole, where Peach can smash through the boulder between them. He awards the Dress ribbon for Peach.

• Help request: "Li'l ol' me is stuck back here..."
• Rescue message: "That was so cool!"

Postgame hidden Ninja Theets

All three Ninja Theets are found before the Kung Fu transformation.

Image	Location
	In front of the large gray staircase, immediately after beginning the stage.
	In the town square immediately after the student Theets tell Peach to take a mountain path.
	To the right of the large red gate that leads into the log jump trial, after transforming.

Gallery

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  The half-circle fighting square

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  Pictioneer's photo of the level

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  Peach during her Kung Fu Peach transformation

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  Peach and the Teacher

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  The play's theater poster after saving 4F

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	功夫英雄伝カンフーえいゆうでん Kanfū Eiyūden	Kung Fu Heroic Tale		[?]
Chinese (Simplified)	功夫英雄传 Gōngfū Yīngxióng Chuán	Kung Fu Heroes		[?]
Chinese (Traditional)	功夫英雄傳 Gōngfū Yīngxióng Chuán	Kung Fu Heroes		[?]
Dutch	Een kungfuverhaal	A kung fu tale		[?]
French	Un conte de kung-fu	A kung fu tale		[?]
German	Eine Kung-Fu-Geschichte	A Kung Fu Story		[?]
Italian	Una favola kung fu	A kung fu tale		[?]
Korean	쿵후 영웅전 Kunghu Yeongungjeon	Kung Fu Heroes		[?]
Portuguese	Um Conto de Kung Fu	A Kung Fu Tale		[?]
Russian	Сказание кун-фу Skazaniye kun-fu	A kung fu tale		[?]
Spanish	Un relato de kung-fu	A kung fu tale		[?]