Floating Jump
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The Floating Jump (sometimes known as the Floaty Jump) is a move that allows Princess Peach to hover in midair or to descend slowly during a jump, depending on the game. It is is usually indicated by her dress billowing. In some games, she performs the Floating Jump by employing her parasol as an airfoil.
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]
The Floating Jump first appears in Super Mario Bros. 2, where the player can hold the jump button during a jump to have Peach briefly hover at a certain height. This ability was the result of Super Mario Bros. 2 being a repurposed version of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, with Peach inheriting Lina's abilities, including her jump.
Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]
This move also appears in Super Mario 3D World and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury with similar properties to those seen in Super Mario Bros. 2, though with a much shorter gliding time.
Super Mario Run[edit]
In Super Mario Run, the move works differently, as Peach slowly descends for as long as the screen is held instead of briefly hovering. Unlike most games, the Floaty Jump can be used multiple times in the air, enabling the player to toggle between normal falling and slow falling. The nature of this jump means it is the only jump that does not fill the gauge representing how inputs affect jumping in Easy Mode.
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]
In New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Toadette can use this move as Peachette in exactly the same manner as Peach does in Super Mario Run. It creates pink star effects as she travels.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder[edit]
In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Peach does not naturally have access to the Floating Jump. However, all playable characters can equip the Parachute Cap badge, which functions similarly to Peach's Floating Jump from Super Mario Run but uses a cap instead.
Super Smash Bros. series[edit]
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Peach has the ability to float. It is performed by either holding the jump button or holding up on the 
in the air, but only while Peach is not already in the middle of another action like attacking or Air Dodging. If holding the jump button causes Peach to either jump or midair jump, then the game only starts checking for floating input when the jump in question has reached its peak. The player can push down on to cancel the rising portion of a jump into floating; a corollary to this property enables the player to float directly off of the ground by holding the down as they jump by basically canceling the jump into floating just as the jump begins. Using down on is distinctly the fastest way to start floating.
While floating, Peach can move left or right, use a Midair Attack, use a Special Move, or move and attack in combination, but loses access to all other actions. Notable actions Peach cannot perform while floating include midair jumping, picking up items, throwing items, dropping items, and using Air Dodges. These restrictions are intended as a tactical advantage: fighters cannot use their Midair Attacks while holding non-Battering items because the "Attack" input is instead used for using or throwing the item, but through her ability to float Peach is able to use her Midair Attacks while holding these kinds of items. Of her special moves, Toad, Peach Bomber, and Peach Parasol all cancel the floating state while Vegetable cannot be used because the move only works while grounded. If floating is performed by holding the upward, Peach also cannot use a downward Midair Attack because that would require moving the too far downward to remain floating. Peach can only float once each time she leaves the ground, similarly to the rules for midair jumps, and thus must land to regain access to floating.
Floating has significant synergy with Vegetable, a move that grants Peach a vegetable to hold then throw at a later point, as by floating Peach can use Midair Attacks while saving a held vegetable for later. Without floating, using a Midair Attack would require throwing the vegetable first, as they follow all normal item mechanics.
Floating is present in all later games of the Super Smash Bros. series, those being Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, using the same mechanics. The player can have Peach float by holding up on the 
even if Tap Jump (in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U) or Stick Jump (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) is off. Super Smash Bros. Brawl adds Footstool Jumping to the list of actions Peach cannot perform while floating, which is retained in all later games. The rule that Down Air Attacks cannot be performed when floating if the player is floating through holding up on the remains, even if the player maps attacking as a whole to the right stick (
). Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate refer to floating as gliding in the titles of the tips about this action, as does Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Techniques menu. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Daisy is an Echo Fighter of Peach, meaning she has all of Peach's abilities. Therefore, Daisy can float.
Peach Parasol is a move where Peach jumps into the air and drifts downward slowly with her parasol. It bears a resemblance to the interpretations of the Floating Jump that use the parasol, namely Yoshi’s Island DS and Super Paper Mario. However, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Peach Parasol predate both of those games, meaning it is unlikely that the move is meant to be a Floating Jump. Daisy has her own version of this move called Daisy Parasol.
The Super Leaf, an item introduced in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, grants fighters an ability to hover or float that is broadly similar to Peach's ability. Both abilities have identical control schemes. However, the Super Leaf's effect makes the user fall very slowly instead of not falling at all, the Super Leaf's effect can be stopped and restarted in the same jump as long as the timer for floating is not empty, and using the Super Leaf's effect does not prevent fighters from using actions that floating prevents. However, using any of those actions will force the Super Leaf's effect to stop. If Peach or Daisy use a Super Leaf, the character's floating ability is used first, then once it cannot be used the Super Leaf's effect is used instead.
Yoshi's Island DS[edit]
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Baby Peach can perform this move in Yoshi's Island DS using a parasol.
Paper Mario series[edit]
Super Paper Mario[edit]
In Super Paper Mario, Peach is able to slowly descend through the air with her parasol.
Paper Mario: The Origami King[edit]
In Paper Mario: The Origami King, while falling out of Origami Castle and landing in front of her castle, Peach assumes the floating jump pose and lands safely.
NES Remix 2[edit]
NES Remix 2 includes challenges based on Super Mario Bros. 2, including using Peach and therefore her ability to float. There are five different Remix stages, six challenges overall, where Peach from Super Mario Bros. 2 is the player character in levels of Super Mario Bros. 3. In these challenges, the latter game is modified to implement Peach's ability to float from Super Mario Bros. 2.
Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge[edit]
In Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge, Mini Peach's special ability is Floating Jump. Whenever Mini Peach walks off a platform or a ledge, she glows pink and floats without losing altitude for a short period where other Mini Toys would fall directly downward. The move ends in one of three ways: Mini Peach reaching another platform, Mini Peach colliding with a wall, or the move running out of time. In the latter two cases, Mini Peach acts as all Mini Toys without ground beneath them do by falling directly downward.
The move needs to be executed in Level 6 to access Mini Peach's assigned amiibo Door by removing a Long Spring that leads to it. The door leads to Mini Peach's set of levels, Balloon Float Castle, where it makes extensive use of this ability.
Mario + Rabbids series[edit]
In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Peach performs this jump in her unlock cutscene, and when jumping off high ground in Beacon Beach and entering a new world or MegaDragonBowser's arena if she is in the party.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie[edit]
In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Peach performs a Floating Jump as she descends from the Goal Pole of the Training Course.
Profiles[edit]
- Super Mario Run Tips and Tricks: As Peach, touch and hold the screen to float for a short time.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ふわふわホバリング[1] Fuwafuwa Hobaringu |
Fluffy Hovering | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe |
| ふわふわジャンプ[2] Fuwafuwa Janpu |
Fluffy Jump | Super Mario Run | |
| Chinese | 轻飘飘悬停[3] Qīngpiāopiāo Xuántíng |
Lightly Hover | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe |
| 飄浮跳躍[?] Piāofú tiàoyuè |
Float Jump | Super Mario Run | |
| Dutch | Zweefsprong[?] | Hover jump | |
| French | Saut flottant[?] | Floating Jump | |
| German | Schwebesprung[?] | Hover jump | |
| Italian | Salto fluttuante[?] | Floating jump | Super Mario Run |
| Levitazione regale[?] | Royal levitation | Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge | |
| Salto planato[?] | Gliding jump | Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury | |
| Korean | 둥실둥실 점프[?] Dungsildungsil Jeompeu |
Buoyant Jump | |
| Portuguese | Salto flutuante[?] | Floating jump | |
| Russian | Парящий прыжок[?] Paryashchiy pryzhok |
Hovering jump | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Salto flotante[?] | Floating Jump | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Salto Flotante[?] | Floating Jump |
References[edit]
- ^ New スーパーマリオブラザーズ U デラックス : ここがデラックス！. Nintendo (Japanese). Retrieved Ma.
- ^ Notebook entry. Super Mario Run by Nintendo EPD. Nintendo.
- ^ 新 超级马力欧兄弟U 豪华版 | Nintendo Switch | 任天堂 | 腾讯. Nintendoswitch.com.cn (Simplified Chinese). Retrieved March 16, 2020.
