Luigi's Mansion 3

Luigi's Mansion 3
"Guests! Welcome to The Last Resort! I hope you enjoy your stay! I daresay you'll remember it for the rest of your lives! Ha ha ha..." — Hellen Gravely
Protagonist(s): Luigi Gooigi Genre(s): Action-adventure Horror Platform(s): Nintendo Switch Release: October 31, 2019 Developer(s): Next Level Games Publisher(s): Nintendo Country: Canada Series: Mario Predecessor: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Successor: Luigi's Mansion 2 HD (Nintendo Switch, by release date)

Luigi's Mansion 3 is a 2019 adventure game released for the Nintendo Switch. It is the sequel to Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and is overall the third game in the Luigi's Mansion series. It was developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo.

Plot

Luigi, along with Mario, Princess Peach, and three toads receives an invitation to "The Last Resort", a luxurious hotel. They all decide to take a vacation at the hotel and set off to it, with Luigi bringing his ghost dog called "Polterpup" with him. After checking in and having their rooms assigned by Hellen Gravely, the owner of the hotel, Luigi falls asleep while reading a book, only to be awoken by Peach screaming. He discovers that Mario, Peach, and the toads have gone missing and that the luxurious design was just an illusion, the hotel is actually haunted.

Luigi exits his room, where Hellen Gravely appears, along with King Boo, in the hall. Gravely reveals that she freed King Boo and that they trapped his friends in portraits. King Boo then chases after Luigi to also trap him in a portrait, but he escapes through a laundry chute. The chute leads him to the basement of the hotel, where he finds the newest Poltergust model, the Poltergust G-00 with the help of Polterpup. With the Poltergust G-00, Luigi sets off to find his friends and to defeat King Boo and Gravely.

Why It Brings New Friends

1. Luigi's move set is significantly improved with new abilities, such as slamming ghosts to further damage them and shooting a plunger that can stick to objects.
2. The graphics and textures are just as semi-realistic as Super Mario Odyssey and the eventual Paper Mario: The Origami King.
   • Speaking of Super Mario Odyssey and Paper Mario: The Origami King, the graphics themselves are very beautiful and excellent, which almost feels like a modern Pixar film.
3. Abundance of replay value for a game that could potentially last for 12 1/4 hours. That's longer than Super Mario Galaxy.
4. Piles and piles of humor and references. In fact, when King Boo is dazed after you fight him, floating crescents can be seen, making a subtle reference to Dark Moon.
5. Portrait Ghosts make a return from Luigi's Mansion.
6. Tones of different bosses, in addition to the basic Portrait Ghosts bosses, there are also four other Portrait Ghosts bosses that guards Luigi's Portrait friends who have multiple phases.
7. Polterpup returns as well, and he's still as adorable as ever. For some reason he doesn't have pupils like the last game. In this game, he helps Luigi out on his adventure while also being how a dog would act to.
8. Portrait ghosts make a return from the original Luigi's Mansion, now called "Boss Ghosts" and they have more expressions and personality, also giving the game lots of personality.
   • These ghosts are now harder to defeat then the one's from Luigi's Mansion as they feel like bosses, most of them at least.
9. Each floor of the Last Resort has its own unique feeling and genre. Even the music for when you catch the boss ghosts changes based on your location.
10. It is the game with the most amount of puzzles, requiring you to think to your best to solve them. (If you can't use your brain, then good freaking luck trying to solve them on your own.)
11. E. Gadd doesn't call as much as he did in the last game, but when he does, you'll hear an awesome ringtone. Although at the same time, it can feel like he doesn't call enough.
12. More multiplayer options than the last game. With the DLC it expands even further, adding different floors, costumes and ghosts in Scarescraper.
13. Gooigi is introduced to allow for local multiplayer and new forms of puzzle solving. Not only that, but Gooigi's voice is actually pretty cool.
14. Balance difficulty, not too easy, not too hard.
15. Incredible soundtrack.
16. A gigantic mansion that is even bigger than the one in the first Luigi's Mansion. Generally speaking, the "mansion" is actually a haunted hotel.
17. Memorable quotes such as during the intro with Luigi saying "Wowie Zowie!" a pond seeing the Hotel.
18. King Boo is at his best here:
    • First off, he's has developed as a villain quite a lot; he went from just being a final boss because the series needs one, to a terrifying, no-nonsense menace that only Luigi can defeat.
    • King Boo is also easily the second most expressive character in the game (behind Luigi, of course). Usually, he only has a creepy smile, even when he's been captured. Here, however, he's also been given a confused look (seen before the final battle) for more personality, and an angry scowl to genuinely look scary.

Bad Qualities

1. Even though they're memorable and feel like bosses, the boss fights are wildly inconsistent in difficulty, one moment a boss ghost can give you a good challenge, and then the next one would be extremely easy.
2. Too little basic ghost variety in comparison to the last few games. There's 7 basic ghost types but of which, there are 2 that are just tiny versions of Goobs and Hammers, and the door ghost only appears at specific sections. Trappers are extremely rare for basic ghosts and they seem to only exist to complete the GHOST acronym Nintendo went for. The Goob ghosts are the ones to appear the majority of the time.
   • These basic ghosts have somewhat less personality then the ones from Dark Moon, as besides the Goobs and Hammers, we don't see the other ghosts interact much.
   • Youtuber, The Red Guy in his review of Luigi's Mansion 3 state that in his second 100% playthough of the game, he fought 28 Hammers, 24 Oozers, 30 Slinkers, 5 Trappers and 45 Mini Hammers, but the number of Goobs he fought is 221, while the Mini Goobs he fought are over 278.
3. The Gem tracker is at best, a vague indicator one what area you need to look in. but sadly, it does not help with telling you where the gem locations are, which is made worse when some area's only has 1 section like the Lobby or Museum floor's. The gems themselves can be annoying to find in some areas due to the poor camera angles or due to being able to be lost without you knowing it when you first play a floor.
4. There are multiple floors to explore, but a few of them may feel too short to some people. These short rooms have potential in what they can be, but they are crammed into these 1-3 room spaces. The museum in particular had much more potential then Nintendo gave.
5. The Super Suction, while cool to mess around with, feels completely unnecessary as you only need to use it once to advance the game, while the other two instances where you use it, you only need it for gems.
6. Some padding issues are present:
   1. The two segments involving Polterkitty felt like they were included to pad out the game, each time you need to go to a different floor to get rid of her tails. It is especially troublesome in the 2nd encounter where you need to go to three separate floors to defeat her for good.
   2. When you go to the Boilerworks for the second time, you need to go find Toad and acquire the upgrade you need to get the super suction. Since you only need to use the super suction once to advance the story, this section felt tacked on to prolong the game. However unlike Polterkitty, there are at least new areas you can explore here on your second visit and you don't have to trek through multiple floors.
7. After the fight against Captain Fishook, the game decided to ditch the Portrait Ghost boss keeping hold of Luigi's friends by having King Boo take away the Peach Painting from Hellen Gravely, resulting in Peach being the only one to not be guard by a Portrait Ghosts boss.

Reception

Much like its predecessors, Luigi's Mansion 3 was met with critical acclaim and is considered to be the best Luigi's Mansion game to date.

Trivia

• Unlike its predecessors, Luigi's Mansion 3 is the first game in the series to date to take place in a haunted hotel, instead of an actual mansion.
• To coincide with the upcoming announcement, and release of this game, the 2018 remake of Luigi's Mansion released on the Nintendo 3DS.

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