I have a feeling the reason why Luigi’s Mansion is such a basic game is that it was meant to be more of a tech demo, kind of like how Wii Sports was executed. That being said, if Luigi’s Mansion is an overglorified tech demo, then it is the best tech demo I’ve ever played.

2013: 4 players can play online with decent frame rate in Dark moon. 2018: 2 players struggle to keep the frame rate in local mode.

I'm surprised that 3D wasn't listed as a potential reason why Luigi's Mansion was remade on 3DS. The original game had a planned 3D add-on.

Oh my word its tearing me up that so many people who line this game dont know that the closer you are, the longer the ghosts are stunned for. EGAD SAYS IT IN THE TUTORIAL i shouldn't be this mad but I am

“Luigi never has anything interesting to say” Literally every Luigi’s Mansion review i’ve ever seen disagrees with you. In fact I often see Luigi’s commentary as a feature that people specifically love about the game.

Luigi is just scared stiff. Thats why he walks around like that. It makes me think of an image of a kid frozen standing in place. Looking terrified with a flashlight in his hand. Then imagine that frozen look as the kid also walks stiffly. I belive this is how they decided Luigi walking animation would look like.

"Absence of particle effects?" The dust Luigi kicks up is a particle effect.

When sonic 2006 gets compared to Luigi mansion, I mean it proves your point but that’s something I never thought I see

I've never felt metroidvania vibes from LM at all, just like... family friendly nintendo resident evil vibes

>totally normal start of a review >calls it "cringey" while doing a Shrek voice

I'd argue Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon still looks good to this day.

Why did he spend so much time to compare Luigi’s Mansion to a metroidvania when it is not a metroidvania? The game doesn’t need huge exploration or alternate routes to be replayable because it’s flat out fun, plus it has the ranks for collecting treasures. To get the best rank requires exploring the entire mansion to find speedy spirits, golden mice, and the 50 boos to get one of only two giant diamonds.

Luigi's Mansion 2.5: The professor invents a time machine in order to play test Gooigi in preparation for Luigi's Mansion 3. The game ends when he gathers enough data to fix the frame rate issue.

Idk if I can personally agree entirely about the whole “Plenty of ideas but master of none” ideology here. I have a feeling that Luigi’s Mansion wasn’t made to be a like a Metroid game... Like at all. Sure, the idea you proposed would maybe make a fun fan hack, (Luigi’s Mansion Randomizer, maybe?) but I believe what they were going for was the right idea. Guide the player through the Mansion with cookie crumbs and reward the player with little bonuses if the player chooses to explore a bit further off the path. You also brought up the Rank System, and bragged about how you scored an A Rank. That’s nice, but it’s not just a Ranking System. It’s also a High Score System, and definitely encourages to always go for the high score for those sweet bragging rights. Sure, anyone can get an A Rank, but what about prioritizing tactics to beat your own high score? Yes, the game gives you a Lot of Health, but if you try to get the high score, any hit will make you loose coins, and the consequence for failure is raised, and gives you the option to save your dropped cash at the risk of being hit and losing more. You also mentioned that the game becomes more and more tedious the more you play, giving fighting the boos as an example, and that’s when I kind of rolled my eyes. Luigi’s Mansion’s combat is very simple, but has a lot of hidden tech. Over subsequent playthroughs, players might discover that mashing the control stick in the opposite direction can actually be utilized with the regular tug mechanics to completely obliterate the ghost’s hp, and might even fully knock out the toughest portrait ghosts, even on the normal Mansion. Players might also pick up on Boo Pumping, and Boo Blocking, Which are incredibly useful tech to master as they pretty much solve the Boo chasing problem. This tech basically freezes the Boo in place for you to do major damage, and, though Boos with 300 hp will probably break free from the exploit, the Boo Room Blocking tech can be used to make it stay in the same room. It makes the tedious act of normally catching boos make you feel awesome when you manage to catch a 300hp Boo without ever having it flee the room. There’s more techniques too, but I’m already off topic. I also disagree with the complaint of the 3DS hidden Mansion being too hard on health. I actually love how grueling hard it is, and I believe the lack of Hearts really makes it stand out. In fact, I would have probably liked it a lot less if there were just Hearts I could go back and rely on. It makes every instinctive decision seem a lot more impactful knowing I’ll only be able to heal every few rooms by using skill to take out many ghosts at once. I like to think of the 3DS Hidden Mansion as an exclusive Club, for those who have the game on a complete lockdown, for the masters. This isn’t a mode that scrubs can just walk into. This is where you go for the Ultimate Luigi’s Mansion Challenge. That being said, uh, no offense, but you didn’t look quite ready for that quite yet. Again, There’s a lot of enemy manipulation and planning that goes into the matchups in the hidden Mansion, and, well, if you just had problems catching more than one ghost at once, then maybe that’s the problem. I have no problem with the controls on the GC version, and kind of face palmed when you said that the best strategy is to turn off the flashlight and flash em quick... YES. That IS how you are supposed to do it. If you shine the ghosts too far away, they won’t be stunned as long, and is how multiple can get away even before you tried to suck them. It’s a mechanic of the game that adds risk versus reward, and makes goons like Gold Ghosts and Purple Punchers require very different strategies to get the hearts. It requires baiting them and taking full advantage of being as close to them as possible to get the multi Suck that basically is the only thing that heals you in the 3DS hidden Mansion. It’s a very important mechanic. ... Oh man, I’ve been writing a while... I’m so sorry I’m so off topic. I guess what I was going to say is that sometimes, you don’t need to be the master of a trait to be a good game. Luigi’s Mansion is about the Breadcrumb experience that lets players poke around the bushes for some extra rewards. It’s not supposed to be a revolutionary game. It’s just fun to be roaming around in this giant house, fighting some goonies, getting showered with money, beating the game in a night trying to beat your high score every year around halloween. Yeah, some parts of the game is simple, and I think that’s exactly what they were going for. Sure, it CAN be expanded upon, but what’s here is what I think that all the game needs to just be a fun time.

*Remake or reupload*

I have a hard time understanding the parallels being drawn between Luigi's Mansion and Super Metroid. The two games share almost nothing in common. I don't mind that you're expressing a preference in design, however it just seems to me that you're perturbed at an apple for not being an orange.

35:02 "Before passing out due to obesity and heart disease." Reupload or not, this is still the funniest line and never fails to get me laughing.

“Luigi has nothing interesting to say” Compared to who? Mario? Aside from pasta, he rarely shows his thoughts on anything. I honestly find Luigi’s character more entertaining, and he actually HAS character! He has refined tastes (its a painting, but I wouldn’t call it art), he’s not a fan of the Nursery’s look(now that’s just not my style/this looks like it’d break if I sit on it), and he even calls out E. Gadd for his failures! (Way to go genius. Have you got a hold of that thing yet?) We can even learn that he had a rocking horse in his childhood by scanning one. In what other situation would we learn these facets of Luigi’s personality?

Can we get a Remake or Rebreak episode comparing this video to the original upload?

33:46 Game: A little girl died in her sleep Exo: I WANT MORE DETAILS

*picks hair on screen for entire review* "oh that's just your background."

“Good luck dying to this boss” uh huh. Yeah I probably won't ever die to King Boo...

TGX: Reuploads review because of a critical mistake that wasn't caught Exo: Fuckin pixels. (I'm only playing around)

15:20 The reason that sometimes ghosts disappear is because its actually random chance. To get higher luck, you have to shine it closer to the ghost

Again I’ll repost that me playing Garfield Kart naked is the notn

In the original Luigi's Mansion (and presumably also the 3DS remake), ghosts had more flashlight stun the closer you were to them when the beam hit them. If you walked toward them with the light on, it would hit them at the farthest possible point from Luigi and they'd escape instantly. Holding it off and getting close and then turning it on guaranteed a catch. You could also point it away from them and let them approach you and then turn around and shine it on them when they were close.

As for the finale, yeah with the lore behind boos in the series, it makes more sense for King Boo to do something cowardly and use Bowser’s body than to fight you head on like in later games. It’s a creative use of the Koopa king, foreshadowed in the story, one of the much better Bowser twists in the series.

REUPLOADED because KZfaq never enabled 4K on the original upload. I'll keep that in mind for future reviews so we don't have this problem again. Anyways, enjoy the Ultra HD! 2K (1440p) looks really good on most smartphones. If you're watching on PC, you can watch in 2K or 4K even if your monitor is only 1080p for higher quality than you'll get on the 1080p mode.

lack of particle effects? imsorrywhatthefuck? the original had a LOT of particle effects that would severely slow down the 3ds (like the dust, little glitters the gold makes, and ghost particles.) I don't know that Grezzo entirely had a choice when it came to using the Dark Moon controls, but I can't confirm that, but assuming he didn't that's not a huge deal for me, I guess. I disagree that Luigi's thoughts are uninteresting. I feel his thoughts on specific items (unless it uses repeated text) is a very interesting study into his character. I think the game is SUPPOSED to be a calm atmospheric haunted mansion experience, and I love the atmosphere and how calming the mansion itself is so much that I play the game again every October when I'm not watching scary movies. Portrait ghosts each have unique personalities, which I feel adds to the atmosphere I feel is the main focus. They seem like stock characters, but if memory serves (and it might not, I tend to forget most things almost immediately) you can find diaries and uncover dialogue by scanning the heart of the bosses. The ones who lived together did live together wherever they come from, but were captured by E. Gadd, and placed in portraits. Creating this mansion and releasing the ghosts from the paintings, the ghosts now have a pretty nice place to live seeing as wherever they come from is likely either destroyed or far away. Totally agree on the Boos though, but I do like their silly names. I also agree on the spoilery thing at the end of the game. I knew about the bronze to gold portraits to begin with, discovering it slowly on my own when I noticed some of the images in the gallery weren't the same as when I played before. I feel like it SHOULD have been rereleased on Switch, and I would have gotten the remake in that case, but I'm going to pass on this one. Sorry about the paragraph, I love this game is all. Mostly for the mansion itself, I think.

The fun aspect of replaying Luigi's Mansion is to get a better score by finding more treasure, to get all gold portraits and in the case of the 3DS version that is much better, get all achievements, get all tier houses, get the platinum portraits that are honestly super hard to get because the new hidden mansion is legit hard

46:00 leaving through the front door and returning refills your health bar FYI also the hidden mansion in the 3DS version is just a copy of the hidden mansion of the PAL GCN version. Same ghosts, same spawn locations.

15:13 E. Gadd says in the tutorial that the further you are away from the ghosts when you stun them, they can disappear more easily.

It's sad that real time shadows are gone on this 3ds version. :(

Luigi’s Mansion is one of my all time favourite games

The reason the ghosts disappear is because of when and where you shine the flashlight. If a ghost gets stunned by the widest part of the flashlight it will disappear, if a ghost gets stunned by the smallest part of the flashlight (the tip of the flashlight) then the ghost will be stunned for way longer. I would recommend holding B and go up to a ghost then shine it. Hope this helps

Hi, I know why the ghosts sometimes blip out of existance when you shine your light on them. The closer you are to them the longer theyre stunned. That being said if you hit them with the fat side of the cone they'll flee faster than with the tip of the cone from the base of the flashlight :) love your videos, keep up the good work

By now, you've more than likely heard it a few times, but just to make sure you know, in order to have better chances catching ghosts, you need to be close to the ghost. The further you are from the ghost, the shorter the stun lasts before the ghost disappears. I don't remember if it was E. Gadd who mentions it or if it's somewhere in the rule book, but I'm pretty sure that it is mentioned somewhere.

"Luigi never have interesting stuff to say" This shows me that you are completelly out of touch with why people love this game in the first place

"They probably made the game for the aging 3DS market, to give them something to play." Also "They should only make 3DS games with the original 7 year old hardware in mind, and make nothing using the current newer, easier to obtain, hardware in mind."

How long did this take to export? The quality is INSANE.

The flashlight thing is something I didn't know until this year. It has to do with spacing. The smaller the distance between the ghost and the flashlight, the longer they stay stunned and vacuumable before disappearing.

Can you make a ROR about Mario & Luigi Bowsers inside Story + Bowser jr’s journey since that just came out in America

This Reupload REPLACED the original Upload of this video ;)

Plot twist: It’s cause they were working on Luigi’s mansion 3

Man, I REALLY want a partners in time review. Hope you make it in the future. Also, what you were saying about the game around halfway through the video is why I love the PAL hidden mansion so much.

I think this episode is a little unfair to how much you wanted the remake to be on the Switch. That argument alone can take away points from the 3DS version as well. The reason it was madr for 3DS was because the game was planned to be in Stereoscopic 3D, but was cut. Now that we have the 3D, along with the Dark Moon engine, that can happen.

Actually you can heal yourself on hidden mansion by going back to the lab lol

Would you consider doing Remake or Rebreaks of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy or Spyro Reignited Trilogy?

Honestly, I love this game. I'm fine with everything the gamecube has going but I agree with the 3DS remake having a framerate issue in co-op and the new hidden mansion buuuuut...I think It's fine with me honestly, the co-op framerate is bad, sure but I don't think It's that bothering when you both have to deal with it. The download speed is bad aswell I admit, the hidden mansion is way too difficult with the health replenishment I agree with that aswell but as far as I know Luigi's Mansion has only done me dirty 2 times and that's the things mentioned above

You should do the following: ROR: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask vs. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D ROR: Star Fox 64 vs. Star Fox 64 3D

Forget X&Y still being full price Heartgold and Soulsilver is still FULL PRICE

I sincerely laughed my ass off for several minutes at how casually you brought up Mr. Luggs passing out due to "obesity and heart disease." Never change, my dude. 😂

Honestly, this game was something that really expected you to play on a New 3Ds because I tested co-op and single player on the New one and the fps drops arent even bad. Plus co op actually doesnt lag that much on New 3Ds so this is pretty dumb.

They arent doing the Luigi Mansion remake for Switch because they are making a new Luigi Mansion for the console (Luigi Mansion 3, of course). Why put out an appetizer when the main course is coming out soon enough?

The game literally does tell you about pearls, by showing them, you get them for Neville and his wife, then none for Chauncey before seeing they have Monetary value, not just that, they’re tied to rankings so it’s meant for you to learn fully on your own

“... dies of obesity and heart disease” I needed that chuckle

When playing the Luigi’s mansion remake on my Nintendo 3DS I found that cutscenes were going at like 10 FPS there were terrible drops, and when I purchased a New! Nintendo 3DS XL the cutscenes preformed better than the actual game... what?

Also they may have remade it on the 3DS because the switch is receiving Luigi’s mansion 3

You have no idea how happy it made me that you mentioned Night of 100 Frights in a good way.

EXO, I just want you to know, I only within the past 2 years started really watching game reviews, but only of *current* games that are releasing and not older ones, because older games aren't being advertised to us the way new games are, so I have less incentive to watch them as a non-collector... BUT, your reviews or whatever you call them, be it one of these or an actual review of an older game, with the amount of quality you put in for only gaining 80k subs over these 5 years, I'm fucking astounded at your persistence! And I absolutely *love* every single video you put out. Each and every one.

Was I the only kid in the early 2000’s afraid of this game and finding it super hard???? Just me? Ok

I love the time and effort you put into these videos EXO but I gotta say I've noticed something in every review I've watched from you. It's that half of the time (not trying to offend you) I feel that you haven't practiced with the controls of a certain game enough. Like timing of some moves, or in this videos case, how to flash your flashlight the correct way for the most optimal ghost sucking. I'm not saying you're a bad gamer or anything, honestly I guarantee you that a majority of people that play games might have difficulty with some aspects as well, I just think you need to keep an open mind sometimes with the controls of some games.

41:00 Because this is Luigi's biggest fear, facing Bowser without hid big bro to help him, King Boo is tormenting Luigi with his personal fears, that's actually brilliant and show how evil King Boo can be

lack of particle effects? now thats simply just not true. look at the dust! and all the other little effects. theres actually lots of particle effects in Luigis mansion

I remember when people thought Luigi's Mansion must've been hiding the 'true' Mario launch game somewhere within its walls; It was such a huge event for a new Nintendo console to launch without a real-deal Super Mario game that even people who had finished it couldn't believe that they'd actually finished it.

I beg to differ that Metroid is short. If you take your time to explore and read text along with any extra bits, it can be quite long. Metroid zero mission has taken me around 4 to 5 hours, and I’d play it again and again.

10:15 WHAT? When I played I had almost zero FPS drops... But again, I played on the New 3DS, this game was made more for the New 3DS than for the old 3DS

Just played through Luigi mansion 3 and I have to say i am impressed how next level games fixed many issues stated in this video. Boo fights are now more engaging since boos don't run away anymore and is really satisfying to smack the shit out of em Portraits ghost are not back but their concept was enhaced with the hotel staff. Every boss has their own established personality and theme making the game much more correrent while still changing levels radically.

**SNAP** Yep, that’s goin in my cring compilashon

Luigi mansion dark moon is my favorite 3ds game

Getting rather amused by all the comments here arguing that his dissection and deeper investigations of the game are 'flawed' because "Luigi's Mansion wasn't meant to be X or Y, it was meant to be Z." None of this matters, the point was to compare if Luigi's Mansion stands tall on it's own by analyzing it's strengths and weaknesses and see where it compares; which is what this review does. I personally don't think Luigi's Mansion was built to be a Metroidvania. But that's not what the point of the comparison was. I've played through Luigi's Mansion way more times then I can count; I usually do a run through of it every Halloween, just for fun, and every time I have; I have enjoyed it: But many of the points he has made are logical and make sense: Luigi's Mansion is poorly linear. It's actually kinda sad. The idea of the Mansion being more opened up and the keys letting you go all over would've definitely made the game more interesting to explore. But, I've seen some people argue that if they had done that, it would be possible to get yourself stuck by using the wrong key at the wrong spot. To which I say; "that's not necessarily the case.' Luigi's Mansion has a buttload of locked doors, but there is always a key to go along with that door, and alternate paths to avoid certain doors entirely. Even if you want to ignore the hidden key in the treadmill room; it's pretty clear that getting yourself in a no win situation would actually take a lot more work then avoiding it. Due to Luigi's Mansion being linear; each repeated playthrough starts off pretty boring and only really opens up in Area 3. Area's 1, 2 and 4 are ALWAYS done in the same order, and always boring as f*ck due to the way they are designed. This could've easily been avoided if you had a bit more options for which part of the mansion you wanted to visit first. Having to run BACK and FORTH between the Basement and the Top of the Mansion in Area 4 is padding in the worst possible form. I've seen some people argue that Luigi's Mansion doesn't need this open ended progression, because the game is fun and that's all that matters. And while I do have a smile on my face when I actually play Luigi's Mansion, by the end game; that smile has usually faded, due to the Boos giving me a migraine and most combat scenarios being easily cheesed by just bringing fire into the fight. In fact, this was generally the best option 9 times out of 10, because Fire Stunlocks enemies, and kills them insanely fast. Against enemies like Shy Guy Ghosts, and Blue Twirlers; it's considerably more cost efficient to just spray fire until they die, then waste time trying to suck them up. As for the bosses, good lord... Chauncey is decent, and Boolossus is a nice difficulty spike up due to the crowd of enemies giving you a bit more to focus on; all of which can easily tackle you if you get distracted. But my lord... Bogmire and King Boo are just pitiful bosses. Bogmire does literally nothing, he has no attacks; he has no animations. He just stands there and hopes his shadows will bump into you before you can hit him. Which honestly, I would vote Bogmire one of the most useless bosses ever. It might've been more interesting if he actually you know; ATTACKED if you didn't interrupt him. As for King Boo, he is decently challenging, but his battle is basically on par with Chauncey as a simple, easy to grasp fight. It has light puzzle solving, and once you know what to do, the fight becomes easy. It never tests you on the skills you learned throughout the mansion, it just tests the basics. Out of these 4 bosses, only one of them uses an elemental attack to make them vulnerable. The best bonus I can give Luigi's Mansion, is it's short run time, makes it very replayable, and the effort to try to get 100% (all Gold Portraits, A Rank, All Boos) is quite a fun challenge. But for me, part of that challenge is made frustrating by the Gallery Ghosts and their ability to just randomly break your connection to them. I actually have to wonder if some of the Ghosts can even be earned in Gold in the Normal Mansion; bosses like Sir Weston and Mr. Luggs feel like complete RNG fests, for if they decide to break free early or not; if you plan to do this, the Hidden Mansion is basically a must play. But, overall, I still love the GCN version of Luigi's Mansion. It's a masterpiece of simple yet fun game design. And while it does have it's flaws, I'm willing to bet there is probably a Randomizer on the internet in case you wanna up the challenge factor a bit.

Important to note that the frame rate issues in the co-op mode isn’t nowhere near as noticeable on the NEW 3ds xl

Also Crash Bandicoot 1-3 for PlayStation vs N Sane Trilogy for PlayStation 4/ Xbox One/ Switch??

2-5 hours. As a kid, it took me a year to beat the game. Luigi’s Mansion 3DS was hard for the wrong reasons. Mostly control

(Happy Sigh) Exo's first 4K Review, I still remember the moment I saw this video pop up in my notifications back in late 2018 and I immediately clicked on it interested to hear his opinions on both versions of the first "Luigi's Mansion" and even though I'm not really a 4K guy myself, being able to watch a proper HD game review on KZfaq without the awful video compression KZfaq applies to most 1080p videos was really refreshing.

0:00 | Earthworm Jim Music? Is it me or Exo is giving me some Remake or Rebreak Vibes For Our Worm Hero, or am I Flinging A Cow Too High Into The Air? | Also, In 57:25 are you saying that Luigi's Mansion suffers from Sonic CD syndrome where it's too linear to be explore-ative, and too expansive to be linear?

40:48 "Good luck dying to King Boo!" Me: Hold my Bailey's.

I will say New 3DS probably does better than the old 3DS for FPS and performance, but even on the N3DS, I had severe frame drops in Pokemon Sun and Moon particularly in doubles or SOS battles. So much so that I had to turn off battle animations to keep consistent frames. Though I partially blame that on GF for their incompetent coding abilities to optimize their games.

“No particle effects” Proceeds to show particle effects

Not sure if someone has answered it already, but the duration of the flashlight stun in the original is dependent on the distance from the ghost when the flashlight shines on it, the closer it is, the longer the stun, and more time you have to start vacuuming, if it's further, it's the opposite.

Imanged if Luigi Mansion was realised on the Wii ensted of GameCube like how super paper Mario was supposed to be for the GameCube ensted of the Wii. They probley would have use the nuchect and remote like galaxy. And they would maybe you would need to pull the remote back to suck them up.

48:00 I love the fact that you put the haunted hotel music from Sunshine

I know I'm here kind of late but if you want a challenge for luigi's mansion 1, I've heard getting the LOWEST possible rank is quite a challenge because you have to go out of your way to NOT get money.

I feel like you are being a bit too harsh on this game in general, this game kind of acts as a tech demo for the GameCube, it was more of a small spin off game that turned into a great game in my opinion. But Dark Moon is objectively a better game imo. Luigi’s Mansion is more of game I love to finish from start to end when I have nothing to do during an afternoon, Dark Moon is a game I spend a few days on as areal game, it feels more like a game then the GameCube one. But I will still always love the original game more

hey exo when are ya makin that gbc dkc review

I still play the gamecube version.

they considered an lcd crystal for luigi's mansion to give it 3d graphics. too bad it was too expensive back then. that's my best explination for a 3DS remake, so the game could be in 3d, the same kind (i think) that they planned to use back in 2001.

When I do download play with my sister and my brother without the new 3ds, it ran very smooth for us!

Gotta be honest, prefer Dark Moon to the original; it feels like there was more care and charm put into it. The Portrait Ghosts were really overrated IMO.

I love these videos. Keep killing it man

Luigi's Mansion was all about solidifying Luigi as a character and not just tall green Mario. It's not that Luigi doesn't have anything interesting to say, he's trying to let us know his interests, which shines through in the "useless dialogue."

Sidestep mode was the original control scheme, which is why the final game comes off as being really easy because everyone uses standard mode.

Dang I haven’t seen your videos in a very long time, yet they are still great!! 🔥

I Personally Like Luigi's Mansion due to it giving Luigi a chance in the 3D spotlight and the fact that it has the new game plus functionality that lets you play as many times you want until you get bored. but that's my opinion on the Gamecube original but i wouldn't mind taking a whack at the remake to see if the challenge is still there.

EPG: Watch in 1080p or 4K for best results! Me: Oh Ok Also me: proceeds to watch in 360p due to having a slow internet connection.

Since other people have covered my other desired comments way better than I'd be able to...I just feel like I should point out that the portraits are reliant on how well you do the boss fight. After you brought up the "Ranking" system, I was waiting for you to bring it up, and that was, um...yeah. More specifically, it's tied to the pearls you collect from them, which gives extra incentive to avoiding literally anything that can hit you, and, imo, also makes it an overall more replayable game, for me anyway. Not necessarily for the score, personally, as much as for the really good art, and also some of the bronze frames in the 3DS version would make me feel bad if I actually had the game. Also, you're clearly more of a gameplay over story/character sort of guy from the videos I've seen so far, but I absolutely love the quotes from the portrait ghosts and Luigi, and it's kinda irritating that you keep saying that none of it's interesting. Sure, it's not a cinematic masterpiece and all, but it does flesh out Luigi a little more, makes mention to Mario's personality (that between some other stuff allowed ZoomZike to make a solid video of what likely went down when Mario entered the mansion by himself), and does still give the ghosts character, even if it's not much. What's more haunting (pun not intended) for me is the origin story of some of the ghosts, and the light implications that there's still something more to the mansion than just pure illusions, depending on how you look at the facts you're given. Of course, I get that sort of thing doesn't appeal to many people. Just bugged me that all of it was brushed aside as nothing worth looking at when that is yet another thing down to personal preference, which you've been good at handling in other things...not sure what went wrong here.

You need to stay close to the ghost when you flash them to suck them up. Or else they won't get trapped in the wind and will disapear!

Shortest wait for a Remake or Rebreak ever !!!😁👌

40:28 - 41:11 That is the one thing that makes me think that King Boo was just a weak villain in the original Luigi's Mansion Game. In Dark Moon, however, he actually fights Luigi with his own powers himself, and doesn't use a costume of Bowser. Heck, the only characters in the game even remotely mentioned are Luigi, Professor Egad, Mario, Toad, and when King Boo Mentions all of Luigi's friends which we can assume be the Toads, Peach, Daisy, etc... Heck, I almost feel that this King Boo could actually have even taken over Bowser's own Kingdom just with the Power he had in that game. The original showed him creating a massive Illusion and then doing it again for his fight. In Dark Moon, he still has Illusion Powers, but he has mastered them. Maybe this could have been King Boo still not out of the shadows of being one of Bowser's high ranking Lackeys, alongside King Bob-omb, Petey Piranha, and Kamek respectively. He is only one of the two villains, with the other being Kamek, to be a major antagonist to a respective protagonist. Mario having Bowser, Luigi with King Boo, and then Yoshi has Kamek. I have't beaten Luigi's Mansion yet, but I so far just see myself saying that Dark Moon is just better.

I think the appeal was to people who haven’t played the original, like for the newer generation. And plus, I think the game is fine. It’s faithful to the OG, and they didn’t have to fix anything or add anything because it’s SUPPOSED to be like the OG, not a REMASTER.