Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Nintendo / Next Level Games Platform: 3DS Players: 1 (Dark Moon Quest), 1-4 (ScareScraper) Release: 2013 Genre: Adventure / Survival-Horror Rating: 8.2 \ 10.0: Great
Above is Luigi getting assaulted by ghosts
After 12 long years, the sequel to the beloved GameCube launch title, Luigi's Mansion has arrived! It all starts when King Boo (I don't know who else a creepy-looking giant ghost with a crown and a scepter could be called, but if this is so, King Boo got a serious makeover!) shatters the Dark Moon, scattering the shards throughout the haunted estate below it. No longer under the spell of the Dark Moon, the ghosts become hostile, and Professor E. Gadd, the mad scientist from the original Luigi's Mansion, hides away in a bunker and calls upon Luigi to help him. He equips the overshadowed bro with the Poltergust 5000, an improved model of the ghost-sucking vacuum / backpack from the original game. This new model has attachments which you'll collect along your journey, such as the Dark Light Device, which reveals invisible objects with ultraviolet light. This time around, you have multiple haunted manors to explore and a wider variety of ghosts to suck up. Each mansion has several missions... several normal ones, and one in which you confront the monster causing the trouble in the mansion. There's a lot of exploring to do-- each mansion has tons of secret rooms for you to explore, and most of them are required to be entered eventually, while there are occasional secret rooms. There are a lot of challenging puzzles to complete, and the environments are almost fully interactive. Nearly any object, from vases to curtains, can either be sucked up or rattled. There are also many gems to find. Although this game is aimed at a young audience, the game can prove creepy at times-- the lights in the room will all of the sudden go off and ghosts will appear in certain missions, and objects all around the room will rattle and fall. Every once in a while, you will be called by Professor Gadd... on a Nintendo DS (I couldn't help but smirk when I encountered the reference). This is likely a replacement for the original Luigi Mansion's Game Boy Horror. He'll give you some advice, but it's usually just where to go next. And there's another new feature. A golden bone may be hidden somewhere in the level. If you find it, It'll be a big help if you lose all your life points. If this happens, then Polterpup, a ghostly dog, will come to you, retrieve the bone, and lick your face, reviving you. As fun as this game is, I have but one main complaint. I found the puzzles confusing and challenging, and it takes me an average of around 40 minutes to beat a level, and it was incredibly boring to hopelessly stroll around the mansion and then finally discover the solution to a puzzle by surprise. But all the frustration is slightly alleviated by the environments, which are littered with intricate details and clever secrets, and, as I said before. nearly every object is interactive, which adds up to being one of the most detailed and best-looking games on the 3DS. Speaking of visuals, I should also mention that the game runs at an impressive 60 frames per second (FPS). Every animation looks natural and smooth-- it's difficult not to notice the improvement. After advancing somewhat through the game, you'll unlock the online ScareScraper mode, in which you and up to three other game owners playing as different-colored Luigis, must work together to clear the floors of the aptly titled ScareScrapers in Hunter mode, in which you must vacuum up every ghost from each floor; Rush mode, in which you must hurry to find the exit to the floor; and Polterpup mode, in which you must track down the pesky pup of the same name. And for communication means, you can use the buttons on the Control Pad to say "Hey", "Help", "Thank you", and "Good job", and you can tap the touchscreen utter "Over here". There's no lag between systems, but there are occasional audio blips, though it's hard to mind. Difficulty aside, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is a great game.
Ups
Tons of detail and fully interactive environment
Funny DS reference
Online play
Downs
Very challenging
ESRB: E Content: Crude Humor and Mild Cartoon Violence Price: $39.99 (Retail / Dark Moon)
Above is Luigi getting assaulted by ghosts
After 12 long years, the sequel to the beloved GameCube launch title, Luigi's Mansion has arrived! It all starts when King Boo (I don't know who else a creepy-looking giant ghost with a crown and a scepter could be called, but if this is so, King Boo got a serious makeover!) shatters the Dark Moon, scattering the shards throughout the haunted estate below it. No longer under the spell of the Dark Moon, the ghosts become hostile, and Professor E. Gadd, the mad scientist from the original Luigi's Mansion, hides away in a bunker and calls upon Luigi to help him. He equips the overshadowed bro with the Poltergust 5000, an improved model of the ghost-sucking vacuum / backpack from the original game. This new model has attachments which you'll collect along your journey, such as the Dark Light Device, which reveals invisible objects with ultraviolet light. This time around, you have multiple haunted manors to explore and a wider variety of ghosts to suck up. Each mansion has several missions... several normal ones, and one in which you confront the monster causing the trouble in the mansion. There's a lot of exploring to do-- each mansion has tons of secret rooms for you to explore, and most of them are required to be entered eventually, while there are occasional secret rooms. There are a lot of challenging puzzles to complete, and the environments are almost fully interactive. Nearly any object, from vases to curtains, can either be sucked up or rattled. There are also many gems to find. Although this game is aimed at a young audience, the game can prove creepy at times-- the lights in the room will all of the sudden go off and ghosts will appear in certain missions, and objects all around the room will rattle and fall. Every once in a while, you will be called by Professor Gadd... on a Nintendo DS (I couldn't help but smirk when I encountered the reference). This is likely a replacement for the original Luigi Mansion's Game Boy Horror. He'll give you some advice, but it's usually just where to go next. And there's another new feature. A golden bone may be hidden somewhere in the level. If you find it, It'll be a big help if you lose all your life points. If this happens, then Polterpup, a ghostly dog, will come to you, retrieve the bone, and lick your face, reviving you. As fun as this game is, I have but one main complaint. I found the puzzles confusing and challenging, and it takes me an average of around 40 minutes to beat a level, and it was incredibly boring to hopelessly stroll around the mansion and then finally discover the solution to a puzzle by surprise. But all the frustration is slightly alleviated by the environments, which are littered with intricate details and clever secrets, and, as I said before. nearly every object is interactive, which adds up to being one of the most detailed and best-looking games on the 3DS. Speaking of visuals, I should also mention that the game runs at an impressive 60 frames per second (FPS). Every animation looks natural and smooth-- it's difficult not to notice the improvement. After advancing somewhat through the game, you'll unlock the online ScareScraper mode, in which you and up to three other game owners playing as different-colored Luigis, must work together to clear the floors of the aptly titled ScareScrapers in Hunter mode, in which you must vacuum up every ghost from each floor; Rush mode, in which you must hurry to find the exit to the floor; and Polterpup mode, in which you must track down the pesky pup of the same name. And for communication means, you can use the buttons on the Control Pad to say "Hey", "Help", "Thank you", and "Good job", and you can tap the touchscreen utter "Over here". There's no lag between systems, but there are occasional audio blips, though it's hard to mind. Difficulty aside, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is a great game.
Ups
Tons of detail and fully interactive environment
Funny DS reference
Online play
Downs
Very challenging
ESRB: E Content: Crude Humor and Mild Cartoon Violence Price: $39.99 (Retail / Dark Moon)
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