There's a time-based shock to subdue spectres whilst in your grasp, a button prompt flashing on screen, and for later fights proves decisive on whether your hold or lose your prey. It's a countdown to how long you got to play tug of war with the plasmic terror until its worn down enough to suck into your backpack.Įven without any rumble, you feel battered by the bigger battles you're soon combating ghosts strong enough to pull you around the room, with any clash against furniture exiting the struggle prematurely. Each ghoul has a counter above their head, meaning the meaner the poltergeist the bigger the number. Anyone who's tried to land Hyrule's prize fish in Ocarina of Time 3D will be in familiar territory here.
It's at this point the game turns into part rodeo, part fishing challenge. Nintendo also has promised to have corrected It's one of the original's biggest shortcomings, with multiple mansions to explore this time round.įor now, we hightail it to one such spook-filled locale after a brief chat with the returning Professor Gadd, zapping there via a digital-style download, Luigi's broken into pixel form and unceremoniously dumped into the front gardens of a Mansion. Retaining the same blueprint of the original - a hoover-carrying Luigi entering a haunted mansion to exorcise ghosts in Nintendo-friendly fashion - the game benefits from the 3D aspect, which emphasises the smaller details of each lovingly crafted room, and from the manner of its consumption built for built for short bursts, a handheld is the perfect fit for the other Mario brother's adventure. With the 3DS Luigi's Mansion has finally found its right home. It nevertheless picked up enthusiastic critical response - the Nintendo magic still in evidence however short-lived - and earned its place as a enjoyable curiosity and joined a collection of other company oddities, never to be seen again except for retro features.Īfter a massively enjoyable fifteen minute demo of the sequel no-one saw coming, there's the sense the series came ten years and two platforms early. A fairly decent launch title for GameCube and unfairly criticised because, you feel, it wasn't a 'true' Mario Bros game that gamers wanted to see.
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