![]() ![]() Even better, most floors have a unique and respectably challenging boss ghost standing.er, floating.between you and the elevator to the next story. Simple find-the-key-to-the-locked-door scenarios on lower floors morph into intricate, object-based puzzles on the higher ones. Unlike Yoshi and Kirby, Luigi isn’t afraid to take the kid gloves off and do some clever stuff. Even better, each time you go up a level, the hotel gets physically weirder and the puzzles become more complex. The Dark Light mode on your flashlight, for example, can reveal secret doors and chests. Each floor is part of a fantastically varied collection of spooky locations full of hidden goodies. You can even play the campaign in two-player local co-op mode, with one of you taking full-time control over the gelatinous doppelganger. He can slip through grates and through pipes into areas Luigi can’t access, help you solve puzzles, and serve as a decoy to bamboozle certain enemies and bosses. He is a deployable clone of you who happens to be like the T-1000, except made of Jello instead of liquid metal. “A brand-new character named Gooigi plays a big part in keeping things fresh after you unlock him a short way into the 15-hour campaign. (And pounding them into the floor is extremely satisfying, by the way.) There may only be a small handful of overall ghost types, but thanks to the environments they battle you in and oftentimes their accessories, you’re constantly forced to tweak your strategy for how to make them vulnerable so you can suck them up, slam them around the room, and capture them. A Goo-d TimeMy favorite thing about Luigi’s Mansion 3 is how it never keeps you doing the same thing for very long. ![]() Once you’ve got your ghostbusting vacuum backpack and flashlight, however, you’re in for 17 floors of mostly fantastic adventuring. Gadd, plus walking you through the basics of gameplay. ![]() Sure, Luigi’s Mansion 3 starts a bit slowly because it takes its sweet time to set the scene with the villainous hotel owner Hellen Gravely and Professor E. But most importantly, it plays great too – unless you like to invert the Y-axis, which for some reason it can’t do. “It’s also very pretty, with great lighting and fog effects, a large swath of different-styled environments to explore, plus the expected cartoony character animations.
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