Wednesday 31 October 2012

Retrogamer: Luigi's mansion

 


Today we talk about one of my favourite games in the world  Luigi's mansion. But before that happy Halloween everyone. This game was actually quite a risk for Nintendo as it starred Luigi who is Mario's brother and not exactly as popular as his brother.
Luigi's mansion is about Luigi getting a mansion, haunted by ghosts! Well the game starts with Luigi getting a note saying "you've won a free mansion" because that isn't suspicious at all. He enters the creepiest mansion in the history of the world. He walks into a room until you are attacked by some evil ghosts. Then he saved by a mysterious old man with glasses and hoover on his back. The old man is named professor E.Gad and he has been dealing with the ghosts, sort of! He says he saw Mario enter and that the ghosts were all trapped in paintings. So he asks you to help as he is well old and rather useless so you enter the mansion.
Now you go through the area you start off in is just a few dark rooms where you must clear out all the ghosts. Then you fight a few boss ghosts a Mom and a Dad but then you meet the darling little satanic demon possessed child who sends you in to another dimension and tries to kill you. Upon doing this you receive a key for the next area. Now most of the game is just this rinse and repeat formula for a while but manages to keep it interesting by showing that Mario has been imprisoned in a painting by King Boo who Luigi in all his stupidity has just released.
As you go through the game you have to capture all the Boos which is pretty damn hard as they have hundreds of hit points and keep running back in to the same damn room over and over! So you slowly learn more and more about what happened to Mario and get elemental medals that give you the powers of fire, water and ice to defeat ghosts. Now the final boss is Bowser as in a Bowser created by King Boo which shoots fire and bombs at you. Once you've defeated the boss you get a score based on the amount of money you've obtained and get a corresponding mansion. But the game is not over then you get the "Hidden Mansion" which is a harder and inverses the game. It is brutal there are only small amounts of hearts and harder bosses.
This game is amazing no matter how many times I play this game it never gets boring it has an interesting and unique look. You would think that the constant ghost fighting would get boring but each boss has unique look and an interesting fight as there are specific ways of taking each boss down. One the great things in the game is the gameboy horror which allows you to examine the ghosts and find weaknesses and the fact that Luigi can call out for Mario when pressing the A button which shows the fear in his voice. The game does gave really annoying problem, the boos! They don't co-operate as they constantly leave a room and go back repeatedly and it slowly drives you to pure insanity. 
Now this game is one the best things Nintendo has produced in my opinion in spite of a few minor flaws it gets a solid 10/10 I would recommend getting this game as it both fun and creepy.
  
 

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