The Story of Luigi’s Mansion
By: Ryan Velasco
Tags: Storyline, Game Story, Luigis Mansion, Nintendo, Video Game Storytelling

The Story of Luigi’s Mansion

In Luigi’s first solo game, King Boo captured Mario. Armed with vacuum he enters the mansion to rescue his brother.

Luigi Meets The Professor!

We open with Luigi walking alone at night through a spooky forest. Upon exitting the forest he takes a look at a map showing a mansion. Ahead, he sees that same mansion as lightning flashes creating a more frightening atmosphere. Shivering, he walks closer and closer. Opening the gate, he cautiously walks towards the front door. Ravens caw above him as he walks up the stairs. Luigi clearly frightened opens the creaky door and stutters, ‘hello?’ before turning on his flashlight.

Entering the Foyer he begins to tiptoe around the room, taking note of the eerie glowing door directly across him before tiptoeing up the staircase calling for ‘Mario’. Climbing the staircase he walks towards the center door and attempts to open it but as he twists the knob, he realizes it’s locked. As he let’s go of the knob hears squeaky giggles coming from the other side. Spooked, he rushes downstairs. At the bottom of the stairs he spots a glowing orange key floating towards the glowing door. Lightning strikes and the key falls to the ground. The orange glow floats away up the staircase and through the locked door. Luigi is now on the verge of a heart attack, but he steels his resolve to find Mario. Creeps up to the key and picking it up, he takes it up the second floor door to see if it will now open. It fits, so he walks inside the Parlor room.

Clearly, his steely resolve has left him as he shivers across the floor a few steps before an orange ghost appears and scares him. Luigi flies backwards and as he tries to scamper away a strange old man in a lab coating uses a vacuum to suck in the orange ghost. He fails and the orange ghost laughs at him before disappearing. Luigi runs toward the old man who explains that he is a ghost catcher and introduces himself as Professor E. Gadd. Before he can give a better explanation a trio of orange ghosts appears. Luigi and the Professor decide to run away back to his laboratory, Professor E. Gadd’s Ghost research laboratory or the Lab.

Luigi explains he was in the mansion because he won it in a contest he never entered. The Professor explains that he has been living in the Lab since he was about twenty years old and the mansion. Luigi won only appeared a few days prior to Luigi’s arrival. He then realizes that Luigi reminds him of a man with a red hat going into the mansion, but in this case, he never came out. Luigi realizes it was Mario. The Professor learning this explains that Luigi has no hopes of rescuing Mario without his know-how. Deciding that he’ll teach Luigi how to deal with the ghosts he hands over the ghost catching vacuum, the Poltergust 3000 and the Game Boy Horror.

After giving Luigi a quick tutorial he is ready to re-enter the mansion.

Luigi Meet’s The Boo’s!

In a strange twist it appears that Toad is also inside the Mansion. In the corner of the foyer Luigi see’s a crying Toad who explains that Princess Peach sent him here to find Mario who left to see Luigi after learning that he won a mansion. Toad extremely frightened of the ghosts, begs Luigi to find Mario in his stead. Since he’s already on a rescue mission he accepts, bring joy to the frightened Toad.

As Luigi explores he walks into the Storage Room and upon accidentally slipping, he flicks a hidden switch causing the west wall to extend. Curious, but cautious, he walks through the new hallway and notices a grate in the middle of the hall and a poster marked ‘DANGER’. Thinking nothing of the grate he begins looking behind the poster where he finds a big red button. Pushing it, he unlocks the grate and out comes a flood of fifty Boos and King Boo right behind them. They all spot Luigi and are about to capture him when they notice the Poltergust 3000. In fear, they fly away. King Boo isn’t as frightened but he still flies away but not before taunting Luigi.

Luigi Meet’s Madam Clairvoya!

The Professor then calls Luigi on the Game Boy Horror due to detecting a large amount of ghosts around Luigi. After finding out about King Boo he deduces that King Boo must have been the one who captured Mario. Luigi, now knowing the cause of Mario’s disappearance continues searching the Mansion.

After sucking his way through ghosts he finds his way to the Fortune-Teller’s Room and meets a helpful ghost named Madam Clairvoya who let’s Luigi know that she will help him find Mario, but can only do so if he can bring her some of his items.

Luigi heads off again, in this new quest to find Mario’s items. He finds Mario’s Hat in the Laundry Room, Mario’s Letter to Luigi from a Toad hiding outside in the courtyard, Mario’s Star in a hidden path in the Observatory, Mario’s Glove in the Projector Room and Mario’s Shoe in a chest after playing with the twin ghosts, Henry and Orville in the Twin’s Room. With Mario’s missing item’s all found, Luigi heads back to Madam Clairvoya.

Handing over the items to Madam Clairvoya, she calls upon the spirits to show her where Mario is hidden. The spirits tell her that King Boo has Mario trapped within the Mansion. Madam Clairvoya feels she has done enough to allow her rest, she asks Luigi to use the Poltergust 3000 but not before handing over the key to the Safari Room on the third floor. Armed with this new knowledge he sets off.

As Luigi sucks his way past hordes of ghosts he reaches the third floor, unlocking the door to the Safari Room. Moving across the third floor he finds his way to the balcony confronting a horde of Boo’s. Knowing they can’t handle the Poltergust 3000 alone, they merge to become Boolossus. Now with more power at their disposal they attack Luigi. After a tough battle the Boo’s unable to challenge Luigi’s might are all sucked up dropping a blue key in the process. The battle itself though took a toll on the mansion. The power goes out and because of it, the ghosts are now fearless as they roam the darkened hallway.

Luigi Meets The Darkness!

Using the blue key to unlock the door to the other side of the third floor, Luigi finds his way into the Telephone Room where he answers the ringing telephone. The Professor called Luigi to explain that, Uncle Grimmy, a ghost who is afraid of the light is roaming around and before getting the power back up he should capture him. Luigi finds his way to the Wardrobe and sucks up Uncle Grimmy but not before he drops the key to the Breaker Room. Exactly what he needs to get the power back on.

Luigi now heads there constantly being challenged by the ghosts. Upon the reaching the Breaker Room he reactivates the power scaring away all the ghosts who have been chasing him.

As he explores the basement he finds a unique door guarded by King Boo. After taunting Luigi, King Boo teleports him back to the Foyer. Luigi knows that he can’t enter that door unless he finds some way of unlocking it. Roaming the Mansion, he happens upon the gold key from the ghost, Vincent Van Goe in the Artist’s Studio. This key is exactly what Luigi has been looking for because it allows him to unlock the door to the Secret Altar in the basement leading straight to Mario and King Boo.

Luigi Meets Bowser?!

Luigi rushes to the basement and unlocks the door to the Secret Altar. Here he finds King Boo chiding Mario because of all the setbacks he has given him for so many years. King Boo turns around and unafraid of Luigi wielding the Poltergust 3000 changes the portrait of Mario to the portrait of Bowser. Teleporting them to the rooftop, which is now in flames, Bowser comes forward.

Luigi faces off against Bowser who tosses spiked balls. Sucking up the spiked balls, Luigi shoots them back at Bowser and as he does so he knocks off Bowsers head revealing it’s a costume controlled by King Boo. Unable to match the same might the Bowser possesses, King Boo is eventually defeated and sucked into the Poltergust 3000. He is then teleported back to the Secret Altar where Luigi grabs the Mario portrait and rushes back to the Lab.

Luigi Meets Mario!

The Professor, astounded that Luigi has defeated King Boo takes all the ghosts Luigi has captured and puts them through his ghost pressing machine turning them all back into portraits. For Mario, he reverses the process thus freeing him from the confines of the portrait. As Mario reaches the end of the process he is launched out of the machine and directly through a portrait frame. As Mario lies there dizzy, Luigi stands above him laughing.

The End.