New Super Luigi U

New Super Luigi U (stylized as New Super Luigi Bros. U) is the fifth installment of the New Super Mario Bros. series released on the Wii U. It is an expansion to New Super Mario Bros. U, and it was also sold as a standalone game from its release until March 2014. Both games later received got rereleased as a combined game for the Nintendo Switch titled New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. New Super Luigi U is dedicated to Luigi, who is the main character, due to the game being released during the Year of Luigi. 
==Gameplay==
The gameplay is largely similar to its base game, except that the playable characters retain Luigi's higher jump and lower traction from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. The game has been designed to be more difficult, with each stage starting at only 100 seconds; due to this, however, the courses have also been made shorter than normal while also being packed with enemies and obstacles. Entering each door to a boss battle gives you an extra 100 seconds, except for the final battle, which gives 250 seconds. It has the same world map as in New Super Mario Bros. U, although the levels are different. Elements like items, power-ups, Star Coins, Toad Houses, Enemy Courses, and bosses are retained as such.
The multiplayer of New Super Luigi U is also retained from New Super Mario Bros. U. However, because Mario is not featured in this game, Nabbit is instead used as the fourth playable character, both in single-player and multiplaer. As Nabbit, the player cannot take damage from enemies, but cannot use items, although any items collected are converted to 1-Ups upon reaching the flagpole. Nabbit is invincible to nearly everything except for pits, lava, and Poisoned Water.
Players can earn power-ups from Toad depending on the time left upon completion of the level. At 088, a Starman is given; at 077, a Super Acorn; at 066, a Mini Mushroom; 055, an Ice Flower; 044, a Fire Flower; and 033, 022, and 011 a 1-Up Mushroom.
Every level features one Luigi image hidden somewhere within it, known as a Luigi sighting. There are 83 Luigi sightings in total, a reference to Luigi making his game debut in 1983. These images are depicted either after his Super Mario Bros. sprite or as artwork from his various game appearances. A Luigi sighting is either displayed in the open or as a background detail.
==Bosses==
*Koopalings
*Kamek
*Boom Boom
*Bowser Jr.
*Bowser
*Boss Sumo Bro
==Worlds==
*Acorn Plains
*Layer-Cake Desert 
*Sparkling Waters
*Frosted Glacier
*Soda Jungle
*Rock-Candy Mines
*Meringue Clouds
*Peach's Castle 
*Superstar Road
*Secret Island
== Trivia==
* This is one of five games so far where Luigi is the main character instead of Mario. The other four are Mario is Missing!, Luigi's Mansion, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, and Luigi's Mansion 3.
*You can play as Nabbit in single player by holding the ZL trigger in the GamePad or the B button on the Wii remote. 
**For Flying Squirrel Ovation, the final level, the player can play as their Mii in single player by using the same mechanics above. This is because the level autoscrolls, and therefore requires the Super Acorn (unless you do complicated Ground Pound/Twirl combinations), and Nabbit can't use power-ups.
*This game was also released in a bundle, packaged with New Super Mario Bros. U, and a black Wii U.
*Even though Nabbit helps Luigi in multiplayer mode, Nabbit still steals items from the Toad Houses, and the players will have to catch him. It will not work when Nabbit is playing in co-op mode, and in single-player mode, if the player does the trick to play as Nabbit in the level where Nabbit went, the player will still continue playing as Luigi.
*Mario himself isn't seen, but he is referenced twice; in the intro, in which his hat is on the table, and in the level Broozers and Barrels, which features a Mario-based snowman at the beginning of the stage. This makes New Super Luigi U the only game so far where Luigi appears, but Mario doesn't.
*An in-game "second" in New Super Luigi U is actually 1 second, while in New Super Mario Bros. U, an in-game "second" lasts only 0.75 seconds.
*New Super Luigi U is green, in contrast to the blue of most Wii U game covers, similar to how Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Gamess Wii cover is yellow instead of white like most Wii game covers.
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