Luigi's Mansion

The Box-art

***Luigi's Mansion*** (Japanese: ルイージの邸宅 Ruīji no teitaku) (ルイージマンション *Ruīji Manshon*, ***Luigi Mansion***) is the second game to have Luigi star as the main character and was the launch *Mario* game for the Nintendo GameCube. The game focuses on Luigi as he battles many ghosts in a haunted mansion to save Mario using the Poltergust 3000, a vacuum erected by Professor E. Gadd for sucking in ghosts. The first game to have Luigi as the main character is *Mario is Missing!*. Two sequels were released; the first, *Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon* was released March 24, 2013, for the Nintendo 3DS, and the second, *Luigi's Mansion 3*, was released on October 31, 2019, for the Nintendo Switch. This game was also remade on the Nintendo 3DS on October 12, 2018. An arcade version was released on June 19, 2015.

## Story

The story begins with Luigi winning a contest for a mansion. Mario goes to check out the mansion and tells Luigi he will meet him there. As Mario goes to see the mansion, ghosts, and King Boo ambush him and seal him inside a picture. After Mario doesn't come back, Luigi goes to check the mansion. He goes inside the mansion to see a hazy orange light with what looks like a key. It rises up and humorously bumps into the chandelier, dropping the key. It then escapes to a room up the stairs. Luigi picks up the key and unlocks the room, only to be ambushed by an orange ghost called a golden ghost which was the orange light he saw earlier. Suddenly, the ghost starts getting sucked in by something and Luigi turns to see Professor E. Gadd. The ghost drags him around the room and punches him to escape. They go back to his lab where the professor gives Luigi the Poltergust 3000 and tells him about what happened to Mario. After Luigi goes deeper into the mansion, he comes across a storage room where he presses a button that releases all of the Boos and King Boo himself. But King Boo sees Luigi carrying the Poltergust 3000 and he and all the other Boos run away. King Boo stays in a secret room for the rest of the game, up until the final boss fight, where he too was captured and turned into a painting.

### Ghosts

These are the Portraits of all the portrait ghosts that can be captured throughout the game. The ghosts are separated by the Area in which they appear. At the bottom are the fifty boos that appear throughout the mansion.

#### Area One

 Chauncey, the Spoiled Baby (Area Boss)

#### Area Two

 Bogmire, the Cemetery Shadow.(Area Boss)

#### Area Three

 Boolossus, the Jumbo Ghost (Area Boss)

#### Area Four

 King Boo, the Final Boss and king of the Boos.

#### Throughout the Mansion

Items-Gold coin, Blue sapphire, Silver Diamond, Small pearl, Bill, Green emerald, Red Diamond, Medium pearl, Gold bar, Red Rubies, Gold Diamond, Big pearl.

## PAL Differences

In the European and Australian versions of ***Luigi's Mansion***, notable changes can be found throughout the level. This has been done, due to players complaining that the Hidden Mansion has generally no differences in the Japanese and North American versions. The differences include:

* Everything is now mirrored, as opposed to the Japanese and North American versions which have the layouts the same.
* More normal ghosts can be found in the area.
* Chauncey's rocking horses are much bigger and curve from left to right when sent out. He also moves more quickly when bouncing around.
* Speedy Spirits and Gold Mice always release Silver Diamonds when defeated.
	+ This is due to getting the A rank requires a minimum of 150,000,000G
* Rooms are darker in this mansion, unlike the first mansion with rooms being brighter.
	+ Although the rooms got brighter in the PAL release, so they made the rooms as dark as International and Japanese releases.
* Luigi rides the Poltergust 3000 as the Boolossus boss battle takes place, making the battle much slippery.
* Boo's stats go from smaller to bigger numbered stats.
* Forty-five, instead of forty Boos, are needed to fight King Boo.
* Vincent Van Gore now sends out five ghosts at a time instead of three.
* Boos have been altered
	+ Boos are much more agile and quicker.
	+ Most Boos also have more or less HP
* Heart placements have been altered, along with the 50 Hearts being removed entirely.

## Reception

This game has been met with generally positive reviews. IGN gave this game a 7/10 and GameSpot gave a 7.9/10. They were criticizing the game for its short gamespan and repetitiveness, but the game was praised for giving Luigi the starring role.