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little italian guy with a green cap

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

in most of the mario brother games, the main character has been-gasp-mario. but not this time. the two brothers have somehow won a mysterious old mansion. mario goes to investigate, but...he doesn't come back. so luigi goes to the mansion, which is dark, creepy, and is full of ghosts and creepy little weirdos with vaccuum cleaners. the creepy little guy with the vaccuum cleaner is a professor who saves u from the ghosts that attack u when u enter the first room. the vaccuum cleaner turns out 2 b one of the proffessor's inventions, the poltergust 3ooo. it sucks up ghosts and-huh?-puts them into portraits, which they somehow all escaped from. in this twisting, challenging game, luigi makes his way through the mansion, battling bosses, and fighting off ghosts, to find his brother is being held captive by-princess peach? no, he's not, actually. i'm not telling who the real culprit is. ha ha.

Chancy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As I said last time here's how to kill chancy.
1.Go into Chancy's room.
2.Suck the rocking horse.
2.When the teddy bears attack, suck all 3 up.
4.Suck the ball and fire it at chancy(Note: you might need a heart right now so go to the drawers and press a to get a heart.)
5.Aviod the rocking horses and the balls.
6.There's one more ball left!Suck it in the nozzle and fire it at Chancy!
7.Chancy heart will be reveled! Now suck him up!
I hope this was helpful!

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is horrible. it is fun the first time you go through it but after you beat it, it isn't fun at all. it takes about 4 hours to beat so please, please, please rent this game for a few days. If you have two thumbs you should have it beat. To top it off the story is horrible. you "won" a mansion but there are ghosts in it and this magical old guy gives you this magical vacuum that sucks up ghosts, table cloths, fire, water and you use it to get your brother (mario) out of a picture. I mean come on.

Not bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As the title game for Nintendo's Gamecube, it was nice to see that Luigi was in the spotlight for once instead of Mario but when comparing Luigi's Mansion to other Super Mario Bros. games it definitely falls short.

The premise of the game is simple enough. Basically, Mario has disappeared into this mansion and Luigi has to battle ghosts throughout the house and find keys to open doors in order to save his plumbing counterpart. The game controls take approximately 5 minutes to master so you find yourself quickly running through the mansion and vacuuming up ghosts (that's how Luigi defeats the spooky spectrums). And then before you know it you've defeated the boss and saved your brother.

I would not recommend actually buying this game for it does not provide endless hours of gameplay. Rent it and beat it in a couple of days like I did. It's worth at least that.

Not awful but it's not good.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I must admit that the Gamecube is very impresive in graphics and Luigi Mansion (Luigi's Mansion) proves it but when it comes to gameplay it's bad. I mean you can win the entire game in a couple of boring 10 hours. Another thing is that it's always the same thing,suck up ghosts,get key and find the next room, over and over. So as my advice to everyone is this one, just rent it
or play it at your friend's house(if s/he has a copy of it,of course).

Just don't jump in

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At first I thought Luigi's Mansion would be a great game………but watch out. If you tried it out at the Club Cube, you may of noticed using both anolog sticks. Ifound this very annoying while trying to play. Plus as many of you have heard the time it takes to beat the game.SHORT. Please rent it tosave yor self.

Very bad entry in the Super Mario saga

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a long time fan of the Super Mario series, I have seldom, if ever, been disappointed by any games in the entire series, from Donkey Kong (and I do mean the original arcade game that started it all) all the way to Super Mario 64. Given Nintendo's track record with this series and the absolute high quality of games for its new GameCube platform, I had every reason to think that "Luigi's Mansion", even if it was not up to the level of its predecessors, would be a quality entry in the series. I have to say that I was sorely disappointed.

I have a certain level of tolerance for games, even ones that are frustratingly slow and plodding, but I ran out of patience with this game. I could barely even get into playing it. From the very beginning, this game gets annoying. When Luigi first enters the mansion, he encounters this stupid little professor who is supposedly there to give Luigi the background of what is happening in the mansion and teach him to use this vacuum cleaner to capture the ghosts that haunt the mansion. Yet, the idiotic professor rambles for about 10 minutes worth of dialogue and THERE IS NO WAY TO BYPASS IT!! After each brief piece of dialogue, you have to hit a button to make it continue, too. So you just can't do something else while he rambles. But, I digress. You would think that once you get past that annoyance, you could just get right into the game. WRONG! Learning to use the vacuum cleaner is incredibly aggravating. The game doesn't give you any chance to develop a feel or flow for how to use it because every time you do anything with it THAT STUPID PROFESSOR STARTS YAPPING AGAIN!!! This, alone, caused me to put the game aside for about 8 months before trying it again. Once I finally exerted enough patience to get past this madness, I figured I would finally be able get into the game. Once again, I was wrong. I find that almost every door is locked and any method of getting through those doors is hidden somewhere on the board. I had the strategy guide and could very well have looked up how to open these locked doors, but at this point, I was just too frustrated to care anymore. I put the game down for the last time...

Totally zany!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: September 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game! Luigi's antics are hilarious! Garuntee you'll love it!

Stumbles at the finish line

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Despite being called the Super Mario Bros, Luigi hardly gets attention. He starred in a lame SNES game(Mario is Missing), was in Super Smash Bros. Melee but his moves were exact same as Marios. He wasn't even in Mario Sunshine. Has a launch title, Luigi's Mansion shows off some of the Gamecube's power but the gameplay itself leaves something to be desired.

Story: Luigi wins a mansion in a contest he doesn't even remember entering. He tells his brother Mario to be there. Mario in effect has gone missing and there's ghosts all over. But thanks to Professor Gadd and his Poltergust 3000, Luigi can vacuum up the ghosts Ghostbusters-style.

Graphics: The best usage of the Gamecube's engine is in the lighting and shadow. Lightning strikes through windows provide perfect shadows as well as your flashlight shining the dark rooms. Everything else looks rather blah. Besides Luigi and the ghosts, the rooms looks almost unfinished and somewhat blurry in some cases.

Music/Sound: Barely any music beside a slight reprise of the classic Mario dungeon theme. When you vacuum in a ghost, there's this irritating piano figure, it's literally one note repeated. As for voices, Professor Gadd talks in a faux Japanese almost as it sounds like it but way to short to be japanese, and by pressing B, Luigi cries out "Mario?". His health plays a role in how confident or scared he sounds.

Gameplay: The control scheme for this is awkward. Shoulder L is for element firing, R is for the vacuum and the grey buttons are for your Game Boy Horror, which shows either your map or a scanning feature(almost similar to Metroid Prime's). To turn the flashlight on is A, directly beneath it is the right analog which determines where Luigi faces.

The stumble at the finish line reference in my subject refers to the final boss. I won't spoil who it is or anything but I'll say what happens: you take on King Boo(this isn't really a spoiler) who's inside a big...thing. Anyways, to suck up King Boo you have to fire these big spiky rocks at the thing's mouth while it's attacking but he gets so close to you, the resulting explosion ends up damaging you. Once you hit him, King Boo flies out and you have to suck him in. He literally has 500 HP...compared to your 100. Not only that, while you're trying to suck him in, the thing is firing ice at you.

This is an incredibly unfair fight. It's like the difficulty was evenly balanced throughout the game then bam, frustration alley. I'm no Johnny-come-lately newbie when it comes to gaming but I took well over 4 tries to beat the guy. Kids will be able to progress in the game with little hiccups here and there but that last boss will send them running for their big brother. But other than that, give it a try.

Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters? NAH! You call Luigi!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...) The graphics are AMAZING. Now for the game. Luigi won a contest in a contest he didn't enter; a contest with no contestants. He tells Mario "Meet me at my new mansion I won at the contest." He enters, and is surrounded by ghosts. A short old man by the name of Professor Elvin Gadd saves Luigi. Gadd tells Luigi that the mansion is a phony, gives Luigi the POLTERGUST 3000 and Luigi is on his way to suck up about 75 ghosts (50 Boos plus the bonus ghosts). Despite the fact that this game is TOO SHORT (you can beat it over a weekend basically) and it may get repetitive (sucking up ghosts over and over and over is what this game is all about), Luigi's Mansion is still DAMN fun. I suggest you get this number 1 Game Cube launch title. (...) AHHHH! There's a Boo behind you! Heheheh gotcha!

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