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5 Stars when you first get it-3 stars when you win it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Luigi's Mnasion is Luigi's secong debut on a Nintendo system. The first one was Mario is Missing for the SNES. Luigi has to find his missing brother Mario who was supposed to meet Luigi at the newly won mansion, until he finds out it is full of ghosts! He later meets Professor Elvin Gadd, who, coincidentally, is studing ghosts. He helps him out by giving him two inventions-The Poltergust 3000, and the Game Boy Horror. The Poltergust sucks in ghosts and the Gameboy tels you if a Boo is near and other functions. When you first play it, you're totally addicted. Once you win it a couple of times (about 1-2 days each win) it gets very repetetive and boring. I think renting is a great idea first, because if you buy it, and you are a Master Gamer, you'll lose interest in it after a couple of wins.

GRAPHICS:5/5
Splendid!

GAME CONTROL:5/5
Easy, easy, EASY!

SOUND:5/5
The sound and music is great-perfect

REPLAY VALUE:3/5
Errrrrrr.....

It is great for everyone, and I do recommend it, but try it out first. Thanks for reading the review. Enjoy!

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Luigi's Mansion is an excellent game for the Nintendo GameCube. The basic storyline behind the game is that Luigi gets a memo stating he has won a very large mansion, so he calls Mario and tells him to meet him there to check the place out. When Luigi arrives, he sees a big dark scary mansion and Mario is nowhere to be found. The rest of the game involves going into the mansion and trying to find out where Mario inside this large mansion filled with a wide variety of ghosts that do not want you to find your brother. The Mansion itself consists of a basement, a main floor, a second and third floor, and a roof. Each floor consists of separate room and new ghosts that all have special methods necessary for you to capture them in an attempt to rescuer your bother Mario. The game has an adequate amount of replay value as well. Upon completion of the game, a new "Hidden Mansion" option becomes available where you get to go back through the mansion with a stronger vacuum. Also with the money you win, you purchase a mansion at the end of the game, and depending on the amount of money you have collected you can continually get a better mansion. Another added element of replay value is that the ghosts you capture are turned into pictures, and depending on how fast you capture them, you get a different border around the picture. All and all Luigi's Mansion is a new and fun game to play moving away for the "been there, done that" games that have been coming out lately. This is truly a must have game for any Nintendo fan, and a great addition to anyone's GameCube library.

Luigi's Mansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was AWESOME from the get-go. Not terribly difficult for a novice to navigate, and loads of fun. Very clever and laugh-out-loud funny, with great special effects. If you're looking to critique, or to hone your video game skills, this probably isn't the game for you. But don't listen to the other reviews that reflect negatively on Luigi's Mansion. The only thing wrong with this game is that it's too short! And there needs to be a Luigi's Mansion 2!

"Fun" if you like difficult, tedious and repetitive games.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 27
Date: August 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Luigi's mansion is one of the Gamecube Oldies. Most everyone who ended up reserving a Gamecube reserved Luigi's Mansion as well.

Oops.

Luigi's mansion is so incredibly... what's the word... oh yeah, STUPID.

You start out with a plot line that you have won a haunted mansion in a contest you never entered. You encounter a ghost, and some crazy guy sucks it up with a poltergust 3000 (a vacume cleaner) You then must rescue Mario from the mansion, and thats when it gets exciting... for the one time.

Whats the gameplay like? Well, you need to suck up ghosts. First you need to shine a light on them to freeze them, then press L and pull back on the control stick to suck them up. But the drop bombs down, and you go into them, and you lose health and the ghosts! It's [horrible] how you cannot control the way you go. Second, more ghosts pop out and hurt you, and you can't do anything about that either! You would not beleive how stupid the entire thing is. The entire game revolves around pressing L and holding the C-stick down. Short "mini" games involve you the size of a peanut againts ghosts 50x your size. Also, during gameplay, the dumbest things let you get furthur. What does sucking in a peice of paper have to do with letting 50 boo's come out of a sewer? Speaking of boo's, you need to capture 50 of them. They are virtually all the same, and by ghost 10, you are saying "What's the point of this?" They travel through the walls and you need to capture them by going into a different room! Once I was stuck for 10 minutes in a hallway chasing a boo from room to room. BOOOOORING. You also lose health for opening doors, having mice touch you, and you virtually are dead after 10 touches by a ghosts, plus -20 everytime it shoots out a bomb at you. The gameplay gets a 5/10.

Now, I know, I sound like the old men from [a t.v. show], complaining about everything, but I can't complain about this. Despite the ...awful gameplay, the graphics will blow you away. Everything is in 3D and makes it look great. Ghosts have perfect transparentry, and the physics are perfect. If you try to suck up a cloth, it will respond to how hard you pressing the button, where you are, and how much your moving back. It's amazing. The graphics get a 10/10, but don't count on it to help this game's grade.

The sound is neutral. I can't complain, but I can't praise. The ghosts basically all make the same chattery laughter, and the boo's have the exact safe sfx for all of them. The sound gets a 7/10, but I'm being generous to the fact that it was one of the first games from Gamecube.

Speed's ok. It's not like Madden 2002, thank god, but it's superfast. There is loading time, but it's not annoyingly slow. Speed gets a 8/10.

Controls are decent, except for one part. The y button helps you see what can kill a ghost, but it's so slow by the time you know what it is, it bumps into you and you lose major health. You also have to pull the control stick in the opposite direction, which is very difficult because it seems to change while you are holding it. You will know what I mean if you foolishly purchase this game. Controls get a 8.5/10

Whats this "replay value" you speak of? L's Mansion has NO replay value. Whats the point of doing it again? It's gonna be exactly the same everytime! I'm not joking when I give the replay value a 1/10. You beat it, end of story. What's more to do?

Basically, if you want a game that will frustrate and waste your time and your hard-earned [$$], buy Luigi's Mansion. Case closed.
Let's review:
Gameplay: 5/10
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 7/10
Speed: 8/10
Controls: 8.5/10
Replay value: 1/10
Total: 39.5/60 giving Luigi's Mansion a 65.83, my lowest review ever.

Am I forgetting something? Oh yeah! I always add points for cheats on games. Right, so now instead of a 65.83, I'm gonna give it the appropriate amount of points for cheats, leaving Luigi's Mansion new total to be... 65.83! Woohoo!

Can you say game of the year?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was the game I got with my black Gamecube, and I must say it rules! Beutiful graphics, excellent gameplay, and just plain fun! And do you know what the best part of the package is? Pikmin demo! Incerdibly fun, and brilliantly detailed! This has been the "special project" of Shigeru Miyamoto himself! What beter a way to start your Gamecube library! PS2 and xbox officaly lost when Gamecube launched, and Luigi's Mansion proves it!

This game is fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Its a mix between an adult game and a child game in its complexity (use of controller), but I like it a lot. Any body who says Nintendo is for kids is wrong, Ive been playing them since I was a kid an I love the games they bring. Its really fun for kids and big ones.

A Fun Game But...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Luigi's Mansion (LM) is a very fun, addictive game with beautiful graphics and great game play, but the game does have a couple flaws.

The graphics in LM are simply stunning. The Game Cube's abilities were displayed in everything from the dust particles that become visible when using the flashlight to the translucent appearance of the ghosts.

The game play was simple, but good. Expose a ghost's heart and then vacuum the ghost. Although some found the game play repetitive, the puzzles one needs to solve in order expose a ghost's heart kept me busy through out the game. For example, in order to access one ghost's heart, one must vacuum up balls and shoot them at her. These puzzles prevented me from growing bored with the repetitive game play.

On the downside, LM was short--very short. It took me a total of about 6-7 hours to beat the game. The game should have been at least twice as long. I also found LM too easy. I died only once during the entire game, and that was while I was fighting the last boss. The problem was that after one finds the secret to exposing a ghost's heart, the method of catching every ghost is the same: shine the flashlight on the ghost and vacuum the ghost.

Overall, I was happy with LM. Although it only took about seven hours, I had a lot of fun beating the game and seeing the wonderful graphics and textures the Game Cube is capable of producing. If the game was longer and a little more difficult, it would have earned 5 stars, but those flaws caused it to earn 4 out of 5 stars.

Short But Sweet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Luigi crawls out from Mario's shadow to star in his own game, Luigi's Mansion. Unfortunately, Luigi's triumphant return is well... not so triumphant.

For those of you expecting this to be another platformer along the lines of Super Mario Bros./World/64 will be sorely disappointed. This game is more like Luigi meets ghostbusters, as he tries to find Mario in a haunted mansion with nothing more than a ghost vacuum. Don't get me wrong, this game is insanely fun once you get accustomed to the awkward Gamecube controls, but the game ends almost as fast as it starts. It can be completed in less than 5 hours and offers almost nothing in replay value since the puzzles do not change during the second playthrough.

The graphics and sounds are both fantastic, worthy of of a Gamecube title. Luigi has various expressions on his face that change depending on his mood, and virtually everything in the house has it's own movement and can be interacted with. He also calls out Mario's name and starts whistling to the background music with a shaky voice throughout the course of the game. It's easy to see that a lot of attention was paid to details.

This game is a great Gamecube title that may not be what people expected, but still worth the price of admission. If gaming one night stands don't bother you, then give Luigi's Mansion a try!

Innovation...?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: July 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I got my Gamecube at [local store] the day it was released last November, waiting in line for 4 hours, beating the rush at [local store] later on that day to get my already reserved copy of Luigi's Mansion, and scrambling around to find an available Memory Pack, I knew it would all be worth it. I just didn't expect exactly how disappointed I'd be with Luigi's Mansion.

Well, it's not as bad as I just made it sound. The cons will be listed first. The game has no graphical prowess, the music is... repetetive, the gameplay is overly simplistic, and the game is over way too soon... a little TOO shabby for Gamecube's first game. But, I wasn't beating myself over the head for buying it, either.

The pros are fewer, but just let me get through them. While I mentioned that the music was repetetive, Nintendo find's ways to add flair to one song that's played basically the entire game. So it's not like you're listening to the same song over and over, sometimes Luigi will be whistling it, sometimes a harp will be playing it, other times a low bass will be playing it... when your health is low the music will play much slower. So it's not all that bad. While the gameplay is overall simplistic, it is challenging at times, from finding all 50 boos to solving puzzles that can be a little mind boggling at times. The framerate is overall constant, no slowdown whatsoever, the graphics are smooth if simplistic, and there's a Pikmin movie! (Woohoo!...)

Luigi's Mansion is entertaining, for about 3 days. Once it's over, it's basically over, the "hidden" mansion doesn't add much either. If you're a hardcore Mario/Luigi fan, like myself, maybe you should invest in this. If not, maybe a rental would be good. And if you're looking for the next good Mario/Luigi platformer, wait for Super Mario Sunshine.

Get this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played this game while it was on display in a store, and from all that I've seen so far, this is a keeper. Basic inrto storyline is that you (Luigi) win a contest that you never entered, and get a free mansion. It (of course) is haunted. Mario goes ahead to check it out, and doesn't come back, so you go. So then your walking around with a flashlight, calling mario, then you find a key, go through a door, and find this little old guy trying to suck a up a ghost with a vacum. He tells you his story, give you the vacum, and, ta da, you've got your main 'weapon'. Then you get used to the feel of it and go off back to the mansion to continue the search. Thats about as far as i got. Great graphics, good Nintendo-style stroyline...I recomed this game to most anyone.

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