This time, we play as Luigi, Mario´s little brother, he suddenly wins a mansion in a contest he actually neved participated, Luigi feels this situation a bit weird so he tells the whole situation to Mario, they both decide to investigate the mansion and see what is going on, Luigi goes to the site both decided to meet but Mario isn´t there, being alone and scared, Luigi decides by himself to look after Mario in the mansion and the reason of his suddenly disappearance. In our journey, we´ll meet Professor E. Gadd, he´ll help us by giving us the tools to fight the ghosts of the mansion.
As I mentioned before, Professor E. Gadd will help us by giving us the tools to defeat the ghosts, such like a Game Boy Horror and the Poltergust 3000, which is a vaccum cleaner that will suck them up.
In the game, we´re given the task of exploring the mansion and defeating the evil ghosts, to do this, Luigi must first use his flashlight to light up the ghost and stun it, revealing their heart.
When this happens, he uses the Poltergust 3000 to suck them up, steadily reducing the ghost's hit points to zero; the more hit points, the more time it takes for a ghost to be captured, giving them a chance to break free while leaving Luigi more exposed to being harmed; if his HP is reduced to zero from being hurt by the ghosts, the game is over.
Every ghost we capture it´ll transform into a painting thanks to the help of Professor E. Gadd at the end of the phase you are playing, you can see the description of the ghost and why is dead in your Game Boy Horror.
The Poltergust 3000 won´t be the only tool we´ll be using through the game, as I said before, we´re given a Game Boy Horror which is not just for decoration, with the Game Boy Horror we can examinate things and actually read what Luigi thinks about the thing we are examinating, this is important, it can give us special clues about what to do when we are lost or even give us the weak points of some ghosts, and as I said earlier, we can read the context of some ghosts too if we want to know more about them.
We can use the Game Boy Horror to access a map of the mansion too, seeing which rooms we have visited, what doors are open, and which remain locked.
When Luigi finds a key during his explorations, the Game Boy Horror automatically indicates which door it unlocks. The Game Boy Horror also keeps track of any treasure that Luigi has found, rooms will usually have treasure hidden within, which can be either coins, gems, gold bars and many others.
Luigí´s Mansion did oustanding on sales, it sold two million copies, becoming the fifth gamecube game sold ever and overcoming the sales of Super Mario 64 in the Nintendo 64 in its first weeks, even if it was a success, Nintendo kinda forgot about Luigi´s Mansion a long time, until they launched Luigi´s Mansion Dark Moon on the Nintendo 3DS, which is a sequel to the Luigi´s Mansion on the Nintendo Gamecube, years later, Nintendo launched a remake of Luigi´s Mansion to the Nintendo 3DS featuring new content like multiplayer, finally, Luigi´s Mansion 3 launched on Nintendo Switch, being a success on sales and critics.
In the end, Luigi´s Mansion is a videogame I highly recommend if you have a Nintendo Gamecube or a Nintendo 3DS, it´s a short videogame but it gives a big experience you shouldn´t waste, help Luigi to save his old brother from the claws of the evil ghosts in this adventure where Luigi has to overcome his fears to protect his familly, a brave person is not someone who is not afraid of anything, a brave person is the one who despite his fears, knows how to move on and that´s what makes Luigi so special.
