I went into Luigi's Mansion expecting to enjoy it, but ultimately I found the experience to be tedious and dull. Fundimentally, Luigi's Mansion is doing the same thing over and over again with very little to shake things up. Ultimately, while ghost sucking had the potential to be enjoyable, it's not especially deep and doesn't drastically change much from ghost to ghost. Sucking up one ghost will feel the same as sucking up another ghost, so when the game stretches that one activity across a whole game. At points the game is comically lengthened, such as when you clear a room in the attic, only to receive a key to the basement, only for that room to give you a key to another attic room. You just have to walk through the cleared out mansion several times to continue, and it's just a dull matter of holding down the analogue stick. And the boos add to the tedium even more! Not only do you have to run through the house again to get all 50, but when you start capturing them they will just run into the halls, and in some rooms this dance can be extended for absurd amounts of time. It's not fun, or interesting to catch boos, its just an exercise in tedium. Sure, the presentation is decent, and it has its charming moments, but ultimately Luigi's Mansion is too repetitive and tedious for me to want to revisit it.

Reviewed on Nov 01, 2023


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