Excellent game. there's a wide variety of levels, all unique and interesting. This is one of the prettiest and most polished-looking games on the switch and the mechanics are pretty sound. it's really just a refinement of the Luigi's mansion formula.

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where i felt the game could use some improvements are:
- bring back the scariness factor. the original had a good eerie feel to it, with lots of very dimly lit rooms, many areas in this are too brightly lit, and the ghosts don't invoke the same fear when they pop out. I looked back at the original just to see and it still definitely feels more tense and foreboding(as far as a mario title goes anyway).the tension is more palpable and exemplified by the setpieces, environmental and sound design
- there is pretty much no replayability. the game is good, and it kinda gets hurt by this. I have not really felt like playing throught it again because it's easy enough that i'd just breeze through again, and there's no kind of postgame or new game plus with anything extra. you can play multiplayer i guess.
- needs more interconnectedness and backtracking. the original had a section of the game which required revisiting old cleared rooms, and it felt more like one cohesive connected world than individual levels like this does. there is some but not a lot.