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.

one of my favorite RPGs, it's a classic that stands out among other titles. I really like the battle system and the difficulty is at a good level on the normal setting. This game oozes atmosphere, it gives a strong feeling of isolation in a hostile world that you need to fight to survive in.
the randomness of what can happen in each battle gives some novelty to each encounter, but you can never let your guard down or it's over. I should mention this has one of the most banger soundtracks in any game I've ever played.
It's not the best looking game, it's annoying and frustrating at times from the level design, and it's unforgiving, but I keep coming back to it.

I remember this being a strange pokemon-esque rip-off back when that was all the rage. the creators had intended for this I.P. to be the next big thing with shows, merchandise etc. but it didn't take off. the story is kind of dark for a children's game and the premise has you both capturing monsters and fighting along side them against bosses. the music was very basic and graphical complexity was very poor being on the GBC, i tried to play again recently and it doesn't really hold up at all. There's still some fun to be had here but it's very dated.