Luigi's Mansion 3 has all of the Nintendo charm you've come to love despite Next Level Gmaes not becoming a Nintendo developer till after its release. On a technical level, they pulled off a lot with the weak Switch. The animations are quite stunning with lots of nice little details. The series has never been mechanically dense, Luigi has a few different moves to keep it interesting. The new Gooigi feature adds a bit to the puzzle solving. That said, often when I'm faced with a problem in the game, I just cycle through the toolset till one of them works. I still do find it fun though at least with the puzzles and exploration. Combat is a bit boring with flashing and slamming them with the vacuum cleaner; at least for the normal enemies. The game does show a lot of creativity with the different floors of the hotel feeling different from one another. It probably doesn't make sense that a hotel has an Ancient Egypt floor but who cares? The variety is also seen with the bosses which pretty much every floor has and it rarely feels like ideas are being repeated. The normal combat may be dull but they really did a good job with the boss fights. The flow of new ideas for each floor and boss rivals the inventiveness of the mainline Mario games. Although I don't think Luigi's Mansion 3 has as high a quality of some of the Nintendo greats, it still was a joy to play through.

Reviewed on Oct 26, 2023


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