When this originally came out I played as Gooigi in a few levels while my wife played her game of it. So some of the levels were not still fairly familiar during my play through. Near the end of this playthrough she jumped in as Gooigi, which comes in very handy for the final boss battles.
She and I play very differently and in co-op respect whose game is being played. She is very obsessed with making sure she gets every last collectable, while I'm happy to grab a collectable if it's presenting an interesting challenge or it's not going to take too long to get.
So here I fell like the collectables don't really provide much. Cash is only really spent on getting bones (which is an instant revive) and getting locators for Boos and trinkets. As you can only have 5 bones at once, most of the money you collect goes towards getting locators for collectables that don't really do anything.
That said I still ended the game with a B rank, so.
The concept of setting this one in a hotel is interesting, it allows the level design to just go hog wild while still making it feel like one single building. To get to most of the levels you'll use the elevator and you'll need to get the buttons which are usually held by the boss of each level. This makes progress very linear and that can be slightly frustrating.
And the introduction of a few new moves helps out a lot too.
Some of the levels are better than others. If you're like me and not interested in collectables, there's one level where you walk almost completely without having to battle or get around obstacles and enter directly into the boss battle. Which ends and you can then walk back to the elevator (fight a few minor ghosts) and end the level.
Generally I liked the game. I did manage to genuinely scare my wife once. I loaded up the game and the sound on our TV was a little too high and with curfew it's been really quiet at home. Luigi walked out of the elevator and as I do at the start of each level I pressed the D-Pad to get him to let out a "M-M-M-Marioooo". She was unaware that this was something that you could do and it fully freaked her out.
I probably won't play it again though, I do still need to get through the rest of 1 and 2, so probably through my focus there rather than here.
She and I play very differently and in co-op respect whose game is being played. She is very obsessed with making sure she gets every last collectable, while I'm happy to grab a collectable if it's presenting an interesting challenge or it's not going to take too long to get.
So here I fell like the collectables don't really provide much. Cash is only really spent on getting bones (which is an instant revive) and getting locators for Boos and trinkets. As you can only have 5 bones at once, most of the money you collect goes towards getting locators for collectables that don't really do anything.
That said I still ended the game with a B rank, so.
The concept of setting this one in a hotel is interesting, it allows the level design to just go hog wild while still making it feel like one single building. To get to most of the levels you'll use the elevator and you'll need to get the buttons which are usually held by the boss of each level. This makes progress very linear and that can be slightly frustrating.
And the introduction of a few new moves helps out a lot too.
Some of the levels are better than others. If you're like me and not interested in collectables, there's one level where you walk almost completely without having to battle or get around obstacles and enter directly into the boss battle. Which ends and you can then walk back to the elevator (fight a few minor ghosts) and end the level.
Generally I liked the game. I did manage to genuinely scare my wife once. I loaded up the game and the sound on our TV was a little too high and with curfew it's been really quiet at home. Luigi walked out of the elevator and as I do at the start of each level I pressed the D-Pad to get him to let out a "M-M-M-Marioooo". She was unaware that this was something that you could do and it fully freaked her out.
I probably won't play it again though, I do still need to get through the rest of 1 and 2, so probably through my focus there rather than here.