Luigi's Mansion (3DS)

I ain't afraid of no ghosts! (joke made by everyone playing this game)

The launch-title for the Gamecube, I played it and never finished this game, until now that is when it was remade for the 3DS. It's about Luigi winning a mansion in a lottery he hadn't entered and, when arriving after his brother Mario, finding out that the mansion is overrun by ghosts. He is saved by professor E. Gadd that equips him with the Poltergust 3000 and it's of ghost hunting to find Mario. Basically a puzzle-adventure game where you go to each room of the mansion, trying to figure out how to capture the special portrait ghosts, capture the 50 boos and find Mario. It was fun, but I wish the c-stick on the N3DS was more responsive, meaning I miss the gamecube C-stick. Especially when fighting boos, or bosses that forces you to be more precise with your vacuuming sight. And the bosses are the most irritating ones, well, mostly the boo bosses. The several boos you fight at the balcony was a pure hate to play through. You are supposed to vacuum it into a unicorn statue so it splinters into several boos, and then freeze the boos and then vacuum them up. The final one was a real pain since he continued to hurt me, bit by bit, getting me down to 12 hearts before I by some random luck was able to freeze him and suck him up. I was at 90 when he was the last one standing. Yeah, he sucks.

The C-stick problem gets really noticeable as soon as you get to fight ghosts on the ceiling or so. Also, Luigi goes so slow that running up and down the mansion can be a hassle at times... at least until you get the key for the shortcut of the stairs so you don't have to run all around the backyard. Basically the boos have created the mansion to capture the brothers and released the ghosts from E. Gadds paintings. And in the final when you cleaned out the house you fight King Boo in the basement in the form of Bowser. I never finished it at the gamecube, mostly because I got frustrated by not being able to maneuver correctly. Maybe they made the auto-targeting better, but I at least did it this time. You get all the ghosts back into the paintings, rescue Mario and depending on the amount of money you have collected, Luigi gets a new mansion. I got a D. It's pretty much the same thing from Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land where he got a castle depending on the treasures he got. Winning unlocks the Hidden Mansion mode where you get into hard mode, but you can earn more money and go for the better mansion. All in all a fun game for a couple of hours. You can play 2-player co-op on the 3DS as well, but since I'm alone I can't test it.