Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD Review

My name is Luigi:

This title, which was the sequel to Luigi’s Mansion, one of the most remembered titles of Nintendo’s GameCube , gave rise to Luigi being the absolute protagonist of his own saga, with a completely different style of play to Mario’s platform games. Despite its enormous quality, in more than two decades we have only seen three installments, with Luigi’s Mansion 3 (review) being the last one so far.

Gameplay:

The second Luigi adventure keeps all the content of Nintendo 3DS intact , that is, from its story to the multiplayer modes and the secrets it hides. It does not add or remove anything in terms of content.

The starting point, for those who don’t remember, begins with the peculiar Professor Fesor teleporting Luigi to the Shadow Valley, a spooky area where King Boo has been up to his old tricks. Specifically, destroying and scattering the fragments of the Dark Moon, an object that kept the ghosts in the area in a peaceful state.

So, in order to continue his research on ectoplasmic entities, Fesor will ask you to recover the fragments of the Dark Moon , which will lead us to visit, in an orderly and sequential manner, five “spooky” places, such as haunted mansions or an abandoned mine, where we will have to locate the ghosts that hold the fragments.

In other words, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD has a linear level structure , and in each of them we will have to complete an objective, from finding a key to rescuing a Toad or reaching the end of a “haunted” staircase. Thus, almost always, when we complete that objective, we will return to the bunker with Professor Fesor, and we will access the next level or we can repeat one of those already completed.

Luckily, Luigi once again has the Ghost Sucker 5000, the vacuum cleaner to catch the ectoplasms that we will use like Ghostbusters and that, throughout the adventure, we can improve with greater suction force, in addition to having extras such as a flashlight to blind the ghosts or the descurizer, which allows us to reveal objects that the Boos have made invisible .

In this way, in the five mansions we will have to explore every corner of each room to find the ghosts or the numerous secrets that await us, from hidden walls that hide money to collectible jewels or doors that will teleport us to mini-games , such as collecting red coins in a time limit.

A big part of the fun of the game lies in just that, in touching and interacting with the environment in every way you can think of: if you touch a toilet bowl, it might hide a mechanism that takes you to the other side of the wall; if you look through a hole or window, you might get clues; if you absorb all the curtains in a room, something might happen… or maybe if you roll up a rug.