Catching ghosts (Luigi's Mansion (GC))

Member Name: english_student

Product:	Luigi's Mansion (GC)
Date:	29/01/09 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fun, interesting

Disadvantages: Repetitive

Being a fan of the older games I got myself Luigi's mansion on the Gamecube as I hadn't been on the gamecube for a while. I got it cheap second hand as I've found that the Gamecube games are a bit hit and miss, so it is better to find them at the cheapest going rate.

Luigi's mansion has a very simple premise, and that is that you are Luigi who has just won a mansion in a competition that he cannot remember taking part in. Mario has gone missing in the mansion and Luigi is trying to find him but there are some very wierd things going on in the mansion. You meet what looks to be an insane scientist and he confides in you that the house is haunted, which means that it is your job to go around sucking the ghosts into the professors newest invention. Which looks like an oversized vacuum cleaner.

So you are to capture ghosts armed only with a torch and a vaccuum cleaner. Great. It is however fairly simple to capture the ghosts, you shine the light on them to stun them, which means that its heart becomes visible, you then hold R down to begin sucking the ghost in and use the yellow C stick to follow the ghost so it doesn't escape the vaccuums stream of pulling power. This is while pulling backwards on the main control stick to keep it pulling. It sounds more difficult than it is as once you have had a couple of practice goes you get the hang of it.

The story line is very simple, with you going from room to room to evacuate it of ghosts, gaining keys to get into new rooms. This also gains you access to bosses which take more figuring out as to how to capture them as you have to use the props given in the game to work out which are needed to defeat the creature. The main issue with the ghosts is that it is very repetitive.

Once you have completed the game you will be given a rank from A to H based on how many ghosts you have captured and how much treasure you have accumulated. Overall the game is very fun, and although it is very repetitive it can provide hours of fun to anyone who wishes to play it.

Summary: Well worth a look