The Unsettling Charm of Luigi's Mansion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- After several script re-writes, audio retakes, and me somehow almost deleting my own video, here's the extreme deep dive of a weird panda's Nintendo obsession.
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▶︎Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:29 Development
05:37 Stepping In
11:45 The Atmosphere
16:25 The Ghosts
24:38 The Boo Rant
29:23 The Unexplained
37:29 Replayability
39:09 Closing Thoughts
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Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ Talking with Ghosts
Luigi's Mansion 3 ▶︎ 14F Dark Hallways (Disco Remix)
Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ Boolossus Battle
Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ Gallery
Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ King Boo Battle
Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ Gameboy Horror Theme
Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ Ghost Portrificationizer Room
Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon ▶︎ E. Gadd's Theme
Luigi's Mansion ▶︎ Staff Credits Theme
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13:41 Fun fact too. Luigi's humming changes depending on his HP. He sounds more scared at low health.
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I’ve noticed this as well, it’s great to see smaller talent
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Boos can be stunlocked by holding L and tapping R in a heartbeat rhythm
I really love how different this game was compare to the happy go lucky vibe of most Mario games. It really is a product of its time when Nintendo was really into experimenting this time around(Toadsworth, the karts in Double Dash, the more aggressive approach in Mario Strikers, and etc.). The sequels play it a lot more safer and are much more closer to the Mario brand.
The Gamecube era itself was such a fun time with experimentation. I think it's why (past nostalgia) the Gamecube is so memorable to us. Though the current era of Nintendo is still amazing, they're not as risky and daring to try something new as often.
Luigi mansion is such a unique series in the Mario branding and honestly the whole horror genre as well. It’s not meant to scare you obviously but it’s just really cool and fun. A lot of games during the 2000s had lots of charm like that and even the early 2010s as well.
This game freaked me out as a kid, but that's why I remember it fondly.
Same I was almost 4 when it came out. Ran upstairs as fast as possible for bed after done playing at night.
The sequels could have benefitted in spots from the darker lighting of the uncleared rooms
28:45 so it’s like the manta ray fight in sunshine except the enemies run away from you instead of towards you
I love how the Luigi mansion games gave Luigi such depth in character. The later games somewhat changed the gameplay but they gave such great moments like when Luigi saved Mario in 3, such a heartwarming reunion also poulterpup is the sweetest.
Playing Luigis Mansion 3, i continuously find myself wishing for the cohesion and atmosphere of the original. There was just so much PERSONALITY in this game, its in the art direction, the music design. Everything.
Considerating Sunshine was half baked in some areas on release, I'm glad we got the funny, polished Luigi spook game instead
I've always looked fondly back on this game, it gives us so much character with the portrait ghosts, ambiance, and music. It scared me as a kid, but now as an adult, I look forward to playing it like I've conquered my kid fears. Glad I found your channel!
As someone who only watched a family member playing it without a memory card and i finished it alone this was one of the first games i finished and when the 3Ds remake came out i played it and loved it just as much same goes for dark moon when I found about it a year later after it came out and getting 3 day one that was a blast to play I genuinely love these games so yeah can’t wait to get Luigi’s mansion 2 HD
oh to be a middle aged green italian plumber in a haunted house… that’s the dream. (also your sona is so cute !!)
Boos are commonly agreed upon to be one of the biggest missed opportunities in the entire series. As far as anyone is concerned, replacing their collectable role with something else would honestly be far more interesting, maybe as individual secret bosses inside of Secret Areas or something like that. You can also see them directing and controlling the other ghost characters far more directly than King Boo, which would make them absolutely necessary to capture in order to restore an entire room and clean off any more combat from it and make cleaning up all of the treasure/collectables an incredibly easier task now that the Boos no longer block your way at the most inconvienient moment.
Make them into a collective version of Stalker Enemies, like Nemesis, Pyramid Head, or Mr. X from Resident Evil. Except instead of making your life difficult through direct combat, they instead do things to the various rooms, methods of travel, and even individual ghosts that make traversing through the mansions much harder.
Also, your character is honestly incredibly good looking.
Honestly Luigi's Mansion 1 is my favorite because its the perfect "halloween-y" game if that makes sense. It's the fun type of spooky you get from a lighthearted story or setup without taking itself too seriously.
It's similar to the original Scooby Doo, Where Are You from the 80s, where the environments and art depicting them looked dark, creepy, and had lots of the "haunted house" vibe. But the actual mystery and stakes were lighthearted, cartoony, there was no over the top danger, or nightmare inducing horror.
It's the "fun" kind of scary, not the "oh my god im going to have a heart attack" type of scary.
I've never been able to articulate my issue with Luigi's Mansion 2+3 quite like your explanation of the loss of the unexplained. The devs of LM1 were confident enough in the experience to not need go force lore and explanation and gimmick and ~aesthetic~ down our throats. The Luigi's Mansion series is a perfect example of "less is more"
I hope this video gets more attention! It definitely deserves it, I had a good time viewing!
8:46 yeah, this was definitely resident evil inspired
I usually suck at writing reviews but I really wanted to comment that I really liked this video! As a fellow Luigi's Mansion enjoyer I appreciate you making it! I hope you make more videos like this in the future 🩵
Despite the 5475646 video essays over video games, im always delighted to find someone new and engaging. Thank you for working on this!!
Luigis mansion holds such a place in my heart, I love hearing others dissect and gush about it. I look forward to keeping up with your channel~
I'm not going to lie, as soon as 37:16 hit, I could already feel the tears welling up. Luigi's Mansion was one of the first games I ever got to play growing up, and I was absolutely captivated by the atmosphere and Luigi's personality throughout the adventure. It took me years to beat it (partially because I didn't always know what to do and got lost easily since I was so young), but once I finally got to see that heartwarming ending cutscene, I knew this game would be one of my all-time favorites. Even as I've opened up more to horror games in general, my heart still has a place for that silly green plumber and his ghost-catching antics.
This was an amazing analysis, you perfectly captured just about every amazing trait about this game in a way that kept me engaged and entertained all the way through (something that some essays don't always do). Have a sub, you earned it.
Your artstyle is wonderful, along with everything else such as the script and video editing is well made too. Keep it up! :]
I always assumed that the ghosts in 3 were dead people that stay at the hotel (like the hotel is an hotel for ghosts)
And luigis mansion 2 actually has... Something similar up portrait ghosts. The haunted Towers, the second mansion, is inhabited by the three sisters and interestingly enough, if you look through the haunted Towers, you can fine their three chairs, three beds, three sinks and lastly, three pictures of them when they were still alive. So not only do we get to meet three actually dead people but we even get to know what thes looked like as humans and the fact that thes used to own- and probably still do own- the haunted Towers. And considering the fact that the tree sisters look somewhat like the regular ghosts kinda hints at the regular ghosts being dead people too
Oh god this is extremely amazing! You elaborate so well what makes the game work and are so charmingly likable it makes the video so enjoyable. I really hope you keep doing these kinds of videos, you bring areally fresh voice in the scene. If not though, I understand completely. Analysis videos take a long time haha.
I'm a huge fan of the Luigi's Mansion series. I actually watched this video while playing some LM2 solo scarescraper. But I gotta say that the quality of this video is amazing, for I assume a new youtuber/content creator. The humour, the information, the background music choices, the footage. I have a feeling you'll make it big pretty fast if you keep up like this.
I gotta admit, LM2 is without a doubt my favourite of the series, so I can't wait until it's out on Switch. The differences in each game are what makes them unique, in my opinion. The first entry is the lowest on my list, but it's very good nonetheless. As you described very well, the atmosphere / vibe is so well done, aswell as the ghost variants. I guess I'm just not a huge fan of replay ability, especially in the 3DS version (remake) where u have to play the game like 4-5 times or even more for all the achievements.
But anyway. I wonder what more content you will bring to the surface for us. I'd love to see your takes on the other games of Luigi's Mansion!
I remember being a fan of Luigi's Mansion 1 an' 2 myself, when I didn't even understand English and thought this game could be played safely on a CD ROM. I loved watching walkthroughs of these games, I literally loved everything about them (even though at first I didn't understand why the graphics were different, because my naive head saw it all as one game). The first part had a great soundtrack and active gameplay that tempted my ADHD. The second part was the same, but with more colourful and dark locations (it even became a part of my life in a way, because every time it gets really cold in winter, I start to unconsciously hear the Secret Mines OST). I'm still a fan of the series (but admittedly, the third part didn't impress me, not even a catchy soundtrack, except for the Virtual Boy call), I'm mesmerised by this mystery Beta version of Luigi's Mansion, which differs many times from the original. Thanks for the video! This series is sadly unpopular with fans and would love any content on this game!
34:57 they retconned this to be referencing Super Mario 64 DS later on
Sp DS before mansion 1? Or is timeline having one of those moments
@@brockthebananabruiser2819 SM64 DS came out after Luigi’s Mansion but they gave King Boo a motive there and referenced Luigi’s Mansion in the future tense.
Every other day I flash back to the ending song that bumps harder then it has any right to if I'm being honest, I'm 31 come the 9th and I will never forget Luigi's mansion
This is an excellent analysis of what makes the game so good! Charming and fun, with a side of spooky. 💛
Dark Moon actually does have some Portrait Ghost adjacent Ghosts. Such as the three sisters you fight in the second mansion, which are basically a one to one, and the ancient poltergeist in the third one. The three chained super ghosts in the mines are also similar, though they aren't as unique in character or story, but they are unique in design and how you find them.
I remember along time ago, me and my cousin loved playing the original luigis mashion. I gave of us that wierd uneasiness you wouldn't expect from a mario game. I even go that same charm from the sequal dark moon. I get that people often down play that game because it doesn't live up with orginal to them, but its still favorite of the series and I thought it still had alot of creepy and tense moments, especially the king boo boss fight.
This was fun to watch! I couldn’t agree more with the vibes being unsettling charming. 2 and 3 lack the eerie nature but they are by all means still fun games
I wish I could send money through youtube like other channels cause you are UNDERATED i love your content
I thought this was produced by a very well established TH-camr. Keep up the good work man. This was great content
Jesus no way this video has that much effort with barely any subscribers. You just got one, I can’t wait to see what you do because your editing and mic are incredible.
The original Luigis Mansion game is easily my favourite game of all time and I never get tired of revisiting it and playing through it in an evening even so many years later, even despite its flaws
Oh how I wish instead of Mario, they used Daisy as the one Luigi needed to save. :P
I’ve heard many people compare you to Game Theory, but I feel like you have the energy of a non-horror-centric focused Night Mind or Nexpo. Impressive and engaging. And because you mentioned it in the intro, RE review when?
I personally feel moreso the comparasion of someone like Scott The Woz, Cadicarus or Antdude may be more apt. Like similar "personality based review/analysis/lets look at this thing" content, although with less spiky humor. Out of the three I think Antdude may be the most similar.
Great video and I have to agree that the first game has a certain charm to it which the other 2 do not quite have
love this! keep on shining
… I have played this game for decades… never once thought King Boo could just be ghost Bowser… love it XD
I hope you cover the following two games! This video was great and I’m excited to see more of your stuff!
can't wait to see more stuff from you my dude! God bless!
Awesome Video Bro!
TH-cam recommending me good content???????? Inconceivable. Unheard of. Baffling.
Good stuff! Can’t quite put into words how much I dig what you do. Keep at it!
This video is so well done. I would love to see more video game retrospectives
I can completely relate to the boolosus struggle, I was once stuck on one boo for 40 minutes
Hot take but 2 is my favourite luigis mansion. Maybe because I grew up with it? Idk it just feels warmer than luigis mansion 1 and 3...
I'm creating a game heavily inspired by the Luigi's Mansion series. This video was a gem to highlight the decisions in the game design, especially ghost design.
(A Steam demo can be found on my profile for those interested)
I think it’s really funny how the sequel confirmed that getting the Rank D mansion is the actual canon ending to the game
This was a fantastic video man. Great job. It would be cool if you made videos about the sequels as well or even the 3DS port of the original game
ngl I never thought of that but minus the inventory system in RE, Luigi's mansion is about walking around a creepy mansion fighting off the undead and using keys found in wildly varied places that don't really make sense but it is haunted sooooo.
18:55 NEXT LEVEL is like video game Pixar
What a great video for a great game. Im hoping to do one someday, and its a lot of fun seeing other peoples perspectives. Love your takes, i absolutely agree that this game is a special one in the series.
You did great on the video 👍 this made me wanna play the game again 😂
Cool video! Luigi's Mansion is also very special to me. It has such a unique atmosphere. Honestly I would love to visit this mansion lol. It's one of my favorite video game location. LM2 (Dark Moon) and 3 are not bad, especially 3, but 1 has that special charm to it.
2:13 Yeah honestly I agree about the "unsettling atmosphere" in Luigi's Mansion. Its little things like reading about the Ghost Family's problems and realizing that the final boss of Act 1 is literally a baby that died in its crib but the goofy nature of the game kinda smooths over things like that so you don't really pay attention to it unless you really think about it.
26:53 Oh yeah the later Boos in the game fucking suck.
Didn't Luigi's mansion kind of make the first Paper Mario cannon? I haven't played either, but I watched a let's play years ago saying that Bowser died in PM and that's why he's dead in Mansion.
Seeing as he's alive in both Sunshine and TTYD, I have no clue if there was any truth to this though
Actually kind of fitting that the standard ones in the first game were so strange as they were, well, essentially artificial.
30:51 i never knew you could look out that window
Amazing 🔥
19:58 You mean roasting a man dead, right?
Now I've played these games when i was younger. I'm not exactly sure how old you are, but i love Luigi's Mansion, and i wish it was easier to play the original because my 3DS is dead and i don't play my GameCube anymore. The first game came out when i was 4, i believe.
Sue Pea caught me off guard!!
Luigi's Mansion was actually originally intended to be more funny than scary. And the dude in the Pikachu costume at 2:35 was actually choking the girl 😂
Omg this video is super well made????? AND YOU HAVE LESS THAN 500 SUBS??????? I gotta invest in this what??????
I wish I could play this game… have since I was a little kid, I still remember the first time I watched it through on chuggaconroy’s channel when I was sick one weekend a long time ago, it’s a very important memory to me, I also remember the round of Mario party the family had that evening, wonderful times
This game also had to compete with Super Smash Bros Melee as a launch title- it had some odds stacked against it.
I love this game- I remember one time in sixth grade when I’d finished a long session, it was later than I usually went to bed, and as I climbed the ladder to my bunk bed, I could swear I heard Luigi humming and a Boo’s cackle coming from the TV room despite having turned the game off…
Luigi’s Mansion was available on release day, while SSBM released a bit after.
I'm sorry but using donkey kong country returns forest level theme as an overlapping track is fantastic. I will recognise the soundtrack anywhere, it's the first game I ever played.
Getting the star took me 20 minutes.... lord o hate trying yo hit that moon
By the way the forest Luigi goes through to get to the mansion is called Boo Woods.
I actually really enjoy the Boos in Luigi Mansion 1, and I found a fun method that makes them easier for me and sorta keeps them in place, I constantly move Luigi up and down while vacuuming and they seem to have a harder time moving from that motion, it also feels a lot more satisfying to me, also Boolossus and King Boo are my favorite bosses in the game, it kinda sounds like you are very impatient when the Boolossus is a fun challenge, becuz i dont think its that bad
Also I like the Boos more in Luigi's Mansion 1 than in Dark Moon and 3...
another good mario horror that gives more eerie vibes is B3313. it’s like mario 64 meets yume nikke, or if peach’s castle was combined with the overlook hotel from the shining.
i think King boo is absolutely bowser. but i have so many other theories about this game that i would love to share
I've never touched this game but Im really hoping it comes to the switch since dark moon got a shot at it. I completely get it how the other games don't really hit the same. No hate to the other 2 but number 1 hits so well because I used to watch people play it and it was so scary but satisfying how they would suck up the ghosts. The first ghosts are way scarier. I was so scared of the ceiling ghosts and I was scared to go into the halls. Also please don't get me started on potrait ghosts.
Problem child Chauncey
Lydia
Twinsies
Shivers (ESPECIALLY. Another reason I didn't wanna go in the halls)
Sue pea
Biff atlas
Melody (Only because she gets mad at you and slams her piano when you get answer wrong. She pretty tho)
If I had to pick one, That baby freaked me the FUCK out as a kid.
Forgot to add ghost luigi from the beta made me cry as a kid. Although its not in the game but just for fun for the beta trailer.
My head canon is bowser is a zombie flesh puppet.
The entire Luigi's Mansion series is more or less designed to be a homage to old horror cartoons and movies.
Lore of The Unsettling Charm of Luigi's Mansion momentum 100
Coulda fooled me, Wind Waker seems very well-liked aside from the Triforce shard quest which is at the END of the game. Other than that, people praise the heck outta that game and it's easy to see why. Heck, it became my favorite Zelda game lol
I’ve never played the first Luigi’s mansion, but I remember playing Dark Moon on the 3ds and it’s one of my favorite games.
I also like the third one quite a bit, but I still prefer dark moon, as the individual mansions are far more memorable than some of the floors in the third game. More than half of the floors feel like padding that don’t contribute much story or gameplay wise besides being fun fights. For example the disco floor feels rather pointless in my opinion as the floor is mostly just the fight, and several of the floors feel like that. The best floors are ones like the movie studio, or unfortunately enough the sewer floor as there’s at least plenty to do there minus the mostly straight line nature of that floor. More than half of the floors are just hallways to boss fights unfortunately.
However each of Dark moons mansions are unique and interesting, with them each presenting a different view on what each of the mansions used to be like in its time. Additionally the final dark moon mansion truly feels like the final stage being more grand and impressive than the other ones, it’s at the very least more interesting than the final floor of 3, which is another glorified hallway.
Additionally all the common ghosts in 3 feel like reskins of the Dark moon ghosts, unless the dark moon ones are reskins of the original games ones.
Though I do prefer the idea of the character ghosts over dark moon’s possessor ghosts or whatever they’re called.
0:37 is that black yoshi from super mario logan in the background
Luigis Mansion 1 for GameCube is the best in the trilogy and after seeing 2 and 3 I kinda wish they’d just left 1 as a standalone game Nintendo either know they can’t recapture the magic of the original or like always theyre afraid of pushing the norm so they haven’t bothered to try and make a faithful sequel so they pawned that job off on another studio
2s Mission structure takes you out of the action to soon and makes things extra tedious and multiple “mansions” and it honestly felt like they where trying to make an original game and they just slapped the Luigis Mansion ip on plus the removal of the portrait ghosts and no equivalent drags it down further
3 while having good graphics is boring and has to meany gimmicks and I’ve never been able to finish the game plus it’s a Hotel not a mansion
If they ever decide to make a 4th game they need to return to what made the original game great
1. ONE MANSION
2. Portrait Ghosts or an equivalent with a dark backstory even if it’s just hinted like in the original
3. Dark and creepy music like the original
4. No gimmicks like Gooigi , Polterpup or that cat from 3
5. Short and replay-able like the original
Also the 3DS remake shouldn’t of been a HD remake for the switch with the graphics of 3
yeah I am still mad at nintendo for that zelda bait and switch, we did get twilight princess later so I forgave them a little bit.
I don't see a White Yoshi in that image, so you do not yet own the full set.
I love Luigi's Mansion. My first GameCube game that came with my Silver GameCube. I love replaying and getting the Gold Portraits of the Ghosts and the whole atmosphere. I even hum and whistle the theme from the game it's so catchy!
I played LM2 and LM3... and I didn't like this. LM3 was closer to what I liked in 1, but to me LM1 is STILL the best Luigi's Mansion game. 2 was so disjointed and I hated how it made the Ghosts so... generic? For LM1 the normal ghosts weren't the most unique designed, but they had a charming simple design for them that fit. 2 changed them so much they seem boring which 3 continued.
OK, maybe that's a little mean they still sort of followed the same design theme. But, the original Ghosts from LM1 were gone and there were my favorites.
The Boss Ghosts in 2 were awful too and I can't remember what they look like anymore. LM3 had better Boss Ghosts, but I missed the Portrait Challenge.
One thing I love LM1 over 2 and 3 is how short it is. It's not this massive expansion world, but a small Mansion with 4 zones to explore and complete. 2 with the different Mansion felt so... boring and disconnected with each other. 3 had something cool with the Hotel rooms, but it was Hotel not a Mansion in a sense and it DRAGGED on too long.
Like after I got the Gardener Ghost I got so tired and drained at this point and wanted the game to be over.
So to me 1 > 3 > 2 is the order of LM games I like. And the Ranking System of 1 was amazing that you wanted to do your best. I had a guide and everything and I got high, but not perfect after a few more runs that I got the best rank and all Gold Portraits.
PS: Also, I love Wind Waker. It was such a great Zelda game and I love the cartoony style.
PSS: Also, very nice for Luigi to get a proper first game as him as the Protagonist. Many do not consider "Mario is Missing" as a good first outing for Luigi in a staring role.
Now if only we got a remaster on switch 😢
0:36 you don’t have white Yoshi 😭
Omg finally someone talks about how boolussus is one of if not the ABSOLUTE WORST BOSS IVE FACED IN MY ENTIRE GOD DAMN LIFE like you said before the first fight is simple but the second half makes me wanna pull my damn hair out and go bald from it seriously I love the hell outta luigi mansion and always will but this boss will always give me nightmares (and just from the intro cutscene alone as well) but lemme tell ya the second half is always the worst when you have ONE DAMN BOO ALIVE becuz for some damn reason the lil bastard just wants to keep running away every single tome I get close to em I swaer to god this boss takes pure luck to beat cuz its a 50/50 split on where this boss wanna give ya a hard time or it can be pretty easy but like I said its pure chance this happens. This damn fight took me hours to beat as a kid btw ALL MY HOMIES HATE BOOLUSSUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only clicked on vid because of the typo in the thumbnail
To be fair that Zelda one was kind of real, it's called Twilight Princess.
Totally different look.
How dare you I love Luigi's Mansion 2's common ghosts ! I'm kidding ^^' I mean I do like the ghosts of Luigi's Mansion 2, I do think they're full of personality as well, but it's okay if you don't.
This video's views just exploded lmao
Thumbnail typo
I love yout red panda oc btw, it's so cute ❤
Resident Evil for kids.
Great video! but your boo/aiming issues are kind of a skill issue in my eyes.
never got to play the first game but i ADORE the sequels a whole bunch ik fans aren't the fondest of Dark Moon and the 3rd game but i love them!
Not sure if this is a hot take: the first Luigi’s Mansion was the only good one.
We do not tolerate wind waker hate here, ur channel is now mine.