This video was uploaded on June 12th (as can be seen here: prnt.sc/aPVv4Yv0nlCy and with this comment's timestamp) but was published on June 13th, as you can see in the description. Per June Zoom's 4th Rule: "Upload time goes by the Pacific Time Zone", meaning this video does not ruin the June Zoom streak, as cheeky as that sounds considering it was published the next day. The reason it wasn't published in time despite its upload being good because my computer had blue screened (gotta fix something with OBS) and I accidentally rested my eyes a little more than I expected haha. Hope you enjoy regardless!
I love Luigi’s comments when you scan something. He doesn’t mind wearing dresses, he’s very particular when it comes to washing his hat, he’s a stickler for cleanliness. We see that he’s interested in billiards and shadow puppetry. He feels like a real person with his own thoughts instead of just a timid sidekick.
I have to keep reminding myself that this mansion was “built” OVERNIGHT! Man, if King Boo wasn’t this vengeful spirit constantly going after the Mario Bros., he would’ve been an excellent real estate agent/architect! He had somewhat of a heart in the first game: he allowed the freed portrait ghosts to stay in his mansion while planning to trap Mario and Luigi.
@@undeadwaluwugi758 Everything was tangible until King Boo lost control over it. That was when everything ceased… except for the money and treasure scattered about. So while that mansion was just an illusion like you said, the treasure proves King Boo is rich enough to get the materials to make a legit mansion; and based on that illusion, he also has a lot of knowledge of architecture. The third game, he friggin’ conjured a hotel just to trap the Mario brothers once more! King Boo has so much potential to be a genuine business man, but unfortunately, he only wants to trap heroes into paintings.
To me out of all the GameCube's vast library of games Luigi's Mansion, Smash Bros Melee, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4 and the Remake of Resident Evil 1 have all aged like a fine bottle of sardarni
@@The_Blue_Otaku Sardarni? Oh, you mean “Chardonnay”! Sardarni has a way different result on Google. Also, I almost read it as sardines, and that doesn’t leave a pleasant taste in my mouth…
Actually, fun fact for you guys, a bathroom is only a bathroom if it includes a bath tub. Otherwise its a washroom, or water closet for my british buddies. Also the purpose of cold storage was for meats before we had freezers. They were kept far enough underground that they got below freezing.
to answer the question about whether the ghosts were always ghosts or if they lived beforehand, i always interpreted it as them being given a waking afterlife by the mansion! that would help explain all the old objects too! when the boos made the mansion, they offered it to these ghosts and let them come back to enjoy a peaceful afterlife and foil luigi in between. maybe filled it with a lot of their old memorabilia too? or recreated it? its an oddly sweet theory that i love!! they were living, but elsewhere before their deaths and got to live things out lavishly again via the boos!
thats essentially what happened, they are essentially ghosts from around the world, which egadd sucked up and shoved in portraits, and the boos freed them from said portraits and made the mansion to live in and also capture the mario bros in the process.
According to the Mario Wiki, the instruction book for Luigi's mansion has E. Gadd stating, "I collected famous ghosts from all over the world and turned them into paintings, but those darn Boos went and turned them all back into ghosts again! You've got to catch those ghosts so I can turn them back into paintings." So the ghosts come from around the world before being brought together by E. Gadd and released into the mansion by the Boos. It is still possible to be born a ghost, as Chauncey's description states that he was, but they seem to predate the mansion's creation, thus making them real.
I think the reason that the toads actually look kinda adorable in this game is because they still use the nintendo 64 design which has a bunch of small differences that somehow change them from abominations of nature to kinda adorable
The portrait ghosts were all ghosts captured by E. Gadd at one point, but when the boos made the mansion, they freed the ghosts in Gadd's lab and had them move into the house. And the misc. smaller ghosts are all creations of one of those portrait ghosts too, that artist one.
I theorise that the portrait ghosts used to be humans until they died one by one Blogmire is probably a spiritual being who haunted the mansion before they came
@@mamboo0743 The game unambiguously makes it clear that the portrait ghosts are ghosts of real humans (and a dog). The baby was actually born as a ghost, though, somehow. Bogmire is an ancient ghost, apparently, which is why it looks so odd. The cartoonish common ghosts all over the mansion are paintings brought to life by Vincent Van Gore. You talk about the mansion as if it were around for a long time, but that's untrue. The Boos built it mere days before Luigi got there after setting the portrait ghosts loose from E Gadd's lab.
@@TheUnknownsShow Didn't know the Boos built it, kind of interesting I can't stop imaging them with hard hats using construction tools and vehicles to build it which is kind of nonsense
@@TheUnknownsShow I wonder if other languages says anything more about the baby. Could have been a tragic birth where both mother and child didn't survive, but they may not have wanted to go that far blatantly in a mario game.
The Portrait Ghosts were part of E Gadd's portrait collection and were stolen by King Boo. King Boo might've made the mansion with the portrait ghosts in mind. Placing family together and creating rooms to fit each of the ghosts' personalities and needs. The mansion is indeed fake, and basically had a fabricated history created alongside it. Hence why certain objects are "old" and such. They were created to be seem old to make the mansion more realistic..
I think it's called a Washroom and not a Bathroom because it doesn't have a bathtub. If you're still wondering, the correct term for "pool sticks" is "cues". The thing in Nana's room that you didn't know what it was was a spinning wheel. The Observatory's nature is made more clear in the Japanese version, where it's called the Room of Illusion.
Most mock him tho, or are plotting against him while minding their business, some are passive aggressive, and others even trap him inside to beat him up on minimal provocation, or after he did just what they asked him to do xd
2:38 windows don't necessarily need to be seen through to be practical sometimes they just need to give some natural light so you don't have to use candles or other light sources
honestly, considering if you’re just living with ONE single person (like luigi was) this place feels like a nightmare to go through, if your electricity goes out you have to go through a bazillion rooms to just fix it. honestly just seems like a huge mess
The Mirror Room being by the Fortune Teller's room kinda makes sense to me. Mirrors are common tools in fortune telling, contacting spirits, and similar magic. The mystic John Dee supposedly used an obsidian mirror to try to contact spirits and angels (understanding a fortune teller might tell the future by summoning a spirit with future sight and asking them questions, though John Dee was often just trying to find buried gold). And this wasn't out of nowhere, either, because he imported his obsidian mirror from Mexico, where I understand such mirrors were popular for divination. And honestly, magic mirrors aren't a thing of the past, either. How do you summon Bloody Mary or Candyman? You say their name in a dark room, in front of a mirror.
1:15 Having been in an old house with similarly carpeted steps, I'm pretty sure they're glued on. I mean, I was quite young, and I'm not sure exactly what that goop on the on other side was when I curiously peeled off loose pieces, but some kind of adhesive is the most likely answer. EDIT: Guess this'll be the answer Zike questions comment cause I can't help myself. 3:40 A parlor is basically a living room. Pretty sure the name comes from the French "parler" meaning "to talk." Therefore a parlor is "a room to talk." The Dining room I'm pretty sure is the way it is because of Luggs. He clears out the middle and throws the trash to the sides of the table, and he needs two chairs because he's MASSIVE. They got kicked out from the middle when he had his heart attack. Also only one trash because servants pick go around and pick up everything. In case the heart attack thing confuses anyone, my belief is always that the mansion is something that used to exist, but fell down long ago and Big Boo just reconstructed it with some twists. Too many of the ghosts seem connected, and a property that large wouldn't have ALWAYS been empty.
Absolutely top tier content as usual, I was just telling my family how I was looking to buy a fictional video game mansion, and this video helped a LOT in that decision. Thanks!
Kinda strange the clocks are static. Considering the GameCube keeps track of time, how perfect would it have been for this launch title to show off that feature by making the clocks in the game actually show the current time.
28:31 I think it’s because maybe older houses had two separate rooms. One for the bath which they would call the bathroom. And one for just washing themselves being called the washroom. And then as time went on they decided to just combine it because it was easier. At least I think that’s why
In Japan it's also common for those two rooms to be separated, so it may have partly been from the developer's personal experiences with their homes as well.
@@lunarpenguin5468 I think this is probably it. I don't live in Japan but here in Australia the bathroom and toilet are two seperate rooms, have been in every single house I've visited. It must be a cultural thing where in some places its the one room and in others its the two. In fact, I find the idea of a combined toilet / washroom pretty strange. Interesting stuff
Having both at once is my preferred choice, but due of faulty plumbing, my toilet and shower are in separate rooms far away from my bedroom, and it ain’t a big deal tbh And they’re ghosts, so maybe the bathrooms are just decoration at best, though I agree the distance the family has to go in order to get to the toilet is evil, everyone else has better reach to the restroom than them xd, the Nana may have the best room, the bathroom and restroom are right next to her room, and she has the kitchen and entrance just downstairs
If I recall correctly, the portrait ghosts are (were) real people that E Gadd captured, who then moved into the mansion when the Boos sprung Boolossus from HIS portrait.
Luigi's canonical height is 5'9", so you definitely would fit in that bed, with plenty bed to spare! He certainly doesn't look 5'9", so maybe his proportions changed when he went into the Mushroom Kingdom and yours would too. Also, a little tip for tall people and beds - keep in mind you can sleep diagonally. The hypotenuse is always longer than each of the legs! That is, you can do that as long as you either don't have a partner or they're short enough.
@@magma1675 I found a bunch of different heights, so I could certainly be off there, but still, there'd be plenty of room for another Luigi's head, judging from his height as he's standing directly next to the bed at 10:59, so I think there'll be some room left. And what I meant by his proportions changing was from the origin of them being plumbers from Brooklyn who travelled to the Mushroom Kingdom and changed into the more stocky characters we know, like in the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. If instead you go by something like the Yoshi's Island origin, they were delivered by stork to somewhere within flying distance of Yoshi's Island, and they were always characters with those proportions. This particular Luigi would probably be the latter, I agree. I was thinking that a regular human would still likely morph into a more Mario-esque character upon arriving in the Mushroom Kingdom, especially based on what we see in New Donk City. Now true, they're "New Donkers" and not humans, but they have very realistic human proportions and very human city-like cars, buildings, and street lamps, street lights, sewer lids, etc. New Donkers are twice Mario's height, but they're likely not all 10 to 11 feet tall. Mario is 5'1" (based on a supposed "life-sized" statue of him), which would imply that he is just over 5 feet, but that looks different with Mushroom Kingdom physics than it does with somewhere with Earth-like physics. Of course, both of us could be wrong about all of this - one person tried to get the most accurate heights possible and supposes that Mario is 3'8" and Luigi is 4'1", in which case ZoomZike's feet would likely be dangling off the end of the bed if he keeps his proportions when traveling to wherever the mansion is located. Either way, that second bed will be more bed than he'll ever need!
Never mind how far they’d have to travel to get to the laundry room, look at how far the family have to go to get to the TOILET. You have to go down the upstairs corridor, go down the stairs, enter the downstairs hallway, walk all the way through it and only then can you go to the toilet. Not very well thought out
@@МакарКузнецов-я6ш yeh, the Nana and guests also have a much better location than the main family, and the “treasure rooms” just s c r e a m waste of space, especially the one upstairs, but then again, the mansion was supposedly created in a hurry, so makes sense why some rooms are all over the place
I'm only halfway through the video, so apologies if this gets mentioned later on, but I think I know the explanation about the mansion being created and the portrait ghosts being alive before. If I remember the lore of this game correctly, the portrait ghosts were all previously caught by E. Gadd and were a part of his collection. He even has the museum that you can visit. So they were alive at one point, became ghosts, got captured by E. Gadd, and then the Boos came and stole E. Gadd's collection, created the mansion from the ground up in one night, and released the portrait ghosts into the mansion. That explains the background story of the events in this game.
I'm pretty sure that after the events of Luigi's Mansion 3, most estates that were previously haunted (including the Mansion in Luigi's Mansion 1, Dark Moon, and the Hotel from the third installation) are no longer containing ghosts, or in some other cases, no longer containing ghosts that attack you.
Ye, the ghosts that remain are no longer under some influence that drives ‘em bonkers, so they’d be lovely company, if not a bit eccentric. Pretty sure the mansion from LM1 ceased to exist, though? Like, it disappeared shortly after King Boo was captured.
@@CodesTheOtaku The money that Luigi gathered stuck around though, which is why the endings have him building on the land where the mansion was. Unfortunately iirc, the canon ending only has Luigi build a regular house.
59:30 - the bricks in this staircase are actually quite interesting. You'll notice how they change as Luigi moves so that the lit up side is facing away from Luigi. I haven't gotten around to fully investigating this effect, but I believe it's done by using Luigi as a light source and then using the GameCube's emboss mapping functionality to dynamically offset texture coordinates at each vertex to create highlights and shadows. Very few games use this; the only other ones I know of are the Rogue Squadron games by Factor 5 (see the recent Dolphin progress report). I think the Cellar might use the effect as well, but it's not as obvious there.
Assistant editors take charge of the day-to-day running of the cutting room, leaving the editor free to concentrate on editing the film. Their primary task is to . They check camera sheets when the rushes arrive and note any technical problems.
Finally, a video that showcases Luigi's comments. I always love the little details of Luigi commenting on certain things around the Mansion. Its a great way to get to know him a little better. 😃
As mentioned, a bathroom is a room you literally bathe in. Notice how there's no bathtub in the Washroom. And yes, they really did used to be two separate rooms in the olden days.
Carpet up stairs is usually done via staples/nails though the issue in this is often once it gets old enough the heads fall off the nails/staples and then if your not careful you end up jabbing your feet on them, and holy hell does it hurt from my personal experience
Was hoping someone answered this! I love when a half serious question that's kind of breezed through in a video gets an earnest answer, it's the best I imagined it was something like that but good to have confirmation Funny enough, we've got a carpet runner on our stairs and it's glued on XD
Now wait just one second! At the end of the game, E Gadd says the mansion the ghost built (the one you showed) vanished after King Boo's defeat, and Gadd then used the money Luigi collected to build a new one in it's place. And in Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, the house Luigi's living in looks exactly like the Rank D Mansion from the original, which would seem to imply THAT is the house Luigi would be hypothetically selling. Unfortunately, other than the opening and closing cutscenes of Dark Moon, we really don't get a good look at the interior of the place, and the other rank mansions we only see the outside fronts of, so sadly I'm probably gonna have to pass on this. And NO, I DON'T have anything better to do with my time than post crap like this, thank you very much.
I mean, if we used free camera movement or tried to draw how the room looks like in terms of what the cutscene allowed us to see, we could get more than anything else
@@TomatoRadio that may just be a replica, like the smaller Pianta Hero statue at Peach Beach, and various Luigi’s Mansions seen in other Mario Spin-offs and Double Dash itself, while the real mansion is the one from the original game and Dark Moon
Mario Sunshine is generally agreed to have taken place first, since King Boo talks about his first encounter with Mario in Luigi's Mansion, despite the first time the characters met being Sunshine itself.
Older Victorian mansions/houses like that usually had laundry chutes that led to the laundry room, or dumbwaiters, thought those usually carried food, so that could explain why there's only one laundry room.
I adore luigi's mansion and was always disappointed that so few people were interested in talking about it in this way. I have a few different things to say about most of the rooms, but need to get my thoughts straight first. Glad you cover things like this that most people don't. Really cool!
For the "strange room orientation" an explanation could be that the mansion DID exist before with the family but the Boo being the tricksters they are mixed up some of the rooms in a seemingly random order. It would explain why the ballroom for example being one of the bigger rooms couldn't be put many other places, so they just kept it there. It's entirely possible that where the storage is, the dressing room was supposed to be. It's also fair to assume that the ghosts themselves may have had a say in which rooms go where, hence the family being next to each other and the laundry room being next to the Butler's room. This would also explain why the Secret golden room doesn't have an entrance, maybe the way to enter the room was destroyed/walled off when the rooms were swapped
About the room with the button, It seems that most of the Ghosts either don't like King boo, or don't know about him. Like Madame Clairvoya. Perhaps they imprisoned them there so they could just live their afterlife in peace. And some seemed to resent being took out of the painting too, so they'd dislike The boos even more.
Not related but when you think of rich people do you think of gold and diamonds like I do? I want to my future home to have bright gold. Also why is gold bad taste?
I doubt they'd be able to imprison him there considering he's more powerful than the lot of them anyway and even then a few displeased portrait ghosts (the vast majority are either apathetic or happy to be free,) would also have to overpower 50 normal boos as well. Plus the dialog of "Who dares disturb our sleep?" when you open it up doesn't give any implication that they were put there against their own will. I don't know what's in that pit, but it certainly isn't just a normal pit considering all the weird blue ooze that comes out when the boos are woken up.
Also if you're wonder what the "white Glove test" is it's a test where people will put on a white satin glove to test how clean and dust free an area is, with dust gets on the glove it's a 0
Something important to add Is that since It Is implied that the family dyed in the mansion the price of the mansion would drop making It really cheap to buy
With the distinction between bathroom and washroom: The washroom has a toilet (and its name is likely a euphemism), but no bath. By contrast, the bathroom has a bath, but no toilet. Now, personally I think you'd want these things to be in the same room, but whateves. The cabinet thing there I believe is actually to store shampoo and soap.
You know, a. Decent chunk of the portrait ghosts seem fairly docile until attacked. I'd be fine living there. Take away the boos and other ghosts though.
They seem somewhat territorial for the most part, either owning the place and wanting you out, sometimes throwing stuff at you to say that you’re not welcomed, or play a “game” with them while also locking you in, others take full ownership of a specific object and won’t let go that easily, and others become rather aggressive when indirectly provoked
I'd be fine with it too. I'd probably just stay around Melody listening to her play the piano. Or gaming with her as if I remember correctly using the gameboy horror on her mentions that she is a gamer
Some of the rooms are just older, rich people stuff, but I do kinda get the sitting room in front of the bedroom. I like the idea of inviting someone into "my room", but not having to deal with my actual bed or piling up laundry. It's a middle ground between public space and my space -- my space that I occasionally share. Anyway, this was a really fun concept.
The real mystery about the cold storage is how such an old-fashioned place has a room like that. What's even keeping it cold? There's no visible machinery.
I believe the door above the laundry machine is meant to be a dumbwaiter. In old mansions like these, you would send your clothes down to the laundry room through a chute or a tiny elevator.
Dude, you don't need to suspend disbelief to allow that carpets can go up stairs, they either fix stair wires across each tread to keep it the right shape (most likely in an old house) or secure it underneath.
The Carpet Stairs thing is very much possible. Some houses have the carpet stuck down with a metal rod. Some have the carpet layed ontop of the woods and nailed in. It depends
Just a note, but I think the reason for there being 3 baby portraits in the nursery is because of the twins next door, and they are in fact identical twins, so it kinda makes sense that the portraits would be the same, and who's to say Chauncey wouldn't have grown a bit to look just like them? Also I think the matching block sets underneath the portraits is foreshadowing how the twins each have their own toys. Of course, I could be looking WAY too deep into this, but the LM1 Portrait ghosts have always fascinated me to a point that I always want to learn more about these fake dead people, haha!
Also, I have a little theory that might help explain the mansion a bit. It seems to be a point of confusion whether the mansion really existed prior to the events of the game or not, and several instances would have one believe that it just appeared out of nowhere thanks to the boos... But I think both ideas are true. I believe that at some point in time (Long before E. Gadd showed up), the mansion did stand tall and was home to all of the ghostly characters seen in game (save for bogmire, boolossus, and possibly the clockwork soldiers?) when they were still alive, but after everyone's death, the mansion was bulldozed completely, without a trace, explaining how E. Gadd hadn't seen the place until recently. After all, everything in the house is just... Too lived-in and full of personality to just be some quickfix Boo hideout. No, I believe that the mansion ITSELF is a ghost, and seeing how ghosts don't seem to have any real problem interacting with solid matter/people in this series, and how the mansion just disappears after King Boo is defeated, I think it isn't TOO far of a stretch to say that King Boo had somehow brought about the specter of the mansion, and was keeping it secure with his own abilities. And hey, why shouldn't the mansion have been alive? This was at a point in Nintendo's life where EVERYTHING was alive, from hills to clouds, even down to entire icy caves, as can be seen in Mario Kart Double Dash! Anyhow, I think that this theory can be backed up further by just how old-fashioned everything seems, inside and out, as there are rooms such as the parlor, anteroom, a ballroom, and instead of having a television of any kind, the mansion features a projection room filled with rolls of film! To make a long comment shorter, I think the mansion was in fact real, but was also resurrected to serve as the Boos' hideaway, with the portrait ghosts released to deter any intruders. Sorry this is so long and ramble-y, I just felt this would be a good place to articulate my thoughts on this game's setting a bit.
"This balcony area is very nice, if it weren't for, you know, the fact that it overlooks a graveyard! We're gonna have to get that removed." Do you want even angrier ghosts? Cuz that's how you get angrier ghosts!
To answer most of the mystery of the mansion, the story wa changed last second before the game's release, in beta footage E.gadd actually states that this mansion existed for years and he moved in and owns it now and captured the ghosts in it, which means the mansion is really really old and humans lived there before dying, that explains why it's look and most details contradicts the "Magically built overnight by boos" thing
I used to spend HOURS just walking around the mansion to just look around it as a kid, it was like a digital doll house for me and I was in love with it. I spent the time to light up all the halls and rooms I could just to play virtual doll house....I never beat the game fully because I was scared I wouldn't be able to just have fun walking the mansion. But I would love to live there tbh, just paint the outside lavender and clean it up haha
you have no idea how long I've waited for a video like this. I've done multiple play throughs of this game and always examine each room like this. thank you!
videos like this are why i love your content, i never expected an entire 1 hour video debating on whether or not luigi's mansion would be worth the purchase if it were real, and yet here it is. never change, mr zoom.
The placement of the Ballroom and Storage Room make plenty of sense to me: they're near the Dining Room, and what party is complete without both food AND fun? I'd wager the boxes contain dishes and table decorations for the Dining Room, which is just across the hallway. That way, when preparing for a party, all the necessities are in one room. See that chain hanging next to the toilet in the Washroom? It's attached to the water tank up at the top there, and pulling it releases that water to flush the toilet. It is a much older design, from the days of universally poor and unreliable water pressure, and uses gravity to create the water pressure needed to flush. And yes, moths do eat paper. In fact, they eat most fibrous materials. E. Gadd told Luigi at the start of the game that the mansion "appeared just a few days ago", and that the boos had "released all the ghosts in his gallery", which took him decades to collect. The reason the Washroom and Bathroom are separate is to distinguish them by name, and because, technically, Bathrooms always have a bath. Also, there are a surprising number of nuances when it comes to 'the facilities'. A "Water Closet" is a small room, about the size of a closet, that only has a toilet, to avoid stinking up the rest of the bathroom. A commode is not actually a synonym for "toilet", but a piece furniture for concealing and storing a chamber pot. Oh, and Petunia is fought in 2F Bathroom, not 1F Bathroom. That phase ain't even a "Gibbous", it's a "Waxing Crescent". "Gibbous" is for when the moon is more than half full, and the phases change from right to left (I.E. if the right side is bright, it's Waxing [aka getting brighter], and if the right side is dark, it's Waning [aka getting dimmer]). Here are some emojis showing the cycle.🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘. And I have a real beef with whoever drew the "Gibbous" in Luigi's Mansion, cause that ain't even close. Oh, and if you scan the cheese when the room is still dark, then a gold mouse will spawn, which, if sucked up, drops loads of money. There are 10 of them in mansion, including 1 in the Study. That thing in Nana's Room is called a spinning wheel. I know this because my grandmother had one, and as kids, me and my brothers loved making it spin. The portrait in the Guest Room looks like the portrait ghost you find there. Why the former owners got a framed portrait of their guest to put in the guest room is beyond me. Isn't that bust (sculpture of a person's head and shoulders) in The Artist's Studio of the mother from the Master Bedroom? And isn't that "biff Atlas" the portrait ghost from the Rec Room? Given the apparent age of the mansion (despite E. Gadd telling us it appeared only a few days before the game), the placement of the Telephone Room makes a lot of sense, actually. I think the mansion was supposed to be old enough to pre-date the invention of the telephone. If you consider how much of a hassle it would be to wire the entire house with phone lines (ripping open walls, running wires, etc), the former owners probably decided to just put a bunch of phones in the attic, where most phone lines enter houses.. You know what's really weird about the Clockwork Room? All the clocks are split into eighths, not twelfths.
I love how at the beginning you see the clock stuck at 3, and then, in the clockwork room, 1 hour later.... the clocks are stuck at 4. THEY KNEW !! Also, relighting the oven gives you a ruby in the game =)
I love this so much. this was the first game I played a kid and I always wanted to own the mansion so it's a real trip to go through all the rooms. Keep up the amazing content ZoomZike
It's called bathroom because it has a bath in it. Some washrooms/restrooms are bathrooms, but not all of them. Most public toilets aren't bathrooms because they lack bathtubs.
Not having telephones around the mansion except for the Telephone Room seems really impractical. What if someone got hurt and they need to call an ambulance? What if grandpa had a stroke and needs medical help? What if someone broke in and you fear for your life? These are the things you gotta consider for a big mansion with a family living there.
I dont know why i really enjoyed when luigi just wants to take a nap like "They're all gone ... i should sleep a tad bit" . Yes Luigi, you do deserve a nap, just dont stay to close Toad.
Maybe the butler was a New Donker, who are much, much taller than Luigi, so he could reach that shelf near the ceiling very easily. And wore a full suit at all times of course.
To my knowledge, the only portrait ghost that was "born a ghost" was the baby. I always interpreted it that every other portrait ghost else was alive, then died, and became a ghost. (I don't have the time stamp where you talked about the ghosts being "born a ghost".)
hmm an hour of zoomzike when i was merely expecting a quarter-hour? yes, yes, quite enthralling. i truly cannot wait to fall asleep midway through and re-watch tomorrow. thank you.
To clear up the confusion, the ghost were the captivities of E. Gadd who travel all over the world. The mansion was more-less a hideout for the boos and other ghosts, since the boos had broken all the portrait ghosts out of their paintings. So the mansion was technically made to suit the ghosts and not really be design for actual coherent mansion. Also the storage room cage is probably the portrait ghost work trapping the boos or just literally just the resting ground for the boos, which is why there's warning about the button.
Considering the laundry room, there seems to be a laundry chute left of the washing machine, so you can drop the dirty clothes from upstairs to the first floor.
Pass. Look at the place. It's just gonna get haunted again and those ghosts ain't paying rent. Also, middle of nowhere. Wanna go out to eat or do anything? Best be ready for one hell of a road trip. And lets not even get started on infrastructure. Water? Electricity? Internet? You're on your own, baby.
19:20 "[...] this mansion is kind of implied that these people did live here as humans [...] first, and as ghosts later." The only thing "implying" this is the portraits that supposedly show them alive throughout the mansion, which is literally stated to be an illusion created by the ghosts. It's straight up stated that E. Gadd traveled the world to collect all the portrait ghosts, which more strongly implies that most of the ghosts have absolutely no relation to one another. The few that are confirmed to be related would be Neville, Lydia, Chauncy, and the twins being a family unit, but the rest of them are extremely unclear in their relation with one another. Either way, the mansion isn't real, it never existed before the ghosts were freed from their portraits by King Boo, so absolutely nothing in the mansion should be seen as something made to function for real living people. This also applies to the fact there is only one laundry room for an entire mansion. Although, honestly, if you want to talk about the logistics of a single laundry room covering the entire mansion... Only the second floor has any bedrooms or even any rooms that would logically have laundry to be washed in the first place. If you only view it as a single family home with just a ton of space to entertain guests and store/display their collections and oddities, it makes far more sense for there to only be one laundry room.
Nah, E. Gadd’s lab predates the mansion, and the mansion just appeared out of nowhere a few days prior to Luigi’s arrival after the Boos released the ghosts from his gallery
My theory for the mansion is that it existed a long time ago, with the family living inside, and then was destroyed in some way. The graveyard probably wasn't there at that point and was later added to commemorate those who lived on the land, and then that being hallowed ground meant the area was left alone for the most part, so then ghosts found the area and revived the mansion just as it was, in order to trick the Mario Bros.
I remember seeing a video from another youtuber who found that there were collisions in the shape of a tunnel near the graveyard that is inaccessible in game so it was probably planned for it to be the access to the graveyard before they decided to change it...
My headcanon is that the mansion was real and was really haunted, but after the death of everyone inside, it was demolished or disappeared. Afterwards, E. Gadd imprisoned all of the mansion’s residents in paintings, which lead to King Boo freeing them and building a replica of their origional mansion, now in disrepair, and so the portrait ghosts now roamed the mansion along side the original 50 boos that haunted the mansion all those years back.
Lemme add my two cents since this is my fav game: -According to E.Gadd, the mansion was created over night by the boos. The boos freed the portrait ghost that E.Gadd caught all over the world and let them inhabit the mansion built right in front of his lab. -The portraits in the parlor are supposed to represent the familiy ghosts most likely. From left to right I'm fairly confident they're: Shivers, Lydia, Uncle Grimmly, Neville and Nana. -The books in the study and in Nana's room are readable if you check them and if you scan cheese in the dark a golden ghost mouse will come out (sorry if you already knew this). -Luigi's Mansion most likely takes place during spring. Good call, I never noticed. -The "Monsters" band was probably made up by the boos. Their poster has the same handwriting as the "Get out" poster or the "Don't push" sign. And if you try to suck it up in the washroom of the second floor it will turn into a poster of Boolossus with "Get out" written all over. Also if you try to suck up the screen in the projection room it will turn into the Boolossus poster as well. -Petunia was in the bathroom of the second floor, not the one in the first floor. -There are actually three chairs in the dining doom. There is a small one where Mr. Luggs was. You can see it with the Gameboy Horror. -If you ignite the oven in the kitchen long enough a red gem will pop out. Luigi was giving you a hint. -Mr. Bones is the single skeleton ghost that comes out when the dog makes noise, not the dog. He is called Spooky. -The portrait in the guest room is Sue Pea. The portrait ghost that you catch in the same room.
Your theory about the portraits in the parlor is sound and for the most part the portraits do look close enough to the actual ghosts in question. Plus the portrait of Lydia appears again in the Study and the portraits of Neville and Lydia both appear together in the Master Bedroom as well. That being said, Uncle Grimmley being the center one is a giant stretch, the ghost in the picture actually looks nothing like him, (we also don't know if there's actually any relation between Uncle Grimmley and the rest of the ghost family either.) Frankly if that center portrait is likely to be any portrait ghost in particular Vincent Van Gore fits the bill most, they both have a similar head shape, nose and moustache. The portrait has a bit more hair and a bit less beard, but the portrait was also probably taken when he was younger and not in his late 50s. It's also worth noting that the portrait with the pointy nose guy, (while Shivers does indeed have a pointy nose,) it actually looks closer in facial structure and hairstyle to Mr. Whirlinda (the guy in the Dancing Couple,) who has a similar pointy nose and hairstyle to the man in the picture. This same picture also appears in the ballroom, which may lend evidence to this being the case.
The portrait with the purple candles at the Parlor belongs to Van Gore, and there’s a portrait of Mr. Whirlinda there too, which is also seen at the Ballroom, Shivers and Grimmly don’t have portraits of when they were alive anywhere in the game
This was great, when I was little, I always liked walking through the rooms in the mansion once everything was lit up, it was oddly cozy. I'm really enjoying this year's June Zoom, maybe you could do a sequel to this one about spending your vacation on Isle Delfino.
I've always wondered what it'd be like to make a home that was this massive. Of course, swap out some of the more useless rooms for maybe more relevant ones. And still have fun little hidden places for family to find later on in the years.
This video was uploaded on June 12th (as can be seen here: prnt.sc/aPVv4Yv0nlCy and with this comment's timestamp) but was published on June 13th, as you can see in the description. Per June Zoom's 4th Rule: "Upload time goes by the Pacific Time Zone", meaning this video does not ruin the June Zoom streak, as cheeky as that sounds considering it was published the next day. The reason it wasn't published in time despite its upload being good because my computer had blue screened (gotta fix something with OBS) and I accidentally rested my eyes a little more than I expected haha. Hope you enjoy regardless!
I hate it when technology ruins my June Zoom experience
Thats alright, keep it up!!
whew, that's good 👍 I was worried when I woke up this morning and there wasn't anything lol
It happens to the best of us!
I was wondering why it wasn't up at it's usually time... but hey, here it is!
I love Luigi’s comments when you scan something.
He doesn’t mind wearing dresses, he’s very particular when it comes to washing his hat, he’s a stickler for cleanliness. We see that he’s interested in billiards and shadow puppetry.
He feels like a real person with his own thoughts instead of just a timid sidekick.
Next level games is great at adding personality to mario characters.
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Nintendo made the first one, Next Level made 2 and 3.
No wonder he was willing to dress up as Peach in Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga.
@@SuperMario.1or in the nintendo power mario comics
I have to keep reminding myself that this mansion was “built” OVERNIGHT! Man, if King Boo wasn’t this vengeful spirit constantly going after the Mario Bros., he would’ve been an excellent real estate agent/architect! He had somewhat of a heart in the first game: he allowed the freed portrait ghosts to stay in his mansion while planning to trap Mario and Luigi.
it's free real estate
wasn't it an illusion? and was only real if you could afford it in-game?
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Everything was tangible until King Boo lost control over it. That was when everything ceased… except for the money and treasure scattered about. So while that mansion was just an illusion like you said, the treasure proves King Boo is rich enough to get the materials to make a legit mansion; and based on that illusion, he also has a lot of knowledge of architecture. The third game, he friggin’ conjured a hotel just to trap the Mario brothers once more! King Boo has so much potential to be a genuine business man, but unfortunately, he only wants to trap heroes into paintings.
To me out of all the GameCube's vast library of games Luigi's Mansion, Smash Bros Melee, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4 and the Remake of Resident Evil 1 have all aged like a fine bottle of sardarni
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Sardarni? Oh, you mean “Chardonnay”!
Sardarni has a way different result on Google. Also, I almost read it as sardines, and that doesn’t leave a pleasant taste in my mouth…
Actually, fun fact for you guys, a bathroom is only a bathroom if it includes a bath tub. Otherwise its a washroom, or water closet for my british buddies.
Also the purpose of cold storage was for meats before we had freezers. They were kept far enough underground that they got below freezing.
to answer the question about whether the ghosts were always ghosts or if they lived beforehand, i always interpreted it as them being given a waking afterlife by the mansion! that would help explain all the old objects too! when the boos made the mansion, they offered it to these ghosts and let them come back to enjoy a peaceful afterlife and foil luigi in between. maybe filled it with a lot of their old memorabilia too? or recreated it? its an oddly sweet theory that i love!! they were living, but elsewhere before their deaths and got to live things out lavishly again via the boos!
thats essentially what happened, they are essentially ghosts from around the world, which egadd sucked up and shoved in portraits, and the boos freed them from said portraits and made the mansion to live in and also capture the mario bros in the process.
According to the Mario Wiki, the instruction book for Luigi's mansion has E. Gadd stating, "I collected famous ghosts from all over the world and turned them into paintings, but those darn Boos went and turned them all back into ghosts again! You've got to catch those ghosts so I can turn them back into paintings."
So the ghosts come from around the world before being brought together by E. Gadd and released into the mansion by the Boos. It is still possible to be born a ghost, as Chauncey's description states that he was, but they seem to predate the mansion's creation, thus making them real.
I think the reason that the toads actually look kinda adorable in this game is because they still use the nintendo 64 design which has a bunch of small differences that somehow change them from abominations of nature to kinda adorable
"Abominations"? Are they Myconids? 🍄
The portrait ghosts were all ghosts captured by E. Gadd at one point, but when the boos made the mansion, they freed the ghosts in Gadd's lab and had them move into the house. And the misc. smaller ghosts are all creations of one of those portrait ghosts too, that artist one.
Came here to say this. The original game has all the answers to his questions about what the mansions and portrait ghosts are
I theorise that the portrait ghosts used to be humans until they died one by one
Blogmire is probably a spiritual being who haunted the mansion before they came
@@mamboo0743 The game unambiguously makes it clear that the portrait ghosts are ghosts of real humans (and a dog). The baby was actually born as a ghost, though, somehow. Bogmire is an ancient ghost, apparently, which is why it looks so odd. The cartoonish common ghosts all over the mansion are paintings brought to life by Vincent Van Gore.
You talk about the mansion as if it were around for a long time, but that's untrue. The Boos built it mere days before Luigi got there after setting the portrait ghosts loose from E Gadd's lab.
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Didn't know the Boos built it, kind of interesting
I can't stop imaging them with hard hats using construction tools and vehicles to build it which is kind of nonsense
@@TheUnknownsShow I wonder if other languages says anything more about the baby. Could have been a tragic birth where both mother and child didn't survive, but they may not have wanted to go that far blatantly in a mario game.
Luigi instantly knowing the fountain is wasting water is just him flexing his plumber knowledge
Of course, really makes sense when you point it out lol
Sometimes I forget that they're supposed to be plumbers
The Portrait Ghosts were part of E Gadd's portrait collection and were stolen by King Boo.
King Boo might've made the mansion with the portrait ghosts in mind. Placing family together and creating rooms to fit each of the ghosts' personalities and needs.
The mansion is indeed fake, and basically had a fabricated history created alongside it. Hence why certain objects are "old" and such. They were created to be seem old to make the mansion more realistic..
I think it's called a Washroom and not a Bathroom because it doesn't have a bathtub.
If you're still wondering, the correct term for "pool sticks" is "cues".
The thing in Nana's room that you didn't know what it was was a spinning wheel.
The Observatory's nature is made more clear in the Japanese version, where it's called the Room of Illusion.
Most of the main ghost don’t attack Luigi until he attacks first so he could of just been chilling with them and be rich
Most mock him tho, or are plotting against him while minding their business, some are passive aggressive, and others even trap him inside to beat him up on minimal provocation, or after he did just what they asked him to do xd
Until he wants to turn the lights on in the room lmao
2:38 windows don't necessarily need to be seen through to be practical sometimes they just need to give some natural light so you don't have to use candles or other light sources
honestly, considering if you’re just living with ONE single person (like luigi was) this place feels like a nightmare to go through, if your electricity goes out you have to go through a bazillion rooms to just fix it. honestly just seems like a huge mess
@@BlueAizu_ the only ghost in his house is Polterpup, his dog xd
Maybe the reason why Luigi commented weird on the shoes is because the ghost made everything in the mansion and yet the ghost don’t have feet…
The Mirror Room being by the Fortune Teller's room kinda makes sense to me. Mirrors are common tools in fortune telling, contacting spirits, and similar magic. The mystic John Dee supposedly used an obsidian mirror to try to contact spirits and angels (understanding a fortune teller might tell the future by summoning a spirit with future sight and asking them questions, though John Dee was often just trying to find buried gold). And this wasn't out of nowhere, either, because he imported his obsidian mirror from Mexico, where I understand such mirrors were popular for divination.
And honestly, magic mirrors aren't a thing of the past, either. How do you summon Bloody Mary or Candyman? You say their name in a dark room, in front of a mirror.
1:15 Having been in an old house with similarly carpeted steps, I'm pretty sure they're glued on. I mean, I was quite young, and I'm not sure exactly what that goop on the on other side was when I curiously peeled off loose pieces, but some kind of adhesive is the most likely answer.
EDIT: Guess this'll be the answer Zike questions comment cause I can't help myself. 3:40 A parlor is basically a living room. Pretty sure the name comes from the French "parler" meaning "to talk." Therefore a parlor is "a room to talk."
The Dining room I'm pretty sure is the way it is because of Luggs. He clears out the middle and throws the trash to the sides of the table, and he needs two chairs because he's MASSIVE. They got kicked out from the middle when he had his heart attack. Also only one trash because servants pick go around and pick up everything. In case the heart attack thing confuses anyone, my belief is always that the mansion is something that used to exist, but fell down long ago and Big Boo just reconstructed it with some twists. Too many of the ghosts seem connected, and a property that large wouldn't have ALWAYS been empty.
Absolutely top tier content as usual, I was just telling my family how I was looking to buy a fictional video game mansion, and this video helped a LOT in that decision. Thanks!
The clock being stuck at 3 is probably a cute nod to the time of 3 am being spooky and all that
Kinda strange the clocks are static. Considering the GameCube keeps track of time, how perfect would it have been for this launch title to show off that feature by making the clocks in the game actually show the current time.
maybe the clocks ran out of juice and no one could be bothered to give them new batteries 🤔
well, the original game was going to have limited time so maybe it was suposed to work
@@francjirachi Thats such a brilliant idea.
Because the whole game takes place in one night and that wouldn't make sense if your playing at day
@@roastbeef2335 But then again it's a haunted house, it doesn't have to make sense in-universe.
28:31 I think it’s because maybe older houses had two separate rooms. One for the bath which they would call the bathroom. And one for just washing themselves being called the washroom. And then as time went on they decided to just combine it because it was easier.
At least I think that’s why
In Japan it's also common for those two rooms to be separated, so it may have partly been from the developer's personal experiences with their homes as well.
@@lunarpenguin5468 that too
@@lunarpenguin5468 I think this is probably it. I don't live in Japan but here in Australia the bathroom and toilet are two seperate rooms, have been in every single house I've visited. It must be a cultural thing where in some places its the one room and in others its the two.
In fact, I find the idea of a combined toilet / washroom pretty strange. Interesting stuff
Yh, the wash room is used for smaller cleansing and the bathroom is for full on bathing
Having both at once is my preferred choice, but due of faulty plumbing, my toilet and shower are in separate rooms far away from my bedroom, and it ain’t a big deal tbh
And they’re ghosts, so maybe the bathrooms are just decoration at best, though I agree the distance the family has to go in order to get to the toilet is evil, everyone else has better reach to the restroom than them xd, the Nana may have the best room, the bathroom and restroom are right next to her room, and she has the kitchen and entrance just downstairs
If I recall correctly, the portrait ghosts are (were) real people that E Gadd captured, who then moved into the mansion when the Boos sprung Boolossus from HIS portrait.
Imagine how wild the parties would be if the other tenants weren't constantly trying to attack you. 👻👀
Hey and baseball games and races no one remembers the baseball
To be fair,most of the Ghosts don't attack you until you mess with them.
Biff Atlas, Granny, Shivers, ect.
On me!!🥺🙏🏿
You could invite the tenants to the party, they’d probably appreciate it
Luigi's canonical height is 5'9", so you definitely would fit in that bed, with plenty bed to spare! He certainly doesn't look 5'9", so maybe his proportions changed when he went into the Mushroom Kingdom and yours would too. Also, a little tip for tall people and beds - keep in mind you can sleep diagonally. The hypotenuse is always longer than each of the legs! That is, you can do that as long as you either don't have a partner or they're short enough.
@@magma1675 I found a bunch of different heights, so I could certainly be off there, but still, there'd be plenty of room for another Luigi's head, judging from his height as he's standing directly next to the bed at 10:59, so I think there'll be some room left. And what I meant by his proportions changing was from the origin of them being plumbers from Brooklyn who travelled to the Mushroom Kingdom and changed into the more stocky characters we know, like in the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. If instead you go by something like the Yoshi's Island origin, they were delivered by stork to somewhere within flying distance of Yoshi's Island, and they were always characters with those proportions. This particular Luigi would probably be the latter, I agree.
I was thinking that a regular human would still likely morph into a more Mario-esque character upon arriving in the Mushroom Kingdom, especially based on what we see in New Donk City. Now true, they're "New Donkers" and not humans, but they have very realistic human proportions and very human city-like cars, buildings, and street lamps, street lights, sewer lids, etc. New Donkers are twice Mario's height, but they're likely not all 10 to 11 feet tall. Mario is 5'1" (based on a supposed "life-sized" statue of him), which would imply that he is just over 5 feet, but that looks different with Mushroom Kingdom physics than it does with somewhere with Earth-like physics.
Of course, both of us could be wrong about all of this - one person tried to get the most accurate heights possible and supposes that Mario is 3'8" and Luigi is 4'1", in which case ZoomZike's feet would likely be dangling off the end of the bed if he keeps his proportions when traveling to wherever the mansion is located. Either way, that second bed will be more bed than he'll ever need!
Never mind how far they’d have to travel to get to the laundry room, look at how far the family have to go to get to the TOILET. You have to go down the upstairs corridor, go down the stairs, enter the downstairs hallway, walk all the way through it and only then can you go to the toilet. Not very well thought out
I always did find it funny that the actually main living area was so disconnected from the rest of the mansion.
They could’ve easily cut a bit of the master bedroom or anteroom for a bathroom in that area, there’s too much wasted space there
@@dustymcwari4468, so the anteroom IS the waste of space. So it could be replaced with the whole bathroom.
@@МакарКузнецов-я6ш yeh, the Nana and guests also have a much better location than the main family, and the “treasure rooms” just s c r e a m waste of space, especially the one upstairs, but then again, the mansion was supposedly created in a hurry, so makes sense why some rooms are all over the place
Just pee from the balcony. But be careful to not hit the vegetables that I assume would be growing in the vegetable garden.
I'm only halfway through the video, so apologies if this gets mentioned later on, but I think I know the explanation about the mansion being created and the portrait ghosts being alive before. If I remember the lore of this game correctly, the portrait ghosts were all previously caught by E. Gadd and were a part of his collection. He even has the museum that you can visit. So they were alive at one point, became ghosts, got captured by E. Gadd, and then the Boos came and stole E. Gadd's collection, created the mansion from the ground up in one night, and released the portrait ghosts into the mansion. That explains the background story of the events in this game.
I'm pretty sure that after the events of Luigi's Mansion 3, most estates that were previously haunted (including the Mansion in Luigi's Mansion 1, Dark Moon, and the Hotel from the third installation) are no longer containing ghosts, or in some other cases, no longer containing ghosts that attack you.
Ye, the ghosts that remain are no longer under some influence that drives ‘em bonkers, so they’d be lovely company, if not a bit eccentric.
Pretty sure the mansion from LM1 ceased to exist, though? Like, it disappeared shortly after King Boo was captured.
@@CodesTheOtaku yeah king boo created the mansion as a trap, so it disappeared once he was defeated
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The money that Luigi gathered stuck around though, which is why the endings have him building on the land where the mansion was.
Unfortunately iirc, the canon ending only has Luigi build a regular house.
@@xdragoonzero0 I know in Mario kart one track shows Luigi's new mansion in it, not sure which one it was
@@CodesTheOtaku Yeah, but the Manor from LM2 and the arcade maps (not canon though) still exist
59:30 - the bricks in this staircase are actually quite interesting. You'll notice how they change as Luigi moves so that the lit up side is facing away from Luigi. I haven't gotten around to fully investigating this effect, but I believe it's done by using Luigi as a light source and then using the GameCube's emboss mapping functionality to dynamically offset texture coordinates at each vertex to create highlights and shadows. Very few games use this; the only other ones I know of are the Rogue Squadron games by Factor 5 (see the recent Dolphin progress report). I think the Cellar might use the effect as well, but it's not as obvious there.
Assistant editors take charge of the day-to-day running of the cutting room, leaving the editor free to concentrate on editing the film. Their primary task is to . They check camera sheets when the rushes arrive and note any technical problems.
Finally, a video that showcases Luigi's comments.
I always love the little details of Luigi commenting on certain things around the Mansion. Its a great way to get to know him a little better.
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As mentioned, a bathroom is a room you literally bathe in. Notice how there's no bathtub in the Washroom. And yes, they really did used to be two separate rooms in the olden days.
35:35 A gem actually pops out if you hold the flame on it long enough
Carpet up stairs is usually done via staples/nails though the issue in this is often once it gets old enough the heads fall off the nails/staples and then if your not careful you end up jabbing your feet on them, and holy hell does it hurt from my personal experience
Or you get it done by putting in rods to hold the carpet in place like some of the old palaces and goverment buildings do.
Used to get stabbed in the foot a good amount of times at my old house
Was hoping someone answered this!
I love when a half serious question that's kind of breezed through in a video gets an earnest answer, it's the best
I imagined it was something like that but good to have confirmation
Funny enough, we've got a carpet runner on our stairs and it's glued on XD
@@felixc543 yeah man, I love answering little questions like this if I know the answer
Now wait just one second! At the end of the game, E Gadd says the mansion the ghost built (the one you showed) vanished after King Boo's defeat, and Gadd then used the money Luigi collected to build a new one in it's place. And in Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, the house Luigi's living in looks exactly like the Rank D Mansion from the original, which would seem to imply THAT is the house Luigi would be hypothetically selling. Unfortunately, other than the opening and closing cutscenes of Dark Moon, we really don't get a good look at the interior of the place, and the other rank mansions we only see the outside fronts of, so sadly I'm probably gonna have to pass on this.
And NO, I DON'T have anything better to do with my time than post crap like this, thank you very much.
I mean, if we used free camera movement or tried to draw how the room looks like in terms of what the cutscene allowed us to see, we could get more than anything else
It's also worth pointing out that in Double Dash, the A rank mansion can be seen in the background of Luigi Circuit.
@@TomatoRadio that may just be a replica, like the smaller Pianta Hero statue at Peach Beach, and various Luigi’s Mansions seen in other Mario Spin-offs and Double Dash itself, while the real mansion is the one from the original game and Dark Moon
Great video. I love these types of looking at games from a perspective you never thought about videos.
Mario Sunshine is generally agreed to have taken place first, since King Boo talks about his first encounter with Mario in Luigi's Mansion, despite the first time the characters met being Sunshine itself.
Older Victorian mansions/houses like that usually had laundry chutes that led to the laundry room, or dumbwaiters, thought those usually carried food, so that could explain why there's only one laundry room.
I adore luigi's mansion and was always disappointed that so few people were interested in talking about it in this way.
I have a few different things to say about most of the rooms, but need to get my thoughts straight first.
Glad you cover things like this that most people don't. Really cool!
For the "strange room orientation" an explanation could be that the mansion DID exist before with the family but the Boo being the tricksters they are mixed up some of the rooms in a seemingly random order. It would explain why the ballroom for example being one of the bigger rooms couldn't be put many other places, so they just kept it there. It's entirely possible that where the storage is, the dressing room was supposed to be. It's also fair to assume that the ghosts themselves may have had a say in which rooms go where, hence the family being next to each other and the laundry room being next to the Butler's room. This would also explain why the Secret golden room doesn't have an entrance, maybe the way to enter the room was destroyed/walled off when the rooms were swapped
About the room with the button,
It seems that most of the Ghosts either don't like King boo, or don't know about him. Like Madame Clairvoya.
Perhaps they imprisoned them there so they could just live their afterlife in peace.
And some seemed to resent being took out of the painting too, so they'd dislike The boos even more.
Not related but when you think of rich people do you think of gold and diamonds like I do? I want to my future home to have bright gold. Also why is gold bad taste?
This is also the Hidden Room I was talking about.
I doubt they'd be able to imprison him there considering he's more powerful than the lot of them anyway and even then a few displeased portrait ghosts (the vast majority are either apathetic or happy to be free,) would also have to overpower 50 normal boos as well.
Plus the dialog of "Who dares disturb our sleep?" when you open it up doesn't give any implication that they were put there against their own will. I don't know what's in that pit, but it certainly isn't just a normal pit considering all the weird blue ooze that comes out when the boos are woken up.
@@Robbie_Haruna E. Gadd also said they were hiding from him, but what was that trapdoor supposed to be for? For trash?
Also if you're wonder what the "white Glove test" is it's a test where people will put on a white satin glove to test how clean and dust free an area is, with dust gets on the glove it's a 0
With all the endless dust in the air, just putting your hand on any surface will probably leave a print
Something important to add Is that since It Is implied that the family dyed in the mansion the price of the mansion would drop making It really cheap to buy
With the distinction between bathroom and washroom: The washroom has a toilet (and its name is likely a euphemism), but no bath. By contrast, the bathroom has a bath, but no toilet.
Now, personally I think you'd want these things to be in the same room, but whateves.
The cabinet thing there I believe is actually to store shampoo and soap.
You know, a. Decent chunk of the portrait ghosts seem fairly docile until attacked.
I'd be fine living there.
Take away the boos and other ghosts though.
They seem somewhat territorial for the most part, either owning the place and wanting you out, sometimes throwing stuff at you to say that you’re not welcomed, or play a “game” with them while also locking you in, others take full ownership of a specific object and won’t let go that easily, and others become rather aggressive when indirectly provoked
I'd be fine with it too. I'd probably just stay around Melody listening to her play the piano. Or gaming with her as if I remember correctly using the gameboy horror on her mentions that she is a gamer
Some of the rooms are just older, rich people stuff, but I do kinda get the sitting room in front of the bedroom. I like the idea of inviting someone into "my room", but not having to deal with my actual bed or piling up laundry. It's a middle ground between public space and my space -- my space that I occasionally share.
Anyway, this was a really fun concept.
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Keep in mind the wood would be much darker if not for the thick coating of dust.
The real mystery about the cold storage is how such an old-fashioned place has a room like that. What's even keeping it cold? There's no visible machinery.
Ice magic, obvi.
I believe the door above the laundry machine is meant to be a dumbwaiter. In old mansions like these, you would send your clothes down to the laundry room through a chute or a tiny elevator.
Dude, you don't need to suspend disbelief to allow that carpets can go up stairs, they either fix stair wires across each tread to keep it the right shape (most likely in an old house) or secure it underneath.
i can literally listen to this man talk for hours about level design. Love me that energy
The Carpet Stairs thing is very much possible. Some houses have the carpet stuck down with a metal rod. Some have the carpet layed ontop of the woods and nailed in. It depends
I like how you talk about the Toads as if they come with the Mansion when you buy it.
"Oh hey it's up! I'll watch this then go get lun--"
An hour.
ZoomZike I think I can forgive the slightly late upload.
Just a note, but I think the reason for there being 3 baby portraits in the nursery is because of the twins next door, and they are in fact identical twins, so it kinda makes sense that the portraits would be the same, and who's to say Chauncey wouldn't have grown a bit to look just like them? Also I think the matching block sets underneath the portraits is foreshadowing how the twins each have their own toys. Of course, I could be looking WAY too deep into this, but the LM1 Portrait ghosts have always fascinated me to a point that I always want to learn more about these fake dead people, haha!
Also, I have a little theory that might help explain the mansion a bit. It seems to be a point of confusion whether the mansion really existed prior to the events of the game or not, and several instances would have one believe that it just appeared out of nowhere thanks to the boos... But I think both ideas are true. I believe that at some point in time (Long before E. Gadd showed up), the mansion did stand tall and was home to all of the ghostly characters seen in game (save for bogmire, boolossus, and possibly the clockwork soldiers?) when they were still alive, but after everyone's death, the mansion was bulldozed completely, without a trace, explaining how E. Gadd hadn't seen the place until recently. After all, everything in the house is just... Too lived-in and full of personality to just be some quickfix Boo hideout. No, I believe that the mansion ITSELF is a ghost, and seeing how ghosts don't seem to have any real problem interacting with solid matter/people in this series, and how the mansion just disappears after King Boo is defeated, I think it isn't TOO far of a stretch to say that King Boo had somehow brought about the specter of the mansion, and was keeping it secure with his own abilities. And hey, why shouldn't the mansion have been alive? This was at a point in Nintendo's life where EVERYTHING was alive, from hills to clouds, even down to entire icy caves, as can be seen in Mario Kart Double Dash! Anyhow, I think that this theory can be backed up further by just how old-fashioned everything seems, inside and out, as there are rooms such as the parlor, anteroom, a ballroom, and instead of having a television of any kind, the mansion features a projection room filled with rolls of film! To make a long comment shorter, I think the mansion was in fact real, but was also resurrected to serve as the Boos' hideaway, with the portrait ghosts released to deter any intruders. Sorry this is so long and ramble-y, I just felt this would be a good place to articulate my thoughts on this game's setting a bit.
If this game was multi-player, I would spend many hours playing hide and seek in this mansion.
The 3DS version had multiplayer! Though you need 2 copies for some reason...
One of my favorite games of all time. So cool to see a room by room tour of the mansion too. You'd make a good realtor
Flower season, and Mario decides to take a trip to Delphino to get his mind off the ghost, during the summer lol. THE LORE!
"This balcony area is very nice, if it weren't for, you know, the fact that it overlooks a graveyard! We're gonna have to get that removed."
Do you want even angrier ghosts? Cuz that's how you get angrier ghosts!
To answer most of the mystery of the mansion, the story wa changed last second before the game's release, in beta footage E.gadd actually states that this mansion existed for years and he moved in and owns it now and captured the ghosts in it, which means the mansion is really really old and humans lived there before dying, that explains why it's look and most details contradicts the "Magically built overnight by boos" thing
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I got stuck as a kid and thought I had to burn one of the barricades down to continue.
I used to spend HOURS just walking around the mansion to just look around it as a kid, it was like a digital doll house for me and I was in love with it. I spent the time to light up all the halls and rooms I could just to play virtual doll house....I never beat the game fully because I was scared I wouldn't be able to just have fun walking the mansion.
But I would love to live there tbh, just paint the outside lavender and clean it up haha
you have no idea how long I've waited for a video like this. I've done multiple play throughs of this game and always examine each room like this. thank you!
Luigi being comfortable wearing dresses is easy one of my favorite reoccurring things in the mario series
videos like this are why i love your content, i never expected an entire 1 hour video debating on whether or not luigi's mansion would be worth the purchase if it were real, and yet here it is. never change, mr zoom.
The placement of the Ballroom and Storage Room make plenty of sense to me: they're near the Dining Room, and what party is complete without both food AND fun? I'd wager the boxes contain dishes and table decorations for the Dining Room, which is just across the hallway. That way, when preparing for a party, all the necessities are in one room.
See that chain hanging next to the toilet in the Washroom? It's attached to the water tank up at the top there, and pulling it releases that water to flush the toilet. It is a much older design, from the days of universally poor and unreliable water pressure, and uses gravity to create the water pressure needed to flush. And yes, moths do eat paper. In fact, they eat most fibrous materials.
E. Gadd told Luigi at the start of the game that the mansion "appeared just a few days ago", and that the boos had "released all the ghosts in his gallery", which took him decades to collect.
The reason the Washroom and Bathroom are separate is to distinguish them by name, and because, technically, Bathrooms always have a bath. Also, there are a surprising number of nuances when it comes to 'the facilities'. A "Water Closet" is a small room, about the size of a closet, that only has a toilet, to avoid stinking up the rest of the bathroom. A commode is not actually a synonym for "toilet", but a piece furniture for concealing and storing a chamber pot. Oh, and Petunia is fought in 2F Bathroom, not 1F Bathroom.
That phase ain't even a "Gibbous", it's a "Waxing Crescent". "Gibbous" is for when the moon is more than half full, and the phases change from right to left (I.E. if the right side is bright, it's Waxing [aka getting brighter], and if the right side is dark, it's Waning [aka getting dimmer]). Here are some emojis showing the cycle.🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘. And I have a real beef with whoever drew the "Gibbous" in Luigi's Mansion, cause that ain't even close. Oh, and if you scan the cheese when the room is still dark, then a gold mouse will spawn, which, if sucked up, drops loads of money. There are 10 of them in mansion, including 1 in the Study.
That thing in Nana's Room is called a spinning wheel. I know this because my grandmother had one, and as kids, me and my brothers loved making it spin.
The portrait in the Guest Room looks like the portrait ghost you find there. Why the former owners got a framed portrait of their guest to put in the guest room is beyond me.
Isn't that bust (sculpture of a person's head and shoulders) in The Artist's Studio of the mother from the Master Bedroom? And isn't that "biff Atlas" the portrait ghost from the Rec Room?
Given the apparent age of the mansion (despite E. Gadd telling us it appeared only a few days before the game), the placement of the Telephone Room makes a lot of sense, actually. I think the mansion was supposed to be old enough to pre-date the invention of the telephone. If you consider how much of a hassle it would be to wire the entire house with phone lines (ripping open walls, running wires, etc), the former owners probably decided to just put a bunch of phones in the attic, where most phone lines enter houses..
You know what's really weird about the Clockwork Room? All the clocks are split into eighths, not twelfths.
I always wondered what happened to the family who lived in the mansion and why they worshiped Bowser.
my mom got a portrait commissioned of our two dogs at the time, we still have it hanging after 5+ years and a move :)
I love how at the beginning you see the clock stuck at 3, and then, in the clockwork room, 1 hour later.... the clocks are stuck at 4. THEY KNEW !!
Also, relighting the oven gives you a ruby in the game =)
This video truly puts into perspective how much time and effort was put into these rooms to make them look unique
I love this so much. this was the first game I played a kid and I always wanted to own the mansion so it's a real trip to go through all the rooms. Keep up the amazing content ZoomZike
It's called bathroom because it has a bath in it.
Some washrooms/restrooms are bathrooms, but not all of them. Most public toilets aren't bathrooms because they lack bathtubs.
Well, Luigi would be comfortable wearing a dress, he has done so in the comics and I seem to recall a canon instance of it, but the memory is hazy.
He has done it in Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
Not having telephones around the mansion except for the Telephone Room seems really impractical. What if someone got hurt and they need to call an ambulance? What if grandpa had a stroke and needs medical help? What if someone broke in and you fear for your life? These are the things you gotta consider for a big mansion with a family living there.
This is the game that came bundled with my GameCube when I was a kid. I played it for like 5 minutes and got too scared and never played it again.
I dont know why i really enjoyed when luigi just wants to take a nap like "They're all gone ... i should sleep a tad bit" .
Yes Luigi, you do deserve a nap, just dont stay to close Toad.
You can really get a feel for Luigi's tastes, and possibly sense of humor, from his little remarks on certain objects.
27:31 I brlive the explanation is that thoses ghosts were already in portraits and owned by E. Gadd but king boo freed them and made the mansion
"Luigi is canonically ok with wearing dresses."
Well, yeah, he's done it multiple times. Once in a comic, and once in Superstar Saga.
Maybe the butler was a New Donker, who are much, much taller than Luigi, so he could reach that shelf near the ceiling very easily.
And wore a full suit at all times of course.
I appreciate that I get to see some of Luigi’s observations about certain objects in the mansion in this video.
To my knowledge, the only portrait ghost that was "born a ghost" was the baby.
I always interpreted it that every other portrait ghost else was alive, then died, and became a ghost.
(I don't have the time stamp where you talked about the ghosts being "born a ghost".)
1 hour of Luigi's Mansion's greatness.
hmm an hour of zoomzike when i was merely expecting a quarter-hour?
yes, yes, quite enthralling. i truly cannot wait to fall asleep midway through and re-watch tomorrow. thank you.
If this bed's a rockin, don't come a knockin
To clear up the confusion, the ghost were the captivities of E. Gadd who travel all over the world. The mansion was more-less a hideout for the boos and other ghosts, since the boos had broken all the portrait ghosts out of their paintings. So the mansion was technically made to suit the ghosts and not really be design for actual coherent mansion. Also the storage room cage is probably the portrait ghost work trapping the boos or just literally just the resting ground for the boos, which is why there's warning about the button.
Considering the laundry room, there seems to be a laundry chute left of the washing machine, so you can drop the dirty clothes from upstairs to the first floor.
Luigi literally capturing ghosts and proceeding to throw piles of dust at them on the cellar at 1:00:33
Pass. Look at the place. It's just gonna get haunted again and those ghosts ain't paying rent.
Also, middle of nowhere. Wanna go out to eat or do anything? Best be ready for one hell of a road trip.
And lets not even get started on infrastructure. Water? Electricity? Internet? You're on your own, baby.
If the Mansion wasn’t haunted, I would get it just for how much space there is
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"[...] this mansion is kind of implied that these people did live here as humans [...] first, and as ghosts later."
The only thing "implying" this is the portraits that supposedly show them alive throughout the mansion, which is literally stated to be an illusion created by the ghosts. It's straight up stated that E. Gadd traveled the world to collect all the portrait ghosts, which more strongly implies that most of the ghosts have absolutely no relation to one another. The few that are confirmed to be related would be Neville, Lydia, Chauncy, and the twins being a family unit, but the rest of them are extremely unclear in their relation with one another. Either way, the mansion isn't real, it never existed before the ghosts were freed from their portraits by King Boo, so absolutely nothing in the mansion should be seen as something made to function for real living people. This also applies to the fact there is only one laundry room for an entire mansion.
Although, honestly, if you want to talk about the logistics of a single laundry room covering the entire mansion... Only the second floor has any bedrooms or even any rooms that would logically have laundry to be washed in the first place. If you only view it as a single family home with just a ton of space to entertain guests and store/display their collections and oddities, it makes far more sense for there to only be one laundry room.
27:30 perhaps the mansion was a real place but Luigi doesn’t know that and thinks the boos came up with everything in the mansion.
Nah, E. Gadd’s lab predates the mansion, and the mansion just appeared out of nowhere a few days prior to Luigi’s arrival after the Boos released the ghosts from his gallery
clicking on this video expecting a normal june zoom length and seeing the hour timestamp is a TREAT i was not expecting
I gotta give credit where credit is due. This is an very unique video idea and I'm all for it
My theory for the mansion is that it existed a long time ago, with the family living inside, and then was destroyed in some way. The graveyard probably wasn't there at that point and was later added to commemorate those who lived on the land, and then that being hallowed ground meant the area was left alone for the most part, so then ghosts found the area and revived the mansion just as it was, in order to trick the Mario Bros.
As E. Gadd said, the mansion was conjured up by the boos, but all of the treasure inside was real.
they did make the mansion for Luigi lol. The ghosts made it overnight as a trap and sent the letter to him.
I remember seeing a video from another youtuber who found that there were collisions in the shape of a tunnel near the graveyard that is inaccessible in game so it was probably planned for it to be the access to the graveyard before they decided to change it...
My headcanon is that the mansion was real and was really haunted, but after the death of everyone inside, it was demolished or disappeared. Afterwards, E. Gadd imprisoned all of the mansion’s residents in paintings, which lead to King Boo freeing them and building a replica of their origional mansion, now in disrepair, and so the portrait ghosts now roamed the mansion along side the original 50 boos that haunted the mansion all those years back.
Lemme add my two cents since this is my fav game:
-According to E.Gadd, the mansion was created over night by the boos. The boos freed the portrait ghost that E.Gadd caught all over the world and let them inhabit the mansion built right in front of his lab.
-The portraits in the parlor are supposed to represent the familiy ghosts most likely. From left to right I'm fairly confident they're: Shivers, Lydia, Uncle Grimmly, Neville and Nana.
-The books in the study and in Nana's room are readable if you check them and if you scan cheese in the dark a golden ghost mouse will come out (sorry if you already knew this).
-Luigi's Mansion most likely takes place during spring. Good call, I never noticed.
-The "Monsters" band was probably made up by the boos. Their poster has the same handwriting as the "Get out" poster or the "Don't push" sign. And if you try to suck it up in the washroom of the second floor it will turn into a poster of Boolossus with "Get out" written all over. Also if you try to suck up the screen in the projection room it will turn into the Boolossus poster as well.
-Petunia was in the bathroom of the second floor, not the one in the first floor.
-There are actually three chairs in the dining doom. There is a small one where Mr. Luggs was. You can see it with the Gameboy Horror.
-If you ignite the oven in the kitchen long enough a red gem will pop out. Luigi was giving you a hint.
-Mr. Bones is the single skeleton ghost that comes out when the dog makes noise, not the dog. He is called Spooky.
-The portrait in the guest room is Sue Pea. The portrait ghost that you catch in the same room.
Your theory about the portraits in the parlor is sound and for the most part the portraits do look close enough to the actual ghosts in question. Plus the portrait of Lydia appears again in the Study and the portraits of Neville and Lydia both appear together in the Master Bedroom as well.
That being said, Uncle Grimmley being the center one is a giant stretch, the ghost in the picture actually looks nothing like him, (we also don't know if there's actually any relation between Uncle Grimmley and the rest of the ghost family either.)
Frankly if that center portrait is likely to be any portrait ghost in particular Vincent Van Gore fits the bill most, they both have a similar head shape, nose and moustache. The portrait has a bit more hair and a bit less beard, but the portrait was also probably taken when he was younger and not in his late 50s.
It's also worth noting that the portrait with the pointy nose guy, (while Shivers does indeed have a pointy nose,) it actually looks closer in facial structure and hairstyle to Mr. Whirlinda (the guy in the Dancing Couple,) who has a similar pointy nose and hairstyle to the man in the picture. This same picture also appears in the ballroom, which may lend evidence to this being the case.
The portrait with the purple candles at the Parlor belongs to Van Gore, and there’s a portrait of Mr. Whirlinda there too, which is also seen at the Ballroom, Shivers and Grimmly don’t have portraits of when they were alive anywhere in the game
This was great, when I was little, I always liked walking through the rooms in the mansion once everything was lit up, it was oddly cozy. I'm really enjoying this year's June Zoom, maybe you could do a sequel to this one about spending your vacation on Isle Delfino.
I've always wondered what it'd be like to make a home that was this massive. Of course, swap out some of the more useless rooms for maybe more relevant ones. And still have fun little hidden places for family to find later on in the years.
at 7:30, reminder that luigi canonically dresses up as princess peach in superstar saga. hes just a funky little guy who does what he wants!