Simply put, it’s awkward getting this done despite giving you several different options. Moving around is easy enough, but trying to petrify and capture ghosts requires that you’re able to quickly turn in order to stun them and then be able to pull in the opposite direction as you hoover them up. Where it all starts to feel a bit awkward is in the controls. You do still have the small screens and low resolution, which add a shimmer and noise to the graphics that can be a bit too noticeable at times, but the 3D effect is a very natural fit for the Luigi’s Mansion game, where every room and scene is viewed side on and it adds simple depth. That said, it’s still a big step up over Luigi’s Mansion 2, partially down to the New 3DS hardware and partially from Grezzo’s familiarity with a mature platform. The texture work is also a key part of this, and feels more detailed on the whole, even if close up cutscenes and transitions can show the limits of what they were able to achieve. The work was entrusted to Grezzo once more, whose back catalogue includes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora’s Mask 3D. And a remake it is, as opposed to a port, with numerous clear visually differences between the two versions. With no memories of my own and no GameCube version of the game to hand, it was a trip to YouTube that let me compare the original to the remake. The good news is that the game looks and plays very well on 3DS. In some ways it makes a lot of sense, as Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon was a major title in the handheld’s early years, but when the Nintendo Switch is getting all of the buzz, it still feels like an odd decision.
Despite the persistent demand for GameCube games on the Wii U’s Virtual Console, the early rumours of GameCube games coming to Nintendo Switch, it’s actually the 3DS in its twilight years that has been graced with a remake of the GameCube launch title. So it’s both a blessing and something of a curse in how a fresh opportunity to play this cult classic has been afforded to Nintendo fans. To be fair, it was really my brother’s GameCube, and I’m sure plenty of you know what sibling rivalries are like!
Brawl had me giving up on fighting games, there was plenty of Mario Kart: Double Dash, Viewtiful Joe, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker, Animal Crossing… and yet no Luigi’s Mansion. Though I remember really wanting to play Luigi’s Mansion on my family’s GameCube, for one reason or another it was one of the games that we never bought for the console.
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