![]() It won’t win awards, but it opens up the locations of the game far more than the solus mansion of the original. The ghost-pacifying Dark Moon above Evershade valley has mysteriously broken into shards that are scattered across the valley, and Luigi needs to find them all to restore order. Gadd calling Luigi back to the mansion to tackle the ghost menace once more. The plot is little more than a vehicle for the action, with professor E. ![]() It leads to an impressive title that comes as one of the first essential 3DS exclusives outside of the core Mario games. It corrects the design and lifespan issues of the original and, now free from the shackles of a console launch, Luigi’s adventure is free to breath. The fate Luigi’s Mansion was dealt wasn’t fair though, and justice has been served with the release of Luigi’s Mansion 2. Many were disappointed by this, leaving Luigi’s Mansion as little more than a bad taste in peoples’ mouths. Instead we were given Luigi’s Mansion, a game that was a far-cry from the more famous Mario brother and his antics. The lack of a Mario title at launch also hurt the GC’s debut. They never quite managed to shake the family gaming image they built up with their previous systems, missing out on the increasing adult gaming audience. With the Playstation 2 as their primary concern, and the threat of Microsoft’s new Xbox on the horizon, Nintendo had to really impress with the Gamecube back in 2001.
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