Luigi's Mansion

This page is for the Gamecube game Luigi's Mansion. This page will not include the Mario Kart DS area Luigi's Mansion.

Luigi's Mansion
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Nintendo GameCube
Release	September 14, 2001
Genre(s)	Action Adventure Survival Horror
Mode(s)	Single player

Luigi's Mansion (ルイージマンション in Japanese), released in 2001, is not only one of the first video game titles for the Nintendo GameCube system; it is also the first official Mario-series title for the system. Luigi's Mansion is also the second Mario title to feature only Luigi with a cameo of Mario, as opposed to most earlier Mario titles that featured the Mario character only or both Mario and Luigi. The video game features a unique set of goals and ways to attain those goals, involving stunning ghosts with a flashlight and promptly sucking them into a vacuum cleaner, which is aptly named "Poltergust 3000" (a portmanteau of "poltergeist" and "gust"). While loosely tied in with other survival horror games (such as the Resident Evil series), the game is also a mild homage to Ghostbusters. Luigi's Mansion is a Player's Choice title.

Storyline

Template:Spoiler One day, Luigi received an unexpected message: You've won a huge mansion! Naturally, he got very excited and called his brother, Mario. "Mario? It's me, Luigi. I won myself a big mansion! Meet me there and we'll celebrate, what do you say?"

Luigi tried to follow the map to his new mansion, but the night was dark, and he became hopelessly lost in an eerie forest along the way. Finally, he came upon a gloomy mansion on the edge of the woods. According to the map, this mansion seemed to be the only one Luigi was looking for. As soon as Luigi set foot in the mansion, he started to feel nervous. Mario, who should have arrived first, was nowhere to be seen. Not only that, but there were ghosts in the mansion!

Suddenly, a ghost lunged at Luigi! "Mario! Help meee!" That's when a strange old man with a vacuum cleaner on his back appeared out of nowhere! This strange fellow managed to rescue Luigi from the ghosts, then the two of them escaped...

It just so happened that the old man, Professor Elvin Gadd, who lived near the house, was researching his favorite subject, ghosts. Luigi told Professor E. Gadd that his brother Mario was missing, so the Professor decided to give Luigi two inventions that would help him search for his brother.

Fighting the ghosts

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Luigi's Game Boy Horror showing Mansion map

To combat the ghosts, Professor E. Gadd arms Luigi with two of his inventions: a Poltergust 3000 and a Game Boy Horror. The Poltergust 3000 is a high powered vacuum cleaner designed for capturing ghosts and ghouls. When a ghost approaches Luigi, he first shines his flashlight on them, this stuns them causing them to show their heart in fright this then gives Luigi a chance to capture the ghost. He does this by pointing his vacuum at the ghost; he then sucks the ghost until their health (starting from 1-100) reaches 0. The ghosts are then held inside the vacuum until Luigi returns to Professor E. Gadd's hut where the ghosts are then turned into and stored as paintings. Later in the game Luigi locates three mystical medalions which allows him to expel fire, water or ice from the Poltergust 3000 after first capturing an Elemental Ghost, which are only found near their elements (leaky taps for Water, candles for Fire, the fridge and champagne cooler for Ice). The Game Boy Horror is a portable device that allows Luigi to search items in the mansion to find out what they are or to find out if a ghost is nearby and if so how to defeat it; The Game boy Horror also contains a map of the mansion, and also lets Luigi contact Professor E. Gadd.

Main ghosts and bosses

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One of the Boos, PeekaBoo

Main article: List of Luigi's Mansion Ghosts

Contained in the 58 rooms there are 22 Main ghosts, 50 boos, and the King Boo main boss.

All 50 of the Boos have names, except for fifteen of them, which combine together to create Boolossus. The names of all Boos are plays on various names and objects, such as Booigi, GameBoo and LimBooger.

The Mansion

The mansion consists of 5 floors including the basement and the roof, in these 5 floors there are 58 rooms. When Luigi clears a room of all ghosts the lights come on and a chest appears, in these chests there are keys, money, gold or gems. When Luigi finds a key, his Game Boy Horror automatically tells Luigi which room is unlockable using that key. When Luigi enters a room for the first time the room will usually be dark, in the room there will be a ghost, Luigi must work out how to defeat them. Some ghosts do not get stunned by Luigi’s flash light, so to combat these Luigi may have to expel fire, water or ice at them to stun them. Once King Boo is defeated you are rated on the amount of treasure you find and a second version of the mansion becomes playable (from the start of the game). Depending on the version, everything is mirrored, Luigi takes double damage, and your Poltergust is more powerful.

Ghosts and New Characters

• Professor E. Gadd - Elvin Gadd has been researching ghosts since he was a young man. He invented the Poltergust 3000 to catch ghosts and the Portrificationizer to press them into portraits. When the house suddenly appears one night, Gadd sees Mario going in but never comes out. He goes in to investigate and encounters Luigi who was being assaulted by a Golden Ghost. After a failed attempt to catch it, he introduces himself to Luigi. He's getting too old, so he passes the mantle of ghost hunter to Luigi along with his inventions, the Poltergust 3000 and the Gameboy Horror.

• The Boos - the main antagonists of the game. They sleep locked away inside the mansion until Luigi accidentally releases all fifty of them, as well as their leader, the dreaded King Boo.

• Neville, The Bookish Father

• Lydia, The Mirror-Gazing Mother

• Chauncey, The Spoiled Baby

• The Floating Whirlindas, The Dancing Couple

• Shivers, The Wandering Butler

• Melody Pianissima, The Beautiful Pianist

• Madame Clairvoya, The Freaky Fortune-Teller

• Mr. Luggs, The Glutton

• Spooky, The Hungry Guard Dog

• Bogmire, The Cemetery Shadow

• Biff Atlas, The Bodybuilder

• Miss Petunia, The Bathing Beauty

• Nana, The Scarf-Knitting Granny

• Slim Bankshot, The Lonely Poolshark

• Henry and Orville, The Twin Brothers

• Boolossus, Jumbo Ghost

• Uncle Grimmly, Hermit of the Darkness

• Clockwork Soldiers, The Toy Platoon

• Sue Pea, The Dozing Girl

• Jarvis, The Jar Collector

• Sir Weston, The Chilly Climber

• Vincent Van Gore, The Starving Artist

• King Boo

The PAL Version

The PAL version of Luigi's Mansion has bonus extras in the Hidden Mansion part of the game. It is known that the Hidden Mansion is "mirrored" and Boss fights are very different.

Sequel?

A flashlight demo for Nintendo's next console, codenamed Revolution, incited rumors that a new Luigi's Mansion game would be released for the system, though it should be taken as a rumor as no official announcement has been made.

External links

• GameFAQs
• Nintendo official website
• Luigi's Mansion at MobyGames