Luigi's Mansion

Luigi's Mansion has all the traits and trappings of a bad game, and it would be wrong of me to call it anything else.

After the first area, the game becomes difficult by means of annoyance - trying to fend off multiple enemies at once is impossible; new rooms in the mansion take forever to get between; ghosts have to be followed once, twice, twenty times as they move from room to room and back again. My primary hardship with the final boss was because the boss himself obstructed my view, and I had no idea what the fuck was going on. The game is insultingly short at only a few hours, but to be honest I was still relieved to be done with the thing.

Not only is Luigi's Mansion missing polish, it's missing content. It's missing engagement. It's missing fun. Really, the only thing it does right is show off a new generation of graphical tricks, and trying to package it as a game was a mistake.

I feel for you, Luigi. I really do. Here's hoping you do better next time.

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