My favorite touch about Luigi's humming is that the lower his health gets the shakier it actually is. He goes from reasonably composed to "Sounds like the slightest noise is going to give him a heart attack."
Spiny Justspiny when you get a game over I thought Luigi just fainted from the fear of ghosts combined with the pain of anything that hit him, if he wasn’t afraid I think he would have the adrenaline to tank practically everything
@@basketbomberslackingson4417 I wonder if the damage Luigi takes isn't just physical damage but more heart damage, and thus when he dies, he dies of a heart attack. Hence "goodnight"
I'm absolute favorite feature of the game along with the humming is the "Mario" button. I mashed the hell out of that thing through the whole game as if I thought MAYBE just MAYBE he might hear me. Mario? MaaaaarrrriooooooOOO!?
His name IS Luigi Mario... Them being the Mario brothers and what not... I feel their mother favoured Luigi as a child... It's like calling johnny cash - Cash Cash, Or Johnny Depp - Depp Depp ... Just doesn't sound right...
Yeah, everyone using the lighting glitch to make theories about Luigi hanging himself always bugged me. I mean, the table's shadow is hovering too. Did it hang itself? Did it not like its life? Could it not pay rent in time? Did it go through a divorce, and lose custody of its kids? That's the real mystery about the glitch.
Funny note about the birds in the intro: The birds aren't the only thing modelled for that one shot. The tree they're on is not only modelled just for that shot, it's not even attached to the ground!
The boo dialogue is one thing they really managed to preserve 100% in dark moon, its still very funny, like that one who says a huge code in binary which simply translates to: 'boo'.
Maybe it’s just me but I think Luigi’s Mansion uses it’s short length to it’s advantage, you can beat the game over and over to see if you can beat your best score in total treasure collected! At that point it almost becomes like an arcade game... at least that’s how I’ve always seen it.
The thing I like most about it, is it takes me about an average of 6 hours to beat, which is about the length of a single night. And the original concept for the game was having it be a timed thing, over the span of a single night. :) always fun to play and beat it in one night~
@@SakoresDark Oh yeah. I used to replay this all the time because of that as I had lost my memory card back in the day, which meant I either had to leave my gamecube on or beat a game in a single sitting. Used to play this and beat it in one sitting all the time.
I remember playing this game as a kid, and legit being freaked out by some things like the butler. As a kid, I thought it was chasing me down, and I left that hallway and hid upstairs as fast as I could. I also being creeped out by all the bosses, and mashing the call Mario button. The thing that I realized about dark moon is it doesn't have nearly as much of a creepy vibe, but more of a cartoony feeling.
Thewolfpack23x I always got scared at the part of the game where the power went out. Since it’s when the most ghost spawn and spawn whenever. I played when little so it was really shocking to see a bunch chase me on the rooftop or through the halls
Thewolfpack23x I beat this game when I couldn’t read (age 5) and the only thing that game me the shivers was the game over screen When I saw the Butler I just thought “ok I have water you got fire-you alright all I did was put the fire out stop being a spaz- oh now I get it...”
I loved Luigi's Mansion because it was so different for any Mario game before, also it fleshed out Luigi's personality too. I was so happy when they annouced the second game and when i played, Luigi's Mansion 2 became one of my favorite games of all time, i know it's not one of the best games of all time but the games alone are so charming and unique that i cant look over them.
Luigi's mansion dark moon was fun, but honestly the fact that they cut down the ghost variety and replaced with those generic ghosts that possess objects (its a good concept and they did some good things with it, but having ALL bosses be them isn't very interesting). It does have a lot of cool puzzles and new mechanics, and the idea of going to various mansions is really cool too, but it feels like overall it lost some of its character and atmosphere in exchange of more polished gameplay. I do like king boo's new design, really sets him apart from the pack. Overall, dark moon's gameplay is sharper, but i'd still say that the original luigi's mansion is more fun to play. Though i'd buy a luigi's mansion 3 in a goddamn heartbeat if they made one. They could easily mix the 'big open-ish mansion' from 1 with dark moon's multiple mansions, like, make the new area be a whole neighborhood, or a small town, even! I do hold a whole lot of nostalgia for luigi's mansion 1 (after all, it was my first gamecube game), and one weird but very funny memory i have of it is that my grandmother always found the way you could make luigi keep calling for mario very funny.
Yeah you've pretty much perfectly described how I feel about that game. I traded my copy years back for another game, but I just got a new copy today and I'm gonna try to give it another shot!
Cool! I got mine quite some time after the game launched, after i won a discount coupon for a store in a raffle. Do you plan on reviewing it at some point? (i mean, you don't usually make videos of handheld titles) Despite the downgrades in some sections, i still feel dark moon is worth a shot if you enjoyed the first one. Nintendo certainly managed to make a REALLY smooth transition from the gamecube to the 3ds, in therms of controls. I do miss the original yanking mechanic to capture ghosts, but it really wouldn't work with the 3ds' analog stick (at least not without damaging it).
I think the main issue with Dark Moon is that it was made for a handheld. Handheld games are just inherently designed to be played in short bursts, hence why there are missions that constantly take you out of the mansion and back to the lab after you finish each one. It's good for a handheld, but Luigi's Mansion just didn't deserve to be ON a handheld. It's Gamecube counterpart is just better because of this.
I can't lie when I say I actually forgot what all the bosses were in Dark Moon and had to look them up to remind myself. That shows how forgettable they are.
With Luigi's Mansion and Survival Horror: I would actually argue it essentially is a survival horror game, just a very defanged one. It has the basic features of one, and even the tone is somewhat spooky. Actually, one thing I'd praise the game for is getting just the right amount of spooky for kids (at least, saying it from my experience playing the game when I was young). It has a gloomy and kind of creepy atmosphere, but not enough to be truly uncomfortable. One thing I wanna give credit to in particular is the ghost's appearance and the sounds they make. They're kind of cute, but there is in fact something vaguely predatory-even sadistic-about them. The sounds they make also reinforce this, sounding both otherworldly and, again, predatory.
This was a great review =) One thing I don't think you mentioned though, was that the Hidden Mansion on the PAL Version, was incredibly difficult. It was much darker almost pitch black, you take twice as much damage, hearts are rarer to find, and they put much more difficult ghosts and more of them in each room. Not to mention the entire mansion is mirrored, but you can get more money and cash. Also getting Rank A on normal mansion was impossible on the PAL version because they increased Rank A to 150,000,000G, so the only way to get A Rank was to play Hidden Mansion.
It is actually not the first time that Luigi had a personality, in Paper Mario you can read his diary and know what he is thinkimg about Mario's adventure and stuff
I was thinking that too, but the Paper Mario games were written and created by other people. It was also confirmed canon that it's a separate universe from the main Mario universe in Paper Jam, so the Luigi in Paper Mario isn't the same Luigi in the main series. But even still, he seemed like.... kinda just a dude in Paper Mario. It was funny that he was really egotistical and never told the story how it really happened (Thousand Year Door), but Luigi's Mansion was the first game to really give him wilder characteristics, and to create the running character motifs they would use for the rest of the series.
Nitro Rad don’t forget he also hinted at him getting his own game with his name in the title in the same game Not to mention PM and LM were created in somewhere near the same year
@@NitroRad I personally would argue that Paper Jam only made Sticker Star and onwards a separate universe (since none of the stuff from the first three games shows up in Paper Jam, as well as the fact that RPG stuff has shown up in platformers before, like Goomboss being one of the bosses in SM64DS) but that's just me.
I've honestly been considering it, but there's so many platformers like Croc and Chameleon Twist I REALLY want to do vids on in the next coming months.
Love this game too, when I was a kid I was too scared of the ghost so I just vacuumed infinite amounts of dust. Luigi’s house cleaning service! I can get gold frame rank on areas one and two. But I always have trouble with area 3 and area 4 is when I start to get sloppy
I love Luigis gcn era model it's so charmingly simple and doesn't try to be really slick like the galaxy games which I always thought was a little bit of an odd choice for their characters even if it made since for the aesthetic of those games even if they are objectively more polished models.
I was introduced to this game by a friend in elementary school. It, along with Melee and Double Dash, and the Mario ports on gba, are what set me on the path of gaming.
I'm slightly surprised you didn't mention the cut ghost Elh, which I'd say is one of the creepiest goddamn things ever. Tho, I'd love to see a Nitro Rad Top Whatever list of the creepiest cut enemies in games, because there are some gnarly and baffling ones out there. Also, while it's not quite a game (More a webcomic "quest" ala Rubyquest or MSPA), anyone else hope Nitro covers Awful Hospital? Bogleech seems like a man after his own heart, and I'd even more dearly adore to see his macabre-Pokemon-y worldbuilding project Mortasheen get an ep...
As a kid, this game always eluded me. I was born in the Wii generation but was born in 2006 so I didn’t have the chance to play it myself (although I do remember a holding the game in my 3 year old hands in a GameStop) but a big part of my childhood was watching ninbuzz’s play through religiously because I really wanted to see the game in action really bad. I was obsessed with it that I watched all things Luigi’s mansion on UA-cam (ex: chuggaconroys play through and beta64’s original video) until the second game came out which I was overwhelming hyped for. I finally to play the game for myself when it came out on 3DS in 8th grade and I beat it all in one sitting and that same summer I picked up the GameCube version and finally got to play the version from my childhood
2:19 They are actually. If you use Vivian to hide when up against the tree, the crows will actually talk to each other, and they'll made a reference to the intro of Luigi's Mansion.
Wobbles and Bean when I was 5 it was rare but sometimes I would suddenly decide to just let the ghost DRAG LUIGI ACROSS THE FLOOR. No particular reason why, it was rare and random when I did it.
I love the fact that he did this game, I love his input and critique on it. I truly hope you keep progressing in your UA-cam career Mr. Rad. I always eagerly await your next video and I always get giddy when you upload. I can't wait for Biohazard (Resident Evil for the westerners) and Clocktower. Also am I the only one that gets Hotline Miami vibes from the intro and outro? But until then, happy Halloween everyone! But seriously, Anyone else get those vibes? It's not a bad thing, just an observation.
me and my brother played it all the time as kids, but it was a japanese copy, since our grandfather gave us it. even without being able to understand it, we had fun, and honestly the non-understanding added a bit of mystery to it.
As far as spooky Nintendo games go, I _really_ hope you check out the Metroid Prime trilogy. Two, specifically. It's hands down one of the scariest Nintendo games to date, and it beats Eternal Darkness by miles. It feels a lot like a Survival Horror game, at times. To be honest, Metroidvania games and Survival Horror games have always had a lot of overlap in terms of gameplay elements. The two key differences being this: Survival horror makes you explore places you don't want to, take you out of your element and try and scare you more. Metroidvania makes you want to explore, and discover, and collect new items. Survival Horror also usually has literal keys that open doors and let you explore more areas, whereas keys in a Metroidvania usually double as a weapon or movement upgrade and function as more than just a key. Metroid Prime 2 combines these genres, and it's actually genius. You want to explore to find more items and upgrades, either optional things like health expansions to make the game easier or necessary things like a double jump to progress further. At the same time though, you don't want to explore because you're afraid of what's around every corner and you're never sure if it's going to an enemy that you can take out in a couple of hits or one that can take you out in a couple of hits. Also on the button mashing thing, I find it ironic that one of the only Survival Horror games to do something similar and let you turn cranks faster by mashing the button faster or something along those lines is Resident Evil 4. A game that originated on the GameCube. EDIT: I forgot it was already Halloween... My city did literally nothing, and there were like 3 houses with decorations up in my neighborhood. It still feels like august...
I just got a GameCube yesterday and just ordered this game. Luigi’s mansion is one of the main reasons I got the system, along with mario sunshine, the paper Mario game, and Smash Bros. I’m really excited to finally play this game
Holy shit, dude! I have so many memories with this game. This game was my childhood. I beat it like 13 times and it's probably the reason I like horror games. I found it to be kind of a "Survival Horror practice game". It has similar enough mechanics that when I started playing games like Resident Evil, I had the general idea of how to play them. This game had a HUGE impact on me.
As a kid Luigi's Mansion was my favorite game because it was a game full of mystery to me. Every ghost, every room, key, puzzle, everything gave me that sense of discovery that as a kid I think few games can make you feel it up to that level. I remember shooting to the fake moon through the telescope was my favorite setpiece in a game as a kid. Luigi's Mansion made Luigi my favorite character until today.
I made it tradition to play this game every year at least once. It's one of the few games that keeps me coming back to the Gamecube, And I will always love coming back to this game.
This game creeped me out as a kid. But I stilled played it a lot. This game is a great example of excellent sound design. I can still remember all of the tunes and sound effects and what not that play throughout the game still to this day. Such a great game.
I really like the idea of each area being mostly open when you get it- I'm currently working on a game inspired by Luigi's Mansion and I'm totally gonna do something like that
Oooh! The slippery ice floor while taking the key, the hidden room! I also took a lot of time figuring out how to reach it, lots of beautiful memories within this game
Appreciate the effort getting this one done for today after seeing your tweet, NitroRad. Enjoyed watching these spooky reviews, and totally didn't mind them starting early!
YES! they talked about the ability to scan almost everything! this feature is so fun in luigi's mansion, and sometimes the responses are just hilarious
This is the first Nitro Rad video I saw, and I just watched it offhand cause I was bored. I’m so glad I did, because this is my personal favorite channel I’ve found on UA-cam. Thank you for making videos Mr. Nitro Rad.
I've played this game about 30 times, and I still love it every single time It is my personal tradition that I play through it at least once a year. I remember one summer I beat the game maybe 10 times just to see how many times I could do it.
2:10 UH OH LOOKS LIKE SOME ONE DOESN'T KNOW THEIR SHIT. As the biggest mehrio boy on the planet, I can tell you that they appear again in World 8-1 in NSMB for the DS.
scrub titan As the ACTUAL biggest Mehrio boy on the planet I am pleased to inform you that the enemies you called 'Crows' from NSMB are actually officially called Crowbers (www.mariowiki.com/Crowber) and are a separate species from the Crows seen in Luigi's Mansion and Thousand Year door (www.mariowiki.com/Crow).
I love Luigi's Mansion with passion, it's my most favorite Game Cube game of all time, I have played through it god knows how many times, and now I'll get to play through it again on 3ds this year!
Thank you so much, I love this series so freaking much I even love it's sequel a lot, but everyone knows they'll be coming back to this charming game we all love
I love Luigi's mansion. it was different and actually gave luigi more character than he had been given before. Plus the ghost also had character and there were quite a bit of them. Nothing like being a kid scared from a baby while playing at midnight
I wish they did more with environment, because of that one button on the wall I SCRUBBED rooms down as a kid lol. Don't remember them using a trick like that button ever agian tho.
Really happy your Rayman review got recommended to me after listening to some of it's OST. You have great delivery and even when I disagree with you on pros vs cons you do a great job of laying everything out in an unbiased fashion. You really need more subs :)
18:21 when this was first shown on screen I paused it to read and then sat there for a minute after like “Did Nintendo just straight up say a seven year old girl died in her sleep???”
I wish in the seccond version there could be an area where you can just kinda talk to the portrait ghosts and learn a bit more about them. They talk to you in the game, but having more dialogue options and some backstories to how they became ghosts would be super interesting. As a kid, I always wanted to get to know them better, and especially to be able to pet spooky and give him love, poor doggo :'(.
Tbh, my way of dealing with boos was constantly using the C-stick to move the vacuum on and off rapidly, sorta putting them into a constant "stun" where they don't move but panic, it tends to bring their hp down faster without them leaving the room. But eventually they break out of the "stun" and leave the room. But much less health than they normally do, making it faster to deal with them imo.
After having Luigi's Mansion be one of the first games I played, around many years later I played Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and loved it, I've never made that connection before.
I never understood the hatred for this game. I always enjoyed the atmosphere and all the little touches like dust effects and how the environment interacts with the poltergust. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I remember this game from when I was younger. I had an active imagination and was sacred to enter my room for years. This scared me since the game cube was in my room and I couldn't enter without a blanket to hide under. There was times where I bolted out of the room without one leading to cold nights on the couch.
well they have been building luigi’s personality since paper mario, but it’s also nice to see what he is thinking here where he isn’t just saying things for mario to nod to cause he doesn’t talk
man i wish i grew up with this game, i played dark moon when i was younger but i got pretty bored of it before finally forgetting about it. i don’t think i would’ve gotten bored of this game if i had it.
I haven't played it in years, I'm definitely going to have to pop it into my GameCube tonight. You're totally right about it being a good stepping-stone into the survival horror genre. I got RE: Code Veronica before Luigi and it was too much for me at the time. Thanks to Luigi I was way better at approaching the exploration and puzzle gameplay of RE.
My favorite touch about Luigi's humming is that the lower his health gets the shakier it actually is.
He goes from reasonably composed to "Sounds like the slightest noise is going to give him a heart attack."
It's also pretty cool that the music slows down the lower Luigi's health gets.
Spiny Justspiny when you get a game over I thought Luigi just fainted from the fear of ghosts combined with the pain of anything that hit him, if he wasn’t afraid I think he would have the adrenaline to tank practically everything
@@basketbomberslackingson4417 I wonder if the damage Luigi takes isn't just physical damage but more heart damage, and thus when he dies, he dies of a heart attack. Hence "goodnight"
@@hollowhoagie6441 Wow
@@hollowhoagie6441 That's....actually really dark.
I'm absolute favorite feature of the game along with the humming is the "Mario" button. I mashed the hell out of that thing through the whole game as if I thought MAYBE just MAYBE he might hear me. Mario? MaaaaarrrriooooooOOO!?
I feel like an idiot for somehow not mentioning that in the video.
Nitro Rad I was waiting for it too, but you did the game much justice. Well done.
Nitro Rad your name's James right? I love your videos, one of the best channels on this site in my opinion bro.
What about how Luigi sounds more panicked as your health lowers?
Wyatt James Lol calling out for Mario when you have
You forgot one other character trait for Luigi.
It's that he's filthy stinking rich.
but that's just a theory
-a game theory-
I see you in squared eye jak's videos all the time
true
Canonically tho Luigi didn't collect that much. Cause in Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, he has the D rank house from the first one.
Well he did get really fucking money hungry in the animated Mario movie.
Poor Luigi. Even his own game is categorized as a "Mario game."
Poor Weegee..
Because his last name is Mario
lol
His name IS Luigi Mario...
Them being the Mario brothers and what not...
I feel their mother favoured Luigi as a child...
It's like calling johnny cash -
Cash Cash, Or Johnny Depp -
Depp Depp ... Just doesn't sound right...
Although wikipedia considers it a part of the Luigi series.
Yeah, everyone using the lighting glitch to make theories about Luigi hanging himself always bugged me. I mean, the table's shadow is hovering too. Did it hang itself? Did it not like its life? Could it not pay rent in time? Did it go through a divorce, and lose custody of its kids? That's the real mystery about the glitch.
this man... he speaks the TRUTH!
Yes the table did kill himself, do you want people putting shit on you 24/7 and not caring for you?
Tablecloth took the kids...
Bro... you good?
There's a theory that the table was the frontman of a grunge group.
Funny note about the birds in the intro:
The birds aren't the only thing modelled for that one shot. The tree they're on is not only modelled just for that shot, it's not even attached to the ground!
They also have different colored eyes
"Speak not my name for I am TaBOO"
The boo dialogue is one thing they really managed to preserve 100% in dark moon, its still very funny, like that one who says a huge code in binary which simply translates to: 'boo'.
not my name for i am TaBOO
you said speak it
N o I said the “not” so I’m not sure what you mean if you’re pranking me though congrats you made me look :D
Alan YaKnow Oof
Bookake!
Maybe it’s just me but I think Luigi’s Mansion uses it’s short length to it’s advantage, you can beat the game over and over to see if you can beat your best score in total treasure collected! At that point it almost becomes like an arcade game... at least that’s how I’ve always seen it.
The thing I like most about it, is it takes me about an average of 6 hours to beat, which is about the length of a single night. And the original concept for the game was having it be a timed thing, over the span of a single night. :) always fun to play and beat it in one night~
@@SakoresDark Oh yeah. I used to replay this all the time because of that as I had lost my memory card back in the day, which meant I either had to leave my gamecube on or beat a game in a single sitting. Used to play this and beat it in one sitting all the time.
"When there's something strange , in the neighborhood , who you gonna call , LUIGI "!!!!
And I sang that haha. Anyone else sing it in their head?
Wee, jee, wee, jee, wee, jee, wee, jee, wee, jee jitty jee
When there's something strange who you gonna call? GO WEEGEE!
If Boosette ever shows up,
I'll take care of her ;)
If such is the case...
~+32 06 47 63 73 22~
@@eluzai “I ain’t afraid of no- AHHHHH!!!”
(scans lion statue) "This is the kind of thing I would put in the bathroom."
Ah yes, because when I’m taking a sh*t I want to see the head of a lion watch me go
That Lion is a pervert
My grandma had owl figurines in her bathroom. Imagine big owl eyes staring at you
finishing off with the scariest game of all
Joey Pockett the game over when I was younger actually kinda spooked me (bare in mind I couldn’t even read at the time yet I still made it to the end)
But wait this isnt bubsy 3D
@@PlasmaPea04 Smooth, real smooth.
Life
I remember playing this game as a kid, and legit being freaked out by some things like the butler. As a kid, I thought it was chasing me down, and I left that hallway and hid upstairs as fast as I could. I also being creeped out by all the bosses, and mashing the call Mario button. The thing that I realized about dark moon is it doesn't have nearly as much of a creepy vibe, but more of a cartoony feeling.
Thewolfpack23x I always got scared at the part of the game where the power went out. Since it’s when the most ghost spawn and spawn whenever. I played when little so it was really shocking to see a bunch chase me on the rooftop or through the halls
Thewolfpack23x I beat this game when I couldn’t read (age 5) and the only thing that game me the shivers was the game over screen
When I saw the Butler I just thought “ok I have water you got fire-you alright all I did was put the fire out stop being a spaz- oh now I get it...”
Thewolfpack23x the freaking baby scared the heck out of me when I was little. I don’t know why, but Chaucer was the creepiest to me
Thewolfpack23x I remember being freaked out by the Clockwork Soliders after going to bed.
I couldn't get past freaking CHAUNCEY as a kid, iwas a huge scaredy cat as a child
I loved Luigi's Mansion because it was so different for any Mario game before, also it fleshed out Luigi's personality too.
I was so happy when they annouced the second game and when i played, Luigi's Mansion 2 became one of my favorite games of all time, i know it's not one of the best games of all time but the games alone are so charming and unique that i cant look over them.
I've always referred to Luigi's Mansion as "Silent Hill for kids." Glad to see I'm not the only one who made this connection.
BlowBlow's Jiizare Headventure Or Resident Evil lol
@@TheSciFiNut Moreso Resident Evil ;P
Luigi's mansion dark moon was fun, but honestly the fact that they cut down the ghost variety and replaced with those generic ghosts that possess objects (its a good concept and they did some good things with it, but having ALL bosses be them isn't very interesting). It does have a lot of cool puzzles and new mechanics, and the idea of going to various mansions is really cool too, but it feels like overall it lost some of its character and atmosphere in exchange of more polished gameplay. I do like king boo's new design, really sets him apart from the pack.
Overall, dark moon's gameplay is sharper, but i'd still say that the original luigi's mansion is more fun to play. Though i'd buy a luigi's mansion 3 in a goddamn heartbeat if they made one. They could easily mix the 'big open-ish mansion' from 1 with dark moon's multiple mansions, like, make the new area be a whole neighborhood, or a small town, even!
I do hold a whole lot of nostalgia for luigi's mansion 1 (after all, it was my first gamecube game), and one weird but very funny memory i have of it is that my grandmother always found the way you could make luigi keep calling for mario very funny.
Yeah you've pretty much perfectly described how I feel about that game.
I traded my copy years back for another game, but I just got a new copy today and I'm gonna try to give it another shot!
Cool! I got mine quite some time after the game launched, after i won a discount coupon for a store in a raffle. Do you plan on reviewing it at some point? (i mean, you don't usually make videos of handheld titles)
Despite the downgrades in some sections, i still feel dark moon is worth a shot if you enjoyed the first one. Nintendo certainly managed to make a REALLY smooth transition from the gamecube to the 3ds, in therms of controls. I do miss the original yanking mechanic to capture ghosts, but it really wouldn't work with the 3ds' analog stick (at least not without damaging it).
I would love if they took open world weegee mansion and mix it with the wacky mansion of dark moon
I think the main issue with Dark Moon is that it was made for a handheld. Handheld games are just inherently designed to be played in short bursts, hence why there are missions that constantly take you out of the mansion and back to the lab after you finish each one. It's good for a handheld, but Luigi's Mansion just didn't deserve to be ON a handheld. It's Gamecube counterpart is just better because of this.
I can't lie when I say I actually forgot what all the bosses were in Dark Moon and had to look them up to remind myself. That shows how forgettable they are.
With Luigi's Mansion and Survival Horror: I would actually argue it essentially is a survival horror game, just a very defanged one. It has the basic features of one, and even the tone is somewhat spooky.
Actually, one thing I'd praise the game for is getting just the right amount of spooky for kids (at least, saying it from my experience playing the game when I was young). It has a gloomy and kind of creepy atmosphere, but not enough to be truly uncomfortable. One thing I wanna give credit to in particular is the ghost's appearance and the sounds they make. They're kind of cute, but there is in fact something vaguely predatory-even sadistic-about them. The sounds they make also reinforce this, sounding both otherworldly and, again, predatory.
This was a great review =)
One thing I don't think you mentioned though, was that the Hidden Mansion on the PAL Version, was incredibly difficult. It was much darker almost pitch black, you take twice as much damage, hearts are rarer to find, and they put much more difficult ghosts and more of them in each room. Not to mention the entire mansion is mirrored, but you can get more money and cash. Also getting Rank A on normal mansion was impossible on the PAL version because they increased Rank A to 150,000,000G, so the only way to get A Rank was to play Hidden Mansion.
It is actually not the first time that Luigi had a personality, in Paper Mario you can read his diary and know what he is thinkimg about Mario's adventure and stuff
I was thinking that too, but the Paper Mario games were written and created by other people. It was also confirmed canon that it's a separate universe from the main Mario universe in Paper Jam, so the Luigi in Paper Mario isn't the same Luigi in the main series.
But even still, he seemed like.... kinda just a dude in Paper Mario. It was funny that he was really egotistical and never told the story how it really happened (Thousand Year Door), but Luigi's Mansion was the first game to really give him wilder characteristics, and to create the running character motifs they would use for the rest of the series.
Nitro Rad don’t forget he also hinted at him getting his own game with his name in the title in the same game
Not to mention PM and LM were created in somewhere near the same year
@@NitroRad I personally would argue that Paper Jam only made Sticker Star and onwards a separate universe (since none of the stuff from the first three games shows up in Paper Jam, as well as the fact that RPG stuff has shown up in platformers before, like Goomboss being one of the bosses in SM64DS) but that's just me.
You can do horror games all year for all that I care.
I've honestly been considering it, but there's so many platformers like Croc and Chameleon Twist I REALLY want to do vids on in the next coming months.
I would love to see more horror games as well.
If you want to see some really unnerving horror, play some condemned. My goodness, so freaky!
Nitro Rad Croc! PogChamp
Unless, of course, you read "Born a ghost" as "Was stillborn"...
Stillborn babies aren't 1 year old, though.
@@zachs.7947how is one born a ghost and still have an age if they were never alive
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@@thetrophygamer3606maybe he was Korean?
@@superfurryfox1 you’ve lost me sense I don’t see how that matters
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Love this game too, when I was a kid I was too scared of the ghost so I just vacuumed infinite amounts of dust. Luigi’s house cleaning service!
I can get gold frame rank on areas one and two. But I always have trouble with area 3 and area 4 is when I start to get sloppy
The memories man. My brother and I would play this non stop. One of my favorite games of all time.
I love Luigis gcn era model it's so charmingly simple and doesn't try to be really slick like the galaxy games which I always thought was a little bit of an odd choice for their characters even if it made since for the aesthetic of those games even if they are objectively more polished models.
I was introduced to this game by a friend in elementary school. It, along with Melee and Double Dash, and the Mario ports on gba, are what set me on the path of gaming.
Yay, he's back to playing games I've actually heard of! I mean, I watch his videos regardless, but familiarity is nice.
Severin Murray I watch him for the opposite reason, so he can show me obscure 3d platformers.
I'm slightly surprised you didn't mention the cut ghost Elh, which I'd say is one of the creepiest goddamn things ever. Tho, I'd love to see a Nitro Rad Top Whatever list of the creepiest cut enemies in games, because there are some gnarly and baffling ones out there.
Also, while it's not quite a game (More a webcomic "quest" ala Rubyquest or MSPA), anyone else hope Nitro covers Awful Hospital? Bogleech seems like a man after his own heart, and I'd even more dearly adore to see his macabre-Pokemon-y worldbuilding project Mortasheen get an ep...
@Fozzy W that would be #1
As a kid, this game always eluded me. I was born in the Wii generation but was born in 2006 so I didn’t have the chance to play it myself (although I do remember a holding the game in my 3 year old hands in a GameStop) but a big part of my childhood was watching ninbuzz’s play through religiously because I really wanted to see the game in action really bad. I was obsessed with it that I watched all things Luigi’s mansion on UA-cam (ex: chuggaconroys play through and beta64’s original video) until the second game came out which I was overwhelming hyped for. I finally to play the game for myself when it came out on 3DS in 8th grade and I beat it all in one sitting and that same summer I picked up the GameCube version and finally got to play the version from my childhood
I LOVED playing this game growing up. I loved how atmospheric it was, and how it radiated a certain charm that complimented the horror aesthetics.
For adults, it's an action adventure game. For kids, its a survival horror game. That's the brilliance of Luigi's Mansion.
2:19
They are actually. If you use Vivian to hide when up against the tree, the crows will actually talk to each other, and they'll made a reference to the intro of Luigi's Mansion.
Alonso Dalton in loogis house or in a different game?
What game is that?
@@SP8inc Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, in the fourth chapter.
Dude I think you taking the extra time to prepare and make these videos was worth it, great job!
15:24 Great, now I can't shake the picture of a whole orchestra band following Mario in a Koopa clown car out of my head.
The thing goes one way, you pull the other, repeat until you caught it but the thing can escape. It's a fishing minigame.
You're totally not the only one who spun the stick like that. I did the same thing, I can't explain why, it's just fun!
Wobbles and Bean when I was 5 it was rare but sometimes I would suddenly decide to just let the ghost DRAG LUIGI ACROSS THE FLOOR. No particular reason why, it was rare and random when I did it.
1:23 i love how his dialogue accidentally fits the musical beat perfectly
I love the fact that he did this game, I love his input and critique on it. I truly hope you keep progressing in your UA-cam career Mr. Rad. I always eagerly await your next video and I always get giddy when you upload. I can't wait for Biohazard (Resident Evil for the westerners) and Clocktower. Also am I the only one that gets Hotline Miami vibes from the intro and outro?
But until then, happy Halloween everyone!
But seriously, Anyone else get those vibes? It's not a bad thing, just an observation.
I love playing this game.
me and my brother played it all the time as kids, but it was a japanese copy, since our grandfather gave us it. even without being able to understand it, we had fun, and honestly the non-understanding added a bit of mystery to it.
As far as spooky Nintendo games go, I _really_ hope you check out the Metroid Prime trilogy. Two, specifically. It's hands down one of the scariest Nintendo games to date, and it beats Eternal Darkness by miles. It feels a lot like a Survival Horror game, at times. To be honest, Metroidvania games and Survival Horror games have always had a lot of overlap in terms of gameplay elements. The two key differences being this: Survival horror makes you explore places you don't want to, take you out of your element and try and scare you more. Metroidvania makes you want to explore, and discover, and collect new items. Survival Horror also usually has literal keys that open doors and let you explore more areas, whereas keys in a Metroidvania usually double as a weapon or movement upgrade and function as more than just a key. Metroid Prime 2 combines these genres, and it's actually genius. You want to explore to find more items and upgrades, either optional things like health expansions to make the game easier or necessary things like a double jump to progress further. At the same time though, you don't want to explore because you're afraid of what's around every corner and you're never sure if it's going to an enemy that you can take out in a couple of hits or one that can take you out in a couple of hits.
Also on the button mashing thing, I find it ironic that one of the only Survival Horror games to do something similar and let you turn cranks faster by mashing the button faster or something along those lines is Resident Evil 4. A game that originated on the GameCube.
EDIT: I forgot it was already Halloween... My city did literally nothing, and there were like 3 houses with decorations up in my neighborhood. It still feels like august...
I just got a GameCube yesterday and just ordered this game. Luigi’s mansion is one of the main reasons I got the system, along with mario sunshine, the paper Mario game, and Smash Bros. I’m really excited to finally play this game
I grew up on this masterpiece and will always be a blessing to my childhood
Holy shit, dude! I have so many memories with this game. This game was my childhood. I beat it like 13 times and it's probably the reason I like horror games. I found it to be kind of a "Survival Horror practice game". It has similar enough mechanics that when I started playing games like Resident Evil, I had the general idea of how to play them. This game had a HUGE impact on me.
This game is super underrated.
One of the few games were I looked foreword to see what boss I would fight next.
As a kid Luigi's Mansion was my favorite game because it was a game full of mystery to me. Every ghost, every room, key, puzzle, everything gave me that sense of discovery that as a kid I think few games can make you feel it up to that level. I remember shooting to the fake moon through the telescope was my favorite setpiece in a game as a kid. Luigi's Mansion made Luigi my favorite character until today.
For me it's games like this, Paper Mario, Super Star Saga, Dark Moon and the Mario Comics that I think really fleshed out the Mario Bros.
this video made me realize you have to repeatedly slam the stick and not just hold it down oh man
9:38 Monado spotted, instant respect
Next year you really gotta cover the Gregory Horror Show for the PS2.
ThePreciseClimber holy shit I love that show
I made it tradition to play this game every year at least once. It's one of the few games that keeps me coming back to the Gamecube, And I will always love coming back to this game.
This game creeped me out as a kid. But I stilled played it a lot. This game is a great example of excellent sound design. I can still remember all of the tunes and sound effects and what not that play throughout the game still to this day. Such a great game.
I really like the idea of each area being mostly open when you get it- I'm currently working on a game inspired by Luigi's Mansion and I'm totally gonna do something like that
I had a lot of fun here. Thanks for all the Halloween videos!
Gotta say, I loved the use of this game’s version of Totaka’s Song throughout the background of the video. Nice touch.
Oooh! The slippery ice floor while taking the key, the hidden room! I also took a lot of time figuring out how to reach it, lots of beautiful memories within this game
We need a third luigi mansion called luigi's mansion dark weegee
Hell yeah! Luigis mansion switch
Or a remake for the 3ds XD
Omg the original is coming to 3ds!!! Although I would've preferred it on the switch. I'll still buy it though for my 2ds xl 😂
Or Luigi Hotel
Geuss what
Appreciate the effort getting this one done for today after seeing your tweet, NitroRad. Enjoyed watching these spooky reviews, and totally didn't mind them starting early!
This is easily my favorite GameCube game of all time. It established a long standing love for adventure games in me. So glad this game exists
I've beaten this game last year, it was pretty good! Very well-polished and fun game!
Thank you so much Nitro, your the only game reviewer I still watch and seeing you cover this on Halloween is perfect
YES! they talked about the ability to scan almost everything! this feature is so fun in luigi's mansion, and sometimes the responses are just hilarious
This is the first Nitro Rad video I saw, and I just watched it offhand cause I was bored. I’m so glad I did, because this is my personal favorite channel I’ve found on UA-cam. Thank you for making videos Mr. Nitro Rad.
I've played this game about 30 times, and I still love it every single time
It is my personal tradition that I play through it at least once a year. I remember one summer I beat the game maybe 10 times just to see how many times I could do it.
2:10 UH OH LOOKS LIKE SOME ONE DOESN'T KNOW THEIR SHIT. As the biggest mehrio boy on the planet, I can tell you that they appear again in World 8-1 in NSMB for the DS.
You are 100% correct, I completely forgot! Man I haven't played the original NSMB since middle school, been FOREVER.
You should play it again, its awesome. Did they just import the model, or remake it? It's definitely the same crow anyway.
scrub titan You said uh oh
scrub titan As the ACTUAL biggest Mehrio boy on the planet I am pleased to inform you that the enemies you called 'Crows' from NSMB are actually officially called Crowbers (www.mariowiki.com/Crowber) and are a separate species from the Crows seen in Luigi's Mansion and Thousand Year door (www.mariowiki.com/Crow).
Both these wiki pages are empty.
I thought i was the only one who did the thing with Luigi violently swinging the vacuum around whenever you suck up a ghost
Thanks for convincing me to finally try this series. I've played 1 and 3 now and had a jolly good time !
"Some day I'd like to visit outer space"
So Mario party 2 never happened?
I love Luigi's Mansion with passion, it's my most favorite Game Cube game of all time, I have played through it god knows how many times, and now I'll get to play through it again on 3ds this year!
Definitely can agree to the analog stick rotation on catching a ghost, very gratifying
Thank you so much, I love this series so freaking much
I even love it's sequel a lot, but everyone knows they'll be coming back to this charming game we all love
If people can start talking about Christmas in October, you can talk about Halloween in September.
I played this a lot when I was younger too! I think liking this game is the reason why I like the Resident Evil 2 Remake too.
I love Luigi's mansion. it was different and actually gave luigi more character than he had been given before. Plus the ghost also had character and there were quite a bit of them. Nothing like being a kid scared from a baby while playing at midnight
I wish they did more with environment, because of that one button on the wall I SCRUBBED rooms down as a kid lol. Don't remember them using a trick like that button ever agian tho.
this and sunshine are my favorite gamecube games
Really happy your Rayman review got recommended to me after listening to some of it's OST. You have great delivery and even when I disagree with you on pros vs cons you do a great job of laying everything out in an unbiased fashion. You really need more subs :)
“The pace goes from this to this“ omg I nearly choked to death on my drink so funny couldn’t stop laughing lol 😂
Don't worry. I also do that thing with Luigi spazzing.
18:21 when this was first shown on screen I paused it to read and then sat there for a minute after like “Did Nintendo just straight up say a seven year old girl died in her sleep???”
The only thing you missed in this video was not mentioning how groovy that main theme is. Otherwise, great video as always Nitro Rad!
I was just playing Luigi's Mansion and this video popped up. Nice!
I wish in the seccond version there could be an area where you can just kinda talk to the portrait ghosts and learn a bit more about them. They talk to you in the game, but having more dialogue options and some backstories to how they became ghosts would be super interesting. As a kid, I always wanted to get to know them better, and especially to be able to pet spooky and give him love, poor doggo :'(.
I like how you compare these games to a lot of other games both new and old
I love how he even starts his Halloween specials early with so many scary games like all actually real horror but even then he ends Halloween on this.
This was my first game lol Its still one of my absolute favorites
This is one of the first video games that I’ve ever played, so I remember it fondly
Tbh, my way of dealing with boos was constantly using the C-stick to move the vacuum on and off rapidly, sorta putting them into a constant "stun" where they don't move but panic, it tends to bring their hp down faster without them leaving the room. But eventually they break out of the "stun" and leave the room. But much less health than they normally do, making it faster to deal with them imo.
I don't own a gamecube so I'm happy they're remaking this for the 3DS. I've ALWAYS wanted to play this game and now I can.
This is my favorite GameCube game of all time! Awesome that you covered it!
After having Luigi's Mansion be one of the first games I played, around many years later I played Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and loved it, I've never made that connection before.
First Nitro Rad video I watched back in 2017, good stuff man
I never understood the hatred for this game. I always enjoyed the atmosphere and all the little touches like dust effects and how the environment interacts with the poltergust. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I'm rewatching this a day before Luigis mansion 3. Just cant wait.
man why havent' you gotten more popular yet, you're reviews are always so good and in detail
I remember this game from when I was younger. I had an active imagination and was sacred to enter my room for years. This scared me since the game cube was in my room and I couldn't enter without a blanket to hide under. There was times where I bolted out of the room without one leading to cold nights on the couch.
well they have been building luigi’s personality since paper mario, but it’s also nice to see what he is thinking here where he isn’t just saying things for mario to nod to cause he doesn’t talk
Rotating the vacuum nozzle is something I never thought to do until you showed me. I do it every time now 😂
man i wish i grew up with this game, i played dark moon when i was younger but i got pretty bored of it before finally forgetting about it. i don’t think i would’ve gotten bored of this game if i had it.
I love how happy you are talking about the secrets in this cute game in the halloween spirit (^^)
I haven't played it in years, I'm definitely going to have to pop it into my GameCube tonight. You're totally right about it being a good stepping-stone into the survival horror genre. I got RE: Code Veronica before Luigi and it was too much for me at the time. Thanks to Luigi I was way better at approaching the exploration and puzzle gameplay of RE.