Adventure · 2019 · Next Level Games · local · online
Luigi's Mansion 3
A hotel with fifteen floors, a vacuum cleaner and a second Luigi made of green slime.
What it is about
Luigi is invited to a hotel that turns out to be a trap, and then has to clear fifteen floors of ghosts to get his friends back. Every floor has its own theme — a museum, a film studio, a medieval tournament — and its own ghost at the end.
The work is done with a vacuum cleaner: suck in, hold on, slam against the floor. There is also a suction cup for pulling furniture away and a burst of air that sends anything loose flying around the room. Most of your time goes on taking rooms apart and seeing what falls out.
As a pair the second person takes Gooigi, a copy made of green slime with the same vacuum. You play on one screen from one copy. Alongside sits a tower mode for up to eight people online.
Our verdict for couples
Gooigi is the second figure: a green copy of Luigi made of slime who walks through grates and dissolves in water. That sounds like a helper role, but it is not: both carry the same vacuum, can do the same things and solve the same puzzles, and one review puts it exactly right — nobody is missing out. You play on one shared screen, which suits this particularly well because you are searching the same room anyway and constantly pointing out things the other missed. Fifteen floors are one or two too many, though: from around the eleventh you know every idea, and what follows is repetition with different wallpaper.
Pros
- One console and one copy cover you both
- Both roles can do practically the same
- One floor fits into half an evening
Cons
- From the eleventh floor it repeats
- Gooigi dissolves in water
- The online tower is an extra, not the story
Suitable from
Casual–Hobby
- Conflict potential
- Harmonious
- Cosiness
- Mixed
- When you can stop
- After 30–45 minutes
- How long it lasts
- 5–15 hours
What other co-op fans say
On Metacritic the user score sits at 8.4 from 1,951 votes. For our question one voice is the most telling: somebody played it through with their partner and notes expressly that both roles can do practically the same — nobody misses out. With games that add a second figure, that is anything but a given. The recurring objection is length: with fifteen floors, some are done by the eleventh, and a few find the vacuum controls fiddly.
- “Played this with my significant other and we enjoyed every moment of it...Both player 1 and 2 can do pretty much the same, so it doesn't feel like anybody is missing much.”
- “After playing it for well over 80 hours I can tell you that Luigi's Mansion 3 is one of the best experiences you can buy on the Switch.”
- “With 15 floors of the mansion to cover, by floor 11, I was over the gameplay”
Summarised by machine from 1951 Metacritic user reviews, not written by our editors. The quotes appear verbatim in those reviews.
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