As Nintendo's most famous mascot, Mario is not only well known to players around the world, but also Nintendo has made dozens of different types of games with him as the protagonist, which can be described as full of cards. However, unlike the bold and bold brother, Luigi, as Mario's younger brother, is timid by nature, and in most games, he appears as a supporting role, and his popularity is naturally not as high as that of his brother Mario, and not many people even know him. However, in this game with Luigi as the protagonist, Luigi's Bungalow 3, Luigi is unusual, and once again stages a fearless rescue, in a resort building full of ghosts, to face the returning shy ghost king and its ghosts.
"Luigi Bungalow 3" can be said to be a light-hearted and witty game, saying that it is frightened is actually more like amusement. Although the enemy is a ghost, they seem to be playing tricks on people to launch a nonsense attack, which makes people feel silly and cute, but the malice of the trap makes people dare not compliment. As the complexity of the event increases as the floor increases (not necessarily the difficulty of the floor), and each floor has a different theme and decoration style, it can be said that the specifications of the entire theme park are really condensed into a towering skyscraper, and the goal is to point to the highest floor and challenge the ominous evil spirits that occupy the top of the tower. But this is not a forbidden tower of fear and madness, but a haunted tower of puzzle adventures.
In the work, Luigi's weapon against the ghost is a vacuum cleaner, which is not an ordinary vacuum cleaner, it not only has a strong breathing and inhaling function, but also can use its own flash to flash the ghost, the dark light can make the objects hidden in the painting appear, and even create a lump of slime avatar Luigi's stand-in - golem Yiji, to help the body crack many traps and obstacles. This golem is itself an amorphous slime that can penetrate the railing to swim through the water pipe, squeeze out the obstruction inside the pipe, and summon infinitely. In single-player games, it is as a switchable character, and can achieve dual-character cooperation while maintaining the actions of the previous characters before the conversion, while in the two-player game, it is a 2P character.
At the heart of the game is puzzle solving and exploration, and the battle is still like a puzzle. Since it is a ghost, it is inevitable that the ghost will use the possession to move, interfere with or even drive objects to attack. Therefore, these ghosts seem to be hanging on all kinds of armor, and knocking them down must try their best to pry open the locks on their bodies, so that they can enter the core, use flash to incapacitate them, and then use the ghost vacuum cleaner to catch them all. Puzzle solving and exploration is to analyze obstacles and problems in a variety of buildings, identify problems and master the corresponding solutions of tools. So the difficulties are gradual, sometimes it is a matter of understanding, and sometimes it is impossible to grasp the key when it comes to matching the key on your body. Sometimes you may have to start with a wider range, or search for overlooked points, like the development of a low-light lamp, which can reproduce hidden objects. On the other hand, there is also the throwing of the suction cup and the suction padlock, which makes the action more diverse, and also increases the difficulty of understanding the puzzle in disguise, so sometimes it happens that even if you want to break your head, you can't think of which link you missed.
Lively and timid but vivid, Luigi, with his occasional fright and fear, especially in the elevator shot, enriches the character's personality. On the other hand, a cute and mischievous ghost dog takes on the key puzzles of some periods, and then, under the lure of the golden dog bones, can also help Luigi continue to live. Although this mischievous dog failed to become the main force, it still heroically rescued in the key and became Luigi's biggest patron. The whole game relies on the interaction of vacuum cleaners to exhaust everything that can be sucked away by the whole building. From items to small animals, the powerful suction seems to suck or blow all kinds of items in like an industrial fan, swallowing money and debris into the mouth, coupled with the suction cup to destroy, is this trying to make everything spotless or destroyed into nothing?
The main storyline is very kingly, in short, through many obstacles to defeat the enemy, save the brothers and princesses, and defeat the vengeful shy ghost king, changing the appearance in Mario's story, the boss will have more power to destroy Luigi. But before that, Luigi was facing the floor boss who had eaten the elevator button on the next floor, as well as a variety of floor levels. It's like a button battle, and while the goal is to recapture the elevator button, there's always a vicious battle with the boss. Some battles are thrilling and sinister, some battles seem to be fighting and making trouble, and sometimes the battles end in a flash, and the troubles that are just in the beginning are coming up one after another. In these conquests, there are sometimes warm moments, such as the boss Janoz in the eighth layer, who just wants Luigi to help him finish the film shooting, and does not want to harm Luigi.
These mechanisms work together so that each layer resembles its own independent chapters, sometimes interspersed and mixed. For example, the mischievous three-tailed monster cat will coldly snatch the elevator button and escape to the previous floor, and the player will have to turn around and cooperate with it again. In a fixed-point of view environment, the game's field of view is more like capturing the character with a room lens, allowing him to cooperate with the character-based orientation shift in the way the character-based movement is used, which sometimes feels a little twisted.
It may be a suitability relationship, in the main lighting and vacuum operation, the player can easily hold, but in the suction cup-based aiming shooting, this direction control is bound to cooperate with auxiliary shooting to improve the function. After all, it is mainly based on room lenses, although there is an auxiliary aiming line, but it can also be felt that in this field of view space, accurate shooting is very limited. This perspective system deliberately shows its own spindle and interaction method, in some ways this strengthens the interaction and finesse, the interactive effect presented is also very good, the player has a good grasp of this unobstructed sense of space, but at the same time occasionally will be tricked or therefore ignored a puzzle key.
Overall, the gameplay experience of Luigi Mansion 3 is quite intimate, it does not travel the world to defeat Kuba like Mario, the stage is just a haunted ordinary western-style building. Although it is still a bit unrealistic, compared to the strange long journey, the various familiar sets in the western-style room also have a taste of life drama.