The folks at Canada-based studio Next Level Games have thanked the millions of Luigi fans out there, via their Facebook page, who’ve purchased their latest video game. Just in case you didn’t know, Next Level Games is the developer behind the critically acclaimed Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, which was released earlier this year, exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.
Despite being a sequel to Nintendo GameCube launch title Luigi’s Mansion, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon is the better game of the two – because of many reasons, as explained in our Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon review. If you haven’t already, purchase Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon from a retailer near you or the Nintendo eShop. Read Next Level Games’ thank you note below:
Thank You Luigi Fans!
It has been just over 3 months since the worldwide release of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and at Next Level Games, we’ve been overwhelmed by the support from our fans. We’d like to express a big thank you to everybody who bought the game, 3DS download played it or simply talked it up near the water cooler. Your continued support is most graciously appreciated.
We here at Next Level Games are honoured (this is the Canadian way to write it) to have the opportunity to entertain the millions of Nintendo fans.
We relish the everyday challenge of continuing the tradition of making fun for everyone.
High Fives all around,
Next Level Games
Of course they’re Canadian.
I’m Canadian too.
So? Do you want a medal??
He meant that Canadians are usually very polite. Don’t be an asshole.
If he was a real Canadian he would have returned and apologized for everything.
…What did he even do??
Obviously you aren’t Canadian
A very good game with a fantastic antagonist.
No, I didn’t pick it up near the Xbox One, but nice guess, though!
Ooh. They’ll need some water to heal them burns.
boring game as hell. deal with it fags *he puts their glasses*
That’s you’re opinion.
*Your
i d i o t
Hey nobody’s perfect.
i’m not perfect but i am better than you. deal with it. *he puts their glasses*
You have to let “he” out morrón.
NO
What the hell is “He puts their glasses”? He puts them where idiot? lol
Yo momma so fat even luigi couldn’t scare his way through her corridors.
Not sure if you are just trolling me or you are just so stupid.
The irony of trolling a troll.
They did a good job, but not that Nintendo grade quality. Boss fight were poor, and the way each mansion is split into different 6-7 chapters each was dumb, you end up walking through the same place over and over with minor changes sometimes, and vacuuming every single inch of the game multiple times, was just a little taxing…
The reason it was split into chapters is because it’s on a handheld. They wanted it so people could play the game in short spurts mission by mission.
This ^ … And it’s perfect to do one mission on a bus journey or what not. A lot of people judge 3DS games by console standards sometimes.
And yet when a handheld DOES have “console quality” it’s almost completely ignored *cough* Vita *cough*. I wonder why? :)
The Vita is basically a bed warmer, a Hot water bottle! lol
Off topic : Anyone have a spare Flux capacator ? I’ve managed to create an extremely basic time machine out of my Microwave and toaster to take me straight to E3 Direct!
Great, but it doesn’t change the fact it was just 7 levels of going through the exact same thing, and vacuuming every damn corner. It was a dumb design, just have instant save points, or checkpoints, that’s why they exist, so you don’t have to play for an hour straight. In fact the DS has that build in, you just close the damn thing.
That’s a poor excuse.
To each their own I guess. I loved the game.
It was good, but not great. Just had questionable chapter layouts. I just wanted a full level where i can go around the entire mansion, not just separate ones that take you to the same places and end abruptly, goes against the entire point of exploration
My main problem was always being rang up on the DS with the same monotonous ring tone. They should of let us unlock different ring tones or something that would be sweet! And always getting sucked in out and out of levels too often got a bit repetitive. But I liked the actual structure of the missions themselves.
We’ll just Nintendo’s annoying “hand holding initiative” that they’re doing these days, because kids are fucking retarded, and we aren’t allowed options.
Some gamers were getting stuck in Super Metroid, of all things….
Ooh, nice burn.
That’s what i mean. Although Super Metroid has annoying design here and there, the places they were getting stuck on are laughable
This was my problem with it. I had to vacuum every inch every mission in case there was a gem or a Boo. Each level takes me around 12-20 minutes and the story isn’t good enough to keep me going. I would’ve given it a score in the 7s.
Pretty much. Better than Sticker Star, but yeah, 7, maybe 6.5.
People act like 6.5 is bad though, it’s not. People just throw 9’s around like assholes, 9 is the score you give to game like Metroid Prime, or Wind Waker, or MGS3, not Luigi’s Mansion 2 -.- don’t even get me started on 10’s. The only games i’ve played that deserve 10 are Mario Galaxy, Shadow of the Colossus, Chrono Trigger, and that’s probably it
10 is the score to give to Metroid prime good sir , 10.
I feel Luigi’s Mansion 2 deserves a 9 personaly. Not cus I’m ”throwing a 9 round like an asshole” but cus I really really enjoyed the game and It impressed me in every way.
Having to suck things to often isn’t a legit complaint in a game based around a hoover lol…
No, no fucking way.
Metroid Prime is so overrated in the community, it’s not even close to the best Prime game, it’s full of such bullshit, why would you put such excessive amount of backtracking in a game that takes so long to get from one area to another, because Samus walks to slow, sometimes enemies lock you into a room till you killed them, like those fucking Chozo ghost assholes, and have the most awkward and useless weapons system ever, why are their 4 different beams that dont do shit different, other than hurt different colours guys, it’s dumb. Prime 1 deserves a 8, easily.
I respect your opinion good sir , But to me , Metroid prime 1 is my joint favorite game of all time. It gets a 10 from me. Now yes it does have a few very minor issues… but the Pros outway the cons 100/1.
I don’t know , i just didn’t care or pay attentions to any negatives of the game because I was enjoying it so much from start to finish! The music , the art style , the gameplay , level design (including the amazingly designed backtracking elements imo) all supreme.
the game has barely even aged imo also , it still shits on games that are more than 10 years newer xD
Metroid Prime is the most solid experience of the three Prime games. And it has the least amount of handholding.
So? What do you mean handholding? None of the Prime games had handholding, they were just designed better.
One of my favourite games for the GC was Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. I spent hundreds of hours on that game and I was awesome at it. I recently found it got 6.9 from IGN. I really don’t care. That game was the best. (But playing the game again, the camera is awful and the voice acting is cringe worthy.)
I like looking at IGN’s scale because it puts everything in perspective.
6-Okay
7-Good
8-Great
9-Amazing
IMO, Luigi’s Mansion, based on these words, is Okay or Good. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game. But it’s not great or amazing or a masterpiece.
“In fact the DS has that build in, you just close the damn thing.”
But… couldn’t you just do the same with the 3DS?
That’s what he means. 3DS can close and the game will be in sleep mode. That’s why the whole “We’re using missions so you can play the game in short bursts!” logic has a giant, gaping hole. You can just close the dang thing.
Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
this is one of the ways you can tell if a developer is good or not. if they thank there fans that makes them all the better :)
EA could learn from this. :D
No need to thank me. I personally found this game very disappointing in comparison to the first installment. Why the hell would you turn luigi’s mansion into a ranked mission based game? Too lazy to design an over world between each mansion?
I found the overall experience quite short and repetitive too. You clear most of the mansions ground within the first one or two missions and there is only really five or six different types of ghosts. The only real unique ghosts were the 3 sisters in the rescue toad mission at the haunted towers in comparison to the twenty or so the first Luigi’s mansion had.
I’d give this game about a 5/10.
You missed the point of an exploration game.
A 5/10 ? Pack your things and leave….. just go…
Instead of telling me to pack my bags and leave why don’t you instead come up with a relevant response to my ‘review’ if you will, pointing out the things that i thought were wrong with Luigi’s mansion: Dark Moon. Surely you couldn’t of thought the game was perfect? I’m entitled to my opinion you know? That’s what this comment section is here for. Not just trolling and telling people to fuck off ….
I didn’t mean to come across rude :) for that I appolagize.
I just feel a 5/10 is absurdly low for this polished gem of a 3DS game! 7/10 is too low imo….
Everyone has their own opinion and I have to respect that. Metacritic/gamerankings has the final say really on what ‘score’ a game deserves…
5 is low, 6 might be pushing, case of opinions, but 7 is certainly not low.
But reviews and stupid review scores, which are dumb, and only very simple guidelines to “how good a game is”, they’re still a persons opinion.
I wouldn’t give GTA anything other than a 6, yet what do you know, GTA4 is ranked 5th on Gamerankings
GTAIV’s Meta ranking is the one that makes me lose hope in that system a bit… The game was a solid 9 and a step backwards from near perfect , San Andreas. Only areas it trumped it were Graphics , Physics…
Honestly, the whole point system for reviewing games is dumb. Super Metroid is full of tons of bullshit, it’s so annoying to play, and it’s mechanicsare awkward, like switching your weapons, or the dumb wall jump/ space jump 0.0001 millisecond accuracy needed, it’s dumb, yet everyones like “oh masterpiece, 10/10”, same with Ocarina of Time, why the fuck do i go back to Kokiro Forest everytime i load the game after finishing it, or the Temple of Time? Why are the items dumb, like the hover boots? Why was the Water Temple and menu system so poorly designed. But we can’t blame them because they’re old games, but that should mean they loose their original ratings because they reflect how those games were THEN, not NOW. PS2/GC/XBOX games are only just relevant enough to keep their ratings, but every game before that, aside from a few should loose their ratings.
They shouldn’t lose their ratings… A game should be judged within the limitations of the hardware it was released on. On a 10 point scale you can directly compare a games overall fun factor and value as a game.
You can compare Super metroid to Prime very easily. Which one did you enjoy more ? Simple.
AC3 is a technical marvel , but that game is a forgetable turd compared to Ocarina of time from 97.
If a game is re-released like Ocarina 3D on 3DS then it has to be judged on how it has held up and whether or not it is still worth playing , and in that case it was an emphatic YES.
Looks like someone’s had a really lousy day.
You lost any reason you had when you said the water temple was poorly designed.
Dark Moon >>>>> Luigi’s Mansion in every way.
8/10 for me
Not a 5/10, but i agree with what you said otherwise, had the same issues.
And we thank them for making the game! 💋
…thank U so much !!!
Next Level Games created my favorite Wii game of all time, Punch-Out!! Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon is awesome as well. I hope they’re working on something for the Wii U now. Maybe they’ll revive another old franchise?
I’m with you with Punch Out. That was an awesome game! All the little details that went to it is crazy for a wii game.
I LOVED this game , thought it was excellent from start to finish and to give you a numerical idea of how much I liked it ; it would be 9/10.
I liked the Mission structure , thought it was ideal for Portable gameplay chunks. The graphics , gameplay , sound and presentation are all near flawless.
The game could be slightly better in a few minor , nitpicky ways. Other than that it’s definitely one of my top 5 3DS games.
You’re welcome :) The boss fights could’ve been better though. 9/10
I thought this game was brilliant. Who wants to exchange friend codes??
You indeed are welcome dudes and dudettes. Ah! on to new leaf for the Nintendo folk buying it. This game is still selling remarkably world wide. On! to your next project padawan Level 5 developers :).
I never had the game, but I have played a portion. The story just doesn’t seem as good as the original, But that wouldn’t stop me from wanting it. The gameplay, I didn’t actually get to catch any ghosts either, but the graphics and effectcs were pretty cool. I’m getting as soon as I can.
And with that, I thank Next Level Games for making it, so I’ll be able to play it and enjoy it. :)
The story actually does get good, but the problem is that it doesn’t really show up until the final mansion.
I loved this game. Next Level, please make a sequel for the Wii U. Luigi could save Daisy perhaps? Waluigi can actually make an appearance in a main series Mario game?
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Since most people here[and in general these days, it seems] seem to think in terms of everything below a 5 being too bad to consider, then let’s start going with a 5-star scale instead.
Much simpler.
I’d give LM2 4 out of 5.
It’s got a far better story but the mansions themselves feel much tinier in scale, which is a bit of a let-down.
It’s also quite a bit more challenging.
The backtracking, isn’t that big a deal. Most people I know who played the original would backtrack for the sake of finding golden enemies for more treasure opportunities anyways, and LM 2 just increases the benefits of backtracking in that sense, so yeah, I see no problem.
http://youtu.be/4xwQkZV6IpM?t=12s
get it
I’m willing to bet that if I played all the way through Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, I probably wouldn’t agree that it was BETTER than the original. Longer maybe, but better? I’m skeptical. I loved the first one so much that I played it multiple times. Something no other game has made me do.
Really? that studio made it!?
My god i cant believe it! they made one of the worst games on Wii! im glad they can make good games too :)
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