Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Luigi 's Mansion 2 (Japaneseルイージ マンション2 Ruiji Manshon TSU or Luigi Mansion 2, in North America: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon ) is the successor of the video game Luigi 's Mansion. The game was released on March 20, 2013 in Japan and in Europe, the USA and Australia a few days later for the Nintendo 3DS. As in the predecessor, the player does not take control of Mario, but his brother Luigi.
Action
The story of Luigi 's Mansion 2 is directly continues the story of its predecessor. King Boo has managed to free themselves from the captivity of Prof. I. Gidd musing now on revenge. Gidd conducts research in Nachtschattental, assisted by the friendly spirits of the valley. However, King Boo destroys the Darkmoon, the only reason for the friendliness of the spirits in the valley. The spirits are then wild and desolate Gidds laboratory. Gidd take panic to escape and was able to escape in his confirmatory laboratory. He contacted Luigi and bring him with his latest invention, the " Voxelporter " in his laboratory. He receives something from the mad professor the new Schreckweg 09 /15, a vacuum cleaner for spirits, and makes his way. As the game progresses it becomes clear that King Boo, as in the first part, again Mario has kidnapped.
Game mechanics
The game mechanics is similar to most of the mechanics of its predecessor. Luigi is 08/16 equipped with the successor of Schreckweg, Schreckweg the 09 /15 campaign. It is a vacuum cleaner which has been upgraded to absorb so that spirits can. To scare the spirits, Luigi has also already have a flashlight and a so-called Dark lamp, can be discovered with the various mysteries.
To defeat a ghost, Luigi must this only hide in the normal case and then suck his Schreckweg. This has every spirit through a different long life bar, which determines how long does the vacuuming. Later bosses may also require slightly different tactics.
The game field is divided into five regions, one piece of the sinister moon to be found in each, which is guarded by a master spirit. Once this has been defeated, the next area will unlock.
In addition, the different tasks are time divided into missions that can be repeated any number to improve, for example, the amount of collected coins.
Multiplayer
In addition to the action mode for single games and a multiplayer mode is included. They embark on up to 4 players online, or locally against each other to jointly fight ghosts. To distinguish the individual player Luigi wearing different colored clothing. In addition to the normal levels, there are also some boss fights to challenge.
Reception
Luigi 's Mansion 2 received mostly good reviews and achieved a rating average of 86 out of 100 points at Metacritic.