GameTech: Scarily good fun in Luigi's mansion

Poor old Luigi! The brother of Mario barely ever gets a mention — but he does get a mansion. Even then, it’s haunted. Armed with nothing but a flashlight and a vacuum cleaner, Luigi is expected to do battle with ghosts and ghouls, while chittering his teeth for our amusement. Still, at least he gets a plunger this time — as he plunges into darkness.

Luigi’s Mansion 3 comes out on October 31, for very obvious reasons. Halloween is pretty much the only day in which Luigi steals the limelight from Mario, even if it’s in the form of a flashlight. But despite the release date gimmick from Nintendo, Luigi’s Mansion is a lot more than a marketing ploy. This is a very respectable puzzle series with a lot of fans.