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Overview
Luigi's Mansion 3 drops Luigi into The Last Resort, a grand hotel that turns sinister the moment King Boo springs his trap. Mario, Princess Peach, and a group of Toads end up imprisoned in paintings, and the hotel's ghostly owner Hellen Gravely is pulling the strings from the top floor. The setup is classic Nintendo: simple on the surface, surprisingly layered once you start climbing.
Developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo, the game launched on October 31, 2019, and remains one of the strongest titles in the Switch library. Each floor of the hotel operates like its own self-contained puzzle box, with a distinct theme, a boss ghost hoarding a stolen elevator button, and a handful of environmental secrets worth hunting down. Progress is gated but never feels arbitrary.
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Gameplay and mechanics
The Poltergust G-00 is the centerpiece of everything Luigi does. It vacuums up ghosts, launches plungers to rip apart the environment, fires a burst of air to stagger enemies, and generates a Slam move that swings captured ghosts into each other for crowd control. The controls feel physical in a way that makes ghost-catching genuinely satisfying rather than just a button-press transaction.
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Key mechanics at a glance:
- Suction and slam for ghost combat
- Plunger Shot to destroy environmental obstacles
- Strobe flash to stun ghosts before capture
- Dark-Light to reveal hidden objects and ghosts
- Gooigi for puzzles requiring two simultaneous inputs
Gooigi, an ectoplasmic duplicate of Luigi summoned from the Poltergust, is the game's smartest addition. He can slip through grates and spikes that would stop Luigi cold, which opens up puzzle designs that a single character could never navigate. A second player can control Gooigi in local co-op, making the whole game playable as a two-person experience.
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World and setting
The Last Resort is one of the better game environments Nintendo has built in years. Each floor carries a distinct identity: a medieval castle level, a film studio, a garden greenhouse, a pirate-themed floor, a rooftop pool. The theming never feels random because each environment shapes the puzzle logic for that floor's boss encounter. Beating a boss means recovering a stolen elevator button and unlocking the next floor, which keeps the pacing tight without feeling repetitive.
The hotel's Art Deco bones give the whole game a consistent visual identity even as the floors diverge wildly in theme. Lighting plays a large role in the atmosphere. Darkened corridors, flickering sconces, and the green glow of ghost activity make The Last Resort feel genuinely unsettling despite the game's family-friendly tone.
Is Luigi's Mansion 3 worth playing for multiplayer?
Yes, and more than most people expect. Local co-op with Gooigi is built into the main campaign, so a second player can jump in at any point rather than being relegated to a separate mode. The game also includes ScareScraper, a separate co-op mode supporting up to eight players online or locally, where teams race through randomized floors to catch ghosts and complete objectives under a time limit. ScreamPark adds competitive minigames for up to eight local players. Neither mode replaces the campaign, but both extend the game's life considerably beyond the single-player run.
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Visual and audio design
Next Level Games built something technically impressive for the Switch. Character animations are expressive to a degree that carries the storytelling without dialogue: Luigi's nervous shuffle, his visible reluctance at every new floor, the way his eyes dart around before he commits to a fight. Ghost designs range from goofy to genuinely creative, and the boss encounters in particular show off how much personality the art team packed into a single character.
The score leans into the haunted-house tradition with orchestral arrangements that shift in tone depending on the floor. The sound design on the Poltergust, the grunt of a captured ghost, the clatter of a room being vacuumed apart, all of it reinforces the tactile quality of the gameplay. Luigi humming nervously to himself is a small touch that never stops being charming.