You had me at "Luigi's Mansion 2."

Maybe it's nostalgia, but I thoroughly enjoyed the first game back on the 'Cube.

Given that Iwata has straight out come out and said stereoscopic 3D was planned for the Gamecube and that Luigi's Mansion was to be a flagship game using this feature, it makes a certain amount of sense that Luigi's Mansion 2 would hit the 3DS.

I played Luigi's Mansion years after it was released and found it to be quite enjoyable.
That being said, I don't recall anything about the game, but I do remember liking it.
...
Put me down for one Luigi Mansion 2 preorder.

Luigi's Mansion 2 is the most important game. Ever.

I freakin' love Luigi's Mansion.

               

Man, I gotta be honest. This fucking game is making me wanna buy a 3ds. GB brethren, talk some sense into me!

           

Luigi's Mansion got a lot of hate at the time because it wasn't the Mario launch game people desperately wanted, people didn't really judge it on its own merits.

Now if they would only make a Waluigi game...

@m0rdr3d said:

@elsuperdonut said:

Man, I gotta be honest. This fucking game is making me wanna buy a 3ds. GB brethren, talk some sense into me!

You and me both, donut, so I'm of no help to you. I will, however, say this game is slated for 2012 and you should wait for the possible 3DS redesign, which is what I'm doing. Hold out just a little longer, man!

You're right. Redesign, more colors, lower price. We shall wait...

You think we're going to still get the weird Easter Egg/glitch that made a shadow that looked like Luigi had hung himself?

                   

@m0rdr3d said:

@elsuperdonut said:

Man, I gotta be honest. This fucking game is making me wanna buy a 3ds. GB brethren, talk some sense into me!

You and me both, donut, so I'm of no help to you. I will, however, say this game is slated for 2012 and you should wait for the possible 3DS redesign, which is what I'm doing. Hold out just a little longer, man!

You're right. Redesign, more colors, lower price. We shall wait...

                   

               

I really loved this article. It's nice to see Alex's power for words being used for stuff he likes, and not always for sarcastically tearing down stuff he doesn't. He should talk about stuff he likes more often.

@m0rdr3d:

DEFENDING YOUR GAME

The 3D was cool, but that game played way too slow. Movement by Luigi and when the vacuum was sucking up coins it was way too slow. One problem with the 3D was the unfortunate frequent breakup of the 3D effect when you had to hold the left shoulder button and move the 3DS around to look in the world to find hidden coins and ghosts from a stationary position.

I really liked Luigi's Mansion on Gamecube but this was one of the few games that played much worse than it looked originally. (Mario Kart and Mario 3DS on the other hand looked and played great.)

Glad to hear it's progressing nicely. It'll be nice to have a good 3DS game that's not a remake or a port

Luigi's Mansion is one of my all-time favorites, that game's got such spunk.

Luigi's Mansion was a competent game. It was rather fun, and I remember liking it. It was definitely better than a lot of other release titles. I have never absolutely wished that there would one day be a sequel though. It wasn't that special.

I imagine that many people who played Luigi's Mansion at a younger age have a lot of great memories of it.

i don't know how anyone could call luigis mansion a bad game, that was one of the best games i had ever played. and im really excited for luigis mansion 2! :D

This was my thought when they announced it, even with the "that frame rate looks UNPLAYABLE when four or five ghosts get on screen" comment. Of course, they have plenty of time, and I've always loved Luigi's Mansion (in fact, it's the only other console Mario game I've beaten since SM64) so I'm totally psyched for this.

Still not picking up a 3DS till at least August, though.

I LOVE ME SOME HOT GHOST HOOVERIN' ACTION

I'm really excited that they're bringing it back. Luigi's Mansion was an enjoyable and charming game. 
 
Oh, and Manfred Mann's version is way better. Sorry, Bruce. You're still the boss, but I'm sure even you can see that their version is superior.

I hope the new 3DS is out by the time this comes out. I wanna buy one with better battery life.
 
Played through Luigis Mansion 1 last week (after 9 years I finally played more than 1 hour) and let me say, aside from the horrible aiming it's a great game.

Looks awesome, almost to the point where I gotta buy a 3DS. Just a few more games...

The trailer didnt do the game justice then from what alex is saying, it seemed fairly simple, maybe too simple on the screen. regardless i cant wait to get my hands on it.

@xiaohee: Welcome to get off this website

I enjoyed the original a fair bit, probably mostly due to it's charm. I'm glad Next Level is working on this (I was *this* close to working for them a few years back).

Strange this game would not be on the Wii where the controller is basically a FLASHLIGHT.. But makes sense (I guess) if you recall the original Gamecube version was playable on their secret 3D prototype Gamecube machine

Luigi: "Mario!  Mario?!"

This game announcement made me interested in the 3DS so much in fact that I'm going to purchase one as soon as possible. Nintendo seems to have some very great games coming out soon. Hopefully the horrible videogame developers don't pollute the game shelves. But then again, we don't live in an ideal world. 

Manfred Mann's Earth Band all the way.

I'm looking forward to it for sure. I've been off and on with my 3DS and this looks like a game that I will enjoy.