I don't really know why these games receive the praise they do.

My brief history with LM as a series:

I love Luigi as a character. Always have. He was always my choice as a kid in every Mario game. I was super excited when Luigi's Mansion 1 came out; he was finally getting his own game! Played it at launch and was very disappointed. It's boring.

Since then I've avoided the series, but this year I decided to finally try out 3. It received enough praise at this point that I was willing to give it another chance.

Nope. It's still pretty boring. I like the presentation. It's a pretty game, and the way Luigi emotes is great. The music adds to the silly/spooky vibe - it's great too.

Everything else, though - meh. It just felt like a chore to scour each room and suck up a bunch of coins that felt meaningless. Puzzles are generally the low point of every game I play, and this game is essentially nothing but puzzles.

It's just not for me. There's little to no challenge and there wasn't anything pulling me forward or encouraging me to continue exploring. It also began to feel repetitive very early on. After 7 hours or so, I'm out.

This game oozes with charisma from beginning to end. Never have I seen these characters show so much emotion outside of the Mario Strikers games.

I love the idea of setting the game in a haunted hotel, it's like a mix of the first game's haunted mansion and the second game's isolated and different themed levels.

I still think this game could've tried to go for a scarier and darker atmosphere like the first one, but it really does look absolutely amazing, both aesthetically and animation wise. Plus, the villains are great, I really love how they both look and interact with Luigi.

It really does feel like King Boo is absolutely fed up with Luigi's bullshit and at many points in the game it's like they won't stop at anything until you are dead. I love it.

This is what happens when you actually give Next Level Games some time and let them do their magic, Nintendo. Top 5 best games on the Switch most certainly.

This game started off so strong and it was going well for a while but over time the novelty of it just felt like I was doing the same thing over and over again. This game is too much longer than the original Luigi's Mansion and I think that actually hurts it more than it helps, where as the original was just short enough to not be tiresome but just long enough to feel complete. I sadly felt disappointed with how this game feels dull and how unmemorable it is. I couldn't be bothered to finish this.

On Christmas of 2015, I got a present that changed my life. I got my first ever videogame console; a 3DS XL, and Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon. I played the game and loved it, it just clicked for me. It helped me make friends, develop as a person, it was something I could always fall back on when feeling bad.

When booting up my switch in September of 2018, I saw a notification in the news section on the left "Luigis Mansion 3 (working title)" had been revealed. I screamed so loudly in excitement that I lost my voice for 3 days. The reveal trailer was pretty short, but it showed enough to get me extremely excited. Luigi was back, and he looked better than ever! In the following year I obsessively stalked nintendo's youtube channel eager for more news about this game, and when they dropped an overview trailer during E3, my hype grew even more! This was my most anticipated game of all tame. I was lucky enough to go to Gamescom in Germany in August of 2019. It was an experience I'll never forget, Huge areas and tons of people that loved games, and were just as excited as I was. When me and the friend that invited me finally got to the Nintendo section, there it was, Luigi's Mansion 3!!! I was so excited, I was prepared to spend the entire rest of the day in line to try it out. But my friend and his dad didn't want to, and I was still too young to be out on my own, especially in a country whose language I don't even speak. So they didn't let me play. I was fuming. When halloween finally rolled around, I was stoked. Me and my best friend who I always used to play Dark Moon with held a small halloween party. I was dressed as Luigi with the Poltergust 5000, and he was Mario in a painting. We went trick or treating, and got a load of candy. Then we went back to my house, and started playing. We played all night long, and had already finished the game the next morning, but we'll never forget this magical experience. I truly think there will be no game that can ever get me as hyped as this one did, and the memories I have with it make this one of my all-time favorites.

Safe to say, I might be a tiny bit biased.

Sure, this game has less ghost than the two games before it.
Sure, the atmosphere isn't as good as the first game.
Sure, the plot is kinda stupid.
But the personality OOZES from this game.
The mechanics and gameplay is the best yet.
The abolishment of the mission structure was a really good choice.
The animations are buttery smooth.
The Hotel is filled with interesting puzzles and varied locales.
The scarescraper is better than ever.
The party mode is really fun.
The visuals literally look like a PIXAR MOVIE.

You should give this game a shot, it's really good.

Finally got around to playing this, was not disappointed. Luigi is back with another entry in his unique franchise of kid friendly scares and humor.
The game is arguably the most gorgeous game on the switch and somehow ran smooth the entire time until before the final boss fight. The music is good, the gameplay is fun, and the atmosphere is incredible what more could you want.
Actually I can answer that, because the game suffers with its characters, level design, and controls. Compared to the first game the bosses in this game are completely forgettable outside of the cat, director, and hotel manager, the controls are frustrating at times with how the plunger and flashlight features just doesn't hit their target, the level design is really hit or miss with fixed cameras making some sections rage inducing, and for me Luigi's voice sounds extremely off but as I haven't played many Mario games since the GameCube era this could just be his new voice and I'm not aware of it so I won't hold it against them.
I still think this is a really fun game and highly recommend it if you want a fun time, and it has coop making it a fun adventure to play with your family or friends!
I didn't touch the multiplayer portion of this game so I'm not counting that in my score.

As a fan of the previous 2 games I can confidently say that luigi's mansion 3 is another great entry in the series.

The gameplay is solid, keeps the already established formula intact but has enough changes to make it feel fresh but familiar with gooigi and the other new stuff you can do being really fun to mess around with and solve puzzles, defeat bosses etc., the presentation is incredible, definitely the best looking game on switch, the attention to detail is top notch whether it's luigi's personality and the way he reacts to his surroundings or how items and whatnot littered throughout the hotel interact with luigi and the poltergust, overall the game is brimming with charm and polish!

The return of the more human ghost mini bosses was a welcome one, each one being a puzzle and a fight merged to make a fun time, the main bosses were great too, some being somewhat suprisingly difficult. I also think this games the best one in the series for hunting boos, they're fun to find and yeah easy to defeat but slamming them on the ground like a maniac was always a treat, along with a sick theme to boot.

The hotel is very well designed, each room being something different than the last, you'll start off with regular hotel rooms and in no time find yourself in a castle, a garden, a movie set, a desert, magician themes etc. Each room is full of stuff to do and look out for, sure it makes some rooms feel samey but that feeling doesn't last very long as the game is full of surprises. The gems make a return too and are fun to find, a few are in very odd places but I found a majority throughout my playthrough. I also enjoy how alive the hotel feels too, with the other 2 games once you cleared a room and the lights came on that was it, but here even after you finish an area, if you go back there's likely going to be a new batch of ghosts in there, just doing there own charming little thing until they spot you, it can make for some challenging revisits.

However I do have a few minor gripes, firstly the music. Now I don't have a problem with the soundtrack generally infact I think they fit the themes of the rooms quite well, and I may be alone in this but I just struggled to hear most of it over all the ghost catching and objects smashing, I just felt like most of the rooms music was too quiet and not very memorable (keep in mind I mostly did not play with headphones) but then certain rooms and events played the music loud and proud, infact in the case of the boo theme the music was very loud, again the soundtrack is good I just don't think there's many memorable tunes here.

Then there's the common enemy ghosts, I'm sorry but what happend here, again like with the music they're not BAD but uninspired, they are ripped right from dark moon, infact there's less variety here, I don't mind the more cartoony designs of 2 and 3, but with 3 it's mostly the same as 2, there's like 1 fully original enemy ghost here, those door ones with the tounges, but even then they're barley in the game anyway.

Last gripe I'll talk about is the money, while it is satisfying to collect as much as ya can there really isn't much you can do with it. You can buy hints and continues and you get ranked at the end like the first game, but that's it really, and the game really encourages you search every nook and cranny for money but... it's just kinda meaningless.

There's a few other very minor gripes too like I think the hotel as a whole could've been darker, I found myself questioning sometimes why luigi has his flashlight on, and certain rooms and bosses/ mini bosses were a bit eh, but overall these issues aren't really things that bother me that much.

The game does indeed also have multiplayer, a local mode with different types of minigames, and a mode that's playable both local and online, I can't talk much about the minigame mode but the scarescraper online mode is decent fun, but I think it drags on a bit longer than it needs to and is a bit too strict with the time and requirements, and then there's your teamates which you always get that one guy who just doesn't get with the program, like the room which requires everyone to be in to open a door, you can spam "over here" and "help" as much as ya can, they'll just be off doing there own thing. Also I recommend not beating this mode before you finish the game as the boss for the scarescraper and the final boss do share some attacks, so the final boss might not be as cool or challenging if you've already beaten the scarescraper boss.

Although it's not bad getting all the boos and gems, infact it's quite fun to do so, there's really not much in terms of unlockables, a few cosmetics and that's it really, and that includes achievements which I didn't bother with as I really can't be bothered to play that much scarescraper.

But overall, Luigi's mansion 3 is a great time, I can understand why some may not enjoy it, whether they're fans of the series or not, but despite the minor flaws I had a blast the whole way through.