Well... Kind of disappointing.
It's not a bad game by any means. The animation and character work is very pretty. The music is charming and frankly, I really enjoyed the locale. The huge hotel with all its disjointed floors of various themes really helps to keep things fresh as the game progresses.
The problem really is with the gameplay. The controls and mechanics are fine, but they get stale as the game hits the mid-point. Nothing is added after the first 3 to 4 hours, except for some one off tidbits of gameplay that never really shake things up meaningfully. For a game with such a huge variety of locations, it's surprising that it doesn't follow suite at all game design-wise.
One of the most frustrating examples is the money system. One of the most fun things in the whole game is sucking up money hidden everywhere. This serves no purpose until the shop is revealed to the player a bit later. And to my utter disapointment, all the shop affords is 1ups, and maps that give the locations of secrets... Which are just collectibles for the sake of collecting them.
In the end, Luigi's Mansion 3 is a cute game, and a fun time which loses it's steam way too fast for its ambitious runtime. It sadly ends up feeling quite shallow as a result.
It's not a bad game by any means. The animation and character work is very pretty. The music is charming and frankly, I really enjoyed the locale. The huge hotel with all its disjointed floors of various themes really helps to keep things fresh as the game progresses.
The problem really is with the gameplay. The controls and mechanics are fine, but they get stale as the game hits the mid-point. Nothing is added after the first 3 to 4 hours, except for some one off tidbits of gameplay that never really shake things up meaningfully. For a game with such a huge variety of locations, it's surprising that it doesn't follow suite at all game design-wise.
One of the most frustrating examples is the money system. One of the most fun things in the whole game is sucking up money hidden everywhere. This serves no purpose until the shop is revealed to the player a bit later. And to my utter disapointment, all the shop affords is 1ups, and maps that give the locations of secrets... Which are just collectibles for the sake of collecting them.
In the end, Luigi's Mansion 3 is a cute game, and a fun time which loses it's steam way too fast for its ambitious runtime. It sadly ends up feeling quite shallow as a result.