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Old 24th September 2010   #41
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Actually I think its fair to say that Mario 64 was one of the first games I and probably many other people of that generation played with a controllable camera so its easy to see why we might now wistfully imagine a virtual cameraman in our games.
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I guess Lakitu is in every single game ever made.

So how's Luigi's Mansion? I heard it's good.
It is good. It's fun and different and manages to out bust Ghost Busters.

There's a puzzle element to catching the portrait ghosts and there are some intense boss battles.

The graphics are still good with some nice character designs and excellent lighting effects.

The audio is pretty funny. There's only a handful of tunes but it never fails to amuse when you hear Luigi (+the ghosts!) hum/whistle the excellent theme tune.

It is short but there is replay value (for PAL players) in the 'Hidden Mansion' once you beat it.
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It is good. It's fun and different and manages to out bust Ghost Busters.

There's a puzzle element to catching the portrait ghosts and there are some intense boss battles.

The graphics are still good with some nice character designs and excellent lighting effects.

The audio is pretty funny. There's only a handful of tunes but it never fails to amuse when you hear Luigi (+the ghosts!) hum/whistle the excellent theme tune.

It is short but there is replay value (for PAL players) in the 'Hidden Mansion' once you beat it.
Only for PAL? No Hidden Mansion for NTSC'ers?
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Only for PAL? No Hidden Mansion for NTSC'ers?
My mistake.

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Most differences is about The Hidden Mansion. Nintendo left
The Mansion pretty much alone while they change very much in
The Hidden Mansion. Here goes:

- In the PAL version The Hidden Mansion
is mirrored, it is not in the NTSC
version.

- The Hidden Mansion in the NTSC version
has just as many ghosts in the rooms
as in The Mansion. In the PAL version
the amount if ghosts is much greater
in The Hidden Mansion than in The Mansion.

- The darkness in the PAL version differs
heavily between the mansions, it's the same
light in the mansions of the NTSC version.

- The Bosses are harder and often requires
different strategies in the PAL version's
The Hidden Mansion. In the NTSC version it's
pretty much the same bosses in The Mansion
and in The Hidden Mansion.

- In the PAL version's The Hidden Mansion you
get diamonds from every Golden Mouse and Money
Ghost. In the NTSC version's The Hidden Mansion
you get the same stuff as in The Mansion.

- In the PAL version the Boo's HP vary between
the mansions. In the NTSC version they have
the same amount of HP in the mansions.

- Fewer hearts in the PAL version's The Hidden
Mansion than in The Mansion. The same amount
in the NTSC version's mansions.

- According to Metalroy, the official Nintendo
Power guide for Luigi's Mansion says that the
vacuum cleaner is 1.5 times stronger in the NTSC
version's The Hidden Mansion than in The Mansion.
I've heard from other sources and by my own
calculations that the vacuum cleaner is five
times stronger in the PAL version's The Hidden
Mansion than The Mansion. That's probably a
difference.

The only differences between the mansions in
the NTSC version seem to be:

- More poisonous mushrooms.

- A little star in the bottom-right corner.

- Luigi loses twice as much energy.

- The vacuum cleaner is around 1.5
times more efficient.

- The ghosts disappear more easily.
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My mistake.

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So basically the NTSC "Hidden" mansion is just the same game over again bar a few minor nudges in the difficulty.

How strange. I wonder what the Japanese version was like.

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