Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon | |
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Developer(s) |
Next Level Games Nintendo Software Planning & Development |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Bryce Holliday |
Producer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto |
Artist(s) | Neil Singh |
Composer(s) | Chad York Darren Radtke Mike Peacock |
Series | Luigi |
Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
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Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Aggregate scores | |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 85.86% |
Metacritic | 86/100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Famitsu | 35/40 |
Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
GameSpot | 6.5/10 |
GameTrailers | 9.3/10 |
IGN | 9.3/10 |
Joystiq | 3.5/5 |
Nintendo Life | 9/10 |
Nintendo World Report | 9.5/10 |
Nintendo Insider | 95% |
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, known in Japan as Luigi Mansion 2 (ルイージマンション2 Ruīji Manshon Tsū?), and in Europe and Australia as Luigi's Mansion 2, is an action-adventure video game developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS, and is the sequel to the 2001 game Luigi's Mansion for the GameCube. The game was first released in Japan on March 20, 2013, and in most other major regions later that same month. It is the third Mario game where Luigi is the protagonist, after Mario Is Missing and the original Luigi's Mansion.
In Dark Moon, the player takes control of the Mario franchise character Luigi, who is equipped with the Poltergust 5000, a specialized vacuum cleaner used to capture ghosts. In the game's single-player mode, the main goal is to retrieve the pieces of the shattered Dark Moon, a magical object that has a pacifying effect on the ghosts residing in the game's setting, Evershade Valley, by seeking out the shards in the five haunted mansions located therein. Dark Moon offers a cooperative multiplayer mode that can be played locally or online via Nintendo Network.