Topic: Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon HD

Well to be fair Luigi's mansion 3 sold super well. I don't have numbers, but I remember being pretty surprised by how much it had sold. Great game, I just didn't know it was that popular.

Yeah, the 14 million LM3 sales is crazy — that's a bit higher than Switch Sports or Mario Wonder currently at least. I doubt the remaster will sell anywhere near that but even a decent fraction would be a ton of sales.

I'm playing this at the moment and honestly kind of hate it.

The mission design is incredibly repetitive as it results in so much back-tracking and E. Gadd seems to call on the phone every 2 minutes with some inane point, breaking the flow of the game. Being required to put the darklight on every damn obscure item feels really unnatural, resulting in lots of frustration from missed scans, especially since the control scheme still seems really limited to 3DS-esque movements.

This is probably one of Nintendo's weakest first party offerings.I'm really glad they course corrected with the excellent Luigi's Mansion 3.

I'm playing Luigi's Mansion 3 and not liking it as much as the other two, although I like its humour. 3 has very confusing puzzles and controls are less intuitive. So far, I think that the original game is the best because, although short, it hit the right notes. Regarding Luigi's Mansion 2, I played it on 3DS when it launched. I liked it, but it was almost a change of genre. I was hoping that I would like 3 more, because Luigi's Mansion 1 was one of my favourite GC titles. I also loved Grabbed by the Ghoulies that kind of reminded me of Luigi's Mansion, but much more challenging and more an arcade game than a slow-paced adventure.

Regarding the sales of Luigi's Mansion 3, I don't find them surprising at all! Switch has made all Nintendo games more popular regardless of their quality. Look at Animal Crossing New Horizons, that was bare-bones and worse than New Leaf (3DS), but sold 46m on Switch. The best example is Mario Kart 8, a game that was not enough to improve the popularity of Wii U, but sold 64m on Switch many years later and still appears in the Japanese charts 11 years later, one of the craziest things I've seen in my gaming life.