Did you ever wonder why Chauncey was included as a boss in Luigi's Mansion along with Bogmire and the Boos despite appearing more akin to the regular Portrait Ghosts (being literally kin with a few of them)? Well, to put it simply, he was born a ghost. The origins of Bogmire, Boolossus, and King Boo before they came to be are shady, but they are clearly different from most of the Portrait Ghosts, as stated above. They are not humanoid, and it's fair to assume that they might not have simply passed away to reach their current state. Therefore, all four hold the distinction of being supernatural-born ghosts and thus have more power than your typical ghoul died in a marching accident or something along those lines.
Tldr; Luigi's Mansion has the deepest lore.
>>334767707
I really should replay that game.
Looking back it was pretty fucked up for a Nintendo game to reference death on this level.
Especially the little girl who died in her sleep.
>suck up the dad, who is ignoring the baby
>suck up the mom, who is ignoring the baby
>suck up the baby after breaking its toys
luigi is a monster
>>334770613
They aren't ignoring the baby, he was fast asleep
>>334770613
What the fuck is going to happen to a ghost baby
it's already dead
Piano ghost best ghost
>>334770763
maybe that's why it died
Although the Horror says it was born dead, but the fact they aren't spending their afterlife with the baby and preferring to spend eternity preening and reading speaks volumes about them
>>334770763
Ive always curious with the fact of kids/baby ghost. They all die in the same accident? The house burned down?
>>334771008
That's what happens nigga, my mother was pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby and the grief from it tore my mom and dad apart. They didnt speak to each other for almost a year afterwards. ,y dad left and went camping almost non stop for a few months and my mom began reading a lot.
It's safe to assume that they were trying to occupy their minds with other shit
Even better question, what the FUCK is Jarvis.
>>334771124
Sue Pea died in her sleep
Henry and Orville love to play hide and seek, they died when they hid somewhere they couldn't get out of
Chauncy was born dead but may be supernatural
And we don't get an answer as to how Pianissima died
>>334771620
A dead hybrid of Tyfoos and Potted Ghosts
>>334771649
Sue Pea is so fucking spooky with the whole upside down room bed wetting shit
i want to fuck melody
>Every portrait ghost is beaten with how they died
>Girl died in her sleep
>The pool playing guy hit a ball that ricocheted around the room and hit him in the head
>Work out man dropped the weights on his neck
Fucking horrible man.
>>334772000
Ducking Fuckface man
>>334772079
Why is everyone in that house so accident prone?
I can understand a couple of fuckups, but the entire house getting massacred is some pretty deep lore.
>>334772483
the boos did this
I haven't played Dark Moon but from what I've seen it really doesn't do the first justice. Early gamecube lineup was magical.
>>334772079
>The woman taking a showering died of hypotermia
>The twins died in an accident while playing
>The butler died in a fire
>>334772079
I don't think it really works that way.
What, did Pianissama kill herself in a piano duel?
Lydia died closing a window?
The Floating Whirlinda did a dance so sick they killed themselves/
>the only played LM2
Shit man, these are way better than the cartoony rainbow colored ghosts. How does the first game compare to the second?
>>334772637
Lydia probably die of a severe cold or some related circunstance.
>>334772647
Dark Moon is far more arcade-y than Luigi's Mansion 1.
It's basically a parody of the first Resident Evil
>>334772647
Played the LM2 one time and finished it.
Played the first one and i finished it like 20 times.
>>334772734
Are the Toy Soldiers just poltergeists then?
>>334772861
Some of the ghosts aren't dead people, just ghostlike monsters.
They apparently are the spirits of toys, though. The indication that they aren't regular ghosts is that they have legs
>>334772861
The toy soldiers are the most rare ones to explain honestly, but yeah its most likely that they are poltergeists.
>>334772861
Maybe the toy soldiers were actually thre brothers with mental issues so severe, they jammed those wind up keys on their backs, and pretended to be soldiers.
Hey, but that's just a theory....
>>334772483
Not everyone lived in the house before they died faglord, They just gravitated to the room they liked best when the boos freed them from their portraits.
>>334773096
>The indication that they aren't regular ghosts is that they have legs
I never even thought about this before.
>>334773096
Makes sense, actually.
>>334773186
No, their description explicitly states that they were clockwork toys owned by a neurotic toy collector, that started to act on their own when their owner died.
>>334773490
I figured there would be an explanation there, just couldn't remember. Thanks anon. Not the other anon, for the record.
>>334773378
>>334773438
With this logic that also means that Bogmire isn't a regular ghost because he lacks the wispy trailfoot also
>>334773616
Of course. I always figured Bogmire was some sort of manifestation of negative energy. I can't remember his bio. But as OP stated he's probably more analagous to a boo.
>>334773616
Bogmire is just a manifistation of the mansions fear and despair, so hes technically not a ghost
>>334773808
Okay, so maybe I did remember the bio after all.
>>334773616
I thought the game boy horror said he was the embodiment of fear and despair or something like that.
Lemme find a picture
>>334773808
How can a mansion have fear and despair?
It's a fucking mansion.
>>334773976
>Ghosts
>Not fear inducing or despair inducing knowing how they died as aforementioned above
>>334773976
it's scared of all the ghosts, also luigi's going around criticizing how dusty it is, filling it with despair
What if Jarvis is just a dead Typhoo?
>Born dead
It was stillborn? That's pretty dark
>>334774232
Operating under that assumption.
what if Shivers is the ghost of Popo from Ice Climber?
>>334772483
E Gadd collected them from all over the world. They didn't die in the house.
more importantly, whats the connection here? Is there one?
I always thought these two looked alike
>>334774091
>>334774130
A mansion is a mansion, you can't say it's actually alive.
LM2 felt like it was trying too hard to be comical and "scary"
LM1 (especially with early gamecube 3D) felt very genuine to me and will always be one of my favorite games I've ever played from start to finish, but that's just me.
>>334774380
No, the parents had kinky ghost sex after they died.
>>334772647
LM1 has a ton more charm and personality to it.
The portrait ghosts really added to this. I assume they weren't included in LM2 because Nintendo didn't want kids to realize the ghosts they were sucking up used to be people
>>334774673
Or maybe she cucked her husband for king boo
I hope those rumors about LM3 on NX prove to be true. I'd really like to see a legitimate console one. That way they don't have to make it bright as shit like the handheld one
>>334774601
"alive" might not be the right word here, """"orville""""
Hold up, the main ghosts of the game actually have backstories?
Death is always a touchy subject so it honestly struck me as a surprise they have legit reasons for dying, and those reasons not being silly shit.
>>334774946
They had little stories on the Game Boy Horror menu
>>334774946
>he didn't read the gameboy horror descriptions of the ghosts
Some of these posts are just guesses but other ghosts legitimately have reasons listed in their descriptions, like the fat guy died from heart disease, sue pea died in her sleep, etc.
>>334772757
Luigi's Mansion is like Goosebumps
Dark Moon is like an episode of Scooby Doo
>>334772621
I like Dark Moon but I hope if a new Luigi's Mansion was to be announced it would have the same tone as the original
>>334770613
Reminder that they are stuck as paintings
They weren't murdering anyone or were a threat to anything at first.
It was literally self defense
>>334774856
The rumor says it's being developed by Next Level Games IIRC
Since 4cuck thinks my post is fucking spam
Google "Luigi's Bigger Mansion"
I find this website very informative and interesting regarding the game, they do some really in depth digging and analyzing through everything, worth a read if you're interested.fuck you my post is not spam 4chan you cuck
>>334774856
wait thats a rumor?
>>334774580
Pottery
>>334775004
Ok that's pretty cool.
>>334775054I haven't played it.I really should now though, Luigi has been mah man since I have memory.
Luigi's Mansion has a genuinely creepy tone
>>334774580
>Bogmire was actually an alien this whole time
>>334775609
>homepage
good GOD does this look like some ancient shit
>>334775662
It's a """""""""""leak""""""""""""
>>334774856
Dark Moon sold very well so it's not much of a stretch to expect it sometime.
Man Luigi's Mansion was such a fucking good game. I would love to see a third one on NX.
>>334776316
w-what's that?
>>334775609
Kinda boring tbqh fami, it's just a collection of beta trailers and shit if I'm not missing anything.
I was expecting autism on the level of the Wario Land 4 book, or that one Ico/Shadow of the Colossus blog that goes through the entire game and speculates the history and lore of everything from random cracks in the walls to out of bound areas.
>>334776634
Weird textureless beta enemy.
>>334776634
>The model elh is a tall, faceless, twisting creature. According to the entries, it was compiled a month after the Luigi's Mansion appeared at E3. It has six animations, including some related to water and fire. It has no textures, nor any UV maps that would support textures, meaning it either relied entirely on shaders, particles, or never reached the texturing phase. Elh has four particle effects dedicated to itself.
From tcrf.net, who knows what it was supposed to be
>>334776812
nothing will EVER be as autistic as that
>>334771008
>Spend an eternity reading
>Speaks volumes
>>334776092
so take with a grain of salt
>>334776634
Some weird enemy or boss found in the game's data a while back.
It could have just been an animation test or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkJuB66AZI
What if Chauncey is strong as fuck because he was born a ghost?
Bogmire and the Boos are just ghosts themselves.
>>334772329
>>334777105
idor?
>>334777569
It's what that animation was called in the files.
>>334777053
Made me grin. Good on you.
I never knew this, but apparently Europe got the harder game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQpfytUd9k
Is the Luigi's Mansion OST on the /v/ soundtrack Google Doc still a shitty version?
kinda related
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IOgJ1mrr8
>>334777771
WAIT this nigger can fly! im glad hes not in the game.
sure was fun fighting this fucker a gorillion times
>>334778318
They had really catchy music though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aokd7mz7les
>>334778106
He might be swimming, actually.
The ice and fire animations kinda make me think you would fight him to gain each elemental power.
That would explain the el in his name, maybe it stands for elemental.
>that fat fuck who ate himself to death
>his mind has been broken and replaced with a singular insatiable hunger
>he's not even human anymore, all he can think of is feeding
>>334778689
It is honestly kind of jarring that NLG made Punch-Out wii, a game known for its characters. And then going to Dark Moon which is lackluster, in comparison to Punch-Out and the previous Luigi's Mansion
>>334778924
Which is different from a regular fat person how?
>>334775414
>tricked and kidnapped two grown men with full intent to kill them and repeat the process
>not a threat
Fuck off King Boo.
>>334775239
Dark Moon is Goosebumps, Luigi's Mansion is Are You Afraid of the Dark.
>>334779182
The boos were assholes.
The painting ghosts were actual dead people trapped in paintings by E. Gadd
>>334778740
true those animations look better in a swimming situation.
>>334779028
3DS hardware they had to work with. Though personally I loved how they handled King Boo in Dark Moon. Way creepier then how he was in the first game.
>>334778740
I like to think it stands for ELdritcH
>>334779046
When he ate, he always ate alone because he was ashamed of being a fat fuck, so when he had a heart attack there was nobody to help him
>>334768131
you can be done in a good evening if you don't fuck around
>>334776316
>>334777105
Kinda reminds me of the wraiths from Pikmin
>>334779872
All the deaths in this game are pretty depressing
>>334780062
evenyours?
>>334780062
>vincent can gore became a ghost because in life he could never sell a single painting, and couldn't die unfulfilled
>grimly always hid from the rest of the family, so nobody noticed when he died
Remember to fulfill your dreams and be kind to your family, anons. Otherwise you'll spend eternity unhappy.
>>334775923
bouldergeist is a ghost
So are all the ghosts part of the same family?
It's obvious they never lived in the house. E Gadd captured them all over the course of 20 years, presumably in many places or maybe just in that forest. So most of them never even knew each other before the Mansion, except for a select few like the dad, mom, and Chauncey, and Shivers and the ghost girl he had a crush on that I forgot.
>>334775239
Outside of the old clockworks was actually kind of creepy to me
>a barren desert
>that reddish sky
>that apocalypse-ass ambience in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzZrc5R1QQM
>>334777105
I have seen, at least plus 5 years ago the cutting room and seen many deleted shit from games like these, but I never saw this.
This is trully amazing, and spooky.
Dont you get some weird amazing feeling when you discover something new, even if its not in the game, after many years of playing it over and over again? It sure makes me happy as fuck, I just love this kind of times. Like that thing in SMS that was shown in the E3 beta, I probabilly found that 5 years ago, but now this, I found it 14 years after playing for the first time Luigi's Mansion.
I just can't describe this feeling.
>>334780335
A lot of them are from a single family, but it seems that a lot of them knew each other before death
>>334779735
The hardware doesn't have anything to do with portrait ghosts, does it?
>>334780398
Its wonder
>>334780335
It's not unusual for mansions to have tenants. Particularly if the ruling family is sponsoring a sports club or competition or something, as could be the case with Biff the weightlifting ghost or Slim the pool ghost.
Maybe they were sponsoring Shivers' arctic expiditions
>>334780061
Hands and the slamming were remniscient of a Mamuta to me, also in the comments. Same era too.
>>334780745
>It's not unusual for mansions to have tenants
It is when the mansion suddenly appeared out of no where just days prior
>>334780856
yeah but what else are you supposed to use a ceramics workship and a weightlifting room for
neville a twig he'd break his british stick arms trying
>>334780435
Alot of them seem to be blonde. Whether that's because they were a big family or it made them easier to see in the dark I don;t know.
>>334780856
Yeah, that's another thing. Why did the Boos do that anyway? Why are there cobwebs and old shit everywhere if the mansion just popped into existence half a week ago?
Did they create a mansion or teleport one?
It also would've been a lot cooler if the last mansion in Dark Moon was the original one.
>>334781049
the cobwebs were part of the mansion made.
>>334779028
Dark Moon had way better environments than the stiff as fuck first game.
>>334780398
The Link mask and closed bank in Majora's Mask gave me that same feeling when they appeared on tcrf.
I thought I knew everything there was to know about that game.
>>334781049
What kind of self respecting Boo would live in a clean, non-spooky mansion?
They probably went to the party supply store and bought cobwebs and dust.
>>334781225
the first game set out to be a haunted mansion and it accomplished that.
No shit Dark Moon had "better settings"
>>334781225
They may have been different, but they weren't unique at all. After roaming the mansion in the first game you develop a feel for it and you get a mood. In the second one it's "Big house, Towers, Factory, Mines, and Spooky Mansion". The environments are so small and you spend so little time in them that they just feel like another chapter of the game.
It always kind of bothered me how realistic and un-mario a lot of stuff was in both games. Was there some kind of restriction on it or something?
>all the portraits of realistic people
>the room full of actual animal trophies
>an actual polar bear pelt in dark moon
>flytrap monsters in dark moon that aren't piranha plants
The only mario-like setpiece I can think of is a statue of a cheep cheep/snifit thing in dark moon
>>334781519
That's because we're seeing things from Luigi's perspective
>>334781519
>un-mario
good thing they were luigi games then :^)
>>334780250
holy fuck i forgot about that theory
>>334781519
Shut the fuck up that attitude killed Paper Mario
>>334772483
They didn't die in the house dumbass. The house was created by Boos outside of E. Gadd's lab. The lab is older than the house.
>>334782303
No, it was the opposite for Paper Mario
>starts off adding fictional, still mario-esque characters
>suddenly stickers of real-life objects
>>334775328
I'd like some environments like the ones from Dark Moon, but I want portrait ghosts back. Also get rid of the mission system.
>>334776610
I'd rather it not be a demo this time.
>>334781347
Yeah! It was a $40 demo.
>Be younger me
>Get GameCube for birthday and love playing it
>Parents constantly getting me games for it, and usually pretty good ones
>One day they get me Luigi's Mansion
>Play it and enjoy it, though remain a bit spooked, I survive and thoroughly enjoy it
>Few months later, Christmas arrives
>Aunt decides to get me a game
>Resident Evil REmake
>Play it and immediately scared shitless
>Go back to finish Luigi's mansion
>Vietnam flashbacks to REmake ruin the game for me and I never finish it
>Still a bit spooked whenever I try to play REmake or Luigi's Mansion to this day
>the blackout
>>334783786
>>334783786
>>334782584
No dude it killed paper Mario and Mario Bros RPGs to a lesser extent
>>334783786
>Don't worry Luigi, the switch is in the basement!
Yeah, Mario can go rot in that painting for all eternity
>>334781727
Oh man, does anybody have the screencap?
You know the one.
fuck this shit
>>334782584
>>334781519
Nintendo went through a strange phase in the early to mide Gamecube era where it tried its darnedest to shake of its uncool kiddie reputation. This included Mario. Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Geist, Cubivore, Metroid Prime, even the deal they struck with Capcom to get REmake, RE4, and RE0.
They were like a fresh teenager suddenly aware that all their peers had outgrown them, and their interests had shifted to other things.
Now, Nintendo has embraced its kiddie reputation, comfortable in its interests and doesn't care what Sony and Microsoft think.
>>334782303
It is kinda weird Miyamoto's autism didn't kill Luigi's Mansion.
I mean, 2 had the generic ghosts, but there was still weird shit.
>>334783425
Now that this was brought up, those slow door unlocking cutscenes in LM were totally a parody of RE right?
>>334784878
I fucking HATED this boss. Literally the worst part of LM2.
>>334784954
Miyamoto started making a concentrated effort into embracing Nintendo's kiddiness only in the mid Wii era
>>334785149
Yeah.
Luigi's mansion is more a pastiche of survival horror in general, but it does take place in a Haunted Mansion where you Find Keys to Unlock Loading Animations
>>334774856
>wanting games to be dark
Why? Every time I play a console game these days, I have to amp up the contrast because its so hard to see.
>>334784238
>>334784909
I'm not talking about making it "kiddier", I'm just wondering why they didn't use actual Mario series stuff when appropriate, like piranha plants in the greenhouse areas, given that this is supposed to take place in the Mario universe
>>334785792
because
a) we're seeing things from luigi's perspective.
b) piranha plants aren't even faux-scary
>>334783786
This was always the worst part for me as a kid, i would be having fun and then in the middle of the big boo fight i remembered that the power would go out soon, even today i still get a little spooked.
>>334785792
That's more a problem with Dark Moon than Luigi's Mansion. LM had Shy Guys and Bowser at least.
>>334783786
>mfw I just ran to the nearest mirror and warped back to the Foyer, cutting out 2/3rds of the terror
Yeah, it's cheap as fuck, but there's hardly any benefit to running back on foot, if at all.
>>334786439
The benefit is experiencing the spookiest part of the game ya doof.
>>334786174
shit I completely forgot about the shy guy ghosts
>>334780061
Wow I want to fuck that thing
>>334772637
>>334772734
She probably died by accidentally falling out of the window or something
