Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

Luigi is back on a mission to remove a bunch of stubborn ghosts from some spooky mansions. Armed with his trusty Poltergust ghost-sucking vacuum cleaner, Mario's brother takes center stage to capture these…

81 20 March 2013

Adventure Puzzle Action Comedy Horror

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is an adventure developed by Next Level Games, released 20 March 2013 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 13.2 hrs to finish.

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What Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is an adventure game developed by Next Level Games and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the second installment in the Luigi's Mansion series, following Luigi's Mansion (2001). The story follows Luigi as he explores Evershade Valley, capturing its corrupted ghostly inhabitants with help from Professor E. Gadd. In order to restore peace to Evershade Valley, Luigi must defeat the recently-escaped King Boo and restore the eponymous Dark Moon.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is the 62nd of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. It arrived 8 months after New Super Mario Bros. 2. The next entry was Game & Wario in 2013. Its critic score of 81 is 7 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 105 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 13.2 hrs.

What it launched against

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon launched on 20 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Age of Empires II HD. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD.

Cheats and codes

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