But that's what I mean, in no way does that mean that it looks like a 3DS game. The art style is similar, graphics wise it's way beyond what the 3DS can do.
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Gamexplain's 27 minutes analysis of Luigi's Mansion 3 reveal (trailer was 38 seconds long)
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But that's what I mean, in no way does that mean that it looks like a 3DS game. The art style is similar, graphics wise it's way beyond what the 3DS can do.
Yeah, it's pretty fantastic.
AndreGX Just so you know, I'm (somehow) a 31-year-old totally fresh initiate to YouTube and your channel is, literally, one of only five I've subscribed to thus far. (The others are Game Maker's Toolkit, Easy Allies, KingK and DigitalFoundry.) So yeah. Keep on rockin' on. If you can rope me into recognizing the quality of y'all's output I daresay you can rope just about anybody. :P
Visually speaking some of the alpha and lighting effects are indeed nice but everything else could use a pretty good bump. Model geometry and texture quality especially. I do understand that they're going for a particular art style but you can still match that art style while upping the polygon count.
I'm sure it'll get way more polished as it gets closer to release though, like most of Nintendo's games.
I'm sure it'll get way more polished as it gets closer to release though, like most of Nintendo's games.
Aww, thank you so much! You clearly have some great taste there :)
I'll never forget it either...but probably for very different reasons hahaha.
While I enjoy their analyses, this one included, who really benefits from spending like 10 minutes trying to map together the exact layout of a hotel lobby lol?
Didn't think it looked like 3ds game but it didn't impress me visually. I expect more out of this and it is early on so we will see.
AndreGX what do you think of my theory that the structure in the artwork isn't actually a hotel, but more like 5 discrete mansions (like in Dark Moon) just stacked on top of each other? Each with a completely different theme:
This is true. But I think we could expect the same from LM3 since it's a single hotel !
These sound stupid when you first hear about them, but once you've watched one, you know just how interesting and thorough they are. I've never wanted to get back the time I've spent watching one of these. Will be starting this shortly.
Maybe, I can kinda imagine the theory by skittzo0413 to be true. It's too soon with too little content to tell IMO.
It's an interesting thought and entirely possible! Personally speaking, I really like the idea of the entire thing being a hotel with themed wings, but it really could go either way
They jump the gun too often. Like commenting on an engine that probably will be touched up at the very least, if not changed completely come release. I mean look at Yoshi's last trailer compared to the reveal.
The wait for this game will be very painful. My son and I are going to have a great time with this one :D
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It's very clearly an Hotel tho, and it's a deliberate reference to stuff like Disney's Tower of Terror.
This is particularly why it excites me so much. You could say I'm just a biiit of a ToT fanboy
And I'll actually be in Disney World this time next week! :)
Was there any need for that? Don't like it, don't watch it.
Yeah pretty much the same. Gamexplain is probably my favorite youtube channel. I find their analysis to be great and getting me 10x more hyped for an upcoming game. They also are the only channel I'll actually watch their reviews and discussions. This one was another great analysis and very interesting.
Overall, I'm most curious as to how far out this game will be. Most here seem certain that it will release October 2019 which would make sense but would be pretty far away for Nintendo to be announcing it now. It also ignores that Dark Moon released in March and sold great. I really enjoyed Dark Moon and think it is a better game than the original. However, I think there were a lot of design choices that lead to losing some of the charm from the original. Hopefully this game takes more adventure/exploration elements than the missions structure in Dark Moon. Also, hoping that there are a lot more unique ghosts with different personalities and puzzles to capturing them like in the original. The generic ghosts are not as exciting. We are still a ways away from release for more polish to the graphics as well as the overall game. With Dark Moon selling over 5 million copies. Im hoping Nintendo and Next Level Games put more budget, time and effort behind this game as Dark Moon seemed like a B level effort while the original was an A level effort.
You can dislike the changes to Dark Moon, but to call it a B level effort is insulting to the developers. There's roughly 4x times the amount of content in Dark Moon, all of it polished to a high degree. Tons of collectibles in each mansion, which are each very different from each other and have their own personality. B level Dark Moon is not.
If it were up to me, I'd definitely like it to be more open; however, Dark Moon is an incredible game, so I wouldn't exactly be bummed if they follow that formula again.
That would be a a pretty cool reference! But I don't think they're quite similar enough to be intentional
Thanks, I decided to expand on it since you seemed to think it might be the case.
So each "mansion" is stacked onto the previous one. And they each have a theme and a particular design/coloring. This is what I've put together.
This is the image I'm working from, for reference:
Okay:
Hotel: This is the base, and all of the footage we've seen so far has taken place here. The square stone structure at the top is part of the hotel, not the castle, since it shares the same coloring. Maybe it's a boss room, maybe it's the concert hall as GX suggested. Who knows. But it's not part of the castle section, it sits "in front of" the castle section.
Castle: This sits behind the big stone square and actually includes the greenhouse/garden area. It seems to extend up behind the green lettering a bit obscuring some of the structure, so we can't exactly see where this ends and the next section begins.
Office: I'm calling this an office building, but I have absolutely no idea what it will be. From the top section it looks a bit like a skyscraper with a design on the face of it, so I'm just treating it like an office building. Again it's hard to tell where this begins and the castle ends but I think I've cropped it at around the right place.
Diner: I'm calling this a diner because the angled portion on the left looks a lot like the back of a sign on a 50's style diner:
I could be 100% wrong on this but that's what I first thought when I saw it. Maybe it'll be "50s-futuristic" themed.
Zuul's House: This looks a lot like the top of the building from the first Ghostbusters movie so I'm calling it Zuul's house. I'm guessing this is the final area (duh) with the final boss fight, which, as GX suggested, is probably King Boo.
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So yeah it seems pretty clear to me that these are all different mansions stacked on top of each other. Presumably sharing a common elevator shaft, but beyond that I'm guessing they're all discrete locations with completely different themes and architecture.
Precisely. I'll never understand these Dark Moon haters who seem to have come out right now. Game's stupendous, with MUCH more content than the original.
I'm getting really strong Ghostbuster's vibes here. Ghost popping out of a cleaning cart. Dining room sequence. Hotel settings. It really reminds me of Hotel Sedgewick.
I really thought Luigi was coming through the front door in the video, and that it looked like the same as back door, but you convinced me otherwise. Dang it GameXplain.
I really thought Luigi was coming through the front door in the video, and that it looked like the same as back door, but you convinced me otherwise. Dang it GameXplain.
I think this is the first time Next Level Games has done a sequel to a Nintendo game that they previously made.
So, it'll be great to see what they've learned and how they make Dark Moon better from feedback.
So, it'll be great to see what they've learned and how they make Dark Moon better from feedback.
Finally!!!
The sequel to Hotel Mario that we've waited all these long, dry years for.
Yeah, it does look a little different. It looks like King Boos crown.
It makes you wonder, "what if Toad, Mario and Peach are playable too?"
All their faces were "X"ed out, but Luigi is walking around.
All their faces were "X"ed out, but Luigi is walking around.
Honestly, this is why I love GameXplain. Even if there was so little to work with, you actually can find so much details in it that you can easily get the mind going with speculation. That and it took me a little while to actually realize that the whole "plunger thing" actually did happen with the Simon reveal for Smash. Who would have thought last month that could have been our teaser for an upcoming Luigi's Mansion 3?
Again, as I stated in my post that you quoted me in, I find Dark Moon to be the better game. However, I felt the production values of the original game to be much higher for a 2001 game comparatively to a 2013 game. I do not mean this as a detriment to Next Level games as I enjoy their games that they work on with Nintendo. I think Super Mario Strikers is one of the better, if not the best, Mario spinoff series. Punchout was also pretty enjoyable. I never played Federation Force. However, Next Level Games titles clearly do not have the same production values as Nintendo's internal projects like 3D Mario, Zelda, Metroid prime, Smash bros., etc. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 director said he considered the production value to be B level, not AAA. The game looks good and far superior to either of the previous games but the art direction and various models are clearly still derived from the 3DS title.
They made a sequel to Super Mario Strikers on Wii.