Hey everyone, just a huge Luigi’s Mansion nerd here.
I remember back in the day after Luigi’s Mansion 2, there was all this buzz on this sub about what the setting could be for a, at the time, hypothetical Luigi’s Mansion 3.
Shockingly enough, I remember a lot of people being exactly right with the idea of a haunted hotel! I had never even thought of that concept but when they said it, it was so perfect and I couldn’t see it going ANY other way. Of course, Luigi’s Mansion 3 has been out now for a few years and some youtubers (Arlo) are musing on the idea of a Luigi’s Mansion 4. Does anyone else have any ideas on what the new haunted location could be?
[I saw one idea for a haunted cruise ship in a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTPbZeEgbk) by Nin10doland, which would be amazing. Maybe going back to the roots to an even bigger mega grande mansion like the first? Haunted Peach’s Castle? Maybe a haunted resort on Isle Delfino?!
And where could they go with plot? Is it getting stale to have characters stuck in portraits? We know Mario has to be unavailable for SOME reason because otherwise Luigi wouldn’t be forced to be the hero again. Im completely drawing a blank on that though…
So yeah, just a discussion I thought might be fun for other Luigi’s Mansion fans out there. 🙂
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Cartoony Silent Hill, like, a village under the spell of the mansion.
Haunted amusement park!
IIRC they’ve said the original pitch for Luigi’s Mansion 3 was the backlot of a movie studio. I think that could still work if they want to stick with the “heavily themed segmented areas” approach of the more recent games.
But personally I kinda want the series to go back to its “cartoony take on Resident Evil” roots. For some reason, the thing that’s coming to mind is Resident Evil 4, but it’s like a Wild West town instead of “vaguely Europe”.
While I liked how every floor in 3 was different, I’d prefer a more singular theme like 1. So if they do a haunted amusement park, i want the areas to make sense in an amusement (although admittedly you can do a lot in an amusement park). Also if it is an amusement park, i want one of the attractions to be a haunted mansion that’s a reference to the first game.
I like the cruise ship idea, I also think it would be cool to somehow get caught in a wormhole via kamack and end up in the desert (Mario 64/odyssey) ancient pyramid and solve a mystery. Somehow uncovering secrets for distant relative of Kamack and him thanking you by putting a spell on king tut and having to defeat his ghost, but then once you defeat him and give him find what he wanted in the first place, he sends you home. All while professor e Gadd guides you via virtual ghoul boy.
Id like one that takes place in a city where you thru different areas, haunted mall, haunted school, haunted airport etc
A museum or a castle.
When it comes to gameplay: I’ve seen some people exaggerate how open and metroidvania-like the original Luigi’s Mansion is, but their rose-tinted memories do sound like they would be a great fit for the series.
Luigi’s Mansion except it’s set in a haunted space station. Dead Space here we come.
I originally started typing this as a joke but that could actually be really cool if they pulled it off well. They could go full sci fi horror and have king boo team up with a Cthulhu like cosmic horror entity as the main villain. It would be a super different take but the more I think about it, the more I like it even if I’d want the series to return to the more traditional horror aesthetic afterwards.
My 4-year-old son LOVES Luigi’s Mansion 3.
He said it would be cool if King Boo had his own vacuum that he could suck up Luigi in.
I think that would make a great Luigi’s Mansion 4 if the whole game was you trying to escape King Boo’s magic vacuum.
Giant mall
haunted New Donk City
I think a cool title would be called Luigi’s mansion ghost town. The title is self explanatory, the home base can be a minivan made by egadd. The boss ghost would be job themed, such as a hair stylist, teacher, the boss before the last would be a ghost mayor at city hall.
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It’s kind of been in the back of my head that Luigi’s Mansion 4 could take place in some kind of ghost town, somewhat 1950s America themed being near a desert and mountains. The kind of town where you’d expect ghost stories to come from, or alien abductions or government nuclear bomb conspiracies etc.
There’d be some caves and mines too. I kind of imagine Luigi fighting some kind of mining ghost, or like a burger chef one too at a checkered diner. Maybe he’d go into a movie theater or the mayor’s office too even. Maybe he’d fight a ghost rider who may either be cowboy themed on a ghost horse (that you have to capture too) or greaser themed on a motorcycle.
A little ghost town with 6/7 ghost buildings
All I want is no missions. I want LM1 with a new map. Linear but an open “Mansion” that isn’t divided by sections like 3
~~haunted pizzeria~~
Maybe a haunted mushroom kingdom?
Peach’s Castle seems an amazing idea to me
I don’t care where they set it, I just hope they ditch the padding.
There was a lot to love about LM3 but I have no idea what they were thinking with some of the blatant insertions to extend the run time of the game. It was unplayable in parts.
Haunt cruise ship or a literal ghost town from a western.
There’s always one solution to every problem:
Go to space!
Put Luigi in a rocket and make him explore a base on an asteroid, using the vacuum to move through the space. We can explore a base on the asteroid, a space shuttle, a station on the orbit along with underground ruins and perhaps even an alien ship.
I don’t like the mission based structure they’ve developed. I miss having one giant place to explore. I don’t care what or where it takes place, but just stop breaking up the fun and immersion with strict missions or floor structures. Let me explore and find things like the original. I know that technically was ‘mission’ based too as you got kicked back to E Gadds after certain bosses, but it was a lot more free-flowing.
I like the idea of a ship… because of the implication…
Luigi buys up thousands of properties across the US and rents them out at exorbitant rates. Spooky
I just want it to match the same charm of the first game that neither sequel managed.