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'''''Luigi's Mansion 3''''' is a [[Nintendo Switch]] game, and the second sequel to ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'', after ''[[Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon]]''. Unlike previous games in the series, the game takes place in a haunted hotel rather than an actual mansion. Like the previous main installment, it was developed by [[Next Level Games]]. The game is 6.3 GB in file size, though it can be expanded with downloadable content (DLC).

==Plot==

|footer=The Last Resort in its daytime illusion (top) and true form (bottom)

[[Luigi]], [[Mario]], [[Princess Peach]], and three [[Toad (species)|Toads]] are invited to a hotel called [[The Last Resort]] for a vacation party, which they travel to via a charter bus driven by [[Toad]]. Soon after Luigi and the gang arrive, they head inside the [[Grand Lobby]] during broad daylight and check in at the front desk with the hotel's bellhop/receptionist, [[Steward (Luigi's Mansion 3)|Steward]]. They are introduced and later escorted by the owner of the hotel, a mysterious woman named [[Hellen Gravely]], to their fifth-floor rooms. Princess Peach is seen heading towards her respective hotel room (Room 501), Mario to his (Room 502), and finally Luigi to his own (Room 503). Inside his hotel room, Luigi reads a novel whilst laying on a bed alongside [[Polterpup]] and quickly falls asleep.

[[File: LM3 Luigi wakes up.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|[[Luigi]] wakes up in [[Room 503|his hotel room]].]]

Luigi later wakes up on a dark night and hears Peach screaming, the hotel's atmosphere now haunted with everyone but him gone missing. He gets out of bed with simply a flashlight in hand, exits his room, and sees mysterious purple energy lurking through the hallway. He walks towards the floor's elevator to be greeted by Hellen Gravely coming out of the opened elevator and revealing herself as a ghost. Gravely explains she invited Luigi and his friends out of admiration for her idol who she reveals as none other than Luigi's arch-nemesis, King Boo, much to Luigi's horror. King Boo explains that Hellen had freed him from [[Professor Elvin Gadd|Professor E. Gadd]]'s ghost containment and announces his plan for revenge upon Luigi, showing his friends in portrait frames. He proceeds to chase Luigi through the hallway to trap him in a picture as well while placing [[Spirit Ball]]s on all the hotel room doors, and corners him at the end of the hallway. However, Luigi manages to escape by jumping into a laundry chute and falls all the way into a laundry hamper in the [[Basement (Luigi's Mansion 3)|Basement]].

Luigi is woken up by Polterpup and manages to find the [[Poltergust G-00]] inside a red car. He finds Professor E. Gadd trapped in a portrait as well on the Mezzanine's second floor and frees him by using the [[Dark-Light Device]] he finds in a vault. The newly-freed professor asks Luigi to escort him out of the hotel, but decides to stay when Luigi refuses to leave before saving his trapped friends. After Luigi and Professor E. Gadd return to the garage and the former defeats Steward, E. Gadd sets up his portable lab and gives him the [[Virtual Boo]] for communication. Professor E. Gadd then asks Luigi to retrieve his briefcase from the fifth floor, where Luigi recovers it from [[Chambrea]] and brings it back to him. The contents of the briefcase allow Luigi to call on [[Gooigi]], a green, gooey replica of him, for help.

While searching the hotel for his friends, Luigi must also recover the missing elevator buttons from Boss Ghosts to access all floors; in two instances, he must track down and battle Gravely's pet, Polterkitty, who steals the buttons just as he's about install them in the elevator and hides in the previous floors. Luigi also manages to rescue the three Toads, who wait in E. Gadd's lab after being saved and escorted to the elevator. However as he saves each of them, Hellen Gravely, observing from security monitors, grows more and more furious with his success. Once Luigi saves the third Toad, King Boo, having lost faith in Gravely, takes one of the last two paintings, Mario and Peach, in his possession.

Luigi reaches the last floor, the Master Suite, but as soon as he arrives, Hellen Gravely appears on a large screen and reveals she has Mario's painting in her possession (meaning King Boo has Peach's), challenging him to confront her. Once Luigi navigates through the various traps and puzzles, he finds the four keys that lead to Hellen's office. Hellen Gravely furiously berates him for capturing her staff and Polterkitty along with costing her King Boo's approval. To redeem herself in King Boo's eyes, she proceeds to battle Luigi directly. Luigi defeats and captures Hellen Gravely and then frees Mario, who then leads him to the [[Rooftop (Luigi's Mansion 3)|Rooftop]]. There they find Peach's painting and Luigi sets her free. But the three's embrace is interrupted when King Boo confronts them and reveals that he absconded with E. Gadd's lab, trapping E. Gadd and the three Toads in the same painting. He attempts to do the same to Mario, Peach, and Luigi, although he manages to get only the former two as Luigi is shoved out of the way at the last second by Polterpup. King Boo, having lost his patience, then engages in battle with Luigi.

With Gooigi's help, Luigi triumphs over King Boo once more before the Boo can entrap them all in the painting, although the hotel collapses immediately after the battle. Luigi is saved by Polterpup again and releases his friends from the painting. Several ghosts emerge from the ghost canister, although they calm down and become hospitable when the purple gem from King Boo's crown dissolves. The ghosts are saddened to see the hotel in shambles, so Luigi and his friends work with them to rebuild the hotel in E. Gadd's image, and similar to [[Luigi's NEW Mansion]] from the first game, the rebuilt hotel takes a different look depending on how much money the player ends the game with. With the new hotel finished and King Boo imprisoned once more, E. Gadd, Gooigi, and the hotel ghosts wave farewell as everyone else departs for home on the charter bus. Luigi falls asleep on the bus with Polterpup as it rides into the sunset.

''Luigi's Mansion 3'' plays much like the two previous entries in the series, ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'' and ''[[Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon]]'', returning to a singular setting much like the first game while featuring a variety of themed floors akin to the second game's mansions, allowing the player to re-explore already completed rooms. The [[Poltergust G-00]] retains the basic qualities of the two previous vacuums, as well as the [[Strobulb]] item and the [[Dark-Light Device]], though adds a targeting mechanism when blowing out items or a plunger. It also introduces new abilities, such as [[slam]]ming ghosts on the ground or into each other, firing a grabable plunger with the [[Suction Shot]], and creating a shockwave or being lifted up with a [[Burst]]. Luigi has a new device known as the [[Virtual Boo]] (VB), a parody of the [[Virtual Boy]], which serves the same function as the [[Game Boy Horror]] and [[Dual Scream]] did from the two previous games. The money collected with the Poltergust G-00 can be used to buy [[Gold Bone]]s (1,000 G), [[Boo Finder]] cartridges (1,000 G), [[Gem Finder]] cartridges (1,000 G), and also to buy hints from the Virtual Boo's E. Gadd Hotline while in the Lab inside the Basement to find in-game floor themed collectible [[gem]]s and other various puzzles, which when brought will activate the HD Rumble in the Joy-Cons when getting close to a gem or [[Boo]] in morse code while in certain rooms on floors when using Gooigi, which can also be felt when using the Poltergust G-00. Professor E. Gadd will sometimes suggest Luigi to come to his Lab in the Basement to buy hints from him to solve the floor's puzzles and such whenever the player is struggling, though hints can be turned off in the Guide/Settings menu. There are six floor themed gems and one Boo on each floor. The game automatically fully saves progress whenever entering a room or elevator after ten seconds. There are in-game achievements for certain objectives. Story mode (co-op), ScareScraper (co-op), and ScreamPark can't be played in co-op multiplayer on the Nintendo Switch Lite without detached official Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. There's a brightness slider to control the hue of a given area from darker to lighter in the game's Settings. Story mode can be beaten in roughly five to ten hours.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZRI_bWaKaA&t=211</ref>

[[Gooigi]], first officially introduced in the [[Nintendo 3DS]] [[Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)|remake]] of the first ''Luigi's Mansion'', reappears and is stored in the Poltergust G-00, hence '''''Goo'''''igi. Gooigi has 25 HP, while Luigi has 99 HP, and can be called upon to pass obstacles Luigi cannot, such as [[Spike (obstacle)|spikes]] and bars. However, he is weak to fire and water, and will lose all his health immediately if he comes into contact with them, causing him to immediately return to Luigi. A [[Game Over]] occurs when Luigi loses all of his HP. It features a cutscene where King Boo has Luigi, Mario, Professor E. Gadd, Princess Peach, and the two Toads trapped inside paintings; he turns around to face the viewers while laughing evilly. Like the previous installments, the scene ends with the phrase, "Good Night!" Luigi and Gooigi cannot be controlled at the same time in single-player mode, but Gooigi can be controlled by a second player with the second Joy-Con (R) controller for co-op multiplayer. If Luigi attempts to enter a door with Gooigi out, Gooigi will automatically retract into the Poltergust G-00.

The ScareScraper, originating from ''Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon'', makes a return, allowing for up to eight-player co-op multiplayer (via four Luigis and four Gooigis) to clear either 5, 10, 20, or a random amount of floors between two to twenty, with a five-minute time limit for each floor, except the Rooftop, which has a time limit of ten minutes with different challenges on each floor such as Capture the Ghosts!, Find the Toads!, Collect the Money! and Defeat the Crows!. It acts very similar to its prequel appearance, though adds new abilities and functions such as the super suction, super strobe, a red siren [[fake door]] detector helmet, voice chat, and the [[Blackout]]. [[Boolossus]] awaits the Luigis and Gooigis at the top of the ScareScraper hotel Rooftop upon completing all the set floors.

*{{button|switch|plus}}: Pause menu

*{{button|switch|rightstick}} (press ×1 down): Summon/select Gooigi or Luigi

*{{button|switch|rightstick}} (press ×2 down): Store Gooigi

''Note that except for Professor Elvin Gadd and Polterpup, the images do not originate from this game.''

LM3EGaddArt.png|[[Professor Elvin Gadd]]

Toad LMDM.png|[[Toad (species)|Toads]]

|With the exception of the [[Master Suite]], a Boo can be found on each floor after collecting a floor's Elevator Button, leaving, then coming back. Each Boo has a pun name and a line of dialogue. Boos will hide in a random spot and the players' controllers will vibrate the closer they get to their hiding spot. Searching the wrong spot will make the Boo hide in a new spot and actually finding the Boo will activate its fight; it will turn invisible and sneakily hurt the player. Casting the [[Dark-Light Device]] on the Boo will reveal and daze it so the player can then grab its tongue with the [[Poltergust G-00]]'s suction and slam it repeatedly, doing a total of 10 HP damage. A Boo needs to be repeatedly slammed at least twice for it to be defeated. Defeating all of the Boos in the game will grant the player the "Captured All Boos" achievement and the [[Flashlight Type-B]].

|The most common ghosts in the game. They are blue, mischievous ghosts that can be seen wearing various attires such as hotel staff suits and baseball caps. They attack by using a short-range punch or spinning around; as such, they are the successor to [[Greenie]]s from the [[Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon|previous game]].

|Large, brawny red ghosts with square heads that attack by charging towards Luigi and literally hammering the floor. Due to their obstructive figure, they can only be sucked up from the back. They look very similar to [[Slammer (enemy)|Slammers]], and even have similar names to them.

|Skinny yellow ghosts that can hide in furniture and occasionally pop out to throw food, then go into another hiding spot if not captured. Some Oozers may stay in place and also throw food at the player. Their behavior is similar to [[Hider]]s from ''[[Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon]]'', except that they are much more aggressive.

|Orange ghosts with a pair of blue tongues that grab and lift the player by the feet with one tongue and use the other to spank the player, causing them to lose 5 HP per hit. They always blockade doorways, forcing the player to eliminate them if they want to get past them.

|Crystalline variants of Goobs found throughout the Last Resort. They drop a gem upon being defeated, and unlike Golden Goobs, they respawn after leaving the floor and coming back. Also, unlike other ghosts, their HP cannot be subtracted by vacuuming.   

|style="text-align:center"|A blue bellhop and receptionist ghost that is seen in the Grand Lobby. He is fought in the underground parking garage in the Basement, where he throws suitcases and luggage at Luigi. Defeating him gives Luigi the first and fifth elevator buttons.

|style="text-align:center"|A purple maid ghost first seen in the intro on the Grand Lobby. She is fought in the RIP Suites in Room 508, Room 507, Room 506, and Room 505. She uses her hand duster to make Luigi sneeze throughout the duration of the fight. Defeating her allows the player to obtain the third floor elevator button and E. Gadd's suitcase, which she swallowed during her introduction.

|style="text-align:center"|A French chef ghost that is fought in the Mezzanine's kitchen and uses his frying pan as a shield to the player’s Strobulb. Defeating him will cause a mouse to eat the fourth floor elevator button, and Luigi has to chase it through a couple of rooms until it is finally snatched inside one of the floor's bathrooms that is full of food and mice, after which he can obtain it.

|style="text-align:center"|A pianist ghost fought in The Great Stage on the fourth floor. He possesses a large piano that fires projectiles and jumps into the air, landing with a violent smash to fight Luigi. Defeating him will let the player obtain the sixth elevator button.

|style="text-align:center"|A Scottish medieval-style king ghost fought in the Coliseum, which is on the sixth floor. Defeating him will allow the player to obtain the seventh elevator button.

|style="text-align:center"|A film director ghost first found in the backstage of Paranormal Productions. He is the only boss ghost who can be optionally defeated. When the player first encounters him, he is distraught over losing his megaphone, which the player can find for him. Upon giving him the megaphone, he is very thankful for Luigi and insists Luigi be the star of his new movie. After the player defeats the monster in said movie, they will obtain the ninth elevator button. Later he can be found in his editing room putting the finishing touches on the movie. The player can take him out right then and there or wait until the movie is finished.

|style="text-align:center"|A pharaoh ghost with black hair who wears Egyptian mummy attire. She is fought in the Tomb Suites. Defeating her allows the player to obtain the eleventh elevator button.

|style="text-align:center"|Magician ghost triplets that battle Luigi in the Twisted Suites. Defeating them allows the player to obtain the twelfth elevator button.

|style="text-align:center"|A pirate shark ghost fought in The Spectral Catch. Defeating him allows the player to obtain the thirteenth elevator button, which is situated underneath his eye patch.

|style="text-align:center"|A jock swimmer ghost fought in the pool room. The player first encounters him when he throws a beach ball at the Gym Lobby's window from the pool room. In his boss fight, he violently throws beach balls at the player and squirts pool water at Gooigi, causing him to dissolve. Defeating him allows the player to obtain the fourteenth elevator button.

|style="text-align:center"|A female disk jockey diva ghost wearing an afro wig who DJs and throws vinyl records at the player at The Dance Hall. During her boss fight, she is backed up by a group of Goobs wearing red hoodies. Defeating her allows the player to obtain the fifteenth elevator button.

|style="text-align:center"|A purple ghost who is the owner of the Last Resort and works closely with King Boo. She wears a long dress and sunglasses and is first seen in the Grand Lobby where she greets Luigi and the gang. Later, at the RIP Suites, she is revealed to be an antagonist, and she is finally fought in the Master Suite's Main Observation Room. After the player defeats her, the player receives Mario's portrait so he can be saved and a passage also opens up in the wall. Hellen Gravely also has a pet cat, [[Polterkitty]].

|style="text-align:center"|The main antagonist of the ''Luigi's Mansion'' series as well as one of the main antagonists in ''Luigi's Mansion 3''. He works alongside one of his biggest admirers, Hellen Gravely, to capture his enemies: Mario, Luigi, Peach, the Toad, and E. Gadd. He is first revealed to be teaming up with Hellen Gravely in the RIP Suites hallway and is the final boss of the game, being fought on the Rooftop, above the Master Suite. After defeating King Boo, the entirety of the Last Resort collapses and all the ghosts lose their willpower to fight Luigi and his friends. E. Gadd brightens up the mood by announcing to rebuild the Last Resort in his image. Unlike the other games in the series, the game will no longer save after defeating King Boo, so the player must go to an earlier save if they want to continue playing on that save file.

|style="text-align:center"|[[Bat (Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon)|Bat]]

|These fyling enemies attack the player by swooping down at them. Defeating them by flashing them with the [[Strobulb]] or sucking them up with the [[Poltergust G-00]] will spawn several [[Bill]]s. They have a gold variant that drops [[Gold Bar]]s when defeated. Being hit by them will deal -5 HP to the player.

|Six gems, coming in six different colors, are scattered throughout every floor of the Last Resort. The shape of the gems depends on the floor; for instance, in [[The Grand Lobby]], they are shaped like diamonds, and in [[Castle MacFrights]], they are shaped like swords. Collecting all 6 gems on each floor will unlock the Suction Shot Type-B.

[[File:LM3HotelArt.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The exterior of The Last Resort]]

|An underground garage area. Luigi can find the Poltergust-G00 in Professor E. Gadd's car. Steward can be fought here after rescuing E. Gadd from a painting. The Basement is explored after Luigi escapes from King Boo.

|The second floor where Professor E. Gadd's painting is discovered and also where the Dark-Light Device is found. The other side of the second floor is later explored after defeating Kruller. Chef Soulfflé is fought here along with a mouse taking the F4 elevator button.

|A floor where all the hotel rooms are located, which can be accessed after obtaining the F1 and F5 elevator buttons. Chambrea is fought in Room 508, Room 507, Room 506 and Room 505. Professor E. Gadd's briefcase can be found and brought back into the lab to experiment with Gooigi.

|align=center|A medieval castle-themed floor containing a plethora of puzzles harmful traps.  

|align=center|[[File:Luigismansion37fPurpleGem.jpg|85px]]<br>'''Flower'''

|align=center|A botanical floor with enormous, overgrown plants. This room is several levels high and contains buzzsaw machines that can be used to destroy objects in the player's surroundings.

|align=center|A movie production floor with several props and sets for movie making.  

|align=center|A circus-themed floor with a surrealist design.

|align=center|A floor prominently featuring an 80's aesthetic. On this floor is a large Dance Floor and a secret room in the Elevator Hall with large amounts of money.

|align=center|The top floor of the Last Resort and the last one Luigi encounters. The floor is inhabited by Hellen Gravely and it is adorned by many King Boo-themed decor.

Paid downloadable content for ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' was announced for release in 2020, with part one originally planned for release on April 30, 2020 for US $9.99, but was released early on March 4, 2020, and part two originally planned to release on July 31, 2020 for US $9.99 but was released early on April 30, 2020. Players who purchase DLC will also receive a [[Flashlight Type-P]].<ref>[https://luigismansion.nintendo.com/buy-now/#dlc Buy now – ''Luigi’s Mansion™ 3'' for the Nintendo Switch™ system]</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1207104131078295552</ref>

*Three new ScareScraper outfits for Luigi, based on a knight, a mummy, and a disco-styled outfit (named the Green Knight, Mummigi, and Groovigi respectively)

''Luigi's dream vacation turns into a ghostly—and gooey— nightmare! Luigi embarks on a dream vacation with Mario and friends upon receiving an invitation to a luxurious hotel. However, his dream quickly becomes a nightmare when King Boo reveals everything had been a ploy to capture Mario and friends. With the assistance of Professor E. Gadd once again, the reluctant and cowardly hero Luigi traverses up and down treacherous floors of the now-ominous hotel on a quest to save them. Wield the upgraded Poltergust G-00 to slam and blow away the ghosts’ defenses, or summon Gooigi, an all-green doppelganger that can help Luigi overcome obstacles he can’t get past alone. Interchange between Luigi and Gooigi as one player, or grab a friend and control one each. For more frenetic multiplayer action, race the timer to clear various objectives on a series of floors in ScareScraper mode. ScareScraper mode can be played online* or locally with up to eight players on four Nintendo Switch systems (additional games required; sold separately).''

The game was originally going to be a [[Wii U]] title, though development started for Nintendo's next generation console in earnest following the completion of Next Level Games' ''[[metroidwiki:Metroid Prime: Federation Force|Metroid Prime: Federation Force]]''.<ref>https://kotaku.com/luigi-s-mansion-3-developers-promise-better-bosses-and-1835578019</ref> The Slam and Burst moves were planned during the Wii U prototype.<ref>Nintendo. (Jun 11, 2019) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6p-3VwcD6c ''Luigi’s Mansion 3'' Gameplay Pt. 1 - Nintendo Treehouse: Live | E3 2019]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved July 18, 2019.</ref> Prior to his debut appearance in the Nintendo 3DS remake of ''Luigi's Mansion'', Gooigi was already planned for ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' upon the Nintendo Switch's launch when the developers got the inspiration from the Joy-Con for multiplayer mode.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9-31FrjU8&t=24]</ref> While in development for the Nintendo Switch, ''Luigi's Mansion 3'' was originally a tentative title prior to becoming the final name.<ref>[[:File:Luigi'sMansion3Logo.png]]</ref>

==Glitches==

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