If ever there was a game which took a relatively dark subject matter in ghost hunting and made it upbeat it would be the GameCubes Luigis Mansion. The game followed Marios less celebrated, lankier sibling on the hunt for ghosts in an old, haunted mansion. Ghosts may seem like an inherently dark subject matter but none of the spirit-inhabitants of Luigis Mansion were remotely threatening not even King Boo, the final boss. The game does contain one terrifying Easter Egg which cant just be sucked up by the green-clad plumbers trusty Poltergust 3000. If you take Luigi up into the attic and linger until theres a lightening flash, the silhouette cast on the wall seems to show a dead Luigi-sized figure hung by the neck from the buildings rafters. Fans are divided on whether or not this was intended by Nintendo or if its just a miscalculated shadow from the unreliable GameCube. If some of the other dark references in the Mario series are anything to go by, we suspect that the developers wanted us to see this vision of the dead protagonist.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
