Bright Idea: Luigi's Mansion 2 for Wii

Yesterday, I was looking around for some artworks of Luigi in Luigi's Mansion to make some avatars and I got to thinking about the game. You all remember Luigi's Mansion right? It was a launch game for the Nintendo GameCube way back in 2001 and Luigi's second game where he was the hero and had to rescue Mario. (The first was Mario is Missing! for the SNES.) Luigi had mysteriously won a contest he never entered and won a huge mansion, the only problem was that it was full of ghosts and they had captured his brother Mario! He had to go around sucking up ghosts with his vacuum machine a.k.a. the Poltergust 3000, to purify the mansion and save his brother.

Make it happen Nintendo!

Anyway, now that your minds have been refreshed, you probably remember how it was an okay game. It wasn't anything amazing, but it was a good game. I know that I enjoyed it, but back in the day if they had made a sequel for the GameCube I would probably have just passed it up. Now that the GC's life span is coming to the end it's apparent that Nintendo didn't think it was really worth a sequel either, but now that we have the Wii and it's amazing new controller everything could change.

Let's imagine for a moment. The Wiimote could be used a your Poltergust 3000 and the motion sensing in the Nunchuck attachment could be used as the flashlight. You're walking through a room when BOO! a ghost jumps out at you. You point your nunchuck controller at the ghost and press the trigger the flashlight flashes right in his face and freezes him. Then you point your Wiimote in the direction of the ghost and press and hold A to suck him up. The controller vibrates as you pull him in and makes all sorts of sucking sounds.

Use the Wiimote as your flashlight and Poltergust 3000!

Of course there will be all sorts of new ghosts and tricks they play on you, but to combat their new strengths you'll have to get upgrades of your Poltergust 3000! The money you collect throughout the game can now be put to use and you can purchase upgrades that Professor E. Gadd has worked up as you progress. Maybe certain ghosts can't be sucked up with just your regular 3000 so to advance you'll need to purchase a new one. As they get better and have more suction maybe they will be easier to handle. The original Poltergust 3000 may vibrate and rumble the controller a lot, but as they get better they will be easier to control and they won't vibrate as much. You could also buy better flashlights that shine brighter or stun the ghosts longer. Now the money can actually be used for something other than how big your house is at the end of the game.

I don't really have any ideas for the story, but I'm sure that Nintendo could come up with something. They always do. Maybe Peach's castle has been overrun with ghosts and they've taken her and Mario hostage and now it's up to Luigi to save them. Pretty much anything could work for a story that Nintendo comes up with.

Luigi you're going to go ghost hunting again!

After giving this a good amount of thought I'm actually getting excited about the possibility of a sequel for the Wii. After the flashlight demo game for the Wii there were a few rumors going around that maybe it was the ground work for another Luigi's Mansion. Nintendo knows they've got something special with their controller and it can work as a many number of things from guns, to tennis rackets, to swords, and even Poltergust 3000s. I hope someone at Nintendo realizes this and turns this dream into a reality.