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I admit it. I am first to mention Nintendo's originality when it comes to videogames. Throughout the years, we've seen titles such as the unquestionably original Donkey Kong right through to such wierd and wacky titles suck as Doshin the Giant and Pikmin. But did Mr. Miyamoto make a booboo when he made Luigi's Mansion? It seems the purchase of a 1996 classic remake, Resident Evil, has began to question my mind...
First of all, although not exactly a horror game, but offering horror elements, namely ghosts, Luigi's Mansion is set in a mansion (funnily enough). Ofcourse, this similarity could be forgiven...if the mansions involved didn't have so many similarities!
Okay, okay, there aren't any killer dogs waiting outside the front door for you in Luigi's Mansion...but there should have been! It would have been hilarious to have seen Luigi running for his life every time he wanted to go from Prof. E. Gadd's hut to the mansion! The unncessary inclusion of two ravens in the opening cut-scene of Luigi's Mansion does seem to make me wonder if Miyamoto had been playing the Playstation version of Resident Evil a little more than Darth Yamauchi would have liked.
At the beginning of both games, the main characters start in the mansion foyers. Ok, mansions are big buildings, but the fact remains that the staircases in the centre far back of the foyers are very similar! Did Miyamoto copy the mansion design in this respect?
Or maybe in another respect when it comes to the graveyard out the back of the mansion? It seems very coinidental that the mansions are so alike in these ways.
You think I'm just being stupid (claps hands)? Well take a look at the save points in the game. On the original Playstation game, there is a save point in the main foyer (in the form of a typewriter, conviniently placed). In Luigi's Mansion, the save point is in the main foyer in the form of a mushroom with a face. Okay, not exactly the same type of 3D object, but they do the same in principle.
YATTA!
*ahem* You may well have noticed that Marshmellow Man has been truly dishonoured (skid-marks tee-hee!) by Luigi's Mansion too (despite being a rip-off of the Michelin Man, a.k.a. Toffo). Basically, Mr. Miyamoto has ripped off both Ghostbusters and Resident Evil claiming his game to be a truly original piece of work.
But is that where the lack of imagination from Miyamoto's part both begins and ends, with Luigi's mansion?
Well put it this way, did you notice that strange feeling of deja-vu (not the Game Boy Color game) when Nintendo first released Donkey Kong in the arcades in 1981? Does a certain giant ape grabbing helicopters and eating chewits in that old black and white movie with spectacular special effects ring any bells?
Didn't think so.
So is this the end of Miyamoto's originality streak? Did it ever begin? Is this just a bit of humorous babble aimed at lightening your day ever so slightly? And does Tony Blair really have 3 nipples?
Find out...sometime....soooooooooon!
First of all, although not exactly a horror game, but offering horror elements, namely ghosts, Luigi's Mansion is set in a mansion (funnily enough). Ofcourse, this similarity could be forgiven...if the mansions involved didn't have so many similarities!
Okay, okay, there aren't any killer dogs waiting outside the front door for you in Luigi's Mansion...but there should have been! It would have been hilarious to have seen Luigi running for his life every time he wanted to go from Prof. E. Gadd's hut to the mansion! The unncessary inclusion of two ravens in the opening cut-scene of Luigi's Mansion does seem to make me wonder if Miyamoto had been playing the Playstation version of Resident Evil a little more than Darth Yamauchi would have liked.
At the beginning of both games, the main characters start in the mansion foyers. Ok, mansions are big buildings, but the fact remains that the staircases in the centre far back of the foyers are very similar! Did Miyamoto copy the mansion design in this respect?
Or maybe in another respect when it comes to the graveyard out the back of the mansion? It seems very coinidental that the mansions are so alike in these ways.
You think I'm just being stupid (claps hands)? Well take a look at the save points in the game. On the original Playstation game, there is a save point in the main foyer (in the form of a typewriter, conviniently placed). In Luigi's Mansion, the save point is in the main foyer in the form of a mushroom with a face. Okay, not exactly the same type of 3D object, but they do the same in principle.
YATTA!
*ahem* You may well have noticed that Marshmellow Man has been truly dishonoured (skid-marks tee-hee!) by Luigi's Mansion too (despite being a rip-off of the Michelin Man, a.k.a. Toffo). Basically, Mr. Miyamoto has ripped off both Ghostbusters and Resident Evil claiming his game to be a truly original piece of work.
But is that where the lack of imagination from Miyamoto's part both begins and ends, with Luigi's mansion?
Well put it this way, did you notice that strange feeling of deja-vu (not the Game Boy Color game) when Nintendo first released Donkey Kong in the arcades in 1981? Does a certain giant ape grabbing helicopters and eating chewits in that old black and white movie with spectacular special effects ring any bells?
Didn't think so
So is this the end of Miyamoto's originality streak? Did it ever begin? Is this just a bit of humorous babble aimed at lightening your day ever so slightly? And does Tony Blair really have 3 nipples?
Find out...sometime....soooooooooon!
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I admit it. I am first to mention Nintendo's originality when it comes to videogames. Throughout the years, we've seen titles such as the unquestionably original Donkey Kong right through to such wierd and wacky titles suck as Doshin the Giant and Pikmin. But did Mr. Miyamoto make a booboo when he made Luigi's Mansion? It seems the purchase of a 1996 classic remake, Resident Evil, has began to question my mind...
First of all, although not exactly a horror game, but offering horror elements, namely ghosts, Luigi's Mansion is set in a mansion (funnily enough). Ofcourse, this similarity could be forgiven...if the mansions involved didn't have so many similarities!
Okay, okay, there aren't any killer dogs waiting outside the front door for you in Luigi's Mansion...but there should have been! It would have been hilarious to have seen Luigi running for his life every time he wanted to go from Prof. E. Gadd's hut to the mansion! The unncessary inclusion of two ravens in the opening cut-scene of Luigi's Mansion does seem to make me wonder if Miyamoto had been playing the Playstation version of Resident Evil a little more than Darth Yamauchi would have liked.
At the beginning of both games, the main characters start in the mansion foyers. Ok, mansions are big buildings, but the fact remains that the staircases in the centre far back of the foyers are very similar! Did Miyamoto copy the mansion design in this respect?
Or maybe in another respect when it comes to the graveyard out the back of the mansion? It seems very coinidental that the mansions are so alike in these ways.
You think I'm just being stupid (claps hands)? Well take a look at the save points in the game. On the original Playstation game, there is a save point in the main foyer (in the form of a typewriter, conviniently placed). In Luigi's Mansion, the save point is in the main foyer in the form of a mushroom with a face. Okay, not exactly the same type of 3D object, but they do the same in principle.
YATTA!
*ahem* You may well have noticed that Marshmellow Man has been truly dishonoured (skid-marks tee-hee!) by Luigi's Mansion too (despite being a rip-off of the Michelin Man, a.k.a. Toffo). Basically, Mr. Miyamoto has ripped off both Ghostbusters and Resident Evil claiming his game to be a truly original piece of work.
But is that where the lack of imagination from Miyamoto's part both begins and ends, with Luigi's mansion?
Well put it this way, did you notice that strange feeling of deja-vu (not the Game Boy Color game) when Nintendo first released Donkey Kong in the arcades in 1981? Does a certain giant ape grabbing helicopters and eating chewits in that old black and white movie with spectacular special effects ring any bells?
Didn't think so.
So is this the end of Miyamoto's originality streak? Did it ever begin? Is this just a bit of humorous babble aimed at lightening your day ever so slightly? And does Tony Blair really have 3 nipples?
Find out...sometime....soooooooooon!
First of all, although not exactly a horror game, but offering horror elements, namely ghosts, Luigi's Mansion is set in a mansion (funnily enough). Ofcourse, this similarity could be forgiven...if the mansions involved didn't have so many similarities!
Okay, okay, there aren't any killer dogs waiting outside the front door for you in Luigi's Mansion...but there should have been! It would have been hilarious to have seen Luigi running for his life every time he wanted to go from Prof. E. Gadd's hut to the mansion! The unncessary inclusion of two ravens in the opening cut-scene of Luigi's Mansion does seem to make me wonder if Miyamoto had been playing the Playstation version of Resident Evil a little more than Darth Yamauchi would have liked.
At the beginning of both games, the main characters start in the mansion foyers. Ok, mansions are big buildings, but the fact remains that the staircases in the centre far back of the foyers are very similar! Did Miyamoto copy the mansion design in this respect?
Or maybe in another respect when it comes to the graveyard out the back of the mansion? It seems very coinidental that the mansions are so alike in these ways.
You think I'm just being stupid (claps hands)? Well take a look at the save points in the game. On the original Playstation game, there is a save point in the main foyer (in the form of a typewriter, conviniently placed). In Luigi's Mansion, the save point is in the main foyer in the form of a mushroom with a face. Okay, not exactly the same type of 3D object, but they do the same in principle.
YATTA!
*ahem* You may well have noticed that Marshmellow Man has been truly dishonoured (skid-marks tee-hee!) by Luigi's Mansion too (despite being a rip-off of the Michelin Man, a.k.a. Toffo). Basically, Mr. Miyamoto has ripped off both Ghostbusters and Resident Evil claiming his game to be a truly original piece of work.
But is that where the lack of imagination from Miyamoto's part both begins and ends, with Luigi's mansion?
Well put it this way, did you notice that strange feeling of deja-vu (not the Game Boy Color game) when Nintendo first released Donkey Kong in the arcades in 1981? Does a certain giant ape grabbing helicopters and eating chewits in that old black and white movie with spectacular special effects ring any bells?
Didn't think so
So is this the end of Miyamoto's originality streak? Did it ever begin? Is this just a bit of humorous babble aimed at lightening your day ever so slightly? And does Tony Blair really have 3 nipples?
Find out...sometime....soooooooooon!
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