Would you have wanted to play the original version of Luigi's Mansion?

[GalacticPetey]

As some of you may know, the beta version of Luigi's Mansion was very different. Here are some scrapped ideas:

• You originally had 24 hours to rescue Mario. If you didn't, you would get a game over and you would get a disturbing image of a depressed Luigi.
• The Poltergust originally had a pressure meter. If you exerted too much pressure, the device would overheat and you would get burned
• There was a originally a hunter portrait ghost who wanted to add Luigi's head to his collection.
• There was originally a ghost that would appear and scream behind Luigi. This would scare him and cause him to loose half of his health.
• Originally, the music would be come deeper and scarier when Luigi was low on health.
• The rooms were going to have real-time changes in them.
• The original theme tune was bleaker and creepier.

So it sounds like the original version of the game was much creepier and more challenging. I would've loved to have played this version. What about you?

 

[Shyghoul]

screw the poltergust pressure gimmick and I would have played it

 

[Magikrazy]

I'm imagining the hunter ghost as Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[DragonFreak]

Yeah. Especially the time limit thing. Reminds me of Majora's Mask.

 

[Dr. Javelin]

They should have made all of those in a "Hard mode" or something.

 

[Duskull]

I never got to play the actual game, but I have seen a playthrough. All of those things would've interested me.

 

[fantanoice]

They seem like things I would like to play now but they would have driven me crazy as a kid.

 

[Walkazo]

Hell yeah I'd play it.

 

[Gumball Machine]

• • You originally had 24 hours to rescue Mario. If you didn't, you would get a game over and you would get a disturbing image of a depressed Luigi.

  
  Nope. I'm not good with time limits. Same reason I never played Pikmin. Although if I knew Pikmin 2 had an unlimited number of days, I may have given it a shot.
  
  

  • There was a originally a hunter portrait ghost who wanted to add Luigi's head to his collection.

  
  That sounds rather interesting.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

Luigi's Mansion doesn't take 24 hours to complete, though. It's really short.

Unless it's 24 hours by game time.

 

[Glowsquid]

You originally had 24 hours to rescue Mario. If you didn't, you would get a game over and you would get a disturbing image of a depressed Luigi.

Say, is there anything to substantiate that or is it just taken from our (really shitty and speculative) beta page?

 

[Duskull]

Apparently there's a Nintendo Power issue that supports it