The game was a launch title for the GameCube, and the second title in the Mario franchise where Luigi is the main character, instead of Mario, the first, third, fourth and fifth being Mario is Missing!, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, New Super Luigi U and Dr. Gadd for short) has equipped him with the "Poltergust 3000", a vacuum cleaner used for capturing ghosts, and a "Game Boy Horror", a device used for communicating with E. Gadd's paintings and it is up to the player to capture every one of them. It was one of the first games to be re-released as a Player's Choice title on the system. Luigi's Mansion is set in a haunted mansion next to a laboratory outside. The mansion consists of five floors, including a basement and a roof. This reveals the ghost's heart, giving Luigi a chance to suck it into the Poltergust 3000, steadily reducing the ghost's hit points to zero, at which point they can be captured. The ghosts remain in the Poltergust 3000, although certain more advanced ghosts named Portrait Ghosts are extracted and put back into their portraits after a process at the end of the game's four areas.
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