Although Spring might not have arrived in any meaningful sense, I suspect a lot of people spent the long Easter weekend engaged in the traditional spring cleaning session nonetheless. I certainly did - vacuuming down cobwebs, removing stray pieces of wallpaper, and blinding ghosts with my flashlight.
Wait - that's Luigi's Mansion 2, isn't it?
No matter, if any game can capture the sense of pottering around the house on a bank holiday, tidying up odds and ends, it's this one. I'm surprised you don't see E. Gadd busting out the grout whitener, really. Luigi's Mansion 2 is a reminder that while games can be perfectly comfortable summoning chaos and depicting the end of the world, they're also pretty good at evoking a sense of domesticity and allowing you to revel in the guilty pleasure of restoring order to the environment.
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Wait - that's Luigi's Mansion 2, isn't it?
No matter, if any game can capture the sense of pottering around the house on a bank holiday, tidying up odds and ends, it's this one. I'm surprised you don't see E. Gadd busting out the grout whitener, really. Luigi's Mansion 2 is a reminder that while games can be perfectly comfortable summoning chaos and depicting the end of the world, they're also pretty good at evoking a sense of domesticity and allowing you to revel in the guilty pleasure of restoring order to the environment.
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