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Luigi's Mansion [Beta]
In its E3 '01 version, Luigi's Mansion
featured different ghosts than the final version. The 3 main ghosts
(Orange, Pink, and Blue) were very different looking than their present
day forms. The Orange ghost used to be a pink colored ghost featuring
smaller eyes and mouth. The tall and thin pink ghost was once an orange
lanky ghost with a huge nose. The blue ghost was originally a purplish
colored ghost with smaller eyes and mouth. There was also another ghost
that was scrapped from the final. It was colored dark purple, had a
similar look to the pink beta ghost, and was only found in the hallways
of the Mansion. Of what the ghost did was come up behind Luigi and
scream; causing Luigi to yell in fear and fall to the ground. This would
cause 50 HP to be drained from Luigi's health and temporarily shrink his
total HP to 50 as well. If the ghost still exists, it would have the
same behavior as a ReDead.
In very early screenshots (all being the E3 version), there were shots
of a timer in the Game Boy Horror, possibly hinting that the game was
either going to have a challenge mode or a time limit, but was scrapped
in the final version. In other builds, the Gameboy Horror also feature a
Gameboy Camera-like effect, so it showed everything it could "see". It
is suspected that the Gameboy Horror had at first the time keeping
function, and then the Gameboy Camera-like mode, and the onto a
different version of the final's GBH. The near final build had more of a
cartoony icon set, while the final build has the more realistic icon
set.
The Poltergust 3000 once featured a "heat meter", showing of how hot it
would get from sucking objects and ghosts up. Its gauge went from a
level of 1 to 10. Once it got to 10, the Poltergust 3000 would burst
into flames, and cause Luigi to collapse onto the floor, also having
Luigi lose some of his HP. On the side note, the Poltergust 3000 was
more squarish compared to the final's version.
Other differences include slight changes in room designs, a beta coin
meter, and many other objects.
[info from
Wikipedia] |
