Hello and welcome to the Canaan Rends podcast, Volume 12, Issue 567, in which we talk about

Luigi's Mansion 2, Dark Moon. Joining me, Ryan Zhao, in Issue 567, are Ryan Edwards,

Hello, hello, James Carter.

Hi.

And Jesse Fuchs.

Hello.

I try.

Luigi's Mansion, Dark Moon, as it's known in the Americas, Luigi's Mansion 2,

as it's known in other regions. Interesting

for the title to... I wonder what the reason is for not calling it Louis G's Mansion 2 worldwide.

Sometimes there's the idea that if a sequel comes like many, many years too late, or if maybe like a previous game or movie wasn't well

received, then sometimes they'll drop a number from the title to make sure it doesn't

read as required viewing, so to speak.

But, you know, I think while the legacy of Luigi's Mansion 1 on the GameCue was that

it perhaps kind of snuck out the gate with a

little bit less fanfare and a little bit less of a explosion than Nintendo was hoping for

by the time the sequel came around, I think public perception had really kind of turned a corner on it

and it was viewed as one of those hidden treasures, so to speak, not hidden in as much as it was a console launch title,

first-party Nintendo game. But perhaps just the fact that it made less of a splash than

Super Mario 64 was perhaps seen as a little bit of a deflation at the time. And kind of what

makes it cool and interesting in the years since then. So I think we'll be contending a lot with the

legacy of the series, it changing hands to a new developer for the sequel, and then that

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