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Luigi's
Mansion

Accessibility Report

21 Accessibility Features

We've documented 21 accessibility features for Luigi's Mansion, including Large Subtitles, Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions, No Button Combos and No Repeated Pressing. Its accessibility is strongest in Reading and Visual but it also has features in Controls, Getting Started, Navigation and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.

This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.

Luigi's Mansion is an adventure game where you investigate a haunted mansion to capture the ghosts. As long-standing Nintendo character Luigi, you play a ghostbuster to capture various mischievous ghouls and rescue Mario. It stands out for the unusual spooky premise combined with beautiful intricate environments and brain-teasing puzzles.

External examiner, Jonah Monaghan, first checked Luigi's Mansion accessibility 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Ben Kendall and updated 7 months ago.

Accessibility Notes

To perform some actions you need to hold down a button. When playing on 3DS with another player, player 2 plays as Googi, who can revive infinitely, essentially making him invincible. However, this only works in two-player mode and the first player can still fail.

Text is all high in contrast but can be small, although subtitles are just above 1/20^th of screen height and high in contrast. There's minimal voice acting. The game can be very dark at parts, and there are flashing lights (lightning bolts) in cutscenes and occasional screen shake.

The in-game map shows which doors are locked and which ones you have keys to, as well as any ghosts present in the room you're in and whether you've got all the treasure hidden there.

Some of the sound effects can be very useful, especially in knowing when a ghost appears or has been sucked up, so sound is helpful when playing the game, even if not strictly necessary.

Game Details

Release Date: 14/09/2001, updated in 2018

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and GameCube

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Players: 1-2

Genres: Adventure (Action, Collecting, Puzzle, Stealth and Traversal)

Accessibility: 21 features

Components: 2D Side-On

Developer: Nintendo America (@NintendoAmerica)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Controls in Luigi's Mansion which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Gamepad

Can play with the following:

Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.

Button Combinations

Specific button operation required to play

Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing (more than 2 times a second) is not required, can be skipped or switched to holding a button to trigger a repeated action.

No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).

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If you want to play Luigi's Mansion, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:

The Spirit and the Mouse (15 Controls Features)
Portal (11 Controls Features)
Ghostwire Tokyo (10 Controls Features)
Dredge (8 Controls Features)

Difficulty

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Luigi's Mansion which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play. The following games are similar to Luigi's Mansion, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:

Dredge (2 Difficulty Features)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (2 Difficulty Features)
Ghostwire Tokyo (1 Difficulty Feature)

Getting Started

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Getting Started in Luigi's Mansion which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.

Assistance Getting Starting

These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.

Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.

Reaction-Time Not Critical: Individual game actions don’t need quick reactions, or there are settings to lower the requirement for quick reactions. This means you don't need to quickly press a button in response to an on-screen prompt, target a fast-moving target or skillfully complete a scenario against the clock.

Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.

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If you want to play Luigi's Mansion, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

Lost and Hound (8 Getting Started Features)
Toem (7 Getting Started Features)
Dredge (6 Getting Started Features)
Ghostwire Tokyo (6 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 6 accessibility features for Reading in Luigi's Mansion which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.

Reading Level

How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.

Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.

Text Visibility

High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.

Subtitles

Large Clear Subtitles: Subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast. They are at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height of a landscape screen and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens, or can be adjusted to be. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters. Considered separately from the general text of the game, the subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast.

All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.

Captions

Speaker Indicator: Textual captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or placing text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.

Voice Acted

Some Dialogue is Voice Acted: Some of the game dialogue and narrative is voice acted. This reduces the pressure on reading all the dialogue text, although not everything is provided audibly.

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If you want to play Luigi's Mansion, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Reading accessibility:

Ghostwire Tokyo (7 Reading Features)

Navigation

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Navigation in Luigi's Mansion which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.

Clarity

Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.

Head-Up Display

Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.

Menu Navigation

Digital Menu Navigation: Menu choices with Gamepad can be made without using an analogue stick to guide a cursor to a selection. For example, using D-Pad, buttons or the Stick to change menu selection in a single action.

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If you want to play Luigi's Mansion, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

Ghostwire Tokyo (7 Navigation Features)
Lost and Hound (6 Navigation Features)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (4 Navigation Features)
Luigi's Mansion 2 (4 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 5 accessibility features for Visual in Luigi's Mansion which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.

Contrast

Medium Contrast: Game uses generally well contrasting and bright visuals, or has a slider to make this the case.

Visual Distractions

No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.

Audio Cues for Visual Events

Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. Game events or progress highlighted by visual icons, effects or animations are also accompanied by audio to signify that progress. This is useful for blind players.

Motion Sickness Friendly

Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.

Colour Options

Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

If you want to play Luigi's Mansion, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:

Lost and Hound (10 Visual Features)
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (6 Visual Features)

Audio

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Luigi's Mansion which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.

Play Without Hearing

Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.

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If you want to play Luigi's Mansion, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility: