I think you missed a bit on the last one. There is another fear that humans have from an early age--that of falling. Showing how high up you are in that way, then making you carefully navigate forward is part of the feeling, too. It primes the player to be in a spooky mood, same as the music, so the spiders seem even spookier.
I'd love to see the research studies redone to evaluate how scary certain TV logos are. Some people are scared of the "Viacom V of Doom" and the "THX Deep Note".
Oh yeah the THX sound it always spooked me and my sister when we were kids watching Pixar movies to be honest the sound still sends chills up my spine to this day
Non-linear sounds are my favorite. It's why I love bands like Animal Collective, MGMT, and Shpongle. Very tastefully balanced linear and non-linear sound to mess with your mind.
In my opinion, the scariest part of Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon was the 5th mansion's "investigation" section. I mean seriously, for all other 4 investigations where completely separate, and not really animated. It blew away expectations when you went to gather information on the king boo. I mean, it was really well done.
I get a heart attack every time at the ghost jumpscare in luigi's mansion 3. You go to the balcony with some flowers, ravens and a telescope. You obviously watch through it and see a big detailed panorama with dark colours. Then, at the PERFECT timing (after 5 seconds or so), a ghost shows up blocking your sight. The developers knew exactly when to make the ghost appear and it's my scariest moment of the playthrough.
And the King Boo jumpscare in Dark Moon! In this game you study these still pictures of scenarios at the mansions, however in one of them you zoom in to king boo and out of nowhere BAM! I had a friend who was playing in the bathroom while I was at his house and I heard him let out a faint noise and asked "Did King Boo trick you?" It works because they're just still pictures so you don't expect it to move, kinda like night 5 in fnaf
Me too. I never expected a cartoony ghost to scare me. It gave me a smile afterwards. Another ghost that scared me was when you meet one of those grabbing ghosts in the garden hotel area. It's invisible and in front of a door. You approach the door and boo, it reveals itself while grabbing Luigi.
When I was younger, I didn’t have a memory card. This meant that a fatal hit was a complete restart. For some reason this made the game more scary, as a fake door or a jump scaring ghost could mean the end of the run.
The first Luigi's Mansion in its entirety was a masterclass in generating horror by keeping things unknown. Everything about the game--the setting, the camera angle, the fact that it's starring a character who is traditionally only a sidekick--they were all used to constantly make you feel like you didn't fully know what you were getting into. In my opinion, it worked fantastically.
I miss the atmosphere from the first game. I liked the sequels, especially the 3rd game, but the first game had just the right amount of horror for the series.
For me, the scariest part in the whole trilogy is when you are in the unnatural history museum in lm3 and you walk down the long corridor and after every flash of lightning the skeleton changes. This reminded me of the dinosaur from the wooded kingdom in super Mario odyssey. I hope they scare me that much in the next luigis mansion game.
I was surprised that wasn't what was going to be mentioned, it actually would've fit a lot better with the flow of the video too because the first part was about the unknown and lightning, an important core to horror movies, then sound which is another core and finally anticipation of a known threat/size. In the video though part 3 is just spiders which isn't as broad as the other two, also not everyone is scared of spiders, and it seems that there's less people scared of them nowadays as compared to even a few years ago in large part I think to people being introduced to them via animal lecturers and other videos(like, have you seen jumping spiders? They're too adorable to be scary). Even black widows don't scare me anymore because I see them all the time around my house and know not to mess with them and they certainly wouldn't go out of their way to try to hurt you. Now something like an ostrich or a honey badger is different, they have no fear and will hunt you down and mess you up just because they find your existence an annoyance to them.
Well, there’s Mario Galaxy. Although, besides the Shiverburn thingies, there’s actually not much. Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are really normal on someone’s first playthrough. You occasionally feel scared, but that’s usually when you might die or an enemy appears out of nowhere. There are secrets, but they aren’t too scary. We even have Beach Bowl Galaxy! A beach one! Nothing goes wrong with those! Just nice, happy music. Seriously, Beach Bowl is upbeat. It’s a beach-themed galaxy. All beach-themed galaxies are happy. You feel happy, and want to explore the ocean. The cheep-cheeps, the shells to help you swim, everything is good. That’s the beauty of beach themes. They always bring jo- Deep Dark Galaxy. This. This one, however. It’s very different. It unsettles the player with a beach. Fun, right? No. It’s horrifying. In this galaxy, you go deep in the ocean, and the environment is dark and spooky. No boos needed. In fact, there aren’t any undead enemies in this galaxy. There’s a shipwreck at the bottom. An increased feeling of dread. Luckily, you just fight Kamella, and there’s nothing more. Right? Actually, yes. That is it. That’s all this eerie galaxy has to offer. Well, except for.... secrets. There’s Gateway Galaxy inside this one. However, there’s what looks like a cork, or stump (I can’t remember.) Then, the galaxy deflates. It shrinks, making the player feel weird and scared. A once comforting place, shrinking into nothing. And of course, out of bounds secrets. There are many out-of-bounds tricks in this galaxy. Clipping under a chair. A mysterious launch star that takes you to death. The inaccessible planets. The music too. Deep Dark Galaxy is truly scary, and the fact that it’s done with the typically happiest theme, makes it scarier. No ghosts or ghost houses are needed. In Deep Dark Galaxy, you fear what lurks below the surface.
The dinosaur room was actually pretty freaky in Mansion 3. The skeleton moving as the lightning flashes was really well done. LoZ has a lot of scary things in it too, though, and I feel like Twilight could be called a horror game as well. Nintendo has a lot more 'dark' content in their games than most people assume imo.
The sections in Dark Moon where you had to balance on the metal beams were really scary and intense because you could fall off and die at any moment while crossing to the other side.
I'm totally digging that Thomas is back! Also, the intro is great, and the sciencey aspect of your videos is terrific! Keep up the great work, you're an awesome creator!!
That isn’t actually made to sound scary and random. The notes of the song are in a way that it’s supposed to sound like the song is getting higher and higher while staying the same notes. Like how if you don’t have enough stars (or you don’t know how to do speedrunning tricks) you just keep going up and up and up...
@Kanashimi They're both built on the principle of something seemingly rising in pitch forever with somewhat hidden octave drops (though they're much more prevalent in the infinite staircase)
The thing is, i remember when Thomas asked if anyone had some footage of picking up Luigi's Mansion in a dark room, for a moment I became so hyped because my sister had the 3DS version, then he said that he needed the GameCube version, and i slowly sat down again, knowing that i wouldnt be able to do it
This is such a well done video, Thomas! You totally should make a video about Eternal Darkness! It's a horror game made by Nintendo and Silicon Knights, with people like Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata and Hiroshi Yamauchi as producers! Eternal Darkness is probably the most scary horror game I've ever played and no game hacks your brain more than that one. The game even mimicks things like save corruption and loading errors to screw with your mind.
I thought the beginning of Luigi's Mansion 3, right after the hotel changes from normal to sp00ky, was quite scary too. With the empty, half-destroyed rooms, where a few hours ago you said goodnight to your brother and his girlfriend. I guess the opening section creates a false sense of security, and even though the entire game is made in such a cartoony style, it made an impression on me.
I love how creepy the first game is, and Dark Moon is also really creepy at times and is my favorite! In fact, it scares me more than the original did...still creeps me out in some places! That part with the strange music was definitely creepy, but when I first played Dark Moon the creepiness really started to pick up after the first mansion! Random unexplained things moving in the dark (being made even creepier when you realize there is no ghost playing around), really ominous atmospheres and sounds, unexplainable events and occurances (take the Secret Mine for example when that certain strange figure flies across the scenery, and you must wonder if something's about to happen...) and even completely unexpected jumpscares where the game makes sure you are least expecting it did a good job in creeping me out and even startling me in Dark Moon! Overall, it was a fun experience, one of the best experiences with a game I ever had. And its length matched my pace at playing games! Anyone who has played the entire game, Dark Moon, past the first mansion would definitely have to admit Dark Moon had its really dark, creepy moments. But when everyone stops at the first mansion and basically judge the book by its cover, they claim the game isnt scary and never give it a chance to really see what it has to offer. Of course that, along with the huge amount of adventure it contains and the SUSPENSE...it makes Dark Moon my favorite Luigi's Mansion. Even after Luigi's Mansion 3. Especially after Luigi's Mansion 3, actually. 3 kind of disappointed me, though the beginning was REALLY good I must admit. So good, I'm willing to replay the beginning again. But just the beginning. I'm surprised you couldn't find anything creepier to mention than a mere spider room. Really? Thats all you could find? When I went into a room full of spiders, I didnt have a problem flashing them and just being on my way, simple. The tiny little pests arent what make a Luigi's Mansion game scary. I thought you were going to mention that really ominous beginning I enjoyed, just as ominous as Dark Moon can get later on! (I can even make a whole list of the really creepy parts of Dark Moon. As you might expect, most arent a part of the first mansion...but past the first mansion, things do get good if thats what someones looking for).
Dark Moon's ghost themes are the scariest imo Some of them are like the original; kinda unsettling when you first hear it, but nothing scary But others are less cartoony and genuinely frightening, and it made me tense up Even with those themes though, there's still other tracks that are so ominous and if you were to show someone who've never played the game without telling them where it came from, they wouldn't be able to tell you The garage and antechamber are some of the creepiest tracks I've ever heard (there's more but I forget the names) There's something about them that gives me unease when playing; a sudden sense of tension which isn't as straightforward as the other moments in the game, jumpscares are a good example of that Jumpscares have a source of the scariness but those tracks don't have a clear source; we have no clear idea what's making those noises other than just speculating Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is underrated and holds a lot of creepiness, glad to see someone agrees
What actually scared me in dark moon was when you entered the last mansion after getting the entrance key and king boo lighting up in the dark hall way That was horrifying
Oooo yeah I remembe that part! That was awesome. And remember when they were looking at the security image of all the boos and regular ghosts messing around and King Boo turned around in the image and started laughing! That was probably my favourite part of the whole game, I just really love his laugh for some reason.
I remember in Dark Moon that when Luigi heads up to the Old Clockwork, there is a short cutscene in which Luigi shines his flashlight left and right while facing the screen and u see King Boo behind him smiling. Now that was a real spook.
King Boo popping up in the dark, and the flashlight just missing him combined with Luigi’s frightened mumbling was something that got me. The piano mission both scared me, being a wimp, but made me love the game even more, being a pianist. The first boss I just didn’t like because, arachnophobia.
i remember being tense while playing the first one and getting spooped by random ghost or boos, and with Dark moon and 3D the 1st boss gave me a heart attack :'^)
Just the other day I was wondering why are people so afraid of bugs and spiders, since they're so tiny. I didn't expect the answer would come from Thomas Game Docs XD. Good video, man
Luigi's Mansion is pretty unique game imo, and does a good job of putting Luigi in the spotlight. I feel Luigi's Mansion is the most creepy one, Dark Moon was a bit more cartoonish, buy is respectable and does a great job at certain parts, and 3 did a good job of returning to the first one, while keeping the cartoonish look from Dark Moon.
9:42 Him: You're Horrified, Paralyzed, With Fear Me: *cries of laughter because of how the spiders are so cute and it's silly crab-like walking animation along with the quantity of them* Edit: I wasn't afraid at all in that part
9:26 this room scared me a lot, I wasn't expecting that at all!! It gave me anxiety because i wanted all the money but at the same time i wanted to get out as fast as i could because of that creepy music. It felt like something was going to happen and that i should get out before it happen 😬
Luigi's Mansion 1 and 3 are such excellent games. In some ways, I truly believe 1 is the best - so atmospheric, such minimal music, ghosts quietly humming the main tune when the lights are off, out of site but ever present. And once the lights turned on, they STAYED on, giving you permanent safe rooms. 3 is probably the "best" game, as it has a good mixture of creepy and kooky. And King Boo looks freaking sweet, definitely Nintendo's scariest villain. Bowser is big and intimidating, classic great bad guy. King Boo, however, is truly terrifying, exuding and aura of evil, the likes of which Bowser just doesn't come close to. 2 fell short, in my opinion. Good game, but inferior to 1 and 3.
non linear sounds: speaker turned up too loud, marmot alert scream, violin bow scratch, bass boosted toad sings never gonna give you up. Deeply unsettling that last one is
about the pupil experiment: pupils get bigger if you love something or feel comfortable pupils get smaller if you're tense and worked up that's why (for example) in anime, when a character goes full psycho, their pupils get unrealistically small (because that happens irl too) also, when you're high, (high, not stoned) your pupils get big af too
God damn, I played all three Luigi's Mansion games and there was at least ONE thing that scared me. In the original...it was the baby. In Dark Moon, it was the demented laughing of the Ghosts... In 3? The dinosaur boss fight.
8:00 I love the mental image of scientists playing music for one group and grating noise for another and comparing how each group felt about the 'music'. "Huh looks like nobody preferred the atonal mix of horrible screeching. fascinating!"
Another lesser example of the music, not as scary or anything, but the dark moon boss where the leadup was climbing up stairs. the music was simplistic, consisting of a single rising and dropping melody, but as you went up the stairs, it got more intense, and one mistake sent you back to the bottom. Youre 90% of the way up, and SHINK, you slide all the way back to the bottom. It wasnt scary, but it was intense, man. Also that boss at the top was the objectively lamest in the series.
The best example of the more intenser (?) music though, isnt jaws, or anything else in movies or even a horror game. it is 100% sonic drowning music. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine. It starts off rather quiet, getting faster, faster, more instruments, faster, quicker still, more instruments getting louder as youre frantically trying to resurface, faster, youre getting so close, you can see it, just gotta get to the spring, and finishing the tune buildup reminiscent of a day in the life by the beatles, it stops and you immediately die. the end.
I actually wished they kept Luigi's mansion a bit more jumpy and scary. The first game scares me even now when I'm much older. And even when I was younger and watched my Brother play Dark Moon, the game wasn't AT ALL scary to me.. And that makes me a bit disappointed since the point of Luigi's Mansion was to make you feel on edge and constantly fearful. The next two Luigi's Mansion games weren't really like that. I was just sad that unique little feeling that made the whole game so special was taken away..
I was expecting the build up to the final boss for 3's moment. Not sure what it was, but I was very tense as you slowly follow Mario up to the top of the hotel
Yeah this game scared the living shit out of me as a kid. I remember when the power goes out in the entire mansion and I just turned off my gamecube. Lmao.
I forget his name, Grimer? The graveyard boss in the first game. I was genuinely terrified of his boss fight when I watched my parents play Luigi's Mansion. Then again I was very young at the time.
I just want to make my bastard of the details ok ! 00:38 2001 ? well not for you it's seems, because you play the game in pal so it was 2002 ! Also but the player's choice version of this game in Europe was released in late 2003, and the version you actually have in your hands in the video, is the version released after mid 2005 ! 4:40 that's not 12 years later !!! Luigi's mansion 2 was released in march 2013 worldwide, and Luigi's mansion 1 (as i said previously) was released in late 2001 in USA and japan, and in march 2002 in Europe... So 11 years later !
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Nice format of video
tfw you heart your own comment
Nah, I'm good.
HAHAHA! U ❤ your oun video! Hmm, sounds like ur desperate
Thomas Game Docs neat!
sometimes your voice sounds like a british luigi talking about his own game
... he really does thogh
I hear it now! why?
He’s secretly Luigi’s Cousin
Can't unhear now.
Holy shit how did you do that to my brain
I think you missed a bit on the last one. There is another fear that humans have from an early age--that of falling. Showing how high up you are in that way, then making you carefully navigate forward is part of the feeling, too. It primes the player to be in a spooky mood, same as the music, so the spiders seem even spookier.
So that's why I'm so scared by the pits in Super Mario Bros.
Ahem... *spoopy**
Also, the area where the spiders are is pretty small, this was done to cause claustrophobia.
What?
And being eaten
Who's playing the ominous, discordant piano music? Must be Thomas himself.
high chances, yes.
i actually quite like it! i’d be down for music from him haha
Sorry, music nerd here. I think you mean dissonant instead of discordant
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Luigi's mansion isn't the only scary series though. Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, now that's the frightening stuff.
Mario tennis ultra smash? Horrifying.
Mario Kart Tour is even more horrifying
Animal Crossing amiibo Festival...
SERIES?!
How about links crossbow training that game was horrifying
[InsertChannelNameHere] ture but never played
I'd love to see the research studies redone to evaluate how scary certain TV logos are. Some people are scared of the "Viacom V of Doom" and the "THX Deep Note".
Those tend to be just startling or uncomfortable sounds.
The THX thing was scary to me as a kid.
Oh yeah the THX sound it always spooked me and my sister when we were kids watching Pixar movies to be honest the sound still sends chills up my spine to this day
Look up Russian VID logo, this is nightmare fuel
@@r033cx i just checked, and i kind of wish i hadn´t
Great video!! Another great example of nonlinear sounds is the mangled piano at the beginning of BOTW’s Guardian theme.
ooh, that's super true! a truly terror-inducing piece of music, haha
Kougo Yeah! I honestly don’t mind that it’s an unskippable cutscene, it’s so nervewracking every time.
[DATA EXPUNGED] You can skip the blood moon cutscene. I think you just have to press any button then press +
@@ThomasGameDocs hey watch this video ruclips.net/video/e1VLcWKzpto/видео.html
Non-linear sounds are my favorite. It's why I love bands like Animal Collective, MGMT, and Shpongle. Very tastefully balanced linear and non-linear sound to mess with your mind.
Everybody gangsta till Luigi mansion starts actually hacking your brain.
Or maybe it's just you after being quarantined for about a week?
Everything feels like a brain hack now.
A week? How about two months?
I haven't left my house for almost a year.
2 weeks? It’s been 5 months...
My mom took down my count of how long we stayed home because it made her sad
In my opinion, the scariest part of Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon was the 5th mansion's "investigation" section. I mean seriously, for all other 4 investigations where completely separate, and not really animated. It blew away expectations when you went to gather information on the king boo. I mean, it was really well done.
This time when King Boo appears indoors just behind Luigi, I hoped he would also talk about this
The way you could see King Boo's shadow in some of the pictures from the toads was pretty creepy.
Oradimi That moment made my 12 year old self not play the game for a month!
“Luigi’s mansion is the only real scary series of games that Nintendo produce”
Have you played Metroid fusion?
No, no I haven’t
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Well I didn’t mean you... it’s a good game tho you should play
Two words: Eternal Darkness
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Oh wow I didn’t know that was a Nintendo game until now!
What about majoras masks
"Let's get that off the screen"
*puts it right back on screen*
I was looking for this comment!
I get a heart attack every time at the ghost jumpscare in luigi's mansion 3.
You go to the balcony with some flowers, ravens and a telescope. You obviously watch through it and see a big detailed panorama with dark colours. Then, at the PERFECT timing (after 5 seconds or so), a ghost shows up blocking your sight. The developers knew exactly when to make the ghost appear and it's my scariest moment of the playthrough.
And also the gold ghost jumpscare near the end of the game!
And the King Boo jumpscare in Dark Moon!
In this game you study these still pictures of scenarios at the mansions, however in one of them you zoom in to king boo and out of nowhere BAM! I had a friend who was playing in the bathroom while I was at his house and I heard him let out a faint noise and asked "Did King Boo trick you?" It works because they're just still pictures so you don't expect it to move, kinda like night 5 in fnaf
which balcony? I only encountered a balcony once in the game- and that was in the Fitness floor
@@billshears6062 in the suites
Me too. I never expected a cartoony ghost to scare me. It gave me a smile afterwards.
Another ghost that scared me was when you meet one of those grabbing ghosts in the garden hotel area. It's invisible and in front of a door. You approach the door and boo, it reveals itself while grabbing Luigi.
When I was younger, I didn’t have a memory card. This meant that a fatal hit was a complete restart. For some reason this made the game more scary, as a fake door or a jump scaring ghost could mean the end of the run.
That moment when there's a room full of spiders that they put there to scare you
But it's just a video game
And you're not even scared of spiders
The first Luigi's Mansion in its entirety was a masterclass in generating horror by keeping things unknown. Everything about the game--the setting, the camera angle, the fact that it's starring a character who is traditionally only a sidekick--they were all used to constantly make you feel like you didn't fully know what you were getting into. In my opinion, it worked fantastically.
I miss the atmosphere from the first game. I liked the sequels, especially the 3rd game, but the first game had just the right amount of horror for the series.
For me, the scariest part in the whole trilogy is when you are in the unnatural history museum in lm3 and you walk down the long corridor and after every flash of lightning the skeleton changes. This reminded me of the dinosaur from the wooded kingdom in super Mario odyssey. I hope they scare me that much in the next luigis mansion game.
I was surprised that wasn't what was going to be mentioned, it actually would've fit a lot better with the flow of the video too because the first part was about the unknown and lightning, an important core to horror movies, then sound which is another core and finally anticipation of a known threat/size.
In the video though part 3 is just spiders which isn't as broad as the other two, also not everyone is scared of spiders, and it seems that there's less people scared of them nowadays as compared to even a few years ago in large part I think to people being introduced to them via animal lecturers and other videos(like, have you seen jumping spiders? They're too adorable to be scary). Even black widows don't scare me anymore because I see them all the time around my house and know not to mess with them and they certainly wouldn't go out of their way to try to hurt you.
Now something like an ostrich or a honey badger is different, they have no fear and will hunt you down and mess you up just because they find your existence an annoyance to them.
The only scary series : earthbound wants to know your location
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mother 3 wants to know your location
@@somerandomnerd5736 during halloween when you dont have candy
Well, there’s Mario Galaxy. Although, besides the Shiverburn thingies, there’s actually not much. Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are really normal on someone’s first playthrough. You occasionally feel scared, but that’s usually when you might die or an enemy appears out of nowhere. There are secrets, but they aren’t too scary. We even have Beach Bowl Galaxy! A beach one! Nothing goes wrong with those! Just nice, happy music. Seriously, Beach Bowl is upbeat. It’s a beach-themed galaxy. All beach-themed galaxies are happy. You feel happy, and want to explore the ocean. The cheep-cheeps, the shells to help you swim, everything is good. That’s the beauty of beach themes. They always bring jo- Deep Dark Galaxy.
This. This one, however. It’s very different.
It unsettles the player with a beach. Fun, right?
No. It’s horrifying.
In this galaxy, you go deep in the ocean, and the environment is dark and spooky. No boos needed.
In fact, there aren’t any undead enemies in this galaxy.
There’s a shipwreck at the bottom. An increased feeling of dread.
Luckily, you just fight Kamella, and there’s nothing more. Right?
Actually, yes. That is it. That’s all this eerie galaxy has to offer.
Well, except for....
secrets.
There’s Gateway Galaxy inside this one. However, there’s what looks like a cork, or stump (I can’t remember.)
Then,
the galaxy deflates. It shrinks, making the player feel weird and scared.
A once comforting place, shrinking into nothing.
And of course, out of bounds secrets.
There are many out-of-bounds tricks in this galaxy. Clipping under a chair. A mysterious launch star that takes you to death.
The inaccessible planets.
The music too.
Deep Dark Galaxy is truly scary, and the fact that it’s done with the typically happiest theme, makes it scarier.
No ghosts or ghost houses are needed.
In Deep Dark Galaxy,
you fear what lurks below the surface.
Also, simply the Pokedex...
I really like the new intro drums you've been using! All your videos since you've come back from your hiatus have been great.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that :))
Luigi's Mansion 1 will forever be genuinely really scary to me. It always makes me feel uneasy
The dinosaur room was actually pretty freaky in Mansion 3. The skeleton moving as the lightning flashes was really well done.
LoZ has a lot of scary things in it too, though, and I feel like Twilight could be called a horror game as well. Nintendo has a lot more 'dark' content in their games than most people assume imo.
The sections in Dark Moon where you had to balance on the metal beams were really scary and intense because you could fall off and die at any moment while crossing to the other side.
I found the scariest part of the first game to be when all the power is shutdown. And you have to weave through all the previous areas you conquered.
I think Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon is HEAVILY underrated.
It's a fascinating game, and it takes me back to getting my first 3DS in 2012.
I'm totally digging that Thomas is back! Also, the intro is great, and the sciencey aspect of your videos is terrific! Keep up the great work, you're an awesome creator!!
The scariest parts of Dark Moon were the two King Boo jumpscares near the end of the game!
How about the "Infinite Staircase" from Super Mario 64?
That isn’t actually made to sound scary and random. The notes of the song are in a way that it’s supposed to sound like the song is getting higher and higher while staying the same notes. Like how if you don’t have enough stars (or you don’t know how to do speedrunning tricks) you just keep going up and up and up...
It’s very similar to a shephard tone, look into those
@Kanashimi They're both built on the principle of something seemingly rising in pitch forever with somewhat hidden octave drops (though they're much more prevalent in the infinite staircase)
If you wanna beat bowser in the sky you gotta have BLJ skills up your sleeve
I like that part of Dark Moon where Luigi gets spooked by a giant shadow from a small spider. That's some clever lighting!
The thing is, i remember when Thomas asked if anyone had some footage of picking up Luigi's Mansion in a dark room, for a moment I became so hyped because my sister had the 3DS version, then he said that he needed the GameCube version, and i slowly sat down again, knowing that i wouldnt be able to do it
Your sister is a he?
I only mentioned my sister once in this comment, other time I said he I was referring to Thomas
@@NoahHalfSquid no he's talking about Thomas
@@gabediasfernandes1073 bruh he said that, and this is 9 months old lol
@@NoahHalfSquid so what
This is such a well done video, Thomas! You totally should make a video about Eternal Darkness! It's a horror game made by Nintendo and Silicon Knights, with people like Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata and Hiroshi Yamauchi as producers! Eternal Darkness is probably the most scary horror game I've ever played and no game hacks your brain more than that one. The game even mimicks things like save corruption and loading errors to screw with your mind.
I thought the big thing for the spider room in Luigi's Mansion 3 was how cramped and trapped you were with spiders in every direction
I thought the beginning of Luigi's Mansion 3, right after the hotel changes from normal to sp00ky, was quite scary too. With the empty, half-destroyed rooms, where a few hours ago you said goodnight to your brother and his girlfriend. I guess the opening section creates a false sense of security, and even though the entire game is made in such a cartoony style, it made an impression on me.
I love how creepy the first game is, and Dark Moon is also really creepy at times and is my favorite! In fact, it scares me more than the original did...still creeps me out in some places! That part with the strange music was definitely creepy, but when I first played Dark Moon the creepiness really started to pick up after the first mansion! Random unexplained things moving in the dark (being made even creepier when you realize there is no ghost playing around), really ominous atmospheres and sounds, unexplainable events and occurances (take the Secret Mine for example when that certain strange figure flies across the scenery, and you must wonder if something's about to happen...) and even completely unexpected jumpscares where the game makes sure you are least expecting it did a good job in creeping me out and even startling me in Dark Moon! Overall, it was a fun experience, one of the best experiences with a game I ever had. And its length matched my pace at playing games! Anyone who has played the entire game, Dark Moon, past the first mansion would definitely have to admit Dark Moon had its really dark, creepy moments. But when everyone stops at the first mansion and basically judge the book by its cover, they claim the game isnt scary and never give it a chance to really see what it has to offer. Of course that, along with the huge amount of adventure it contains and the SUSPENSE...it makes Dark Moon my favorite Luigi's Mansion. Even after Luigi's Mansion 3. Especially after Luigi's Mansion 3, actually. 3 kind of disappointed me, though the beginning was REALLY good I must admit. So good, I'm willing to replay the beginning again. But just the beginning. I'm surprised you couldn't find anything creepier to mention than a mere spider room. Really? Thats all you could find? When I went into a room full of spiders, I didnt have a problem flashing them and just being on my way, simple. The tiny little pests arent what make a Luigi's Mansion game scary. I thought you were going to mention that really ominous beginning I enjoyed, just as ominous as Dark Moon can get later on! (I can even make a whole list of the really creepy parts of Dark Moon. As you might expect, most arent a part of the first mansion...but past the first mansion, things do get good if thats what someones looking for).
Dark Moon's ghost themes are the scariest imo
Some of them are like the original; kinda unsettling when you first hear it, but nothing scary
But others are less cartoony and genuinely frightening, and it made me tense up
Even with those themes though, there's still other tracks that are so ominous and if you were to show someone who've never played the game without telling them where it came from, they wouldn't be able to tell you
The garage and antechamber are some of the creepiest tracks I've ever heard (there's more but I forget the names)
There's something about them that gives me unease when playing; a sudden sense of tension which isn't as straightforward as the other moments in the game, jumpscares are a good example of that
Jumpscares have a source of the scariness but those tracks don't have a clear source; we have no clear idea what's making those noises other than just speculating
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is underrated and holds a lot of creepiness, glad to see someone agrees
Luigi games: Play mind games and scare you. Mario games: Run and jump and say "Yahoo!"
I can't believe that this video called my mind dumb
What actually scared me in dark moon was when you entered the last mansion after getting the entrance key and king boo lighting up in the dark hall way
That was horrifying
And also the moment when he moved in that security picture!
Oooo yeah I remembe that part! That was awesome. And remember when they were looking at the security image of all the boos and regular ghosts messing around and King Boo turned around in the image and started laughing! That was probably my favourite part of the whole game, I just really love his laugh for some reason.
I remember in Dark Moon that when Luigi heads up to the Old Clockwork, there is a short cutscene in which Luigi shines his flashlight left and right while facing the screen and u see King Boo behind him smiling. Now that was a real spook.
King Boo popping up in the dark, and the flashlight just missing him combined with Luigi’s frightened mumbling was something that got me.
The piano mission both scared me, being a wimp, but made me love the game even more, being a pianist. The first boss I just didn’t like because, arachnophobia.
The best scares happen when you least expect them. Second rule of horror.
Dude I’m an adult but that chase scene at the beginning of luigis mansion 3 scared the SHIT outta me.
I remember when I first saw the orange blurry ghost I was like oh. ok. I was probably to dumb to understand it.
The new addition of illustrations are really satisfying to the eye. I applaud the artist 😌
i remember being tense while playing the first one and getting spooped by random ghost or boos, and with Dark moon and 3D the 1st boss gave me a heart attack :'^)
I love the illustrations in this video! They’re beautiful as well as cohesive
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My exact thoughts.
11:25 Personally I just was happy to have money by killing them
you sound like my teacher trying to fit the lesson's vocabulary into every single scenario
Just the other day I was wondering why are people so afraid of bugs and spiders, since they're so tiny. I didn't expect the answer would come from Thomas Game Docs XD. Good video, man
I wondered as well, having severe arachnophobia. I wondered, why the heck am I scared of a spider the size of a small shirt button.
The biggest scare I got in the Luigi's Mansion series is the "picture" on the start up of level E-3. That being in dark moon
All I could think of when I saw the spider room was "Ooooh, a bunch of free money!" :D
0:45 those words hurted me and i loved it
i think whats scarier is the sudden jump scares. comes up out of no where.
The scariest part is, I've played Luigis Mansion1, 2 and 3 and yet never heard of the existence of a Luigis Mansion remake for the 3ds until now
This is such an interesting video I’m gonna watch this channel again
Your videos always make me happy! They are so interesting and well made :3
I'll never forgive Dark Moon for that jumpscare before the Area 5 mission.
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I love how when you play that sorta intro scene backwards, it looks like Luigi's just like "I'm outta here!"
The piano scarred me the first time I heard it as a kid
Man, you want to analyse spooky Nintendo? Just boot up Ocarina of Time and go beneath the well!
Or boot up Majora's Mask and look around.
@@thecommonman9524 yes the starting was so dark and the environment was so dark
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Luigi's Mansion is pretty unique game imo, and does a good job of putting Luigi in the spotlight.
I feel Luigi's Mansion is the most creepy one, Dark Moon was a bit more cartoonish, buy is respectable and does a great job at certain parts, and 3 did a good job of returning to the first one, while keeping the cartoonish look from Dark Moon.
I remember getting the dark moon game on my 7th birthday ( I think ) and I thought the creepy piano was just background music haha
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Him: You're Horrified, Paralyzed, With Fear
Me: *cries of laughter because of how the spiders are so cute and it's silly crab-like walking animation along with the quantity of them*
Edit: I wasn't afraid at all in that part
Also the original death animation of Luigi was super scary
9:26 this room scared me a lot, I wasn't expecting that at all!! It gave me anxiety because i wanted all the money but at the same time i wanted to get out as fast as i could because of that creepy music. It felt like something was going to happen and that i should get out before it happen 😬
As soon as you started explaining non-linear sounds an earthquake occurred where I live, interesting
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For me luigis mansion was perfect in audio. I was just humming luigis theme, just like luigi did in-game
Luigi's Mansion 1 and 3 are such excellent games. In some ways, I truly believe 1 is the best - so atmospheric, such minimal music, ghosts quietly humming the main tune when the lights are off, out of site but ever present. And once the lights turned on, they STAYED on, giving you permanent safe rooms.
3 is probably the "best" game, as it has a good mixture of creepy and kooky. And King Boo looks freaking sweet, definitely Nintendo's scariest villain. Bowser is big and intimidating, classic great bad guy. King Boo, however, is truly terrifying, exuding and aura of evil, the likes of which Bowser just doesn't come close to.
2 fell short, in my opinion. Good game, but inferior to 1 and 3.
non linear sounds: speaker turned up too loud, marmot alert scream, violin bow scratch, bass boosted toad sings never gonna give you up. Deeply unsettling that last one is
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about the pupil experiment:
pupils get bigger if you love something or feel comfortable
pupils get smaller if you're tense and worked up
that's why (for example) in anime, when a character goes full psycho, their pupils get unrealistically small (because that happens irl too)
also, when you're high, (high, not stoned) your pupils get big af too
Groovy video - your production quality has hugely improved since I last watched. Keep up the awesome work!
God damn, I played all three Luigi's Mansion games and there was at least ONE thing that scared me.
In the original...it was the baby.
In Dark Moon, it was the demented laughing of the Ghosts...
In 3? The dinosaur boss fight.
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I love the mental image of scientists playing music for one group and grating noise for another and comparing how each group felt about the 'music'. "Huh looks like nobody preferred the atonal mix of horrible screeching. fascinating!"
About the spider attic, there are people (like me) who wouldn't be scared of these spiders because we know they aren't real.
Another lesser example of the music, not as scary or anything, but the dark moon boss where the leadup was climbing up stairs. the music was simplistic, consisting of a single rising and dropping melody, but as you went up the stairs, it got more intense, and one mistake sent you back to the bottom. Youre 90% of the way up, and SHINK, you slide all the way back to the bottom. It wasnt scary, but it was intense, man. Also that boss at the top was the objectively lamest in the series.
The best example of the more intenser (?) music though, isnt jaws, or anything else in movies or even a horror game. it is 100% sonic drowning music. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine. It starts off rather quiet, getting faster, faster, more instruments, faster, quicker still, more instruments getting louder as youre frantically trying to resurface, faster, youre getting so close, you can see it, just gotta get to the spring, and finishing the tune buildup reminiscent of a day in the life by the beatles, it stops and you immediately die. the end.
oh god those stairs were such a pain haha
I actually wished they kept Luigi's mansion a bit more jumpy and scary. The first game scares me even now when I'm much older. And even when I was younger and watched my Brother play Dark Moon, the game wasn't AT ALL scary to me.. And that makes me a bit disappointed since the point of Luigi's Mansion was to make you feel on edge and constantly fearful. The next two Luigi's Mansion games weren't really like that. I was just sad that unique little feeling that made the whole game so special was taken away..
I am oddly not scared of spiders, mildly more with snakes, but not very much once I'm used to it. For me it'd be just be a nice room spiders
WOW! I’ll be sure to make a complain to Nintendo for privacy breech, they saw my brain!
Can we just mention how freakin scary the moma spider from dark moon and the polterkitty from lm3 are
The invisible man is exactly the same you dont know where he is it makes the film stand out. It's a masterpiece
Talks about the song from Dark Moon:
doesn't stop talking over it so we can hear it.
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Luigi’s mansion 3 had a jump scare and it scared the crap out of me 😔
When portrait ghosts were gotten rid of luigis mansion instantly became less fun
9:46 - "Ok, let's get that off the screen, shall we?"
*(Puts it right back up immediately after the fade to black)*
I was expecting the build up to the final boss for 3's moment. Not sure what it was, but I was very tense as you slowly follow Mario up to the top of the hotel
1:38 Holy... THAT HAPPENS TO ME OMG. LIKE EVERY NIGHT. But that's probably just because I'm very paranoid and a wimp
Yeah this game scared the living shit out of me as a kid. I remember when the power goes out in the entire mansion and I just turned off my gamecube. Lmao.
Luigi’s Mansion 2001 creeped me out as a kid!
I love Mario so much ! Thanks for the science
Eh, I wasn't really scared of the spiders when I saw them. I'm used to spiders.
No wonder I was always felt weird playing Luigi's mansion dark moon.
I forget his name, Grimer? The graveyard boss in the first game. I was genuinely terrified of his boss fight when I watched my parents play Luigi's Mansion. Then again I was very young at the time.
but i played the third one (the first too) and the spider room, i was like, ''ok, there a gem, how do i access it ? Oh spiders, get te vaccum luigi''
I love how he shows that in Europe it’s called Luigi mansion 2, not dark moon.
I just want to make my bastard of the details ok !
00:38 2001 ? well not for you it's seems, because you play the game in pal so it was 2002 !
Also but the player's choice version of this game in Europe was released in late 2003, and the version you actually have in your hands in the video, is the version released after mid 2005 !
4:40 that's not 12 years later !!!
Luigi's mansion 2 was released in march 2013 worldwide, and Luigi's mansion 1 (as i said previously) was released in late 2001 in USA and japan, and in march 2002 in Europe...
So 11 years later !
“Bunny Day (animal crossing)” That’s the next horror movie