Luigi’s Mansion added to Switch Online for Halloween, but where’s the GameCube’s scariest game?

Nintendo has announced the latest GameCube addition to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s library of classic games, and with Halloween tomorrow, you’d better believe that it’s one of the company’s spookiest games: Luigi’s Mansion.

That’s great and all, but where’s the GameCube’s scariest game? In the early 2000s, Nintendo was trying to pivot and capture a more mature audience, in the wake of the PS1 and PS2’s huge successes, and this came in a number of forms. Nintendo famously signed a major deal with Capcom, which led to the Resident Evil Remake, Resident Evil Zero and the groundbreaking Resident Evil 4. They’re great, and all, but they’re not the crowning jewel of horror gaming on GameCube, which has to be the Nintendo-published Eternal Darkness.

Silicon Knights’ game featured an innovative sanity meter that altered the game experience with sanity events that warped not just the game world, but broke the fourth wall in ways that have gone down in gaming lore.

But anyway, Luigi’s Mansion is great to have on Switch Online, and means that Switch 2 owners can play the full trilogy on one system – the GameCube original via Switch Online, the remaster of Luigi’s Mansion 2, and then the excellent Switch native Luigi’s Mansion 3. It’s a shame that we don’t have a native remake of this original game for Switch, given that it was ported to the Nintendo 3DS back in the day, but for the sake of gaming history, the original is better.

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