Punch-Out!! dev behind Luigi's Mansion 2

By Fred Dutton Published 8 June, 2011

Next Level Games gets more work.

Luigi's Mansion 2 won't be a first party title, Nintendo has confirmed. Wii Punch-Out!! studio Next Level Games is at the helm.

As revealed at a Nintendo round-table event at E3 today, Super Mario Galaxy director Yoshiaki Koizumi is taking on an advisory role for the in-development 3DS sequel.

The Canadian studio did sterling work on the 8/10-rated Punch-Out!! update, as well as the excellent Mario Strikers Charged back in 2007.

The original GameCube version of Luigi's Mansion was developed internally at Nintendo by Super Mario Kart director Hideki Konno.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 12 months ago

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  • KingOfSpain #1 12 months ago

    Fuck me RABicle, the man's only trying to do his job. There's no need to make it personal. Writing a blog pointing out everytime you think a man makes a mistake is a really shitty thing to do.

    I don't know what you do for a living RABicle but I guess you wouldn't like someone highlighting all your little mistakes online!

    Fred is only human. Try being a little less smug and a little more understanding!

  • thisisatempaccount #2 12 months ago

    I think RABicle has a fair point. One of the bonuses of having a feedback system means that people are as free to point out inaccuracies as they are to give emotive responses to a piece.

    In theory, at least, this encourages the author to be more diligent in their fact checking. It's win-win.

    Back to the article, I think the game is in safe hands. Mario Strikers Charged was my favourite wii game - which no, before some wag comments, is not like picking my favourite method of suicide ;)

  • RobotRocker #3 12 months ago

    Ooooh. Thanks for the website RABicle. Adding it to my growing NerdEntitlement.txt file

    Also while I'm pretty critical of stuff like this as well, posting a correction in comments section is fine. Whining and putting it on a blog is hilariously petty. And during a really information heavy period like E3 where news and PR releases are piling in. Mistakes are going to be more common when copy has to be quickly written up and posted up.

  • higgins78 #4 12 months ago

    Lets hope its more Punch Out! than Pilotwings Resort. I was an early adopter of the 3DS but only got the chance to play/own Pilotwings Resort due to a price error, I got it for a quarter of its RRP. Anyhow, what they (Next Level Games) did with this franchise was for me dilute it and by doing that create a budget offering of what on the SNES and N64 was a superb diversion. Luigi's Mansion was for me such an underrated Gamecube game due to I believe its length which for the record I find perfect...its sequel deserves special attention and not (like Pilotwings Resort) another budget offering.

  • nuanimal #5 12 months ago

    Just glad there is going to be a Luigi's Mansion 2... the first was a really good, and criminally underated game.

  • LaughingGravy #6 12 months ago

    Always thought it seemed a missed opportunity that Nintendo didn't reissue the original Luigi's Mansion as a New Play Control title for the Wii.

  • Mr.Spo #7 12 months ago

    If the Galaxy director is overseeing this, it should be a quality title.