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Xbox X|SWe've documented 18 accessibility features for Luigi's Mansion 2, including Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions, No Button Combos, Play Without Hearing and Colour Blind Friendly. Its accessibility is strongest in Reading and Navigation but it also has features in Visual, Getting Started, Controls and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Luigi's Mansion 2 accessibility 7 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
Text is all high in contrast but can be quite small, especially on the already quite small 3DS screens, making it somewhat difficult to read.
The game is often quite dark, and lightning flashes appear somewhat frequently in some sections.
Game Details
Release Date: 20/03/2013
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1-4 (4 online)
Genres: Adventure, Collecting, Puzzle (Action, Stealth and Traversal)
Accessibility: 18 features
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Developer: Nintendo America (@NintendoAmerica)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Controls in Luigi's Mansion 2 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 & Single Stick: Can play with multiple buttons and a stick.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Luigi's Mansion 2, 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 2 (14 Controls Features)
- Portal (11 Controls Features)
- Ghostwire Tokyo (10 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Luigi's Mansion 2 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 2, 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 2 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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Luigi's Mansion 2, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Toem (7 Getting Started Features)
- I Commissioned Some Bees (6 Getting Started Features)
- Lonesome Village (6 Getting Started Features)
- Dredge (6 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Reading in Luigi's Mansion 2 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
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.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play Luigi's Mansion 2, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Ghostwire Tokyo (7 Reading Features)
- Rusty Lake Hotel (7 Reading Features)
- Rusty Lake: Roots (6 Reading Features)
- Bugsnax (6 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Navigation in Luigi's Mansion 2 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.
Clear Mission Objectives: The game provides clear, structured missions with directional guidance and advice on which can be attempted next. This also indicates (ideally on maps where they are provided) which missions can't be attempted because you do not have the appropriate items yet.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play Luigi's Mansion 2, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Navigation accessibility:
- Ghostwire Tokyo (7 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Visual in Luigi's Mansion 2 which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
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 2, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (6 Visual Features)
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (6 Visual Features)
- I Commissioned Some Bees (5 Visual Features)
- Luigi's Mansion 3 (5 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Luigi's Mansion 2 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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play Luigi's Mansion 2, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Ghostwire Tokyo (4 Audio Features)
- Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (3 Audio Features)
- Moonglow Bay (3 Audio Features)
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (3 Audio Features)
Communication
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Communication in Luigi's Mansion 2 which deal with how you can communicate with other players in the game and what options are available to customise and control this interaction. The following games are similar to Luigi's Mansion 2, and offer accessibility features for Communication:
- Luigi's Mansion 3 (1 Communication Feature)
- Portal 2 (1 Communication Feature)
- The Spirit and the Mouse (1 Communication Feature)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall
