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Meet the new Mario and Luigi, as more than 2-dimensional caricatures

There are ghosts aplenty in "Luigi's Mansion 3," and although the goal is to catch them, it's sometimes preferable to try and get to know them.

There's Clem, a maintenance worker with an apparent love for country and folk and a penchant for flooding the basement to relax in a rubber ducky pool float. And Ug, who dresses as if he's trying out for "The Flintstones" and likes to possess dinosaur skeletons. And don't forget Amadeus Wolfgeist, a classical music-loving specter, of course, with a wild, Jerry Lee Lewis-inspired streak, and Morty, apparently a French film director who would prefer to be left alone on his sets.

In "Luigi's Mansion 3," the latest in a line of Nintendo games that give Mario's

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