Amadeus Wolfgeist

Amadeus Wolfgeist
Series	Luigi's Mansion
First Appearance	Luigi's Mansion 3
Species	Ghost
Year Created	2019

Amadeus Wolfgeist is a character encountered in Luigi's Mansion 3. He serves as the fifth boss of the game. His name is based on that of famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Luigi locates Amadeus in the Great Stage fighting him upon making his way into the performance room itself. Defeating Amadeus Wolfgeist rewards Luigi with the elevator button to the sixth floor as well as freeing one of the imprisoned Toads, much like Ug The Caveman, though unlike Ug, Amadeus does hold his respective elevator button.

Appearance

Amadeus is an elegantly dressed purple ghost bearing an appearance to that of a normal pianist. He has silver, almost gray hair that is mostly straight except for the back of his hair. Like all ghosts in the game, he has no pupils. When he is angry, his previously mentioned straight hair unravels into a mess, and flames seem to appear.

Battle

Luigi finds an unmanned piano playing, as well as one of the Toads' portraits on the stage. He attempts to get on the stage, but Amadeus Wolfgeist appears and, upon noticing his arrival, briefly gets annoyed at his presence and proceeds to rapidly play the piano to scare Luigi off the stage, smirking once he did so. Upon seeing that Luigi evaded his chair attack, Amadeus will express displeasure before resuming playing the piano to summon ballerina Goobs. After the Goobs are defeated, he then completely loses his temper and proceeds to confront Luigi personally by possessing his piano.

The first phase requires that the player dodge various levitating seats as Amadeus is playing the piano. This is done in sets of three, though in the final portion, all five remaining sets are levitated and thrown.

The second phase requires the player to confront Goobs posing as ballerinas. Two Goobs appear initially. These Twirling Goobs have the same health as their standard counterparts do, but as they are wearing ballet masks, they are initially immune to the flash, requiring that the player knock them off before flashing them and sucking them in. A Twirling Goob attacks by spinning, trying to slash players with her skirt as she does. Amadeus Wolfgeist will then summon three more, with the rest of the phase requiring defeating them.

The third phase has Luigi fight Amadeus Wolfgeist himself. He will hop around inside his piano, eventually opening himself up and leaving him vulnerable to a Strobulb flash. Once blinded, Amadeus will move his piano to the stage and launch bombs at Luigi. Luigi must then throw a bomb into the piano lid, causing it to tip over to allow Luigi to use the Suction Shot at it and then forcibly yank it onto the floor; the piano will collapse the third time Luigi does this. After being extracted from the piano, Amadeus will be exposed and try to grab or burn the player, although he can easily be stunned with the Strobulb and then sucked in. He then repossesses the piano and will launch a barrage of piano keys (how many shots depending on how much health he has lost by that point), though he otherwise has the same attack pattern. Once he is defeated, he will formally bow before letting himself be sucked in. Luigi will then retrieve both the sixth floor button as well as freeing the red Toad, with Polterpup activating the steps to allow Luigi up.

Trivia

• The song Amadeus plays on his piano during the first phase is similar to Ludwig von Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
• During the third phase, Amadeus's battle is similar to the battle against the Harsh Possessor from Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.
  • The behavior is also similar to the Mad Piano from Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS.
• Amadeus is similar to Yinu from the game No Straight Roads as they are master pianists who serve as major bosses, and their pianoes are eventually destroyed by the protagonists who confront them during the battle. However, Yinu is a young girl, while Amadeus is a grown male. Plus, Amadeus loses his piano optionally, while Mayday and Zuke have to destroy Yinu's piano while she is in her final phase to deliver the finishing blow.