What are you playing?

[NICKtendo DS]

I've been playing Luigi's Mansion 2, because my friend got it for free via some Nintendo event and wasn't interested in it himself.

I freaking love the game and I freaking hate the game.
Exploring these mansions is enjoyable, though sometimes end up pulling my hair out trying to find that one last gem, which appears to be available in only one specific mission, where I have to do something very cryptic, something I would have never, ever known without my last resort (I would have died without you, internet).
That aside, I was enjoying the pace of the game in the first few mansions. The missions in the second-to-last mansion were a little too long for my taste. It could've been justified if the game wasn't designed to have bite-sized chunks you can play through on the road or something, like many other Nintendo brand 3DS games.

And then there's the bosses. My biggest gripe with the game are the boss battles. The first boss is hard, the second almost too easy, the third way too long, the fourth very annoying when it comes to timing and the fifth is plain cheap (-40 HP in a single hit, wtf?). I haven't reached the final boss yet, because of this.
Oh, almost forgot to mention the Big Boo boss. Every boss, except for maybe the second, is designed to be pure torture rather than 'the final test'.

All-in-all, I enjoy the pace of the main game. It's mostly the boss fights that tend to fuck this experience up.