The Deleted Chef Ghost of Luigi’s Mansion that was Brought Back to Life

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Luigi's Mansion used to have a Chef Ghost that haunted the kitchen area. However, when the game came out, all traces of this ghost were gone. It's uncertain why the chef ghost was deleted, but 20 years later this spirit has been revived in one of the most interesting beta restoration projects to date. the Luigi's Mansion Beta restoration is quite the work of art, so I hope you enjoy.
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Credits and sources:
Written, filmed, and edited by SwankyBox.
Beta recreation by Portable Productions, Slugmotif, LMFinish, Cyrus, and AbsoluteG
Wormhole Animation by Termostratos ► • Wormhole Animation
Music credits:
Songs from various Luigi's Mansion OST's
"E3 Beta Music" - Luigi's Mansion
"Twisted Suites Changed Rooms" - Luigi's Mansion 3
"Mezzanine" - Luigi's Mansion 3

[@SwankyBox]

Check out the Beta restoration trailer ► kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4WVfJqeisiEfrM Scared Luigi thumbnail render by SuperWarriorOfficial ► twitter.com/RealSWOfficial

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Yessssss

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome Video

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Ok

[@PurPurDot]

What’s the music at the beginning?

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Ok

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

“We have definitive proof that the chef existed in the kitchen” Why are we playing Clue all of a sudden?

[@superluigifangirl0142]

Great comment dude :)

[@thevoid5863]

i think mustard existed in the bedroom

[@isaacpaintsemrouboanderline.]

@@thevoid5863 And the water existed in the volcano

[@BlueToadCentral]

@@isaacpaintsemrouboanderline. lol

[@8od0tmobile81]

fnaf lore:

[@classymarowak7001]

Chef Soulffle in Luigi's Mansion 3 appears to have been the successor of this Chef Ghost, or the very least reviving the unused idea.

[@sawneytenmillion8339]

@@amandaletcher1320 Well he was only the second boss in the game.

[@fanachy7861]

@@sawneytenmillion8339 *4th

[@Druggist86]

yea

[@TecumsehRulesbcserk]

We definitely need a remaster of this game that includes all of these deleted ghosts

[@dustymcwari4468]

It would be awesome if they made the Hunter ghost a reality

[@ElectroBlastLuigi]

Luigi's Mansion was already ported to the 3DS just before Luigi's Mansion 3 came out so it's very unlikely Luigi's Mansion will get remaster for the Switch. Maybe it can come back somehow... Virtual Console if that ever happens? Maybe a Luigi's Mansion collection just like Mario and Crash Bandicoot?

[@slimballs9650]

The Sneaker like ghosts would have to be toned down though.

[@PhantomOfficial07]

@@ElectroBlastLuigi I think he means a fan made one

[@thespikiestmolded4057]

I would prefer a luigis mansion 2 remaster

[@apurpledragon]

THIS is why I love the modding community side of games so much. They can not only make some really cool original works of their own, but they can also turn back time to painstakingly recreate an old E3 demo build of a game and bring back some unused assets that were gone.

[@KhakiCube]

I remember when Luigi's Mansion came out and some neighborhood kids who were further in the game than I was would tell me about things later in the game and we would speculate what else could be in it. We were always confused where the waiter ghosts came from during Mr. Luggs' boss fight since they didn't in the kitchen afterwards. Maybe they were also part of the Chef Ghost's boss fight?

[@nukiradio]

I didnt question where how they got in the room, largely because they were ghosts.

[@JoeySpa]

I've been following the luigis mansion beta restoration for a while now and I'm so excited to play it

[@Hounddog3380]

The chef in luigi mansion 3 is the CLOSEST thing to the deleted version in the first game

[@Luigikid]

The Luigi's Mansion videos you do are always my favorites! Reminds me of the glorious times of my childhood! Luigi's Mansion was peak for sure! Thanks Swanky!

[@silverflight01]

I wish I could have had the opportunity to play the original Luigi's Mansion. I wasn't born yet back then, but the game looked really cool. And the endings! They really reward you based on how much money you grab throughout the adventure, which could go from a tent to an even BIGGER mansion! Luigi's Mansion 3 more or less had a similar ending system, but there were only three endings instead of more than 5

[@Mariocat99]

Some of the ghosts I never fully knew of

[@smartluigidumbluigiofficia7547]

I can't belive that luigikid commented on this video.

[@tailsprower8118]

Hey Luigikid!

[@anthonylogan8587]

Same

[@toebrother]

When you said back to life, I thought you meant actually back to life, and there would just be a guy throwing tomatoes at you in the kitchen.

[@nukiradio]

Equally at home in Mario game

[@dapperblack3509]

Yo ngl, when i saw this ghost show up in the beta restoration stream i lost my absolute shit The fact that they managed to bring a back a ghost that was scrapped gives me hope for elh

[@TheRealR0achy]

Yes. *BRING BACK ELH!*

[@TheRealR0achy]

@Dr. Cool they could make textures for elh

[@flyingstonemon3564]

@Dr. Cool What if that's closer to how elh's meant to be? :0 What if he's goo like and pure ectoplasm ?

[@pleasedontsub2732]

But if he was brought back to life he wouldn’t be a ghost

[@belion750]

*We do a little bit of trolling*

[@enderking5457]

@@belion750 Oh no D:

[@wantedbird55srandomchannel28]

Brought back to afterlife.

[@switchblade6]

Brought back to lifen't?

[@Syner_7]

Hey Swanky, did you hear about how the Luigi’s Mansion microgame in WarioWare has beta textures in the files yet?

[@Invaliput]

Thats InTeReStInG 🤔

[@bucketbutters866]

That's such a random find they HAD to have put it in on purpose

[@wumpus976]

I’m gonna be real here, it probably would’ve been the most forgettable boss in terms of it’s design. Makes me glad that we got a more proper chef ghost in Luigi’s Mansion 3.

[@ianfinrir8724]

I mean, it was the Beta version. It most likely wasn't going to be the final design.

[@wumpus976]

@@ianfinrir8724 fair point, but supposedly there’s footage of Lydia and she has her final design.

[@SoggyCoffeeAddict]

Maybe this isn't even how it was intended, like tomatoes could have stayed rolling on the floor and homing for Luigi. More health (if they actually were going to make him a boss of that area since that place's actual boss had more health) heck. He could have even been planned to have a different reaction to missing a throw, what if they wanted to give him an attack where he went into a fit of rage if he missed? Like going berserk with a kitchen utensil, because I'm sure as they developed more. Bosses or ghosts would have been seeming too similar, so they'd be tweaked or buffed 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@manateees4lyfe]

Yesssssss

[@Vilemonger]

That chef may have been the ghost they were gonna give us?

[@SterbsMcGurbs]

And that's why tossing tomatoes like a peasant in the stocks will always be one of my Pixel Portals.

[@BeckyNosferatu]

Honestly, the "this was some weird mental feeling," is how I felt when I checked the beta of Ocarina of Time. For me, that Zelda game was Swanky's Luigi Mansion. I almost felt like I shouldn't be seeing it. I shouldn't be playing it... I SHOULDN'T be THERE. Like I'd stumbled across some ancient relic that was just... not supposed to be seen by common eyes. It was a feeling that I simply can't explain, and yet, at the same time, it was a magical feeling. I don't know if I'm one of the weirdos like Swanky here, but it was a sensation that I wish I could forget so I could experience it all over again.

[@ArcadeAssassin]

Your voice is amazing man

[@matiasfernandez4204]

Lo mismo digo, concuerdo con el estimado

[@TaskMaster369]

Sounds like what a simp would say.

[@SterbsMcGurbs]

You are a sweetiepie

[@Prototype_8]

Oh cool I'm somehow early before this gets 200 replies

[@dr.potato420]

Is this a cross-over episode?

[@KindredDoomBot]

You mentioned "G4" on tv and I swear I had like nostalgic shellshock lol.

[@ianfinrir8724]

I heard G4 was coming back. Might've heard it wrong, though.

[@Paine1011]

@@ianfinrir8724 G4 is back. Jirard the Completionist is a host on it

[@ianfinrir8724]

@@Paine1011 Hurray! 🎉

[@TheZackofSpades]

Same. I remember the first time I discovered G4 I watched almost 8 hours straight. I was completely absorbed by it.

[@goodestboy4384]

Gamers Go Gaga 4 G4

[@Invaliput]

6:22 Did you know the FLUDD is called "Dreckweg" (wich is something like rubbish away) and the Poltergust is called "Schreckweg" (wich is fear away)

[@nekrophilervorderasiate7092]

Ja Das weiß man

[@Invaliput]

@@nekrophilervorderasiate7092 Natürlich das weiß auch jeder Amerikaner xD

[@lemoneer7474]

FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for a new Luigi’s Mansion video.

[@donaldthescotishtwin]

Beta- go back to the past to change your future Alpha- go back to play the E3 build

[@cherrypeachey]

as a diehard luigi's mansion fan i 100% understand the feelings youre describing. very cool video and good narration

[@themidnightotaku22]

Yep, they freed this ghost from it’s static prison only to be sucked up by the player again. Irony hath no fury.

[@nukiradio]

Like a child bored

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

0:54 I did neither as a kid. Instead I got all my news from Nintendo Power and commercials all the way from the late 90's until sometime in the 2010's when I started watching KZbin. I never even knew there were TV shows dedicated to gaming news until long after they ended. Probably because we were too poor to afford cable or internet (Aside from the occasional AOL free internet disc) when I was a kid so we had to make do with the basic free channels back when those were still a thing.

[@masterfarr8265]

He eventually became Chef Soufflé in Luigi's Mansion 3

[@PortableProductions]

Thank you so much Swanky !!!! I really appreciate it massively! ♥♥♥

[@weebsquit347]

For a moment i thought modders restored the chef ghost back into the game, instead of being modded in with assumptions. It's still pretty neat though.

[@paulsoper3874]

Bro, always a treat when swanky posts about Luigi’s mansion

[@itsevieYT1015]

I like watching your videos. I love finding mysterys about my favorite games.

[@Malory-Malicious]

I would time travel to get literally all the beta versions of the games Its so interesting to see how they started

[@theguywhodoesthings9608]

Seems similar to the mansion 3 ghost. Who also throws tomatoes. And also fish.

[@BAIGAMING]

1:00 Man I miss those days, I enjoyed looking at compressed images on IGN so much. I remember being so hyped for Ratchet and Clank 3, I kept looking at the compressed preview video of the tyrannoid mother boss fight.

[@superluigifangirl0142]

Is it me or the Chef ghost looks like a radish ? Btw, good video !👍

[@babysinclairfan]

I know that the Nintendo power blurb is fake but I feel like a safari ghost may have been planned. A safari room seems awfully specific. On a similar note, I bet there was going to be a knight in the armory

[@GamerShyUncut]

If only the E3 demos of Luigi's Mansion were leaked with the gigaleak.

[@callmeninaiced]

This and the E3 2010 version of paper mario 3DS should have been leaked

[@ryanr27]

I wish I had a time machine

[@LandonEmma]

Thank you so much for using my Beta E3 Music restored version!

[@SoggyCoffeeAddict]

Next I'm sure we'll get a huge colab fan made Luigi's Mansion speculative OG version. Where the modders and what not get together and make that free roam outside area, create the outside mystery tunnels of the backyard. Put in what cut ghosts were left out. It'd be absolutely amazing to see and since it's a fan made game that (hopefully) wouldn't set a deadline for itself. That could be an awesome project to work on and make friends with 🤷🏻‍♂️ And before I get a few "well actually" comments. Obviously I don't expect it to happen, as cool as it would be. Nintendo is way too cruel to allow good popular fan games to stick around, so all that effort would just be wasted. *Cough cough* Pokemon uranium

[@tatianarivera4775]

I’ve always wandered what the chef ghost truly looked like.

[@180fuckalotseveneleven3]

You wandered around to know what the Chef Ghost looked like? Weird solution but okay.

[@Dashiell777]

I'm a person who loves recording places and things. But then I didn't get my 3DS until 2011 I was unable to record some stuff such as the old McDonald's with its play area and the trees in my yard I wish I could go back in time and re-record those again

[@ALivingFlame]

I love the fans of this game! Spectacular work and congrats to these modders on recreating the beta so faithfully. You did a great job reviewing this too, you're my favorite person to watch covering this material because your emotional attachment to it is so very relatable!

[@diogenesstudent5585]

Dude. I LOVE your Luigis Mansion videos. Thank you.

[@DarkestKnight502]

Luigi’s Mansion will always be the best of the trilogy.

[@toady525]

Keep going back to this game! I love this channel for revisiting Luigi’s Mansion, one of my all time favorite games.

[@Placeholder103]

YES ANOTHER LUIGI’S MANSION VIDEO

[@2l84me8]

This is amazing. I love the amount of love and detail a game from 20 years ago still gets to this day. So glad they brought back the Purple Basher.

[@CooperDooper38]

"I felt like it was the game, but from an alternate dimension" Judging by how the chef ghost looks, it's a dimension where Mr Lunt died waiting for his cheeseburger, and decided to sprout ghost arms so he could do a tomato attack

[@traviscunningham7062]

Your talking about my favorite childhood show!

[@williamdrum9899]

That was a cheeseburger? This whole time I thought he was eating a big pile of fried rice

[@CooperDooper38]

@@williamdrum9899 my comment was a reference to a character from Veggietales who sings a song about waiting all night for a cheeseburger. He looks a lot like the chef ghost.

[@williamdrum9899]

@@CooperDooper38 Never mind 😅

[@flother4834]

I love betas for old games like Luigi's mansion, wario land, etc. It just is amazing to see things that were cut from games l. Either leaks or beta footage, i just like it

[@FakeItemBoxLetsPlays]

The chef ghost was maybe a prototype version of the eating ghost. Both have something to do with food. Both are pink and some what fat.

[@williamdrum9899]

My theory was that originally, to fight the eating ghost you had to catch the chef so that there would be no one to cook more food for the eating ghost

[@FakeItemBoxLetsPlays]

@@williamdrum9899 That would make sense. Maybe they replaced that role with the butler ghost to make it simpler.

[@JMFSpike]

When you see all the unused content in this game, it gives you the impression that it was either very rushed or that ideas were simply dropped for whatever reason (maybe balancing issues or they felt the game was too difficult.) It makes the game feel incomplete, which I guess would explain why it's so short. It's kind of like a lengthy tech demo rather then a full game.

[@olivejuicesoda]

I was just a kid when this E3 happened for LM. But, I really felt like I was there experiencing it. Im always poking around seeing the fantastic work of LMFinish, and ita just incredible how a simple ghost that was dropped from the final was brought to life. This is great thank you.

[@kirbygamer0640]

Wait- a beta concept fully brought back to liiiife?! (/Functioning?!) If so that’s awesome! Also I’ve always loved looking up Luigi’s Mansion beta…I dunno why but betas of games always interested me cause they often felt like a whole different game! And love the part where you just decided to bring up the vase difference XD

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

There’s a video on KZbin that actually has 3 seconds of footage containing the Chef Ghost. It also has Eternal Darkness footage, plus more things from the final game that were in the E3 build showing the 3:00 am time.

[@zombies4evadude24]

Link?

[@ducksaucebutagoose925]

wow cut content is so good in this game!

[@erainmartinez8175]

I love the beta older games started the games test before they came out right now

[@ifranco0202]

Id love to see them take things farther! A complete fan take on luigi’s mansion based off the beta as a building block

[@TheCreepypro]

didn't grow up playing this game but this video still felt nostalgic

[@EternallYTT]

Fact: Chef Ghost Quitted His Job To Be A Chef Because His Human Form He Watched Luigi Mansion And Wanted To Be An Enemy Then His Name Was Named Chef Ghost. And Your Videos Are Amazing!

[@zombiepogman8662]

I love these types of videos so much

[@yoinkysploinky7538]

I love these videos so much. They’re so relaxing and interesting, even if they can be short sometimes they’re just such a pleasure to watch. Keep up the good work!

[@chigginnuggie7681]

I got happy when he started playing the Twisted Suites theme

[@HeXDiffusion]

Time to inject some more NOSTALGIA strait into my veins!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

My jaw was on the floor when I saw that chef ghost.

[@TheAdvertisement]

8:40 Hah, he got scared half to death, nice.

[@edmartinez925]

That chef ghost looks very creepy.

[@Brandonian]

Luigi’s Mansion is my favorite video game of all time. I got the Nintendo GameCube & Luigi’s Mansion on Christmas Day back in 2001. Where does the time go? Even after all these years, it’s still a beautiful game. Love the community to that’s been forming around it as well.

[@KreeperKilla551]

OMG THANK YOU FOR THE LINK TO THE DEMO! And please thank the modders as well, I wasn't even bor back then, meaning i would never have had the chance if it were'nt for you and the modders. THANK YOU! Time to go old-school-old-school.

[@coenair1144]

Every copy of Luigi’s Mansion is personalized

[@HawkTeevs]

I remember sitting at my family computer watching the old footage of the demo on KZbin when I was about 10-12 years old. I remember thinking it was so cool how different the demo was from the final game, and how I wish it was playable. It feels weird that we have a mod that is not only pretty much a 1:1 recreation of the demo, but it’ll also be released publicly soon.

[@bowserjrsoutsidestory7125]

swanky box have u heard about the voices in the super paper mario song, river tygx bed someone cleaned it up for voices and put it up on youtube and u can actually hear lost souls saying "save us, please" and according to the comments of the video, some heavy lore stuff about the ancients? i just thought u might like it cuz, even in the real world, the voices of those lost souls haven't been heard by many and u like to look at video games in a new way/learn more about them (especially scary mario game secrets)

[@d4nnyboiofficial57]

This would make perfect sense on who was cooking the food for mr Luggs!

[@mathewwatson-FireGem21]

I honestly wish we got to fight the Chef ghost in the full game because it would have been amazing!

[@olimarfunk]

I remember chuggaaconroy mentioning this ghost in his walkthrough. Nice upload!

[@sagacious03]

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

[@tpommischiefmaker]

1080p absolutely was a thing back then. It just wasn't the standard yet. Quake was coded on a 1080p CRT.

[@seriousquil7161]

Get frozen hurts a lot real quick is comparable to the basher attacks, not as instant but the damage stacks up pretty quickly especially in the hidden mansion

[@Goatman_Gamer]

I can understand that. If the layout of my bedroom was changed, it'd feel like a whole new room. So having the layout of the room changed after playing the game multiple times would feel weird.

[@Catkeeper]

I love the idea of going back andcrecreating old betas, there was always something entriguing about the N64 Final Fantasy and Zelda tech demos that I'd love to relive through actual gameplay. Plus you have games that just looked way better in beta form, like The Bouncer.

[@binglemccringle705]

0:11 since you brought up going back in time, ive always wondered bout this paradox what if you leave a note for yourself somewhere you know youll run across it? like for instance, unique initials (ie. abc, something distinct) on a note, again somewhere youll find it, with info pertaining to life events coming up would it cause an issue like other paradox things? or would it be more like deathloop n such, each pop back in time youre able to leave more/+better detailed info and potentially even start remembering between each note leaving? youre not directly meeting yourself, making contact or anything, and better off if you use a bit of paper from the place you end up in not from your "current" time (juuuust incase that somehow causes an issue) all youre doing is pretty much leaving a strong suggestion to try something than what happened

[@FlamePurple]

Yooo Imagine if these Modders tried to Bring ELH To Life. Modding Them in,In a way they’d think Elh would have looked as a Final Design. That would be SICK.

[@dorkie]

This is absolutely amazing.

[@not_saudi]

You're voice always brings me back to your video on Dr. Salvador from RE4

[@Dustin_Probably]

To turn back time... time... to the good old day-ayes...

[@achaudhari101]

If I had to guess how his heart would have been exposed is definitely when he’s charging up his throw but you have only a short amount of time to suck him up.

[@yoda908]

Growing up I had a choice between 1900 numbers, videogame magazines like Nintendo power and Gamepro and the show video power. The internet when 1st came around was originally limited to schools, librarys, and govt. staff. Safe to say the internet was a real luxury.

[@arudanel5542]

This whole idea is awesome, it's almost digital archaeology. Put together what it would have been like.

[@ernshaw78]

Amazing. I would totally buy this.

[@jaimedelena5575]

I didn’t knew about the chef ghost and thanks for sharing with us KZbinrs

[@jarihoogendoorn5823]

Fun fact: im through the fact list de

[@JokeURL]

I love Luigi’s Mansion

[@superluigifangirl0142]

Me too :) I love the Luigi's Mansion games so much 💚!

[@entropy-cat]

Maybe not STRAIGHT to E3 in 2001 but I'd definitely going back to stea- recover all sorts of lost media.

[@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123]

It makes sense that FLUDD and the Poltergust are similar since they're both made by E.Gadd.

[@chumon1992]

i know exactly how you feel about this. If i got to play the beta version of ocarena of time or majoras id feel the same

[@notryan7220]

if its endgame logic, yes, if its back to the future logic, no.

[@thetronwarriors4817]

When you day endgame logic do you mean time travel in avengers endgame

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome Video Swankybox

[@Cliffordlonghead]

I watch it

[@ryanr27]

You HAVEN’T watched it all

[@Cliffordlonghead]

@@ryanr27 ok

[@Cliffordlonghead]

@@ryanr27 I have Brat

[@bingkongdong1567]

Swanky that's not how time travel works

[@PrimevalDemon]

Holy crap how funny it is that I got recommended for this during Ghostbusters soundtrack

[@Lumberjack_king]

7:37 kind of like if you returned to your childhood home to find out its been bought by someone . Its familiar but off

[@diekios]

Love this content. 🔥

[@princessnatalie5045]

Wow! This is crazy! I had no idea there was so many deleted ghosts/ things in Luigi’s Mansion. Do you know how many times was this game changed before they came out with the one we all know and love today? I knew of the Beta but that’s all.

[@YouCantEscapeCryptoLuigi]

I remember a Arcade version with a Big Fat Yellow Ghost chasing me down the halls and then I jumped out of the window of the mansion. Now seeing this, I don't know what to believe anymore.