
Even if it was on purpose, I really didn't need it every time. That's the issue with parodying something by doing it yourself. I think there's a term for that. If not, there should be.
They already had fourth-wall breaking elements in the game at times, I would have been happy if they had maybe had Lakitu yell at Luigi, "just open it!" after a few times, and then just stopped doing it. Maybe they did, but when I played the game recently, I got past the first boss, and it still happened on every locked door; I know you can see those on the map, but sometimes I wasn't sure exactly where I was on the thing, or didn't feel like checking it. '
That's nitpicky for a launch game, and it was still a fun game, it just bothered me.