Something's rotten in the land of the dead, and you're being played for a sucker. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to eternal rest. But there's trouble in paradise. Help Manny untangle himself from a conspiracy...
Something's rotten in the land of the dead, and you're being played for a sucker. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to eternal rest. But there's trouble in paradise. Help Manny untangle himself from a conspiracy that threatens his very salvation.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango's epic story of four years in the life (or death) of Manny Calavera, travel agent to the dead, has been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than when it won GameSpot's Game of the Year award upon its original launch. Grim Fandango still stands as a classic of the genre, with unforgettable characters and unique combination of film noir and Mexican folklore.
Grim Fandango Remastered includes:
Repainted, hi-res character textures
New, dynamic lighting
Classic score re-recorded with a full live orchestra
I have no idea what people are complaining about. The orchestration of all music by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is amazing and makes this remaster worth it. As for bugs? What? Where? I own this on 3 platforms. None of them have bugs. Of course this game has nostalgic value for me since I played it as a 15 y/o on 1997. When it was released I bought it instantly because it truly is one of the best adventure games ever made. And not it can run without any problems or compatibility issues on modern systems. I replay this game once a year because it makes me happy.
Let me start by saying I grew up on Adventure games and played almost all of them as a kid. I LOVED the remastered versions of the Monkey Island Series and even Day of the Tentacle. THIS remaster had me scratching my head, trying to figure out what was actually remastered. The graphics aren't great and the screen is is a 4:3 format with bars on the sides of the screens. The cutscenes are obviously not remastered as the models look worse than those from when you are playing the game. Remastered indeed -- you will not be impressed by the graphics in this game.
That being said, the game is humorous and somewhat enjoyable. The controls are weird -- the inventory ATROCIOUS and a huge pain to sort through.
Great game but I had to launch it on my desktop to save the game, port the save file from C:>Usersname>Appdata>Roaming>Doublefine>Grim Fandango and then put these files on the laptop while at the same time toning down all settings because the game was stuttering.
Very advisable not to get discouraged because of that and go through because IMHO this game is better than Monkey Island.
The Best adventure game .. hands down .. the best. Full Throttel and Day of the Tenticle were good but Lucasarts went all out in this one. The content and Day of the Dead theme made for an adventure game thas has never been matched.
