Grim Fandango Remastered

Never having played the game when it first came out, I get to actually review the game without nostalgia goggles. Grim Fandango is everything a 90s game was; imaginative story with frustrating gameplay. The remastered graphics make GF pleasant to look at, the world design is great, and the voice-acting as well as the overall sound design is very good, complementing the already engaging story that contains some memorable characters If you really think about it, the game is very short except when you play it for the first time without any walkthrough guides. You could technically finish it within a couple of hours but that first time will be torturous. The puzzles are awful, straight up. Half the time you wouldn't know where to go or what to do as the game rarely if ever gives you any clues. This is however, par for the course for most of point-and-click adventures from the 90s, and because of this, a lot of patience is required for hours upon hours of trial and error. In retrospect, most of us just didn't think any of it because we were kids with too much time on our hands but for today, this kind of puzzle mechanic is very very annoying. And you WILL be annoyed if you attempt to play this game first time without a guide. Was it fun for me though? Yeah~ kind of~ Though, I think it's fair to say that games such as these have become dated and really, does not stand the test of time very well.

I did get stuck bugged twice and had to restart the game both times. The progress that was not saved was lost and I had to go again. Despite the stuck bug not being a huge issue for me the game does not auto save and that was an issue. Do remember to save manually every now and then so you don't have to go and repeat your lost progress.You do not have to go overboard with manual saving, I only got stuck two times, so do relax. You might not even encounter any bugs at all. I'm not really into Point-and-Click adventure. If you're someone unlike me and likes Point-and-Click you should definately try this one out. To be fair to the genre. This title could get 5 stars, however because of the stuck bugs mentioned above I'll leave 4 fair stars behind.

I re-mastered "Grim Fandango Remastered " twice on my Andriod phone a few years ago, but then for some annoying reason, it was removed from Play Store, so I will be downloading it again on GOG.com. Hopefully will have a better experience using a touch-screen laptop. All in all, the remastered edition is even better than the original because of enhanced graphics and number two easier controls; simply use touch on a phone. Playing this game just took me back to my happy life childhood days :) Highly recommend (paying twice for it now to download and re-master for a third time lol!)

I played this game when I was younger and can't remember if I beat it. It was hard. I have replayed it a few times since them and with the help of the internet was able to complete it. 9 or 10 on most fronts. Bugs: Now I don't remember if the same issues were in the old version but I have had several crashes and soft locked myself a few times. Just now I was in Year 4 giving an item to Glottis but because of character placement he just kept trying to walk forward to run his scene but I was standing in the way and did not move, most of the time you move out of the way. Also I had a huge issue leaving the tattoo parlor once he was on the phone. Graphics: I have seen a people say they are unhappy the cutscenes were not updated, but while I was playing recently I was impressed how the cutscenes still hold up. The backgrounds and art in general is beautiful though the character models in come scenes are dated when running original graphics. But the cutscenes and background art didn't need an update since they are still good. Also their is a big difference between creating a few hundred models and replacing them over original rigging, and rebuilding cutscenes from the ground up. Controls: Controller is nice but using a mouse reveals thing easier since the cursor changes when you hover over things. This is not the case with the controller. It is a point and click after all. Puzzles: While somethings make sense and puzzles are solved in a logical fashion you often are just using any item you have on every clickable option until something works. If you are not paying attention and going through all speech trees you will have a hard time though as hints are spread throught chats. Writing: Great. A few times if you sequence break though NPCs will have options that dont make sense or weird circular logic that doesn't make sense even in game. I am talking about Year 3 mainly but I dont want to write spoliers.

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