It’s like the whole world is playing along with the same joke, and you get to laugh along with them. There are heaps of wordplay or sarcasm in every conversation, but it’s pulled off without feeling ingenuine. Grim Fandango’s character dialogue is a delight, and by far the highlight of the game.
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From sarcastic secretaries and poetry-slamming yuppies to an adorable orange demon whose purpose in life is to soup up cars, boats, and whatever other modes of transportation that happen to be nearby, Grim Fandango is full of memorable names, faces, and moments. I wanted to find out more about the world, which drove me to seek out as many conversations as I could with the colorful folk who inhabited it. Simple stuff like the premise - the Grim Reaper is a salesman - piles on the charm, while something like how the guns in this world shoot seeds, not bullets, which destroys the bone-ified citizens of the world, are the kind of far-out worldbuilding details I love. Grim Fandango’s Land of the Dead is an intriguing take on the idea of “what happens when we die?” with lots of clever twists that make it original. The setting and story pitch - a Día de los Muertos/Aztecian aesthetic laid over Casablanca - immediately set it apart from any other game I’ve ever played. The setting for Grim Fandango Remastered has a setting unlike any other. His journey to find her, and in turn find his own hereafter, takes him across a whimsical world heavily inspired by film noir and the Mexican Day of the Dead. When a beautiful client (beautiful for a skeleton, anyway) named Mercedes Colomar enters his un-life, and then doesn’t get the package her records show she deserves, Manny suspects corruption in his little slice of the Land of the Dead. You play as Manny Calavera, a down-on-his-luck salesman for the Department of the Dead who offers his recently deceased clients luxurious travel packages to the Afterlife. Death is Just the Beginningįor as odious as I found the puzzles, the one thing I can’t fault Grim Fandango for is its premise. He’s just one of the many interesting characters who inhabit the Land of the Dead.
For me the ends justified the means: Grim Fandango’s often amusing, sometimes brilliant storytelling is often undermined by dated, frustrating gameplay. So hard that I could not beat it without using a walkthrough for its entirety. No bones about it, Grim Fandango Remastered is one of the hardest games I’ve ever played. However, while the game didn’t disappoint in those respects, the puzzle-ridden gameplay didn’t exactly make it worth the wait. Being familiar with several of Tim Schafer’s other games ( Psychonauts, Broken Age, even Brutal Legend), I came into Grim Fandango Remastered already expecting to enjoy the quirky writing and world. Over the years I’ve heard it described as not only one of the best games ever made but also one of the funniest. Playing Grim Fandango has been a long time coming for me.
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