Video Games : Grim Fandango

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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Lucas Arts
EAN: 0023272109189
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: 3-D Adventure
Format: CD-ROM
Label: LucasArts Entertainment
Manufacturer: LucasArts Entertainment
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 156 months
Model: 10918
Publisher: LucasArts Entertainment
Sales Rank: 4683
Studio: LucasArts Entertainment

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3-D Adventure

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Product Description:
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.

Amazon.com Review:
Join Manny, the undead travel agent, and uncover a conspiracy to keep new additions to the underworld from buying a safe passage through purgatory. Grim Fandango combines a unique story line and complicated puzzles to create an adventure different from any you have experienced before. Follow Manny through four years of mystery on his quest for true love and eternal salvation.

The game opens to find Manny in search of the perfect client, one with the means to place them both on the fast track out of purgatory and into eternal paradise. Enter Mercedes Colomar, the client who has it all--beauty, brains, and enough money to buy them each tickets on the exclusive No. 9 train. Following the film-noir formula, Mercedes promptly vanishes, leaving Manny to solve the mystery behind her disappearance and her connection with the Department of Death.

With fantastic graphics--stylishly rendered in the film-noir style--and art from the Mayan, Aztec, and Mexican traditions, Grim Fandango is imaginative and appealing. The challenging puzzles call for attentive play and serious exploration of the Land of the Dead--not an unappealing job when surrounded by such beautiful animation. Include the original story line and humorous characters and you won't want to stop playing--we didn't!

Amazon.com Product Description:
A trip into Mexico's Day of the Dead, where you experience a film noir epic adventure.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Problems with Vista/XP, but still a blast!
Don't get me wrong, this game is great - brought me right back to obsessively playing the Gabriel Knight games, the Neverhood, and the Dig (also by LucasArts and amazing). It's great to look at, fun to play, and has one of the better story lines of any game I've ever played.

Now, for the unfortunate downside: there is a lot of stuff you have to do to run this with Vista or XP (or if your computer runs faster than they did back in 95/98. There are two patches you have to download (pretty quick and easy to find) BEFORE you attempt to install the game - in fact, one of the patches is a replacement installer. The game WILL NOT WORK AT ALL without the two patches. Once this is going, you have to run the game from the GRIM menu in the LucasArts folder in Windows 95/98 compatibility mode and run it as administrator.
With everything in its place, the game works perfectly until the chapter called Year 3, in which it repeatedly locks up. This can be fixed by switching discs and playing through for a while (although you lose the characters' ability to talk and get "closed captioning" for a bit) - then save the game, swap discs again, and you're back to where you need to be.
It's a bit of a hassle figuring all this out as you go (had to uninstall and reinstall about 90 times and then figure out the disc swapping by trial and error). I heard in my net searches on the problems that LucasArts is planning on re-issuing its classic adventures (this one included) in Vista format - if I knew this to be an absolute fact, I would advise waiting on this to happen.

However, the game is still enjoyable and is definitely one of the best and most original ideas out there. Hopefully, this review keeps you from pulling out the amount of hair I went through - it is well worth the extra trouble beforehand to play this game!

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- After 10 years, still ranks as my favorite.
I still remember the first time I played Grim Fandango. I was 17 years old at the time (was 16 when I played the Demo). What I remember more however is when I ended the game. I remember the strangest feeling I ever had upon ending a game... actual sadness. It might sound pathetic, but this is something that most of those who played Grim Fandango felt as well (if you don't believe me check the Gamespot hall of fame entry on Grim Fandango). This is a beautiful game really. The only beautiful game I have ever played. Every aspect of it shines with wit. From the art deco graphics to the Aztec inspired bebop sound track to the amazingly written script, this game stands unique and in a class of its own. The fact that it is still selling here after 10 years at almost double the price at which I bought it in 1998 is a testament to how adored it is by gamers everywhere. This is the climax of the Lucasarts school of adventure gaming and unfortunately, the last statement of a genre that is dearly missed. I recommend playing this game very highly. I almost envy you if you have never played it. There is nothing really quite like playing it for the first time around. Enjoy!

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- Another Nostalgic 90's Game Greatly Remembered And Loved
I still remember when I first bought this game in the 90's and I still play
the game from time to time for both entertainment and nostalgia. As with most of the pc games in the 90's there was no type commands but just the point and click with the mouse usually but still the humor and video cut scenes in the game were more than enough to keep you playing until the end. The short story-plot was your character was a civil servant for the spiritual plane where the recently departed had to stop before making their final passage to eternal rest. Your character for whatever reason had to work off a certain amount of time to clear his debt before going to the place of eternal rest as well. The job was you worked to see how well the person who just died was in life meaning the more compassionate, and humane they were in life the faster to paradise they would get to meaning the usual ways to get to paradise depending on the person was bus, boat, car, and if very high on the morality meter the number nine train which would only take nine minutes for the person to get to paradise. Of course there was more to the game and that is why it made it very entertaining to play. The video graphics are of the 90's era so again if your used to playing recent pc games you might feel the graphics are sub par but don't let that dissuade you from this game. The voice actors they got to do the characters were incredible both in their acting for their characters and their ability to bring the humor and excitement into the game itself. I know while some think this doesn't have the fighting or the action of recent pc games but I still feel that it's one of the few classics that many people will still find very enjoyable to play both for themselves and children without worrying about to much violence of the game.

Rating:

- Still a good game after all these years
This game is still great. The characters, the storyline, and the acting is exactly what I expected it to be coming from the days when LucasArts was GOOD. Overall, still a great game to play for those looking for an adventure game, but wants a good start.

Rating:

- One of the best!
My son and i played this together when he was still a boy, and it was the most involving and most fun of all the adventure games we played together.And the graphics and small slice of latino life were fabulous, too. Highly recommended for preteens and parents to play together!


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