Grim Fandango Remastered

One of the most stylistic adventure games out there with so much charm that I actively wanted to talk to every character to the point of exhausting dialogue just to hear what they had to say. A high recommendation even if the logic of the puzzles is sometimes enough to get you to look at a walkthrough.

Once you realizdee the quality of writing and design in this game is from almost 30years ago, you get double blown away. The amounts of charm that every character distills is definitely on par of a late millenium Hollywood movie. The puzzles are insanely challenging, they require logic and some physical intuition ev…

Recommended, but only for hard LucasArts fans. The puzzles are extremely convoluted, even for LucasArts standards: lots of them make no sense at all. Play for the story and characters, with a walkthrough by your side, and you'll enjoy it.

Yet to fully beat the game so this review isn't reflective of my thoughts on the overall game as-it-was back when it was originally released, but rather the remaster specifically. I'm still at the very start of the game and have already run into a game-breaking softlock with the wheelbarrow where Manny disappears an…

great fun and hard puzzles

Grim Fandango is an absolute treat of the olden days, but one that needs a remake, rather than a remaster. Film Noir, mixed with Mexican and Mayan culture. Fantastic art, excellent voice acting with a pretty amusing script. If you'd like a fresh crime story with some unusual thematic inspirations, look no further. I…