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Summary: Nothing else compares
Review: I waited too long to get this game. Had I known how perfect it is, I could have saved myself a lot of frustration with other, lesser, games. Lucasarts does not fail-their games excel, and this is the best of the bunch. You can even get the soundtrack from the game on CD! I'm listening to it as I write this, actually....PS-Glottis is GREAT!
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Summary: Lucas Arts does it again with Arftistic Gem that is fun
Review: Lucas Arts does a great job with its adventure games. You can't die or lose. You might get stuck, but you can always find a decent walkthrough on the web. This game is an artistic gem, both in the visual drawing style but also in the background music, which I think is the best (by far) I have heard in a game. My only quibble was that I found the interface (no mouse, either keyboard or joystick) a little awkward.
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Summary: The best adventure game of all time
Review: Do yourself a favour and experience this epic journey. After that, pray there will be a sequel. Essential in every way.
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Summary: Grim Fandango
Review: Ya good game, good graphics, some bugs but can be fix by getting patch. Very Good story some parts difficult, some easy, mostly medium. Other wise W O R T H B U Y I N G I T !
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Summary: Great game
Review: The game starts out a little slow and at the beggining and it's plot is a little murky at best, but after playing for about half an hour you are hooked. The background animation is amazing for a game made in 1997 but even for nowadays it is still great. It has a 30's kind of environment but moves through 7 differnt "worlds", each with their own stile. If you like any kind of adventure game you'll love this one, it has every thing a gamer could need in it plus some. I finished this game in 2 days but I must of played it for about 6 hours each day. The puzzels are challanging, the graphics are amazing, the soundtrack is great, and the plot is intersting. This is one of my, if not my favorite all time game. ...
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Summary: Favorite Game of a Non Adventure Gamer
Review: I don't play adventures, but this is one of my all time favorite games withtout a doubt. My wife and I played it together all the way through twice, and like going back to a great novel we'll probably play it again. The characters are incredibly stylish, witty, real, and lovable. The scenes are a work of art in their own right. The story is like a great movie of the film noir style, but on an epic scale. One episode in the game pay tribue to Casablanca and it does it very well. If these elements sound attractive, then you will not be disappointed. The puzzles were pretty darn hard at times. I had to use a walkthrough. I tried other popular adventure games like The Longest Journey and Monkey Island, but in contrast they had poor acting, dumb jokes, and annoying characters. If I may say it, Grim Fandango suits a more sophisticated taste but still would not bore a young audience.
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Summary: The only good thing Lucas had his name on in 15 years...
Review: Okay, enough Phantom Menance bashing... Just wanted to add another five stars to the list. Great game, one of the best of all time, blah blah blah. It's ten bucks, just get it!
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Summary: So much fun, it's worth watching someone else play!
Review: The GF interface is classic "adventure" gaming: point and click, put things in your inventory, solve puzzles and watch a story unfold. The difference between GF and so many other of this genre is that everything is done right in this game... the voices, the graphics, the music, the whole look & feel, the cutscenes, the writing... GF is more than a game, it is interactive theater. It's a multimedia experience every bit as compelling as cinema. If it were a movie it would be worth watching again and again. I've read in gaming magazines that people actually cried at the end of this game, it's that well-written and performed! But to watch this movie, you must drive the characters yourself through the action, conversing with delightfully bizarre & campy characters, solving a series of puzzles as you go. The puzzles themselves are pretty standard adventure game fare, challenging you to find out what items to give to which people or to use with which other items or places in the game world. Unlike some games, though, whose puzzles are so farfetched that once you know the solution you actually get angry at the designers, GF's are just the right blend of challenging and logical, and you'll rarely have to go to the "hint" book to get unstuck (though there are those times in any adventure game this long). And you'll want to try every conversation tree along the way, just because the responses are so funny. The inventory interface (Manny puts things into and removes them from his inner coat pocket) takes a little getting used to, but this isn't a game based on fast-twitch reflexes so after a few frustrating instances of trying to get the item you wanted out and into the game world, it eventually becomes second nature and never costs you a restart. GF has enough innuendo and film noir references to keep adults entertained, but is clean-languaged, gore free (in the land of the dead, you don't get killed, you get "sprouted," and flowers grow from your skeleton) and OK for kids to play -- though it does get as emotionally intense as any old Bogart movie. Moments when your pulse will race or you will feel shocked and angry at the villain's sheer villainy. But it is not due to fast-paced action or graphic violence, simply that the fantastic, immersive atmosphere has sucked you into the story. At its new low price, this game is an absolute steal. Pick up this and the third Monkey Island in jewel case format and you'll have hundreds of hours of totally entertaining gaming for your whole family for less than a trip to the movies. If it's half the game we're all saying it is, how could you go wrong?
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Summary: A Day in the Land of the Dead
Review: I admit it: I absolutely love adventure games. They are practically my life and, if it weren't for companies like LucasArts, Cyan, Presto Studios, etc., then I would be crying myself sore on the ground. For the skeptics among you, let me tell you that GRIM FANDANGO is every bit as good as reviewers put it up to be. It has drama, wit, humor, and great gameplay. If you don't want to read the rest of the article, let me sum it up in two words: BUY IT. There. That said, let me get into the game. You play Manny Calavera, a dead guy working in the Eighth Underworld (inspired by Mexican folklore about life after death.) Because of some great sin you committed in life (although I have a sneaking suspicion that he didn't do anything wrong) you are forced to work off your debt to the powers that be by selling travel packages to other newly arrived souls (think sports cars, luxury cruises or, best of all, the high-speed Number Nine train) for their journey to the Ninth Underworld, the land of eternal rest (I think). Unfortunately, due to some turn of events, the perfect client (stolen from your arch-competitor) is cheated out of her rightful package, setting in motion events concerning the dangers of the Eighth Underworld and the corruption within the agency you work for itself. That classic LucasArts humor returns in GRIM FANDANGO. However, this time, it is not the slapstick comedy of Monkey Island and other titles but serious and more subtle humor, accentuated by superb voice acting. The characters themselves are all quite memorable; there is Mercedes Colomar, the lost soul cheated out of her right ticket on the Number Nine and forced to wander the Eighth Underworld on foot; there's Chepito, a lost soul also journeying to the Eighth Underworld. However, this southern chap hates boats, instead walking there under the ocean itself and turning blue because of the cold. There's Velasco, the crusty sea captain in the port town of Rubacava. There's the orange-skinned, purple-tongued Glottis, a "spirit of the land" summoned from the deepest deeps of the underworld with one desire, one purpose, and one wish - to drive. Finally, there's Manny himself, the Mexican dead guy trying to sort things out. He also has an uncanny ability to rise from the bottom of a corporation to the head itself (excluding his own agency, the Department of the Dead). The puzzles are all well designed and make sense - at least, in retrospect. However, some of the puzzles are downright bizarre. For example (skip to the next paragraph if you don't want any spoilers), how about filling limp balloons with to different chemicals and sending them down the message tube to the central messaging machine so that they pop and combine to create a packing foam, allowing you access to the machine once the repair demon leaves? Kind of weird, eh? Nevertheless, the puzzles do the job right and are quite fun. I also found the interface and controls quite fine; granted, they weren't as good as that of previous adventures using the SCUMM engine, but the GRIMM engine, despite falling short in some areas, surpasses SCUMM in others. The visuals are very good, even by today's standards, and the interface for the inventory and actions is just as good as that of SCUMM. The controls, on the other hand, are a bit clunkier; while I adjusted to them quickly enough (thanks to ESCAPE FROM MONKEY ISLAND), they are certainly less convenient than a simple point-'n-click adventure game. My one complaint lies with the story itself - there are times when GRIM FANDANGO can seem awfully dark to some. However, despite this one shortcoming, the fact remains - you should own GRIM FANDANGO. Enjoy your stay in the land of the dead.
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Summary: One of The Best Games Ever
Review: This game has wonderful graphics and a very exciting plot. I love Manny Calavera, Salvador Limones, Meche,Johnny Thunder Boys, Pugsy, Bibi,Glottis, Don Copal, Bowlsley,Lola and almost everyone else in the fabulas game. I love the film noir atmosphere. I like how everybody drinks and smokes and they can't get lung damages. The only thing I did not like was how hard some of the puzzels were. I love how the buildings look and how the creatures or souls look. Grim Fandango is a wonderful game that many poeple like or should like. Thank you.
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