Title: Grim Fandango Remastered
Developer: Double Fine Productions
Publisher: Double Fine Productions
Price Tag: $14.99 on Playstation Store (Free of January 2016 for PS+ users)
Release Date: January 27th, 2015
Game Engine: GrimE
Number of Players: Single
Genre: Graphic Adventure
Youtube Game Review: https://youtu.be/x6FMR_vTHgQ
I never got into the Grim Fandango series. It’s not that I didn’t like the series, I guess I didn’t know much about it. But this game has had high praise, and was a featured game by the time I had purchased my PS4 and did my “unboxing video” (aka blog post).
So… this was a rather strange one to review. It feels more like the player is taking on the role of a movie star in a movie.
From what I can understand (of what the secretary tells the player), that when you die, this guy who shows up as the Grim Reaper and tries to sell you a travel package to get to a specific area where you’ll be able to rest eternally. What you get is how you lived your life when you were alive. Often, his ‘clients’ get the short end of the stick and they’re forced to get to the area by foot, which can take four years.
The player and the secretary are stuck in the land of the dead until the player is able to make some money for the company, and “the hero will be free to leave the land of the dead”.
The player eventually gets a special work order in the mail (by this time the player can finally control the character) to attend “the poisoning”; aka too many people in the land of the living are still alive and not making the company any money… so yeah. At least I think that’s what ‘the poisoning’ means.
The player has to find their driver (as for some reason, skeleton people aren’t allowed to drive cars). And without revealing spoilers, I’m going to end my discussion here and get to my final review;
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Good;
-Reminds me of those old adventure games from the late 90’s (like Space Quest), where .
Bad;
-No clue on where to go or what to do.
-The game starts as a cutscene instead of on its main menu. Hell, it doesn’t even display its main menu unless you press the OPTIONS button.
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Final Verdict: For some reason, the game makes me want to play it more. Even though I’m so confused on where to go or what to do. It reminds me of games like Crystalis in the late 90’s (back before internet walkthroughs were a thing).
Overall, I say it’s worth a download (and your time).