This week your intrepid heroes visit the land of the dead, go 4:3, and locate missing options.
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Game: Grim Fandango Remastered
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/316790/
Devel: Double Fine /LucasArts
Engine: Custom
Price: 16.99
Wazzat: Something’s rotten in the land of the dead, and you’re being played for a sucker. 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.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Makes with the working
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- Correct me if I’m right but didn’t it have a few graphics options before the update nixed them?
- I’ve had one bug (before and after patch) that causes the gerbil cursor to nope. For added fun the keyboard does fk all as well.
- This caused a reload from save.
J-
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- The last update broke the menu.
- The options are still there, if you click randomly around the pause screen you’ll find them.
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Shiny / Sounds
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- Oh look! 4:3
- They upped the 3D but the backgrounds not so much.
- Tell me this does not look FK all out of place
- http://i.imgur.com/uzVqVL4.jpg
- Honestly I found myself hitting backspace and playing it like that.
- Voice acting is solid (original) and the soundtrack is the same old goodness.
J-
- I dig the art style, what with the mexican stylized skulls and whatnot
- The living world bit was kind of clever, IMO
- The backgrounds can be a bit jarring but it doesn’t really bother me
- The voice acting is top notch as well
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- I get that the original assets were designed for a 4:3 screen and since they didn’t really bother to up-rez the backgrounds, they had to keep it.
- But now everything just looks out of place.
- Characters look like they’re standing in front of a green screen.
- It’s also easier to find the thing you need to progress, because it probably is higher res than the backdrop.
- I like the whole spanish accent they have goin’ on.
- It even translates to the localized Portuguese version.
- Portuguese with a Spanish accent, I don’t hate it.
- It even translates to the localized Portuguese version.
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- Point + click ……………………………………………….wait. The game.
J-
- You point, then you click. Not much else to say
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- What Jordan said.
- Throw in proper controller support and you’ve got yourself a Steam Machine ready game.
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FUN
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- This game was released in 98 and by that time I had Torvalds so far down my throat organ my eyes watered.
- Seriously, I was demanding native ports back then.
- FF 17yrs and I get my my native port \:D/
- Wish I had some nostalgia spectacles because all I’m thinking is “man, we had some proper attention spans back in the day”
- The “remaster” made finding objects in the scenes way to easy. Oh, that thing I need, bet it’s that one random “remastered” object.
- After 40min of solid gameplay it didn’t hook me in the slightest.
- Again, I have no previous experience /w this game.
J-
- I never really played this game back in the day, so I have no particular attachment to it
- Never really was a fan of point and click adventure games, as I’ve mentioned before
- I’m sure if you were a fan of the original, this thing is freaking awesome, but it really doesn’t do it for me.
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- I don’t remember it being this clunky.
- Meeting Salvador Limones was still just as awesome as I remembered.
- But I guess…
- Point and click adventure games died for a reason.
- No matter how thick your nostalgia glasses are, even Grim Fandango hasn’t aged properly.
- It’s still a great story, but the game elements are just… clunky.
- And this is a game we’re reviewing.
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Final – (1 chair short of the Third)
It was a very good game, in its day. And it’s great that you can legally obtain it once more. Just don’t expect to be blown away.