Grim Fandango

[Yosy]

It's a beautiful piece of a graphic adventure. The characters are brilliant and the voices are the best that I've seen (who can forget Glottis?).

The plot is superb and very original. Everyone is dead in the game. You are a travel agent trying to sell travel packages to newly-deads so you can work off your time and go to the 9th Underworld (the land of eternal rest)! In the middle of this we have casinos, gangsters, rebels, corruption and inuendos.

And the game is loosly based in real life: the Day of the Dead is really a holiday in Mexico; there was a mexican tribe that treated death with parties; the design of the characters are based in balloons that are made to celebrate the Day of the Dead (called calaveras ).

Anyone else knows about it?

[Freibier]

You talking about the 1998 Lucasarts Grim Fandango?
Or is there a new version?

[HappyCat]

When the topic came up I said that was the greatest game ever :) I think the story, the characters the locations puzzles and even the artistic decor make this game unforgetable and the best game ever.

[jassemon]

The best adventure game I have ever played. Ever. This game is still the very pinnacle of adventure game evolution.
Incredible atmosphere (especially year 2), great voice-acting and last but not least, superbly stylized characters. There just aren't enough superlatives to describe the game. It was so refreshing to see something else than basic humans for a change. It's just mind-boggling that even when you have such a powerful tool as 3D animation available most game developers just attempt to create a bit more realistic humans than before. Where is their imagination?

P.S. Ok, so there is one small dent on this brightly shining nugget of pure excellence, the controls take some time to get used to. They hardly bother you after playing it through for 20 times like me :)

[Yosy]

Oh yeh - year 2 (Rubacava) is the best. I wonder if death is like that - I hope so :)

Btw what do you think that is the Ninth Underworld?

[Rantanplan]

Yeah, this is a great game. But I never played it to the end. I don't know why.

[mocking_loudly_died]

Day of the tentacle rocked.

[American Patriot]

I re-played Day of the Tentacle and wondered why it was so anti-Republican :lol: I got pissed off and stopped half-way. :lol:

[HappyCat]

I re-played Day of the Tentacle and wondered why it was so anti-Republican :lol: I got pissed off and stopped half-way. :lol:

as far as i know there is no political jokes in grim fandango, although last time i played it i wasn't looking for them, but it is a great game with many funny stylish bits. the story in this game is actually so great, i wish it had been made into a novel like so many movies.

[HappyCat]

Oh yeh - year 2 (Rubacava) is the best. I wonder if death is like that - I hope so :)

Btw what do you think that is the Ninth Underworld?

year 1 and 2 are great, best gaming moments ever. as for the ninth, I expect even the developers don't have a clue which is why they never made a sequal to the best game ever.

[EvanL]

I re-played Day of the Tentacle and wondered why it was so anti-Republican :lol: I got pissed off and stopped half-way. :lol:

as far as i know there is no political jokes in grim fandango, although last time i played it i wasn't looking for them, but it is a great game with many funny stylish bits. the story in this game is actually so great, i wish it had been made into a novel like so many movies.hey happy cat. where in ottawa ru?