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This is the bread and butter of LucasArts and will mostly revolve around you (if you're not a very keen thinker) trying out every dialogue and using every item at your disposal with every object or person, in order to progress. You will maneuver Manny through a plethora of fixed camera perspectives with pre-rendered backgrounds, where you will interact with objects and people, mix and match this and navigate a bunch of dialogue options. As you try to make a living (pun intended) you slowly uncover a hornets nest of corruption in your beloved Department of Death and get mixed up in both mob business and guerilla freedom fighters, which takes you on an adventurous journey involving love, friendship, gambling, murder, stakeouts, sea monsters, otherworldly demons and a good chunk of enterprising. Why such a system needs to be employed? Who knows, yet it is an inspiring choice to dress up the grim reaper as your normal working class guy that grinds for his own freedom in the afterlife by punching the clock and dealing with 'dead-end no commission no-life cases'. Of course not before assigning them their travel package deal, depending on their virtues and vices from when they were alive. Set in the Land of the Dead, where recently deceased souls go on a 4 year journey to the Land of Eternal Rest, you pilot Manuel Calavera, a sassy travel agent / grim reaper who pays off his debt by guiding souls from the Land of the Living and set them on their path.

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Nevertheless I will try to keep this review as professional as possible. But this is all useless recollections of distant memories, but exemplifies the bias I have for Grim Fandango. The mural was also found in one of the later levels of the game, which I thought to be exceptionally cool as an easter egg. The game came in a lush box (something I miss in today's digitization) with two CDs inside a digipack ornamented with a mural of various events from the story, which coincidentally was presented inside the game as your progress bar when you were saving it. I had the pleasure of playing Grim Fandango in early 2000s, which has inherently been one of the biggest factors for my taste in games (LucasArts previous titles also applying to this). This review will mainly be a review of the game as it was, while comments about the remaster are left in the ending notes.

2015 Double Fine Productions released the Grim Fandango remaster you see before you now, and it was a joy to behold. But this is no time to talk about such atrocities.

Of course we all know it: Angry Birds Star Wars II on mobile.

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The director of the game, Tim Schafer, luckily acquired the license for the game as Disney were doing their crusade on everything held dear by closing the newly acquired LucasArts's video game development and giving the Star Wars reigns to EA, right after they managed to churn out the last 'instant classic' out of the LucasArts skeleton. Grim Fandango not only was their first adventure game making use of 3D graphics, but subsequently was the genre's swan song as we were headed into the new millennium. Adventure games had fallen out of favor, despite LucasArts best effort in revitalizing it. Grim Fandango was originally released in 1998 by LucasArts to the acclaim of critics and the boredom of the masses. '.if there's one thing I've learned, it's this: nobody knows what's gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip'