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Grim Fandango
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#12I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…
The tank controls also put me off of it for years.
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#13I played through GF with GameFAQs open next to it, and had an incredible time for it. All the frustration stripped away and left with just the story, soundtrack, dialogue, and appreciation for the fun creative puzzle designs without bashing my head against them. I felt guilty for doing it that way; it's nice to know it wasn't my fault for being too dumb!
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#14Has to be one of the funniest and most creative games I've ever come across.
The humour was dark and the world building was so nuanced and poetic.
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#15I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…
The tank controls also put me off of it for years.
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#16I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…
I thought this game was up there in my favorites as a kid, don't think me or my younger sibling noticed personally, but the puzzles were really hard for sure. Either way we beat it between each other taking turns I remember. Oh yeah, the tank controls were a little less shit with a gamepad - back when there was a dedicated port for those no less
I also remember these games easier to beat before the internet was so pervasive and these kinds of things were the best way to pass rainy days, we'd draw out notes and maps on paper and all sorts of stuff to beat them - different times now, people's attention is way more scattered
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#17Glottis barfing and the beat poetry simulator had me rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.
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#18The pre-rendered backgrounds were breathtaking in the 90s, but today the old off-line ray tracing looks worse than what modern games can render (same goes for the original Myst).
The remastered version has been released before AI upscaling got interesting. I wonder if a re-remastered version could be made look better.
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#19I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…
I thought this game was up there in my favorites as a kid, don't think me or my younger sibling noticed personally, but the puzzles were really hard for sure. Either way we beat it between each other taking turns I remember. Oh yeah, the tank controls were a little less shit with a gamepad - back when there was a dedicated port for those no less I also remember these games easier to beat before the internet was so pe…
We also had fewer games available. I did play a lot of demos and shareware though, thanks to disks from gaming magazines, including GF.
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#20I agree with a lot of what he writes, but it's still one of my favorite games. I have faded memories about how frustrated I was running around trying to understand what I was supposed to do next, and strong memories about how the game and its world made me feel.