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THE BEST GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yep, no bones about it, this is the best game I have ever played! Not only is the storyline excellent, but the graphics are awesome, also. The game interface is so simple, a four-year old could do it! But BEWARE, extremely difficult puzzles ahead.

Its not quite Casablanca, but its close enough for coolness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Take a great video game. Pump it full of low key lighting and high contrast dark and light toned colors. You have Grim Fandango, a game that would have been cool enough without all the neat visuals and beautiful music, but that is ultimately made wonderful by the additional time spent on it. This game is deep, involving, and generally a fun time. There's a strategy guide too, in case you need help with some of the sticky spots. ....You will definitely NOT be wasting your time.

GET IT NOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this by far is the best pc game yet full of great cinimatic seens it is good get it

FANTASTIC! FUN! WELL DONE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a well done game. My husband bought it for me as a gift. The story is rich and the graphics are very nice. Some of the puzzles are tedious, but the overall game makes up for a few poorly set-up puzzles. I would definately reccommend this game.

One of the Best Games Ever Made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Grim Fandango is one of those games that just about everyone likes. Whether you like shoot-em-up games like Doom, or Fantasy Games like Myst, Grim Fandango is just too much fun. The first thing I noticed were the high quality graphics. I didn't even install the higher version of the game. The plot is so intriguing you just can't stop playing it, and the puzzles are perfect! Grim Fandango is definitely a game that needs to be added to everyones' shelf!

My Vote for the Best Light-Hearted Title of the 90s.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There is little to add to the wonderful comments regarding the game's plot and puzzles that would be of use to the consumers biding the next New Year to receive this game as a present. It may not be a bad idea, but you'll only succumb to haggard exhaustion if you do. I like pleasant surprises, and high expectations easily turn into disappointments. This game plays well as a pleasant surprise because many of the puzzles are quite tricky to interfere with the enjoyment of the plot. I used a walkthrough in places myself, and I accede that some puzzles had obscure hints.

"SPOILER"--> the puzzle with the ticket for the photofinish which required you to guess the day of the race from the announcer's comments on the cat race balcony and the date from the mummified cat's plaque--I mean, come on, people!
Another place where he must grind the severed hand in order for the bones to sprout to track the fled florist. What underworld did they come off with this idea?
<--"END SPOILER"

In some places the Manny character froze so I had to restart the game. There is a place in the game - despite the positive remarks that you cannot make an irreversible error - where you must resume a saved game because you have not done something previously, but most likely you'll do it right the first time around.

"SPOILER" - the place where Manny speaks with Toto (is it?), the small-time gangster in his cafe. I was not able to obtain a VIP pass because I did not complete one optional conversation thread and later Manny wouldn't talk to him.
<--"END SPOILER".

Despite these small flaws, which very well may be avoided, the game shines in the inventive that-damnable-click-free user interface which I loved and like to see more of in other Lucas games, the music and backgrounds, carefully rendered for each individual location, from the cat mosaic on the walls of the cat track to the most detailed bas-relief of the train station relating Manny's four-year adventure. I loved the Adams-family type humor, the characters, the voice acting, but the plot-that most attractive of elements in any adventure game- most of all. On the technical side: the fast downloads, the small installation size, quick save restores made starting and resuming the game effortless.
I was very sad to see this game end, especially in the light of the fact that Manny had spent so much time getting to the Eighth Underworld, I would have liked to see him settle there with his missus and with some skin on! Also what he had done to deserve the unfair treatment of being recruited into the most awful of all professions - travel sales - remains a mystery. I would have liked to know what it was for complete happiness.
"SPOILER" -->And have those poor sprouted saps in the field resurrected would have been tremendous. After all, they is good people, no?
<--"END SPOILER"
In short, play it, play it soon, and you won't regret it.
Viva la revolucion!

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A must have. It is funny and a great play.

Not as Fun, going as you think

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was recommended for me after my satisfaction with "The Curse of Monkey Island." As like the sequal, "Escape From Monkey Island," it included a lot of "Keyboard Punching" with arrows and letters. My kids, ages 6 and 12, did not find this convient to play, even with a joystick, only because it was not as easy as others... not even for me.... Mom.

Grim Fandango is the best pc game I ever played.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's charming, funny, smart, clever, interesting, beautiful, intellegent and really really fun. I love this game!

Another fantastic game from LucasArts!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely loved this game!!! A very original plot along with funny and beguiling characters (Glottis was my favorite) make this a game you definitely don't want to miss! I also thought it was funny how put in a few inside jokes like naming the main guy Manny Calavera (Calavera means skull -- he's dead, by the way) and naming one of the places Puerto Zapato (Zapato means shoe, I suppose they just did that to be funny). There were funny parts, spooky parts, exciting parts -- if you're still reading this, go and buy Grim Fandango right now and don't waste another second!!

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