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mmm . . . skeletons

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not only is this game beautiful, entertaining, challenging, inspired, and gripping, but it is also fun. By the end of this game, you truly feel as though you are Manny, and that's a good thing. Just a warning: I had trouble moving around in some places, in one spot that made a puzzle nearly impossible to solve. I have also had friends that cannot handle the game even on their nice, nice computers, which makes it impossible to get past a certain point. So check the requirements carefully! But, if your computer does pass, then you are in for thae journey of a lifetime.

I Must Be Missing Something

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 22
Date: December 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I picked this up in a bargain bin because I had heard great things about Grim Fandango, now an admittedly older title. I had also played a demo of one of the Monkey Island games and found it hilarious. I greedily slapped down my ten bucks and looked forward to some fun.

The game is fun to listen to and watch. Filled with yucks aplenty, Grim Fandango is like participating directly in a wacky animated film. For this alone, Fandango earns high praise. As with the Monkey Island games, the voice acting and humor is top notch.

Sadly, gameplay suffers. If you read through enough reviews here at Amazon, you'll find that people like Fandango simply for its humor and style; most customers admit that they needed walkthroughts to get past the game's frustrating puzzles. I'm a puzzle fan, and I like a challenge, but there were simply too many moments in Fandango where the puzzles felt arbitrary. Logic rarely led to a solution; only trial and error did! For me, this weighed heavily--and I mean heavily--against the game. Humor and style, huge plusses no doubt, should still be secondary to gameplay (or at least equal). With Fandango, gameplay seems to be a less important means towards creative and hilarious ends. You'll need to decide if this is okay with you. For me, it wasn't.

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Grim Fandango

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought Grim Fandango about a year ago, while I
was on this big Noir kick. Which, happily, I am
still in.

I stummbled onto the Top Selling games on here,
what a surprise it was to see that Grim Fandango
was in the top 50's. Deservingly I might add.

Grim Fandango is a great game for it's ambiance,
for it's style, for some very nice plot and for
the fact that it's Noir. It's a difficult game
with all it's puzzles. Like most of the other
Lucas Art games you can't really die, which is
a great change of pace with all the other games
out there.

So if you're looking for a game that has a lot
of style, a lot of plot, a wonderful setting or
a great soundtrack, give Grim Fandango a run
for the money. Anyone who loves Noir and video
games, this is a must have...

Best Adventure/Puzzle Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is the best adventure/puzzle game I have played. It is more compelling than Riven because it has heart to it. It leaves you with feeling and interest in the memorable characters. The puzzles are pointless at times, but less so than other games. Best music ever in a game. There are great characters and sweet, funny, and entertaining moments throughout.

A modern classic... essential for Quest lovers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Such a shame, they just don't make games like this anymore... In what is probably their last classic adventure game, LucasArts returned to the things that made Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max and Monkey Island - the games I loved so much as a kid - unforgettable classics. Grim Fandango is a fun game with a good story, hilerious dialogue and extremely lovable characters. The graphics and gameplay are of course modern (though the four year old graphics look outdated in today's standards, it's still great and a perfect look for the game) but the rest of it is completely in the style of these great oldies. The gameplay and interface - strictly keyboard-oriented - may take a few minutes getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it's just as comfortable as the mouse control of Sam & Max. The game is meant mainly for young adults - the humor is sophisticated, and the puzzles are much more difficult than those in the classic LucasArts adventures (but not so difficult as to become frustrating). If you loved those games when you were younger, then Grim Fandango is a must-have.

Great Fun! Film Noir, Snappy dialog and good puzzles

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What a treat this was to play! If you want to test your brain, enjoy wonderful music and graphics, you'll love this. Definetly not for the "Hack and Slash" minded.

There's an update you can download from Lucasarts if you have a fast computer (it tends to crash with fast systems)

Enjoy the ride! Manny Calaveras is a great character to play.

This game is Fantastic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you like games like Myst, Riven, 7th Guest, 11th Hour, etc. You'll LOVE this game. It's a long-playing, challenging game that has kept me thoroughly entertained for nearly a month now. Grim plays like a good movie. The story is fasinating, and could easily be a movie. I highly recommend this game.

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. It grabs you like a good book that you can't put down. It grabs you like a giant silverback gorilla looking for a mate. It grabs you like...well you get the idea. This is one of my all-time favorite games; it blends great puzzles, amazing locales and often hilarious characters almost perfectly. Its subtle humor is much more amusing than cheap guffaws so oftenly employed in games. It is, however, rather difficult, but thats not necessarily a bad thing. The voice acting is great, and the graphics aren't too shabby. The game plays very well, and its very immersive. Yeah!

At this price: IT IS A GREAT DEAL!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game as a nice gift for a friend who owns a pretty old computer.

Let me tell you that this game is a milestone in Adventure/Quest Gaming, specially if you take the following aspects:

- Graphics: OK, it's a little bit old, but the creativity and coloring of the scenes is amazing.

- Dialogue: a nice display of the fun and tongue-in-cheek humor you expected from Lucas Arts games.

- Sound: the music and environmental sounds are crisp and involves you in the action.

It is a shame that this genre of gaming is almost extinct. This game is also a reminder of the good things we USED to get from Lucas Arts. This company has made a tradition nowadays to deliver awful products like SW Galaxies.

Superb

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

An engaging and original story, superb voice acting and fun music are just some of the things I can say about this game. Everyone I haved talked with that has played this game has loved it. Its one of the games you don't forget and know its a classic as soon as you finish it.

Runs on my WindowsXP box with no trouble, so grab this game and enjoy a great piece of work.

Just an update to my review. Grim Fandango runs fine on XP if you don't have more than one cpu. Since the Pentium 4 processors with hyperthreading emulate multiple processors this applies to single processor machines with these Pentiums as well. (Designated with a c)

There is a way to get around this. Setting the game to run with a cpu affinity for one cpu. Yes, scary technical jargon. It just means forcing the game to run on a specific processor.

Running the game in compatibility mode starts the game with an affinity for one cpu but wrecks the sound support. As a dev I was able to write a simple 3 line program to start the game with an affinity for one cpu without making it run in compatibility mode, thus getting it to play and not give up on sound.

If you have a multiprocessor machine or a hyperthreading cpu and you really want to play this game you'll want to search the web for a program that lets you start applications with a specific cpu affinity. There was one called exemode a while back.

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