Grim Fandango

Grim Fandango
by LucasArts Entertainment

Grim Fandango
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Product Summary

Brand: Lucas Arts
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Model: 10918
Publisher: LucasArts Entertainment
Product features:
  • 3-D Adventure
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Video Game Reviews of Grim Fandango

Customer Review: After 10 years, still ranks as my favorite.
Summary: 5 Stars

I still remember the first time I played Grim Fandango. I was 17 years old at the time (was 16 when I played the Demo). What I remember more however is when I ended the game. I remember the strangest feeling I ever had upon ending a game... actual sadness. It might sound pathetic, but this is something that most of those who played Grim Fandango felt as well (if you don't believe me check the Gamespot hall of fame entry on Grim Fandango). This is a beautiful game really. The only beautiful game I have ever played. Every aspect of it shines with wit. From the art deco graphics to the Aztec inspired bebop sound track to the amazingly written script, this game stands unique and in a class of its own. The fact that it is still selling here after 10 years at almost double the price at which I bought it in 1998 is a testament to how adored it is by gamers everywhere. This is the climax of the Lucasarts school of adventure gaming and unfortunately, the last statement of a genre that is dearly missed. I recommend playing this game very highly. I almost envy you if you have never played it. There is nothing really quite like playing it for the first time around. Enjoy!

Description of Grim Fandango

Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury packages to souls on their four year journey to eternal rest. But there's trouble in paradise. Help Manny untangle himself from a conspiracy that threatens his very salvation.
Join Manny, the undead travel agent, and uncover a conspiracy to keep new additions to the underworld from buying a safe passage through purgatory. Grim Fandango combines a unique story line and complicated puzzles to create an adventure different from any you have experienced before. Follow Manny through four years of mystery on his quest for true love and eternal salvation.

The game opens to find Manny in search of the perfect client, one with the means to place them both on the fast track out of purgatory and into eternal paradise. Enter Mercedes Colomar, the client who has it all--beauty, brains, and enough money to buy them each tickets on the exclusive No. 9 train. Following the film-noir formula, Mercedes promptly vanishes, leaving Manny to solve the mystery behind her disappearance and her connection with the Department of Death.

With fantastic graphics--stylishly rendered in the film-noir style--and art from the Mayan, Aztec, and Mexican traditions, Grim Fandango is imaginative and appealing. The challenging puzzles call for attentive play and serious exploration of the Land of the Dead--not an unappealing job when surrounded by such beautiful animation. Include the original story line and humorous characters and you won't want to stop playing--we didn't!


A trip into Mexico's Day of the Dead, where you experience a film noir epic adventure.

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