Grim Fandango (Jewel Case)
by LucasArts Entertainment
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Video Game Reviews of Grim Fandango (Jewel Case)
Customer Review: It's so good, I use it as a student reward!
Summary: 5 Stars
Fun game play, challenging but not impossible puzzles all related to the story. Just a cool game. I used it as a top score reward for my high school kids and scores rose significantly.
Customer Review: Not as Fun, going as you think
Summary: 2 Stars
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.Customer Review: A Great Game
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great game by lucas arts but I would suggest getting the game book with hints from amazon.com because you get in one part of the game and you have lots of trouble finding out how to do something but overall it's a wonderful game.Customer Review: A great game
Summary: 5 Stars
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!Customer Review: Is a game SO different, so great, so well done. And so Hard!
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's get this straight from the start: I believe that Grim Fandango is one of the hardest Graphic Adventures I have ever played, maybe only topped by "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis", which I think was harder. It gets frustrating at times, and yes, I had to use a walkthrough more than once. But it is such a great experience (calling it just "a game" would be an underestatement) that maybe even solving the whole game with a walkthrough would make for a good experience, because it still is like watching a great movie. Not a good one. A GREAT one.
The whole game is incredibly detailed and well designed. The interface seems akward at first, but one you get used to it, is not hard, and is incredibly simple.
The graphics are awesome. Not from a technically speaking point of view (specially now in 2003, since the game is old) but from an artistic one. The art design is impressive. The sign in the entrance of a cafe, the carvings on the walls in buildings, the inner decoration in every place, the colors, the textures, the lighting... all together makes it for city which would amaze you at every corner if you visited it in real life. And you do get amazed in the game.
The story & the characters.
This is for me the best done part of the game. The characters are so believable and so well developed, that you really get into the story. It has so many touching moments, that even though this game makes you laugh so much and so hard, you never feel like the quest before you is anything less than very serious, being also intriguing and dramatic. You really care about what's going on, and you really hate or love characters. You get involved with each and everyone.
The music is also awesome. It sets the appropiate mood in every situation and it does it damn well. Film noir-like music, and some folklorick mexican-like (not exactly like any music I've heard here in Mexico) mixed with such a good result, that It makes you wonder if there's a soundtrack CD available. The music is so important and so varied depending on the different moments on the game, that it is a real treat.
In the end, you can tell that the people who made this game is people with very high artistic skills, but most of all, with a very deep perspective and feelings about the whole life and death subject. The people who made this game clearly have lived, have suffered, have loved and have enjoyed happy moments (it also has a great sense of humor). That is something you can tell when you play this game.
The only negative part is that once the game is over, you get genuinely sad, since you had got used to be there, and it feels like very good friends are departing to a very, very far away place.