Retro Review: Grim Fandango

To keep track of the games of adventure games, and speaking of King's Quest in the previous article, it is now the turn of his predecessor Grim Fandango, considered another work of worship for followers of this genre for several reasons such as a impeccable and impressive graphics, gameplay extremely comfortable and a captivating story that forces us to pay attention second to second to see the final outcome.

Designed by Tim Schafer, developed and distributed by the legendary LucasArts in 1998 for PC, can boast of being the first game that incorporated the graphics engine grime (Grim Edit), which served to be the subject of wonder and acclaim many for its high quality, many say that if excellence was repeatedly imitated but never equaled, the naked eye is that it shows the effort and hard work meant to its makers Grim Fandango, has an attractive and convincing argument, why what? because it is inspired by the peculiar Mexican celebration known as "Day of the Dead"

Here the main character is Manny Calavera living in the underworld, a place where all the beings who were once alive upon the face of the earth, from the beginning what is more striking is the beauty and ornamentation of game, all players have skeletal look, humor is not absent. It all starts when Manny, who serves as tour packages salesman, trying to sell one Lord Flowers, after this has been reluctant and hostile, our hero decides to steal your customers coworker Domino, by this act of dishonesty, Don Copal boss fires him, but before that Manny manages to sell a ticket to a user ninth hell called Mercedes Colomar, being thrown out of his job is visited by a strange man named Salvador Lemons (as you will realize, all names are of Latin origin), and this gives Manuel exit the marrow Town, part of the AAP (Lost Souls Alliance), that's when you start to make the long journey to find and disrupt a Mercedes web of corruption in the company of his friend Glottis.

Despite having all the attractions mentioned, Grim Fandango failed to win a major impact on sales matter, probably because it was past golden age of adventure games that had their highest peak in the late eighties and early nineties, however is considered by many critics as one of the best and most complete games ever, not only of its kind, leaving an indelible mark and now we pay retroGamer a fitting tribute to the skeleton's less unpleasant.