Grim Fandango 
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This is an excellent adventure game brought to us by LucasArts, the same people who gave us the superb Monkey Island series, the bizarre Day Of The Tentacle and the brilliantly weird Sam ‘n’ Max to name but a few.
This game is easily my favourite adventure game, ever. I can only see it being surpassed by a sequel, which considering the ending to this game, would be pretty pointless. The storyline is good enough for a film and, indeed, it would make a brilliant feature if it was ever converted into, say, a cartoon. The range of locations, puzzles and characters you meet along the way are superb. The scenery is nothing short of fantastic and the music is perfect. It has suitable doses of drama, tension and comedy to give it an unsurpassed atmosphere. Okay, so Monkey Island is a lot funnier, but for depth of story and sheer involvement, you can’t beat it.
The game is based on Mexican folklore: when a person dies, their soul is collected by a travel agent who sets them off on their journey across the land of the dead to the ninth underworld - the better a person has been during their life the better the transport they get for that journey, from a walking stick for the not too good to a ticket on the Number Nine train for the downright saintly.
You control a character named Manny Calavera who is one such travel agent who is working to pay off a debt he owes to the Department of the Dead. Unfortunately for Manny, though, he never seems to get any good clients who will get him the commision he needs to pay off this debt. So, your job, initially, is to help him get the good clients he needs.
Savegames
To use them you need to copy them in the directory where Grim Fandango was installed. You can download a 3.7Mb .ZIP file containing a savegame from the end of each of the four years or just download the one you want:
| Game position | File size |
|---|---|
| End of year 1 | 912 KB |
| End of year 2 | 940 KB |
| End of year 3 | 956 KB |
| End of the game | 980 KB |
I watched a behind the laughter on Psychonauts recently on TechTV. OK, it was behind the scenes, but it gave me an inside look at Tim Schafer’s work. After the program I ordered Psychonauts and I’m sure I will give Grim Fandango a try. - David
Is there a way to play Grim Fandango on Mac OSX? - John
"Is there a way to play Grim Fandango on Mac OSX?"
Not that I’m aware of - I’ve done various searches in Google and trawled many sites but to no avail. I assume it can be done under Virtual PC but I don’t know whether it would be able to handle the 3D and I’ll bet the performance is crap. - Timmargh
Actually Grim Fandango is playable on a mac. After looking at many sites reading about the unfinished residuel, i was all like screw this im not waiting for that. Everyone says that virtual pC and windows XP pro will not work because it’ll be too slow
So i got Virtual PC 7 and WINDOWS 98.
Installed the game, it ran perfectly. G3 ibook. Only sometimes sounds didnt sync up, but who gives a shit.
Enjoy. - jiz
Nice one, Jiz - I may just try that. - Timmargh
The scummvm forum now has links to residual builds that will run Grim on a mac. There’s no save feature and it tends to crash occassionally (which is very annoying when you can’t save), but it does work (and it is possible to finish the game under this build).
Grim Fandango for everyone! - Tone
Tone: I’ll take a look. I could kiss you! - Timmargh
Timmy keep me informed on this one, if you don’t mind. I have heard so many fave reviews of Fandango and was so totally frustrated that it never made it to the Mac. - MHC
Will do. - Timmargh
Thank ye so very much, sir! :^) - MHC
Download Grim X 0.2 (or later) for OSX. It runs Grim Fandango pretty well. - Mothra
poop - bob
Thanks for your input, bob! - Timmargh
I tried the Grim X 0.3 and it seems to work out great but I never got witch file you´re supposed to select to be able to play. If anyone gets what I mean? - Eric
hey, ya im trying out grim x 0.3 aswell but cant seem to figure out how to get it to work? anyone know? - greg
i got confused from these comments,is there no way of saving grim fandango to mac then?hmmmmm
- sioux
when it ask for the directories just choose the folder labeled “Grimdata” that’s inside the first cd.
i’ve just tried and it works pretty good.
haven’t yet understood if you can save, appearently there are no slot for saving the game and grim doesn’t seems to handle it.
if i descover something i’ll post again - mime
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