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Continue 1998 adventure game Grim FandangoDeveloper(s)LucasArts[a]Publisher(s)LucasArts[a]Director(s)Tim SchaferProgrammer(s)Bret MogilefskyArtist(s)Peter TsacleWriter(s)Tim Scha microsoft WindowsLinuxOS XPlayStation 4PlayStation VitaAndroidiOSNintendo SwitchXbox OneRelease October 30, 1998 Microsoft WindowsNA: October 30, 1998WW: January 27, 2015 (Remastered)Linux, OS X, PS4, VitaWW: January 27, 2015Android, iOSWW: May 5, 2015Nintendo SwitchWW : November 1, 2018Xbox OneWW: October 29, 2020 Genre(s)Graphic adventureMode(s)Single-player is a 1998 adventure game directed by and developed and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows. This is the first adventure game use 3D computer graphics overlaid on a pre-rendered static background. As with other LucasArts adventure games, the player must converse with characters and explore, collect and use objects to solve puzzles. Grim Fandango takes place in the land of the dead, through which recently deceased souls, represented as calaca-like characters, travel before they reach their final destination. The story follows travel agent Manuel Manny Calavera as she tries to save newcomer Mercedes Meche Colomar, a virtuous soul, on her journey. The play combines elements of the Aztec faith of the afterlife with a cinematic noir style, with influences including the Maltese falcon, on the waterfront and Casablanca. Grim Fandango won praise for its artistic design and direction. It has been selected for several awards and is often listed as one of the greatest video games of all time. However, it was a commercial failure and contributed to LucasArts' decision to end the development of adventure games and the decline of the adventure game genre. In 2014, with the help of Sony, Schafer's studio Productions acquired the Grim Fandango license after the acquisition and closure of Disney as a video game developer the previous year. In January 2015, Double Fine released a remastered version of the game that includes enhanced character graphics, controls (including points and clicks), orchestrated scores and commentary by directors. It was originally released for Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, OS X and Linux. Mobile versions for Android and iOS devices were released in May 2015. The Port Nintendo Switch remastered version was also released in November 2018. The Xbox One version was also released in October 2020. Gameplay Grim Fandango is an adventure game in which the player controls Manuel Manny Calavera (calavera is Spanish for 'skull'), as follows Mercedes Meche Colomar in the underworld. The game uses the Grime engine, pre-twisting static backgrounds from 3D models, while the main objects and characters are animated in 3D.[1] In addition, movies scenes in the game were also pre-rendered in 3D. Teh controls Manny's movements and actions using a keyboard, joystick, or gamepad. The remastered edition also allows you to control it with your mouse. Manny must collect items that can be used either with other collectibles, parts of the scenery, or with other people in the land of the dead in order to solve puzzles and progress in the game. The game lacks any type of HUD. Unlike previous 2D LucasArts games, the player is informed about objects or people of interest not by text floating on the screen when the player passes the cursor over them, but rather by the fact that Manny turns his head to the flow or person as he passes. [2] The player checks the list of items Manny has collected by watching him pull each item in and out of his jacket. [3] Manny can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversational trees to get hints of what needs to be done to solve puzzles or advance the plot. [4] As in most LucasArts adventure games, a player can never die or otherwise find himself in a situation that does not play (which prevents the game from being completed). [5] The synopsis Setting Grim Fandango takes place in the land of the dead (the eighth underworld), where recently deceased souls aim to make their way to the land of eternal rest (ninth underworld) for four years the journey of the soul. The good deeds of life are rewarded with access to better travel packages to help you travel (such as sports cars and luxury ocean cruises), the best of which is number nine, an express train that takes four minutes to reach the gate to the ninth underworld. [6] However, souls who have not led a kind life are left on the path of the lands of the dead on foot, which would take about four years. Such souls often lose faith in the existence of the Ninth Underworld and instead find work in the land of the dead. The travel agencies of the Ministry of Death act as the Reaek to escort souls from the land of the living to the land of the dead and then determine what kind of transport the soul deserves. Every year on the day of the dead, these souls can visit their families in the land of the living. [4] [7] Souls in the land of the dead seem like skeletal calaca figures. [7] Next to them are demons who have been called to help with the more mund mund mund mund ized tasks of everyday life, such as vehicle maintenance and even beverage service. Souls themselves can suffer death-in-death by being sprouted, as a result of being shot by sproutella-filled arrows that cause flowers to grow through bones. [8] Many characters are Mexican and sometimes Spanish words are intersented into English dialogue, leading to Spanglish. [2] Many characters smoke, following the film's noir tradition; [4] The manual asks players to consider that every smoker in the game is dead. [4] Plot characters in Grim are based on Mexican calaca characters used to celebrate the Day of the Dead. The game is divided into four acts, each of which takes place on November 2 in four consecutive years. [9] Manuel Manny Calavera is a travel agent at the Ministry of Death in El Marrow, forced to work from debt to authority to be. [10] Manny is frustrated that he is assigned to clients who have to travel for four years and threatens to be fired by his boss Don Copal if he doesn't come up with better clients. Manny steals a client, Mercedes Meche Colomar, from his associate Domino Hurley. The computer department assigned Meche on a four-year journey, although Manny believes she should have a guaranteed place on the Number Nine luxury express train because of her purity of heart in her life. [11] After setting Meche up on her way, Manny investigates further and discovers that Domino and Don have been rigging the system to deny many Double N clients tickets, hoarding them for the head of the criminal underworld, Hector LeMans. LeMans then sells tickets at an exorbitant price to those who can afford it. Manny realizes that he can't stop Hector at the moment, and instead, with the help of his driver and speed demon Glottis, tries to find Meche on her way in the nearby Meche Forest. During the trip, Manny met Salvador Sal Limones, leader of the small underground organization Lost Souls Alliance (LSA), who is aware of Hector's plans and recruits Manny to help. Manny arrives in the small port city of Rubacava and discovers that he has beaten Meche there, waiting for him to arrive. The cast of Grim Fandango. In front-center are Domino, Meche, Manny, and Sal. Glottis is in the upper left, and Hector is on the far right. The playmaker, Tim Schafer, is in the bottom left corner. A year passes and the city of Rubacava has grown. Manny now runs his own nightclub from a converted vending machine near the edge of the forest. Manny learns from Olivia Ofrend, owner of Beatnik Blue Casket nightclub, that Don has been sprouted for letting the scandal be known and that Meche was recently seen leaving Domino's Harbour. Manny chases him and follows them to a coral mining plant on the edge of the world a year later. Domino's was holding Meche there like a trap to lure Manny. [13] All Domino's clients whose tickets have been stolen are also held there and used as slaves, both for profit from coral mining and as a way to keep Hector's scandal quiet. Domino's is trying to convince Manny to take over his position at the factory because he has no choice but to spend the rest of eternity with Moss, but he refuses. After rescuing Meche, Manny defeats Domino by falling him into a rock shred. Manny, along with Meche, Glottis and all souls held in the race then escape from the edge Three travel another year until they reach the final station for train number nine before the Ninth Underworld. Unfortunately, Gate Keeper into the ninth underworld will not let souls progress without their tickets, mistakenly believing that sold, and it is further shown that an evil soul who either failed to pay off his debt or tried to cheat gate keeper with a fake or real Double N Ticket to gain entry to the ninth underworld will cause the express train to transform into hell train (which sends all souls on board to hell). Meanwhile, Glottis fell terminally ill. Manny learns from the demons at the end that the only way to revive Glottis is to travel at high speed to restore Glottis' purpose to be called upon. Manny and the others invent a makeshift fuel source to create a rocket train carriage, quickly take Manny and Mech back to Rubacava and save Glottis' life. [14] Three return to El Marrow, now found to be fully under Hector's control and renamed Nuevo Marrow. Manny regroups with Salem and his extended LSA and with the help of Olivia, who volunteered to join the gang earlier in Rubakava and is able to learn about Hector's current activities. [15] Further investigation shows that Hector not only accumulated number nine tickets, but created counterfeit versions that he sold to others while keeping real tickets to himself in a desperate attempt to balance his sinful life and get out of the land of the dead. Manny tries to confront Hector, but olivia lures him into another trap, which also captures Sala, and is taken to Hector's greenhouse, where he is to grow up. Manny is able to beat Hector after Sal sacrifices himself to stop Olivia from getting involved. Manny and Meche are able to find real Double N tickets, including the one Meche was supposed to receive. Manny will ensure that the rest of the tickets are given to their rightful owners; And he will be given what he has for good deeds. Manny and Meche will join number nine together for a happy journey to the Ninth Underworld, while Glottis, who cannot join them, will ripple through tears in his eyes. [18] Development background and project foundation Tim Schafer was project manager for Grim Fandango. Grim Fandango's development was led by project leader Tim Schafer, co-designer of Day Tentacles and creator of Full Gas and the newer Psychonauts and Brütal Legend. [19] [20] Schafer began the adventure of the Day of the Dead before the start of production of Full Throttle, and submitted both concepts to LucasArts for approval at the same time. Full throttle was adopted instead because of its larger mainstream appeal; it became a hit and opened the way for Schafer to create a Grim Fandango. [22] Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts noted that the pitching process for Grim Fandango was a breeze Schafer's earlier success, despite the unusual theme of the new project. [23] Development began soon after the completion of full gas in June 1995. [21] Grim Fandango was an attempt by LucasArts to rejuvenate the graphic adventure genre, in decline in 1998. [24] [25] According to Schafer, the game was developed with a budget of $3 million. [26] It was LucasArts' first adventure since the labyrinth, which did not use the SCUMM engine, instead using the Sith engine, pioneered by Knight: Dark Forces II, as the basis for the new GrimE engine. [27] The Grime engine was built using the Lua scripting language. This design decision was due to lucasarts programmer Bret Mogilefsky's interest in language and is considered one of the first uses of Lua in gaming applications. The success of the game has led to the use of language in many other games and applications, including Escape from and Baldur's Gate. [29] Manny's office, from Peter Chan's original concept (above) through the wire mesh (center) to the in-game representation (bottom) of the Grim Fandango 3D design mixed static pre-twisted background images with 3D characters and objects. Part of this Decision was based on how calaca data would appear in three dimensions. [8] There were more than 90 sets and 50 characters in the game to be created and rendered; Manny's character consisted of 250 polygons. [8] The development team found that by using three-dimensional models to predraw the background, they can change the camera image to achieve more efficient or dramatic angles for certain scenes simply by redrawing the background, instead of having to redraw the background for a traditional 2D adventure game. [8] The team modified the engine so that Manny's head moved separately from his body to make the player aware of important objects in the vicinity. [8] The 3D engine also assisted in the choreography between spoken dialogue and body and arm movements of characters. [8] In addition, full-body movies were included to pan the plot and use the same gameplay style for characters and backgrounds to make them almost indistinguishable from the real game. [30] Themes and Influences The game combines several Aztec beliefs about the posthumous and the underworld with 1930s design motifs. [31] Schafer's ten-year fascination with folklore stemmed from an anthropological class he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and interviews with folklorist Alan Dundes, and Schafer realized that the soul's four-year journey in the afterlife would pave the way for adventure. [32] [33] Schafer stated that as soon as he embarked on the afterlife: Then I thought, what role would one want to play in the Day of the Dead scenario? You'd like to be a reasek yourself. How Manny got his job. Then I imagined him collecting people in the land of the living and bringing them into the land of the dead, as if he were really just a glorged limousine or taxi driver. So came the idea that Manny has a really mundane job that looks amazing because he's got a robe and a scythe, but he's actually just hitting the clock. [2] Schafer told Mexican folklore about how the dead were buried with two bags of gold to be used in the afterlife, one on their chests and one hidden in a coffin, so that if ghosts in the afterlife had stolen the one on their chests, they would still have a hidden bag of gold; this idea of a criminal element in the afterlife led to the idea of crime- ridden, the film noir style of the world, evoked too many ideas, which they then had to shorten. [34] Splitting the game into four years was a way of dividing the game's overall puzzle into four separate parts. [2] [8] [33] Each year it was divided into several nonlinear branches of puzzles, which had to be solved before the player could advance to the next year. [33] [35] The team created a puzzle design document in game planning that sneered at branching out nonlinear puzzle paths that the player must solve in the context of each year of the game. [36] [37] [38] [33] Schafer decided to give the conversational game a taste of noir film set in the 1930s and 1940s, when he stated that there was something I felt was really honest about how people talked about it being different from modern movies. He was partly inspired by the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. [39] Several film noir films were also the inspiration for much of the plot and characters. Tim Schafer said he drew real inspiration from films like Double Indemnity, in which a weak and bland insurance salesman finds himself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy. [31] The design and early plots are designed after films such as Chinatown and Glengarry Glen Ross. [33] [7] Several scenes in Grim Fandango are directly inspired by genre films such as The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, Key Largo and, above all, Casablanca: the two characters in the second act of the play are directly modeled after the roles of Peter Lorer and Claude Rains in the film. [1] [31] The main villain, Hector LeMans, was designed to resemble the character of Sydney Greenstreet's Ferrari signor from Casablanca. [2] His voice was also modeled after Greenstreet, complete with his trademark laugh. Visually, the game drew inspiration from a variety of sources: skeletal character designs were based largely on calaca characters used in Mexican Day of the Dead festivities, while architecture ranged from Art Deco skyscrapers to an Aztec temple. [31] The team turned to LucasArts artist Peter Chan to create calaca characters. Ed Big Daddy Roth's art was used as inspiration for Patterns hot rods and demon characters like Glottis. [2] Originally Schafer came up with the title Deeds of the Dead for the title of the play because he originally planned Manny as a real estate agent in The Land of the Dead. Other potential titles included The Long Siesta and Dirt Nap before he came up with the name Grim Fandango. [39] The voice cast of Tony Plana (pictured in 2013) provides a voice for Manny Game featured a large cast for voice acting in the game's dialogue and video awards, employing many Latino actors to help with Spanish slang. [2] Voiceovers included Tony Plana as Manny, Maria Canals-Barrera as Meche, Alan Blumenfeld as Glottis and Jim Ward as Hector. Schafer credits Plana for helping deepen manny's character, as the voice actor was a native Spanish speaker and suggested an alternative dialogue for the play that was more natural for casual Spanish conversations. [39] The original version was originally scheduled to be shipped in the first half of 1998, but was delayed; On October 28, 1998,[40] it was delivered 30. [2] Even with a delay, the team had to release several puzzles and characters from the game, including the climactic five-stage puzzle against Hector LeMans at the end of the game; Schafer later noted that they would need one to two more years to implement their original proposals. [35] The remastered version of Grim Fandango Remastered Rights and Announcement was announced in June 2014 during the Sony Computer Entertainment 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo press event, with simultaneous release for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on January 27, 2015. [41] [42] [43] May 5, 2015 was released for Android and iOS. It was released on Nintendo Switch on November 1, 2018. The remastered version was based on LucasArts' transition from developer and publisher to licensor and publisher in 2013 shortly after its acquisition by Disney. Under new management, LucasArts has licensed several of its intellectual properties (IP), including Grim Fandango, to external developers. Schafer was able to acquire the rights to the game with financial assistance from Sony, and began the process of building out a remaster within Double Fine Productions. [34] Schafer said the sale of LucasArts to Disney recalled a past effort by former LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez to release older LucasArts titles like Legacy Properties, as the 2009 rerelease of the mystery of Monkey Island. [39] Schafer also noted that in previous years they had tried to acquire assets from Lucasarts, but frequent management changes had stalled When they began asking for the rights of Disney and LucasArts after its acquisition, they discovered that Sony, through its vice president of relations with publishers and developers Adam Boyes, was also seeking rights. Boyes said Sony was interested in working with a wide range of developers for playstation 4, and was also inspired to look for Grim Fandango after seeing developers like Capcom and Midway Games revive older features. Boyes' determination was supported by John Vignocchi, vice president of production at Disney Interactive, who also shared memories of the game and was able to bring in contacts to track down the game's assets. [46] After discovering that they were vying for the same assets, Schafer and Boyes agreed to work together to obtain IP and subsequent funding and planned to re-release the remastered version. [39] [46] Sony did not apply for any intellectual property rights for the game, instead asking only Double Fine to provide the PlayStation platform with console exclusivity in exchange for financial support, similar to their Pub Fund scheme, which they use to support independent developers. [46] Challenges Comparing Grim Fandango from its original version (above) and remastered version. Double Fine has increased texture resolution and improved lighting models to improve the appearance of characters. A big complication in remastering the original work was that many critical game files disappeared or on archaic formats. A large number of backup files were made on digital linear tapes (DLT), which Disney/LucasArts was able to recover for Double Fine, but the company had no disks to read the tapes. Former LucasArts sound engineer Jory Prum managed to save the DLT drive and was able to extract all audio development data from the game from the tape. [46] Schafer noted that at the time of Grim Fandanga's original development, code retention was not as strict as current standards, and in some cases Schafer believes that single copies of some files were inadvertently taken by employees when they left LucasArts. As such, Schafer and his team are returning through past employee records to try to trace any of them and ask for any files they may have stored. [47] In other cases, they had trouble identifying elements on the drawing of the original low-resolution play, such as the emblem on one character's hat, and had to look for an original art concept to determine the design. [47] Once the original assets that were used to present the classic remastered look of the game were identified, Double Fine worked to improve the overall look of modern pCs. Textures and lighting models for characters have been improved, especially for Manny. [46] Schafer likened the remastering approach to criterion collection by providing a highly faithful version of without changing the story or characters. [48] In addition to his own developers, Schafer reached out to players who created unofficial patches and graphical enhancements to the original game and the modifications needed to run in ResidualVM, and got their help in improving game assets for the remastered version. [34] [49] [50] One such feature was a modified control scheme that converted game motion controls from tank controls to point and click- style interfaces. Schafer said the team used tank control because it was popular with other games like Resident Evil at the time, but acknowledged that it didn't work well in the adventure game genre. [39] Schafer contacted Tobias Pfaff, who created the point-and-click edit to gain access to his code, which would be incorporated into the remastered version. [47] Later development and new Features of Double Fine demonstrated during the remastered game version at the 2014 IndieCade event in October 2014; The new features included higher-resolution textures and improved resolution for character models, as well as real-time lighting models and the ability to switch between this presentation and the original graphic with just a touch of the control. The remastered game runs at a 4:3 aspect ratio, but has the option to stretch it to a ratio of 16:9, rather than render it in a native ratio of 4:3. Remaster includes improvements to the control scheme developed by pfaff patch and other alternative control schemes in addition to the original controls such as tanks, including analog controls for console versions and point-and-click controls for computer versions. The soundtrack of the play was fully organized through performances by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (which also played the soundtrack for Double Fine's Broken Age). The remastered version also includes developer commentary, which can be activated through the options menu and listened to at various points in the game. The PlayStation version also offers cloud storage between PS4 and Vita versions. [51] During the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018, during the 20th anniversary of live reading with several Grim Fandango actors, Schafer announced that the remastered version would also be transferred to the Nintendo Switch sometime later that year. The Switch port was released on November 1, 2018. [53] Double Fine was acquired by Xbox Game Studios in 2019, and Schafer confirmed that Grim Fandango for Xbox One will arrive by 2020. [54] Soundtrack Main Article: Grim Fandango Music Original soundtrack Sample of Casino Calavera as heard on the remastered soundtrack. In the first edition of the play, IGN noted that LucasArts has put together a film class soundtrack that uses a mixture of simple jazz and classic Mexican themes to add depth to the atmosphere of an already fantastic title. Not only is it it is not unpleasant, but again it is used to strengthen the emotions delivered in different sequences of the game. [55] Grim Fandango has an original soundtrack that combines orchestral score, South American folk music, jazz, bebop, swing and big band, inspired by the likes of Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, as well as film composers Max Steiner and Adolphe Deutsche. [57] It also has various influences from traditional Russian, Celtic, Mexican, Spanish and Indian string culture. [58] It was composed and produced by Peter McConnell at LucasArts. Others credited are Jeff Kliment (Engineer, Mixed, Mastered), and Hans Christian Reumschüssel (Other Musical Productions). [4] Live musicians mcconnell knew or teamed up with in the San Francisco Mission District, including a mariachi band, appeared in the score. The soundtrack was released as a CD in 1998. The soundtrack was very well received. IGN called it a beautiful soundtrack that you find yourself listening to even after you've done with the game. [60] SEMO said songs and performances are so good that listening to this album on a stand-alone basis can make people feel like they're in a bar back then. [61] RPGFan said: the pieces are beautifully composed, beautifully played (...) has a stellar soundtrack with music that easily stands itself out of context of the game. This CD was an absolute pleasure to listen to and is highly recommended. [62] In his game review, Game Revolution praised grace inside the cranial cavity where the eardrum used to be, as one of the most memorable soundtracks ever. [63] PC Gamer in its list of 2014 Top 100 Games, recognized by Grim Fandango for the inclusion of one of the best soundtracks in the history of computer games. In 2017, Fact magazine also ranked it among the top 100 video game soundtracks of all time. [56] In 1999, the Annual Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences award was nominated for the Interactive Achievement Awards in the Outstanding Performance in Sound and Music category. [65] He was also praised by gamespot, which awarded him the Best PC Music Award,[66] and included it in the List of The Ten Best Soundtracks for PC Games in 1999. [67] Remastered soundtrack After restoring the original Pro Tools audio files, Peter McConnell found that some of the samples he originally used did not sound good and the team decided to reorganize the score. [46] McConnell later announced that the soundtrack of the play would be fully organized through a performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for a remastered version of the play, which was released in 2015. The re-made soundtrack was created under Nila Rodgers' brand Sumthing Else. [68] He had a standard release of 37 songs, as well as Director's Cut with 14 extra tracks (these were sold exclusively through Sumthing Else). [69] Included the original score archives, new compositions by Peter McConnell and new orchestral arrangements, as well as new extended versions of jazz tracks re-mixed at Sony Computer Entertainment America. In 2018, when he celebrated his 20th birthday, he will be the first to do so. [70] Grim Fandango Reception Review (1998)AggregatorScoreMetacritic 94/100[71]Review scoresPublicationScoreAdventure Gamers[72]AllGame[73]Edge9/10[74]GameRevolutionA−−[72]AllGame[73]Edge9/10[74]GameRevolutionA−−[72]63]GameSpot9.3/10[75]IGN9.4/10[55]Next Generation[76]PC Gamer (US)91%[71]PC Zone9.0/10[77] Grim Fandango received critical acclaim after its release. [78] An aggregate review of the Metacritic website gave the game a score of 94/100. [71] Critics praised the artistic direction in particular, with GameSpot rated visual design as consistently great. [75] PC Zone emphasized production as a whole calling direction, costumes, characters, music and atmosphere expertly done. They also commented the play would be an excellent film. [77] The San Francisco Chronicle reported: Grim Fandango feels like a wild dance through a cartoon noir adventure. Its crazy characters, seductive puzzle-filled plot and almost invisible interface allow players to get lost in the game just as viewers can get lost in the movie. [2] The Houston Chronicle, when it named Grim Fandango the best play of 1998, praised the graphics that called them jaws, noting that the play was full of both dark and light humor. [79] IGN summarized its review by saying that the game was the best adventure game it had ever seen. [55] Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rated it five stars out of five, and stated that Grim Fandango is a smart, beautiful and fun adventure game that lets you hold your breath and wait for Grim Fandango 2. [76] The game also received criticism from the media. Several reviewers noted that there were difficulties with the interface that required a certain learning curve to get used to, and selected camera angles for some puzzles were poorly selected. [55] [72] [75] The use of elevators in the game was particularly known as problematic. [55] [75] A review by expressed a distaste for the soundtrack and occasionally found it too heavy and not suitable for the theme of the game. [72] A Computer and Video Games review also noted that the game had a continuous and long loading of data from the CD-ROM, which interrupted the game and spoiled the fluency of some sequences and causes niggling delays. [80] In 1999, Next Generation listed Grim Fandango as number 26 on their Top 50 Games of All Time, commenting that Grim offered adventure fans funny, touching and excruciating moments in following his characters, through wonderfully beautiful games. [81] Grim Fandango won several after its release in 1998. PC Gamer chose the game as the 1998 Adventure Game of the Year. [82] [83] The game won best adventure game of the year IGN in 1998,[84] while GameSpot awarded it best of E3 1998,[85] PC Adventure Game of the Year,[86] PC Game of the Year,[87] Best PC Graphics for Artistic Design,[88] and Best PC Music awards. [66] GameSpot named Grim Fandango after his 1998 play,[89] and the following year included the game in Ten Best PC Game Soundtracks[67] and was selected as the 10th most important game in the world. [90] In 1999, Grim Fandango won the Computer Adventure Game of the Year[65][91] for the second annual AIAS Interactive Achievement Awards (now known as the D.I.C.E. Awards); was also nominated for Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics, Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development and Outstanding Success in Sound and Music. Grim Fandango was included in several publishers' Top Games lists even after its release. GameSpot introduced the game to its greatest games of all time in 2003, citing: Ask almost everyone who played Grim Fandango, and he or she will agree that it is one of the greatest games of all time. [92] GameSpy also added the game to its Hall of Fame in 2004,[93] further describing it as the seventh most underrated game of all time in 2003. [94] Adventure Gamers listed Grim Fandango as the seventh Top Adventure Game of all time in 2004; [95] In 2011, Ign was named in the Top 100 All-Time Adventures list as #1. [96] In 2007, Ign ranked the game in the Top 25 PC Games (as the 15th) [97] and the Top 100 Games of All Time (at 36th), noting that LucasArts' second-to-last stab at the classic adventure genre may very well be the most original and brilliant one ever made. [98] Grim Fandango remained as the 20th [99] Lists of Awards and Rankings Awards and Nominations Publications or ceremonial title awards Result of the Year Ref. PC Gamer Adventure of the Year won 1998 [82][83] IGN Best Adventure Of the Year won 1998 [84] CNET Gamecenter Best Adventure game of 1998 Won 1998 [100] GameSpot PC Adventure Game of the Year Won 1998 [86] GameSpot PC Game of the Year won 19998 [87] GameSpot Best PC Graphics for Artistic Design Won 1998 [88] GameSpot Best PC Music Award Won 1998 [66] GameSpot Game of the Year won 1998 [89] GameSpot Best of E3 1998 Won 1998 [85] Computer Gaming World Best Adventure Game of the Year won, tied with Sanitarium 1998 [101] Micromanía Best Game in adventure category and RPG Won 1998 [102] Game Critics Awards Best Action/Adventure Game (shown on E3) Won the 1998 [103] Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Computer Adventure Game of the Year (Annual Interactive Achievement Awards) Won the 1998 [65][91] Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences game Year nominated 1998 [65] Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics nominated 1998 [65] Academy of Interactive Arts & Science Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development nominated by the 1998 [65] Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Outstanding Achievement in Sound and Music Nominated 1998 [65] Charts Publications Ranking Title Position of the Year Ref. GameSpot Ten Best PC Games Soundtracks Included in the Top Ten 1999 [67] Adventure Classic Gaming Top 10 Adventure Games of All Time 9th Position 2000 [104] Computer Gaming World CGW Hall of Fame Inducted 2001 [105] GameSpot Greatest Games of All Time Included in the List of 2003 [92] GameSpy 25 Most Underrated Games of All Time 7.4 [94] Adventure Gamers Top Adventure Game of All Time 7th position 2004 [95] GameSpy GameSpy Hall of Fame induced 2004 [93] IGN Top 100 Games of All Time 36th position 2011 [96] PC Gamer 1 80th position 2011 [106] TIME magazine All-TIME 100 Greatest Video Games Included in list 2012 [107] GameSpot Best PC ending (all time) 10. 20 Years Best of 1998 2013 [108] Empire (Film Magazine) 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time 84th Position 2014 [109] PC Gamer The PC Gamer Top 100 21st Position 2014 [64] Sales Consequences And Initial Estimates Suggest that Grim Fandango sold well during the 1998 holiday season. [110] Debuted at #6 for the first week of November on PC Data's computer game sales charts, at an average retail price of $35. It was missing in the second week. [111] In the United Kingdom, Grim Fandango ranked first on the chart-track weekly sales chart in December before falling to ninth place. [112] After four weeks, it secured its 12th and 24th [114] The game sold 58,617 copies and grossed $2.33 million in the United States by the end of 1998,[115] and rose to 95,000 sales there by March 2000, according to PC Data. [116] Grim Fandango sold a further 16,157 units in the region in 2001,[118] and 8,032 in the first six months of 2002; [119] According to Tim Schafer, its jewel sku achieved 5621 sales during 2003. [120] According to Tim Schafer, the game had sales of approximately 500,000 units by 2012,[121] approximately 50% less than achieved in full gas. [122] This is commonly considered a commercial failure,[123][124][125] although LucasArts stated that Grim Fandango met domestic expectations and surpassed them worldwide. [126] [127] [33] The game became profitable by 2000,[128] although Dave Grossman said: It was quite ambitious and expensive, and I don't think it made much money back. [121] Writer for Edge summarized in 2009, While his reputation as a flop is not Accurate, Grim sales were either a hint that people prefer motorcycles to Gitanes-smoking corpses, or a sign of the times: adventure games were simply on their way out. [122] While LucasArts went on to produce Escape from Monkey Island in 2000, they canceled the development of the sequel Sam & Max Hit the Road [129] and full throttle [130] states that after careful evaluation of current market reality and basic economic considerations, we decided that this was not a good time to start a graphical adventure on pc. [129] Subsequently, the studio released many people who participated in their adventure games,[131][132] some of whom founded and created an episolic series of Sam & Max games. [133] These events, along with other changes in the video game market toward action games, are considered to be the main causes of the decline of the adventure game genre. [24] [134] Grim Fandango's underperforming performance was seen as a sign that the genre was commercially dead to rival Sierra as well. [135] LucasArts said in 2006 that they did not plan to return to adventure games until the next decade. [136] Finally, the studio stopped developing video games in 2013 following the walt disney company's acquisition of Lucasfilm and was disbanded shortly thereafter. Tim Schafer left LucasArts shortly after the release of Grim Fandango, and created his own company, Double Fine Productions, in 2000 along with many of those involved in the development of Grim Fandango. The company found similar critical success with their first title, Psychonauts. Schafer said that while there is a lot of interest from fans and that he would love to come back and spend time with characters from whatever game [he's] been working on, a sequel to Grim Fandango or his other previous games is unlikely as I always want to make something new. [137] With the help of developers like Double Fine and Telltale Games, adventure games saw a revival in 2010, with financially successful titles like Broken Age, The Walking Dead, and The Wolf Among Us. Remastered version Grim Fandango Remastered (2015)Aggregate scoreAggregatorScoreMetacriticPC: 84/100[138]PS4: 80/100[139]VITA: 84/100[140]iOS: 78/100[141]NS: 84/100[142]Review scoresPublicationScoreEurogamer8/10[143]GameRevolution4.5/5[144]GameSpot8/10[145]IGN9.3/10[146]PC Gamer (US)80%[147]TouchArcadeiOS: [148] Grim Fandango Remastered has received similar positive reception as the original release, with many critics continuing to praise the game's story, characters, and soundtrack. They also found the developer's comment to be very insightful into the history of the game. Reviewers were disappointed by the lack of an autosave system as well as a game that didn't receive a full high resolution upgrade, so the higher resolution characters were somewhat out of place with the original 3D Many reviewers have also noted that puzzles, although they are the basis of the day grim fandango was first released, remain somewhat blunt solutions that are not clear even after the player solves them, and that the help system, as added to the Monkey Island remation, would be very useful. [143] [147] [149] [150] The pace of the game, also unchanged from the original version, was also harder to understand the direction in modern games, both in pacing the game's four acts, and the time to move around and between rooms. [151] In his review of Eurogamer, Richard Cobbett warned players to pay attention to rose-tinted memories that while the remastered version is true to the original, it did show aspects of the original game that have become obsolete in the more modern development of video games. [143] Wired's Laura Hudson considered the remastered version to be an emphasis on how the original play was an artifact of its time, an exceptional work of art that is inextricably entwined around the technology and conventions of its time in a way that reveals both their limitations and the brilliance they were able to produce. [152] Legacy In 2005, The Guardian characterized the play as The Last True Classic, which comes from LucasArts, the company that helped define the adventure game, Tim Schafra's Noir-pastiche followed by the skull-faced Manny Calavera through a bureaucratic parody of the land of the dead. With a look that made both Mexican mythology and art deco, Grim Fandango is as unique an artistic statement as traditional gaming has managed to offer. While loved by devotees, its limited sales have led LucasArts to retreat from the original adventures simply to take advantage of the franchise. [153] In a retrospective from 2012, Jeffrey Matulef of Eurogamer believed that the combination of the film noir and the grim fandanga adventure genre was the first of its kind and natural, given the heavy-natured scenario of both, and later helped influence plays with similar themes, such as the Ace Attorney series and the L.A. Noire series. [3] Grim Fandango was considered a representative title demonstrating video games as an art form; the game was selected in 2012 as a candidate for public vote for inclusion in the Smithsonian Institution's Exhibition The Art of Video Games,[154] while the Museum of Modern Art is trying to install the game as part of its permanent collection within the Department of Architecture and Design. [155] The game was included in the Game Masters exhibition organised by the Australian Centre for The Moving Image (ACMI) in 2012; an event dedicated to examining the faces and history of computer games. Tim Schafer was featured as the creative force behind Grim Fandango, as part of an exhibition section called Game Changers, crediting him along with several other visionary game designers for not pushing game design and storytelling, introducing new genres, creating our most popular characters, and revolutionize the way we understand and play games[20] Grim Fandango has been at the center of a large fan community for a game that has remained active for more than 10 years after the game's release. [156] Such fan communities include the Grim Fandango Network and the Department of Death, which include fan art and fiction. [157] In an interview with Kotaku after the remaster announcement, Schafer stated that he had long considered the aspect of grim fandango sequels to further expand on the settings that were created for the game. 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