HSR's Ian Childs writes:
'Let’s start with a confession: I never played the original Grim Fandango. I have a copy in a box somewhere but it never made it into the 8x CD Rom drive of my Pentium and so remained unplayed. I was in my teens during the golden years of Lucasarts and played most of the classics, such as the Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the Road, but Grim Fandango has always been an unscratched itch; a game I know I should have played but somehow never did, drifting away to Civilization and Football Manager instead.
The remastered release gave me the chance to approach the game with a different type of nostalgia than many other reviewers. I like the genre, and know this is regarded as a classic, but as a game itself I could play it with fresh eyes and judge how it has aged, see if it would still stand up in what is a very different gaming environment to its initial release, and finally scratch that itch.
Unfortunately I was never given the chance to properly do so.'
Dave writes: "The weakest of the LucasArts remasters, Grim Fandango Remastered on Xbox One has aged the most in terms of its visuals and obscure puzzling. There’s a fantastic story being told here, with Glottis, Manny, Chepito and the rest being absolute belters. But they’re stuck in a limbo of bloated sandboxes, plodding character speeds and puzzles that should have come with a pre-packaged walkthrough."
Cade writes: "Double Fine and Lucasarts fans rejoice! Remasters of three classic adventure games are launching on the Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass. Grim Fandango Remastered, Full Throttle Remastered, and Day of the Tentacle Remastered are finally going to be in the hands of Xbox players."
And they have been awesome for an even longer time than they have been remastered.Played all of these first time round, along with Monkey island series . A time when point n' click adventures where at their pinnacle, and when eight or sixteen colours on screen was considered bleeding edge graphics. I'm not sure if a modern audience will embrace them in the same way today, but I sure hope they do. Maybe I'll have to drag out my old DX66 based DOS BOX for a replay of the orignals.
Xbox writes: "The Legendary Tim Schafer stops by the Xbox Podcast and talks with Major Nelson about the Classic LucasArts Remasters coming to Xbox Game Pass"
These games have aged terribly. There's still some humour there, for sure, but it's a slog between those points. No doubting they were awesome back in the day, but man, don't waste your time.