In case you haven't been keeping up with your spooky holiday calendar, it's November 1st - meaning that we're happily sandwiched between Hallowe'en and Mexico's Day of the Dead. In other words, it's the perfect time to surprise-release LucasArts' classic (and extremely skeleton-heavy) adventure Grim Fandango on Switch. And, look, here it is now!
LucasArts' Grim Fandango originally released on October 30th, 1998 (so, yes, the recent 20th anniversary is another excellent excuse for a surprise Switch release), and was immediately hailed as a classic of the point-and-click genre. Created by Tim Schafer - now of Double Fine fame - it told the noir-inspired tale of Manuel "Manny" Calavera, a travel agent in the Land of the Dead, tasked with selling trips to departed souls on their four-year journey toward eternal rest.
It's brilliant stuff, rightly celebrated for its fantastic writing, wonderful characters and setting, and its striking art-deco-meets-Aztec art style. Its puzzle design is rather more variable in quality, admittedly, ranging from stellar to very-much-of-its-time-and-not-in-a-good-way - but then things pick up again with Peter McConnell's sumptuous score.
from Eurogamer.net https://ift.tt/2Oknw85
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