![]() The designs of the souls are all based on Calaca figures and then dressed up in differing wardrobes depending on the year. Tony Plana even helped out with the dialogue providing a lot of the peppered in Spanish words and phrases that Manny and others say throughout the game. Year Two: The Characters & Dialogue: The voice acting across the board is great granting life to the dead characters they are playing. It is a fun mashup of Noir classics like D ouble Indemnity, Casablanca, Chinatown and tons of others. This sets off a multi-year adventure where Manny accompanied by his best friend and driver The Demon Glottis (Alan Blumenfeld) goes off to find both the missing Meche and the whereabouts of the missing tickets. The theft goes off perfectly and Manny thinks he is in for a big payday when something mysterious happens to Meche’s ticket on the Number Nine. So after hatching a scheme to snipe Dom’s latest client Meche (Maria Canals-Barrera) out from under him. Unfortunately fellow Travel Agent Domino Hurley (Patrick Dollaghan) is getting all the best clients and all the best commissions. Year One: The Plot: Manny Calavera (Tony Plana) is a Travel Agent with the Department Of The Dead hoping to work off his time in the 8th Underworld by selling travel packages to the newly dead. I had to use a guide to get through my trip with any sense of foward progression and plot momentum. The Short Of It: Grim Fandango’s collection of goofy characters, witty dialogue, beautiful locales, and noir/road-trip inspired plot are undone by game-play full of mostly obtuse puzzles. “You know, sweetheart, if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: nobody knows what’s gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip.” ![]() (I played remastered for the review which was remastered by Double Fine) This week Wasp returns to the feature with a one way ticket on the Number Nine Express to talk about Grim Fandango a 1998 adventure game from Lucasarts. Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time.
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