![]() ![]() It’s not exactly an area in which developers have a strong track record of success. Finally you have Grim Fandango, which took a much wiser approach of mostly leaving the original assets untouched save for touching up the graphics and the interface a little, but which was hamstrung by Grim Fandango not being a very good adventure game 1. The second Monkey Island remaster was something of an improvement on the art front but also carried over many of the issues from the first one, with its main legacy being a soundtrack that, while not exactly better than the original, could at least sit alongside it as a sort of alternative mix. The first Monkey Island remaster was a disaster, with art that was uglier than the twenty year-old original and voice actors who (Dominic Armato aside) had absolutely no grasp of that exotic concept of “comic timing”, which is something of an issue when you’re making a comedy adventure game about pirates. The first, and biggest, is that previous remasters of classic Lucasarts adventure games have sucked, or at least weren’t very good. This is a potentially dangerous thing for Double Fine to be doing for several reasons. That the remasters often turn out to somehow be worse than the originals, either through technical issues ( Age Of Empires 2, Homeworld) or because they completely miss the point of what made the original games great (the Monkey Island remasters) hasn’t at all dissuaded developers from their efforts to tap directly into gamers’ nostalgia glands, and so now it is Day Of The Tentacle’s turn to be disinterred, spruced up a little bit and rudely thrust back into the limelight. ![]() ![]() The graphics superseded the original by far especially when the game gave you the opportunity to switch to the original rendition of the game, but what really made Grim Fandango so damn good was the fact they didn't change a single thing, I played the whole game with tank controls to get the ultimate feel, I loved the voice acting, the puzzles were smart and engaging and the story was PHENOMENAL! Maybe I liked the fact the 90s neo-noir feel was still intact and undamaged, maybe I fell in love with the nostalgia, nevertheless it was a beautiful game which I will be recommending to everyone.So-called “Remastered” editions of classic games have been very much the in thing for the last few years, this being a relatively low-effort way to get money for old rope. I'm still in awe, this game is a masterpiece! I remembered playing this game on PC years ago and was a little sceptic when I found out a remastered edition was coming out for ps4, I initially decided against playing it because i thought it wouldn't have been like I remembered, and it wasn't, it was much better. Let me start by saying that it takes a lot for me to give a 10/10 rating! Rarely anything surpasses my expectations but by god this did. ![]()
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