Walking through Grim Fandango

 

Year 1

[Cut-Scene - 1: Celso Flores sits in Manny's office, waiting. Manny, dressed as a grim reaper enters, apologising for keeping the man waiting. He offers Celso different packages of travelling to the Ninth Underworld, but Celso's life has not been great, so he cannot afford any of them. Manny sells him a walking stick from the Excelsior line and wishes him a good trick.]




You will start in the town of El Marrow, in your office as Manny Calavera. Open the message 

tube in front of you and read the work order. It says that Manny must go to the Poisoning to pick up some new clients. Pick up the deck of cards on your other desk, then leave. Use the deck of

Grim Fandango - The greatest game of all time

PC
Lucas Arts
Release date: Nov 2, 1998
Content Rating (ESRB): Teen 13+

"Ask just about anyone who has played Grim Fandango, and he or she will agree that it's one of the greatest games of all time."

Meet Mannuel (Manny) Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death (The DOD). He sells luxury packages to souls on their four year journey to eternal rest. Uncover together a conspiracy to keep new additions to the underworld from buying a safe passage through the world of the dead. Grim Fandango combines a unique story line and complicated puzzles to create an adventure different from any you have experienced before. Follow Manny through four years of mystery on his quest for true love and eternal salvation. 


The Plot

The game is divided into four acts, each taking place on November 2 on four consecutive years. Manuel "Manny" Calavera is a travel agent at the Department of Death in the city of El Marrow, forced into his job to work off a debt "to the powers that be". Manny is frustrated with being assigned clients that must take the four-year journey and is threatened to be fired by his boss, Don Copal, if he does not come up with better clients. Manny steals a client, Mercedes "Meche" Colomar,