Saturday, June 28, 2003

Grim Fandango

For being published in 1998 by Lucas Arts, it still hasn't lost its charm (other then it runs in 640x480). Very cool game so far (I'm just into year 2, currently trying to figure out how to get on the boat in the morning).

Downside is that a lot of the puzzles are simplistic to know that you've solved them - e.g. once you do the right thing, you go immediately to a cut-scene. One of the joys in Myst was that even if you had done the right combination of things - you wouldn't know until you flipped that last switch to give it a whirl.

Biggest complaint so far was the 2 hour install time (copy protection was probably interfering), but that's probably a machine specific glitch (running it on WinXP, maybe the DVD drive doesn't like the CD).

Took me about 12 hours to finish everything, but that's because I resorted to a walkthrough guide when I got stuck on something for too long.

posted by Wuphon's at 8:55 AM