Sometimes I would let him saunter just because it went better with that familiar jazzy soundtrack. I double-clicked to force him into a run most of the time, and occasionally double-clicked to skip over repetitive animation sequences, but Manny’s default slow walk feels about right for the game’s overall pace. The whole game feels cleaner and faster-well, except for Manny’s slow walk animation. No need to rewrite the old Grim Fandango walk-throughs! The game’s graphics look much the same to the 1998 iteration, as well, but the load screens and CD-ROM putterings have been replaced by wait-free transitions. The Remastered version changes nothing at all when it comes to the often bizarre solutions to Manny’s many obstacles. What little I noticed, though, paled in comparison to the horror stories I’ve heard about the original iteration (lost saves, glitched-out, unsolvable puzzles, and so on).
I didn’t open any elevator doors by accident! Sure, Manny still occasionally strutted in the wrong direction from what I had told him to do, and sometimes when I forgot to put away an item before exiting a room, the game stuttered and slowed. The “Remastered” version seeks to change much of the original iteration’s inaccessibility by incorporating simpler point-and-click mechanics-and, in my experience, far fewer bugs. The original 1998 game had notoriously frustrating third-person controls, unclear directives and game-breaking bugs. Grim Fandango has never been a forgiving game. It’s a game about a bureaucratic purgatory that also is, itself, a bureaucratic purgatory. If Manny performs actions in an unsatisfactory order, he can try again, ad infinitum, until he gets the outcome he wants. There is no death, either-which makes sense, given that the protagonist, Manuel “Manny” Calavera, is already dead. There is no “failure” in Grim Fandango-only repetition. It only took me an hour into playing Grim Fandango: Remastered before I had screwed up a puzzle so badly that I had to start it over from scratch.
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