The plot is the number one reason to play Grim Fandango and I won’t spoil it here. It’s actually quite a complex and intriguing tale and one that’s stood the test of time. Manny, tired of never getting any good commissions, takes matters into his own hands, unwittingly stumbling onto a conspiracy involving tickets on the Number Nine and setting off a chain of events that will take him four years to unravel. The less-good and thereby less-fortunate are made to take less comfortable and excruciatingly slower means of transportation. The very best and kindest souls are given tickets on the Number Nine, a luxury train that takes only minutes to reach its destination. Whilst alive, a person’s deeds determine the amount of afterlife credits they’re rewarded, and thus, their method of transportation to the Ninth Underworld. In Grim Fandango, the Grim Reaper (or Reapers, as there are many) are cast as cosmic and spiritual travel agents, sending the recently-departed on their way to the ever after. From the brilliantly strange mind of Tim Schafer comes the tale of Manny Calavera, travel agent to the dead. That’s the overriding thought I had throughout my – and it shames me to say it – first ever playthrough of Grim Fandango.

They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to.

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