#GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED PS4 PHOTO FINISH SERIES#
Grim Fandango was unfortunately released when point and click adventure games began to lose their mass appeal, and no adventure game other than the Monkey Island series really got a look in.
#GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED PS4 PHOTO FINISH PC#
Releasing for PS4, PSVita and PC, ‘Grim Fandango Remastered’ is a HD throwback to a legendary cult classic from 1998, which is still highly regarding as one of the greatest games ever made, (it ranked 21 st in PC Gamers Top 100 PC Games only last year). Having played through it once more, it may not be a ‘true remaster’, but it serves as a HD reminder, that a daft 17 year old PC game packs more of a punch than anything I’ve played since. At last year’s E3, I along with thousands of gamers squealed like prepubescent school girls when Tim Schafer revealed ‘Grim Fandango’, one of the finest point and click adventure games ever released, was getting the HD treatment. Since the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One, gamers have been treated to even more remastered work to compensate for the lack of new IPs and only a couple have been met with critical acclaim, I mean who the hell asked for Cel Damage? British studio Just Add Water did a staggering job bringing Abe’s Odyssey back to consoles, creating their own take on the cult classic and rebuilding the game completely from scratch yet maintaining the same look and feel avid fans longed for. Then came the wave of remasters, which began as multiple last gen games compiled together onto one bluray disk, whilst favourites like Ratchet & Clank and Sly Racoon were a joy to revisit, compilations of 2 forgettable Tomb Raider titles and HD ports of PSP games were not so welcome. It’s not their fault really though, we gamers are constantly comparing what’s on offer now to the games we used to play when we were younger, and it doesn’t matter how incredible the latest AAA titles are on the PS4, they just suck alongside a pixalated, tough to control, difficult to play gem from 2 decades ago. It’s become a rather used term in the industry, and especially amongst the guys and gals of Invision, that this is the ‘Remastered Generation’, where it is now common place for the world’s greatest studios to sack of a new project in favour of re-releasing something from their successful back catalogue. Sure in the past couple of years some cracking narratives have surfaced and have been credited as some of the greatest games of our generation, but they’re pretty few and far between. It’s fair to say that game developers and writers are running out of ideas, otherwise we wouldn’t need to keep revisiting the past would we.
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