Honest Game Trailers | Grim Fandango 

1998 was one of the most absurdly packed years of all time for videogames.

Great to see an older game get covered again. This is one of the best point and click adventures ever created. The atmosphere, artstyle, and characters are all fantastic. And you're right, Glottis is best boy.

One of the greatest games of all time. Introduced my daughter to it a couple of years ago and she was enthralled by the adventures of Manny and Co. The speed-demon Glottis is possibly my favourite supporting character in any game. Some of the puzzle's are almost impossible to solve even when you know the solution, but this is definitely an old-school game. The atmosphere, characters and setting make it worth persevering with!

This is one of the first games I ever played, and I replayed it several times throughout the last 20 years. Truly a masterpiece of its time with likable characters, unique art style, funny dialogue and challenging puzzles. Just looking at it brings me a lot of great memories, specially seeing Glottis and remembering the first time I managed to give him the work order to modify the car and trigger the epic cutscene.

"Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!" "It says, 'I'M AT THE JUNKYARD, WOO WOO WOO WOO!'"

I'm glad older titles are still getting the Honest Game Trailer treatment. It gives me hope that my many, many failures to get one made for SimCity will come to an end and I will bask in the glory of success! Do SimCity! SimCity! SimCity! SimCity!

No, I didn't make it past that part without a game guide. I thought some of the puzzles were so convoluted that I gave up because I started feeling like the middle-man making a walkthrough's dream come true by playing the game for it.

Say: "LLLLUUUUUUUUUMMMMBBBAAAAAGGGOOOOO LLLEEEEEEMMMOOOOOONAAADDEE!" That said, thank you. Thank you so very much for finally doing one for Grim Fandango. This game is, was and will remain one of my alltime favourites. As a little something to add: in year 2 you'll encounter an item you need at the tattoo parlor that when examined provides: The Rusty Anchor. Show it to Glottis first for the full song with the same name. I still hope you'll tackle some SNES classic games too later. Terranigma, Chrono Trigger, RoboTrek, etc..

Love Grim Fandango, but yeah, this was a pretty tough PnC. And pretty lengthy as well. Tony Plana has a unique voice that i instantly recognize when he shows up in movies and TV. I always point this out of my friends who have no idea what the heck i'm talking about... hey, that's Manny! also... say, "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

One of the best games I have ever played, VERY hard to complete without a guide, and some puzzles were just WTF even reading a guide I just wonder how in the hell people figured them out. But yeah solid game from a golden age of gaming.

For Matthew Perry, please say: "You have to stop the q-tip when there's resistance!"

Finally! This is one of the greatest games of all time.

It's convoluted but worth the frustration. ❤

I've played the remastered version a few months ago, it was a game I has pending since so many years, and although some parts are kind of frustrating, it's one of the best stories I've played in SO many years!

Honestly, that puzzle with glottis spinning around... I literally just pressed buttons at random on that, to this day I've no idea how I got passed it as a kid. Fantastic game, they don't write them like that anymore

One of the best games of all time. It's just an art piece

My scythe; I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be.

Okay, I was not expecting a Grim Fandango Honest Game Trailer like, ever, but thank you so much for covering an old favorite! 💖

I never did get around to playing this game or really learning much about it, so I greatly appreciate this revisit of a retro game. Thanks!

1:36 When the trailer actually starts.

OMG! I was just watching one of my favourite RU-vidr's old Grim Fandango series and THIS came out. It's hilarious as always. Happy Halloween!

Literally just started replaying this for the first time since I was a kid yesterday on steamdeck, and now this! Amazing timing. Happy Halloween!

One of the best stories in an adventure game. That moment it all loops back and the noir amps up, its so good

I never heard of this game but finding out it beat so many other great classic games for the game of the year award is shocking. Make me want to try it out.

HTs for Buffy and Grim Fandango in the same day!? Thankyou Epic Voice Guy.

Absolutely stellar "Starring" segment. Top tier punning!

The best grim reaper game ever!

next to do the legend of heroes series!!!(or cut it to 4 pieces trails in the sky 1-3 ,trails into azure and trails into zero , trails of cold steel and finally trails in the black and trails in the black 2: crimson sin.

If you have complete 1998 boxed PC edition in your collection then after 25 years it's currently trading slightly above $100.

This was on point and I salute (and love) you for that!

Perfect Halloween video, and absolultey hilarious.

The games you mentioned from 98' were so good that they transformed their parent companies into giants of the gaming industry: Konami, Square Enix, Blizzard and Valve. Just wow!

I loved this game so much as a child I bought it in 1998 right when it came out. Then as an adult to 100% it on steam. I'm glad you did this.

I wasn't expecting an OFMD reference! Now I demand a honest trailer for the series!

One of my favorites of all times. Delicious to the last drop, and so, so funny! You can still play it, I did a couple of years ago and is still as fresh as back in the day. Although this time took me much less time because of game guides, yes XD

I LOVED Grim Fandango! Thanks, Epic Voice Guy!

-Glottis! Do something! -Ok: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

I love this game so much. Thanks for covering it

This is great! Do Monkey Island and Space Quest!

happy halloween epic voice guy & 25th anniversary grim fandango!!! :3

I just finished this game last night. It is indeed a Masterpiece.

OMG OMG OMG !!!! You guys did Grim Fandango :D Love it :D

I remember playing this back in the day on the old Packerd Bell 486.

Man, I love Grim Fandango. Such a fun game.

Please, you must cover more of those classic jams!

Una de mis aventuras graficas favoritas ❤

OMG! An honest trailer from one of my favorite games of all time! Finally! Viva la revolución!

i literally gasped at the Our Flag Means Death reference! hope honest trailers does one for them!!

Lol.. that end.. I literally never played it even when it was on all the magazines front and with a free CD trial. In those days I played StarCraft, Monkey Island, Silent Service, Warcraft, and AoE.

Give me the chills with the line "Welcome to PlayPaintChill. You just gained honor +2 for following us ! ".

Gamespot actually had two games of the year for consoles and PC in 1998. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time won for consoles that year, because of course it did. It's still hilarious that they chose Grim Fandango for PC over Starcraft, Baldur's Gate, Half Life and Fallout 2.

Best "Starring" line up ever!

I wish that point and click adventure games would make a comeback. I played this game with my dad when I was younger and not too long ago I played the remastered version on the PS4. It's one of the greatest adventure titles ever made. It isn't easy to finish without checking a walkthrough though! Some parts really stand out where you can easily get completely stuck. The solution to certain puzzles in games like this can be very strange sometimes, but I see that as giving the experience some extra charm even if it can frustrate the hell out of you haha.

I played a demo of this that came with a magazine. Glory days.

To be fair: 1998 was still in that era when Gamespot gave out separate GOTY awards for console and PC. While GF did beat Half-Life and StarCraft, it was Ocarina that beat MGS and FFT.

Funny enough, I am one of those “did it raw, no guide” guys from its original release…….and I am still enjoying my job in IT….. …and now I’m questioning how Epic Voice Guy was able to predict that…..

It was actually Gamespot's *PC* Game of the Year for 1998, which at least excludes it from comparison to Ocarina of Time (the console GOTY), Metal Gear Solid, Banjo Kazooie, Spyro, Parasite Even, Xenogears, and all of the other great console releases of 1998. Though I still have a hard time believing it was more appealing than Half-Life, StarCraft, Thief: The Dark Project, and Baldur's Gate. Those games all built lasting legacies while Grim Fandango's most noteworthy effect on the future was leveraging Tim Schafer to make more popular unrelated games.

Happy 25th anniversary Grim Fandango !

Please say: "Nyah, your toast is ready!"

say "Did you see that, Zach?! Clear as a crisp spring morning! F K... In the coffee!"

One of the finest games ever made

also, I'm pretty sure Legend of Zelda: Ocrina of Time came out in 1998 also... Happy Spooky Day Y'all!!

So many good, frustrating memories

HAHA YES! I absolutely love this game and it’s been ages since I’ve seen anyone covering it

Have you done one for the first Psychonauts or Brutal Legend?

Please say, "My name is Manny Calavera. I'm your new travel agent."

No Joke. Was still one of the best games release in the late 90's. Like, in an era of weird and wacky PC games. it was an absolute amazing hit. I cannot begin to tell people how much I wish I still had- A. A PC with a Disk drive. B. The old Binder full of PC disks. There was just something magical about Lucas games and other similar things. Back when game bundle games were full of actually fun games and weren't just Trash scams.

Well, looks like it’s time to play this

Do a Honest Game Trailer for Hyperdimension Neptunia

Do Honest Trailers for the Simcity/Cities Skylines games, Dwarf Fortress and Hyperdimension Neptunia!

Yes!, I can hear you Grim Fandango!

This game and Conkers Bad Fur Day are 2 of the best games ever created in the history of every game in gamology

hahaha I did use guides when I was stuck, but I remember this game to be hilarious. Good times.

I've played Grim Fandango, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and Full Throttle. All great games.

Please say "Sworn enemies, you shall be defeated, Sky Dragon Slash"

You guys should totally do a vid for Final Fantasy Tactics.

Ah, Grim Fandango, all the good memories.

Do an Honest Trailer for the original Amnesia series!

i just had flashbacks, i LOVED the lucas arts old school games i don't think i actually ever finished this i think i got stuck at a point, but i liked it a lot

Year 2 of Grim Fandango is one of the best point and click games ever, but the other three years were a bit meh. Or as my daughter put it when she first played it, "El Marrow was boring and the forest was frustrating, but this is okay" (meaning Rubacava).

When the season needed HT the most, they chose the best game ever.

what a story, what a masterpiece...

I got the "enhanced edition" on Steam, got soft locked by an ancient bug, lost an hour of progress and uninstalled. Also puzzles make very little sense

Grim Fandango is legitimately better than all those other games. Way more cinematic than MGS, for as often as it's lauded as such. I'm grabbing my torch because the '98 game you neglicted to say was Ocarina of Time.

My bro used to have the game but never complained it as agreed with him, the puzzles were so danm hard! I can't remember which gaming magazine it was, maybe EDGE? They said the day you complete is the day you died!

This was the first game I ever played on a PC. On my Pentium 3 processor!

one of mt favorite games tbh

Please say: "Damn son where'd you find this!?"

Please do Puzzle Bubble! Also, where's that sweet Jagged Alliance 3 trailer?

Please say "Sound the Great Unsounded! Beat at the gods' door and hear it ring hollow!"

Hopefully next week's Honest Game Trailer will be Sonic Superstars or Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

You didn't mention the horrible tank controls and the new point & click interface from the remaster which gives it a whole new better experience. It also looks very nice in the remaster :P

What to play first? How to play get enough hardware to play first.

Please do an Honest game trailer on the touhou project games please?

Speaking of games with spooky elements, when are you finally going to do the great Conker's Bad Fur Day?

Top game! I was thinking about it the other day and was wondering if theres is 4k remake.

when this came out, it was so interesting... can't count how many times it went in circles while making npc repeating the same stuff. I think I won the arrow puzzle randomly. Winning the game, I was "yay"... today I wonder how I could have played that thing; realy not nostalgic about it

Now that you have done an old game like this, PLEASE do Sly Cooper!!!

Best Honest Game Trailer ever!!! ❤

First game that made me cry