Grim Fandango Remaster

The past few years have been fantastic for video game remasters. Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Tales of Symphonia. Many of the best games of the PS2/Xbox/GC generation have made a fantastic 1080p comeback. Most of the remasters are specific cases where all the game really needed was a bump in resolution, some anti aliasing and texture filtering, and of course the gloriously smooth 60FPS! There are many games that would need a lot more work to be remastered. It's an extremely jarring feeling when you get when you go back to play one of your favorite games, and find that it doesn't look nearly as fantastic as your memory served. When I actually look back at games played years ago I forget that arms used to look like two rectangles with a stub on the end. Or in Cloud Strife's case, impossibly large rectangle hands, a pool noodle for an arm, and a diamond shaped shoulder.

I hope that we continue to see remasters. I'm very happy to see Grim Fandango again. The Grim Fandango remaster is something I would have never imagined. I've been playing it on PS4/Vita and it hit me that I was playing Grim Fandango on a modern console. I'm pleased that the game is so much more readily accessible now. For years I'd been waiting for a Gog.com release. A remaster is much more than I was hoping for. And so far the remaster has been excellent. It's strange to say, but when a remaster doesn't look that much different to how the game looks in your memory, its a good remaster. I didn't know the remaster had the swap feature, where at the click of a button you can switch between the original and the remaster. I was just pressing buttons and BOOM. The 3D models switched to the original low texture versions, the new dynamic lighting system was disabled. It was night and day. Yet I felt more comfortable with the remastered graphics.

Nostalgia can do a lot to you.