Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by ulrikrasmussen on Monday September 21, 2026 @05:20AM (#49784975)

I have started playing Grim Fandango with my kids (7 and 9) after we played through Day of the Tentacle together. Playing old adventure games on the TV and letting people take turns playing is a great family activity!

They aren't native English speakers and the story in Grim Fandango is considerably harder to follow compared to DoTT, so they lost interest a bit after we completed year 1. But as soon as their English skills improve, we'll get back to it, it's one of my favorite adventure games!

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by raverbashing on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:01AM (#49785239)

I wonder how easy it would be to translate it today with LLMs and have a translated version running on ScummVM

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by ulrikrasmussen on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:05AM (#49785273)

Isn't ScummVM 2D only?

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by thetoon on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:29AM (#49786432)

Nope, they integrated their sister project, ResidualVM, that does 3d

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by ashenke on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:28AM (#49786422)

Are the remasters not translated? I remember playing Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and all the other LucasArts games when I was a child, and they were dubbed in French.

EDIT: I checked, and I was mistaken: DOTT was never dubbed in French, but Grim Fandango (and its remaster) is.

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by ulrikrasmussen on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:50AM (#49786641)

Some are, but I'm Danish and I think they translated any of the games to that :)

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by nopakos on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:09PM (#49792684)

My 8 year old, improved his English skills a lot from playing Spy Fox. It's a series of funny point and click adventure games from Ron Gilbert's (of Monkey Island fame) company after leaving Lucasfilm.

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Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] by SamBam on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:02PM (#49794046)

I also just finished playing DOT with my ten-year-old, and was just today thinking about the next best game!

I had decided this morning that I'll try Monkey Island before Grim Fandango, because of the added complexity of Grim, as you say.

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