Grim Fandango
<div class="IPBDescription">walkthrough / spoilers</div>I need help on a part in grim fandango. I've used a walkthrough to check that I'm not doing anything wrong, but it hasn't helped me.
Don't read this if you haven't played the game, by the way.
I'm at the part in the petrified forest where you have to pick up the sign and let it show you the way through all the different tree tunnels, but nothing's happening and the sign is pretty inaccurate. I've replaced his heart, got into the car, carried the sign into the clearing, put it down, picked it up, followed where it pointed, repeated, and still nothing. Often it points to the same thing twice before it moves to a new place. Any help?
Don't read this if you haven't played the game, by the way.
I'm at the part in the petrified forest where you have to pick up the sign and let it show you the way through all the different tree tunnels, but nothing's happening and the sign is pretty inaccurate. I've replaced his heart, got into the car, carried the sign into the clearing, put it down, picked it up, followed where it pointed, repeated, and still nothing. Often it points to the same thing twice before it moves to a new place. Any help?
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Anyway, there should be a slightly discolored area, and thats where you put it. Not the light grayish spot, but another discolored area.
If I can, I'll try and get a screenshot up at some point.
But Chrono I think you may be right, I'll try that. Thanks.
Actually so far I've found it somewhat.. subpar. But then again I grew up on sam & max, day of the tentacle and monkey island. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
But Chrono I think you may be right, I'll try that. Thanks.
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well i never played those 3 but thats not because i dont want to i just cant find a damn copy =[ but the whole plot and style of grim fandango hit spot on with me and i loved every minute of it
Around there, if I recall.
And Year 2 is where it really picks up. Rubacava = awesome.
I loved the game. Found it weird at start but it gets better and better.
Christ I barely remember the game though... I only remember that it was very very very good. It's worth playing through it with walkthroughs when you get stuck, because the story is so damn good.
You have to drive the wheelbarrow over the tubes leading to the tree. When you do, you'll hear a sound, and one of the pumps will stop. You need to sync it up so that the two on the left go at the same time, and the two on the right go at the same time, but so that both pairs don't go at the same time. You know you have it when the tree starts to wobble. Then, shut the switch off and let Glottis climb up. When he has climbed up, flip the switch again. Tree shakes apart, and the Bonewagon gets high-lift shocks.
It should be noted that I was crazy obsessed with Grim Fandango. I've played through the whole game, dialog and all, IN MY HEAD, on several occaisions.
And though the puzzles aren't OBVIOUS (otherwise they wouldn't be puzzles, <i>duh</i>) with a good little bit of creative thinking and playing around, you can figure out the 'rules' and get through. Still happy that I made it without a walkthrough.
I also grew up on Sam & Max, and DOTT, as well as the original Monkey Island games. Grim Fandango is very much in the same vein... and before you complain about the puzzles, think about what kind of stretch it took to use Captain Crunch instead of Brimstone, deal with the giant ball of yarn, or cryogen the hamster. They're just as quirky, and make just as much sense... albeit admittedly GF has more *complex* puzzles and requires slightly different leaps of logic than poisoning poodle-piranhas.
Much worth the effort you put into it, and the story is great... I think I'm going to pull it out and play through it again. Even if all the walking around in Rubacava does get a little repetative.
Agh... I'm stuck at the end of the world. I know I need to rotate the tumblers so the flat face is flush against the door hinge on the right, but I can't get it to work. The game is lagging badly and the graphics are so shonky that I can hardly tell what face is which, and then rotating them is difficult because I can't move them a full revolution without triggering the tumbler above it to move as well. Ugh.
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You have to use the scythe somehow on the puzzle.
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I think the middle two are perfect, but the top and bottom are off. Or am I doing it wrong?
Edit: D'oh. very next try and I get it. The middle two are right, you just need a gap in all 4.
Editx2: Just finished the game then. It was.... interesting. There was a whole ton of superfluous running around though, more than any other game I've played. Still, it was fun while it lasted. I wouldn't have gotten past the first room without a walkthrough though, ugh.