Grim Fandango Remastered

Grim Fandango Remastered

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Grim Fandango: Unusual tips on how to pass bugs, chapters or get rare achievements in the game
By ᴺᵉᶜʳᵒᵐᵒʳᵗᶦ
Welcome, everyone. Today we gather to find the answers to all the questions or problems that might arise while you are trying to play in the Grim Fandango. I had spend more than 50 hours in this game, not only to get all of the achievements but also due to the overall joy and fun this title provided for me. If I knew what I am aware of right now, definitely I would pass each chapter faster. Any issue bug or achievement related problem, can be resolved much more faster, if you read everything written below.

I will only describe couple of problems and give you an answer to a few things today. Depending on your interaction with this guide & specific responses in the comment section, I might be expanding all content here as much as I can, to share everything I learned during the gameplay.

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Before you start the game: SET UP TANK CONTROLS PLEASE
Simple as that. Otherwise you will have to repeat whole game (just like me, myself) for achieving "The Right Way" achievement. It doesn't matter on which stage you are, if you already started playing in this lovely game. If you did not changed your setting before the very beginning, you will miss the rarest achievement.
Go to your settings menu. As you can see above, in the option "movement mode" you have camera-relative one set up for a starter. Change it to tank-controls, save it, and then start a new game. Then, at the very end of story, in the moment where you used flower bullets on the water, after cut-scene your achievement should unlock automatically.
Lets say you normally started the game, without doing anything with your settings: If you have used the bullets, passed the cut scene, won with your enemy, but the achievement is not unlocked, it means something wrong is going on - either you did not changed settings to tank-control movement mode, or you have to clear all your saving points, and ensure to restart game with new settings.

Trust me: If you decide in the middle of the game to change your movement mode, this will affect achieving that trophy, and you simply not going to get it. Think twice - before loosing your time and effort. Even, after any change, make double saves of certain chapter, just in case. This will be helpful on many stages related to each game mission.
Pigeons and Robert Frost Achievement
For many of you, "This doesn't look anything like Robert Frost." as an achievement was probably not so easy-peasy thing to get. Simply, you can either assume wrongly how to use certain things on the pigeons, or misunderstood a little bit all tips and guides related to it. Here is the easiest solution of how to deal with it. First of all, once you will be done with interior building exploration, at the beginning of the game, please go outside through the elevator and main doors and head towards funfair/festival.

Once you gonna get out of the building, walk towards the festival direction. You have to stop by these two tents by the right hand side, that you can see on the picture. In one of them you will find a bread, in another one a guy who is making balloons. Lead the conversation in that way, where he will give you two empty balloons and make for you Robert Frost shaped one. Once you got them, just walk back.
Lets assume, that later on you have finished your conversation with Domino and progressed more at this first stage of the game. If you already did, you know that you have to go to the left from the festival, and walk to the top of the building on the rope. In Domino office drawer, you will find green bird, which will be needed to get attached onto rope. Then you throw it on the ladder, to climb up.
Once you climbed up, you should see the roof and walk towards this exact direction. Please, make separate saving, as I did not and made a mistake myself, by preparing the pigeon mission distraction.

As you can see on the screenshot, Manny stands on the right side. This is where he should remain. Now it's time to get out your balloon from the pocket, which should be orange and shaped like Robert Frost. You click on pigeons, and on interaction circle, and that is when Manny should wave at birds and say something to them. This is when achievement should get unlocked.

After that, you can simply place the balloon in the bowl, add bread, and finish your main task, related to scare the birds and obtain their eggs for REVOLUCION. At this point you should get your pigeon achievement. Please, don't prepare food/balloon bowl before interacting via Robert Frost balloon with pigeons, otherwise you will miss that achievement.
How to finish tube switcher chapter by... Marking card


If you remember Eva (which leads to one of the achievements by having all possible conversations with her at the game beginning) you need to be careful when it comes to observing carefully her desk. If you look carefully, you can notice hole puncher, before you enter any of the elevators. The main part of passing the finish tube quest, is related to punching the hole in poker card, and inserting card into the message tube machine (downstairs, in tube switcher room).


You can find the card deck, in your office, on the desk with books. Then no matter how long you talked with Eva, you can punch the hole in card at any point of the game beginning. On the screen above you can see exact location of the hole puncher. If you don't walk towards Eva desk too close (from the elevators side) you might miss it at the very beginning, so this tip might save your time.
Year two: And other things, you need to know about

During the second year start, you have found out that right now you deal with being a good prospering casino boss. At some point of the story in this chapter, you will have to obtain an embarrassing photography of the lawyer, ensure to shut down your business, as well as step by step obtaining all important tools.
If you get out of the docks, and end up on the crossroads circle, please go down (south). You will be capable of activating small platform bridge, and you will end up in the building related to the cat races. If you follow the story, pass the stage where you talk with the security search with Carla, you will have to figure out, where her metal detector can be found. To obtain it, you need to go down via stars, and stand in the position, where you are behind the crowd, and you can go to the left or right.

Go to the right. You will see a large cat statue. Opposite it, you can enter an open space, where not only you will find the metal detector (in sand with your scythe). You can also find on the top of metal container, a can opener, which will be important for the story progress.


Lets say, you have to obtain the photo of the irritating N lawyer. To progress, you will have to collect it, through using the counterfeit machine use. You set up 2/TUE/06 on the machine, print the ticket, and in the cat race building, on the club floor, you need to not follow the right side with club entrance, but go to the left. It is not visible on the screen, but there is another desk, where you might talk with assistant and give him a ticket. In the desk located on the right side, assistant will see that you give them false ticket. At the desk on left, it will be not seen, and you will be able to obtain the photograph.

After collecting it MAKE SURE TO NOT WALK ANYWHERE YET. Stay where you are. Open your equipment menu, and click on examine, after selecting the photograph. This is when Manny will start loudly talking about the photo. After you do that, you can go to the club, as both assistants will start talking to each other.

If you don't examine that photograph, you will not unlock the scene with assistants, and you gonna be unable to meet lawyer in the club. This is very important as it saves your time, and helps you avoid confusion.
As mentioned before, you need to shut down your business, and that can only be done by exposing the cheating system on your casino tables. In order to do so, after completing all the tasks in chapter two (getting your license, etc), head back to your club, and ensure to separately save the game. Go to your office in casino, and head towards main desk. Open the system to table controlling.

The only method, to expose your cheating system, shut down the casino and leave the town - is to ensure that in casino (downstairs) police officer is inside & that you select the number 14 on the table with magnet use.

If you will not see downstairs the police officer - it means that you have not completed yet all quests.

If you choose with magnet any other number than 14 RED - hahaha, good luck, you will get stuck. Number 14 RED is the only one, that activates the cut scene, where Manny and his friend manage to leave the town and end up on the ship. That is the last scene, before starting year 3 in "Underworld Odyssey journey".
Anchors dilemma... Chain bug & "Stop showing off for the girl!" achievement
That is absolutely right. Anchors might be an obstacle, for someone who is trying to escape from gun-armed skeleton guys. As a Manny, you will spot on bodies covered in flowers (aka super deadly dead ones), and due to fast-forward events, Glottis will drag you into control room. You can see there black handles on one device, and two red buttons - each on left and right side, under the round windows.


What you have to do, is to chain both anchors this way. It looks like on each side of ship, you will have anchor on the long chain. Ensure first of all, to pull up both of them. Then use the black handles, to move the whole ship into the left side. Once you will see on the ship turbines preview, that ship is on the left, please drop completely the right anchor. Then move the ship to the right. After doing so, drop the left anchor, and pull it after up. If you followed this sequence correctly, you should see anchors as they are on a screen. To drag them into window more, use your scythe on them.

Then activate right anchor, by pressing the red button, after ship is damaged, ensure to push down black handles, and that is how you will unlock the cut scene & leave the chasing you guys - in water.If you recognise the above screen straight away, and anger is exploding inside of you - I know the feeling. Once you are in the underwater facility and you try to save the "lady of your heart" you will be able to go to the left (to do some exchange) or to the right. The best option is to start from the left.
To do some exchanges, you will need small tool from Angelitos (you can swap it for a drill). You also gonna need to ensure that Meche will burn herself with cigarette (so you can watch funny leg scene), to swap her stocking for a gun.

Let's assume that it's done.

Walk towards the machine and ensure to make a save of the game. Follow getting into surface, destroying crane, taking crane chain on the slide, getting back under the water, standing next to slide. Save the game again. Pull the lever, so the slide will turn movement down, and jump on slide. You will have to go down and down, so you gonna meet Glottis and have a talk with him. Save game again. Get back on chain and swim up.

Quite often at this stage, everybody have a bug, and I faced it like five times. I had to restart whole game like on 5 occasions, before figuring out, how to surpass the bug between machine stage vs Glottis meeting and chain climbing. The only option, when we try to move up, is to click once with mouse on chain and then press on keyboard letter A. Do not use the mouse or arrow anymore, until Manny will not get back to the lever part. Once it's done, save the game again. Pull the lever up and down.
That is the cut scene, which you really badly want to unlock. Once your save is made, pull up and down the lever, so you will see short animation with chain making a tie. When that is done, go back to the survace, enter the crane, and try to use chain mechanism, to pull it up. This is how you drag ship with Glottis out of the water. SAVE GAME AGAIN quickly and get back into the facility under water, to save Meche.
Once you do all quests that will lead you to cut scene with Domino, you should end up in the above situation. This is where you can easily obtain "Stop showing off for the girl!" achievement, but you have to remain patient.

Attack Domino with your scythe. Keep attacking him and pulling back. It will take about 1-2 minutes, but you cannot stop, until you get the achievement. Once you got it, hit the octopus eye, to unlock another cut scene and progress within the game. If you avoid fight with Domino, or you fight only once, and stab octopus then, you not gonna get the achievement. So please, BE PATIENT.
Last year.... Last digging in
Lets assume that you are already on year 4, you managed to get into the greenhouse and Salvador had exterminated himself. At this stage, you need to get from the suitcase your scythe, and that will unlock the animation of a ticket flying towards what's left of Salvador corpse. Then you take the ticket, and what you need to do is allocating the rest of his body. His remains are buried somewhere behind the greenhouse, and that is the mission, where either it takes long time, or the game can get bugged and turn itself off. To avoid this, make save after arriving at the top of the hill and walk up. You will see: Exactly this area behind the greenhouse. With my game cursor, I am pointing on this screenshot on the spot, where I started having some reactions. You have to slowly walk Manuel, towards where he stand on the screenshot, to ensure unlocking the cut scene with flying golden ticket. Then he will be able to find body, search it, get loot and unlock the car trunk. This is how you obtain last few pieces to end the game.
That is all for now so...
Let me know in the comment section where are you stuck at, or with what you possibly have a problem in this game. As much as I can, I will expand all the tips in here, since there are couple of tricky moments within Grim Fandango, where you might really get blocked with no clues what to do.
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Assaultzyy 2 Jul, 2023 @ 3:23am 
Cool :steamhappy: :luv: