The skeleton noises, deadpan voiceover and sudden explosions get me every time. lmao

the voiceover was made better by the Minecraft skeleton sounds

"She was literally a saint of a human being when she was alive!!" Manny: "Did you kill much when you were alive?" Mercedes: *"VERY LITTLE"*

I just realized The nine train that can take you to the good place in four minutes And the hard way that takes four years The reason why it’s 4 measurements of time is the same reason ghost trick Let you go four minutes before someone’s death That’s the death number

Ya know I like how Ben made all the cutscenes more chaotic my adding and I think speeding up Minecraft skeleton noises in the cutscenes plus the voice he used just made it perfect

I am super glad everyone this far has LOVED the voice overs Ben! Like for real keep it up! And it was a treat being in vc for like the whole process of this video! Can’t wait to be part of more!

I lost it at hearing your dramatic renditions, the skeleton sounds were the cherry on top. This was a really fun one to watch, the game seems really interesting too so I'm looking forward to the next one.

15:27 the most pure, well done and dramatic voive acting of all time

Every time you post I fall more in love with your content. Retro games are a love letter, and I'm glad they're getting sent en masse

That voice over rendition was pure perfection. XD

woah! this game has a sick style and animation, love it! and the story has me veryyyy intrigued!! also, that was some top notch voice acting there, absolutely stunning i love the monotone voice, the yells and the amazing wonderful skeleton noises

Hi! Im doing a streamed Grim Fandango playthrough using OBS, if you need to record audio, you can always record your full desktop, that way it recognizes the audio. Hope this helps.

I remember watching my sister play this game as a kid and we were always stuck at the beginning, very interesting to see what I missed this entire time! Can't wait to see you cover the next chapter! :)

Oh no the Minecraft skelly noises over the deadpan voicework, god I picked a *terrible* time to take a drink, that was GOLD XD

I don't think I'll ever get tired of your commentary, even if I know I'll never play the games and have no need to know their storylines. There's just something about old games and the people playing them that interests me. Never stop doing what you're doing!

Dude I can’t believe that Ben doesn’t have a million subs yet. He’s such a good youtuber bro

I made the mistake of playing Minecraft while I watched this Once I realized that the skeletons weren’t on my end I laughed out loud-very entertaining watch!

16:00 I've played this game for years, both the original and the remastered version, and I have NEVER seen that bug! It's kinda creepy; it's something I'd see in a dream about playing GF, or something 😮 Aside from that, I love your video on GF, I'm always happy to find newcomers for an old classic! 💖

this is great, I love the going through games other than horror ones, those are awesome too, but the way you do it is so satisfying and interesting, I cant wait to see if you end up doing more of this game, I also want to see if you'll do the rest of the Sly Cooper games as well.

I LOVE GRIM FANDANGO!! excited to see the rest!!

You know it’s gonna be a good day when Ben Again uploads Also I love the voice acting with the goofy skeleton noises in the background

Is is always lovely to watch your videos! Loved your voiceover, and the honest frustration with the problems the game does have withouth embelishing or trying to justify them, but still transmiting the beauty in this classic. Your voice is very soothing and I like to listen to you after a long day like today, so thank you ^^ you made me feel better, keep being awesome!

Excrutiatingly underrated game. It was one of my absolute favorites as a little kid even though I've never really been into story-driven games, and it still holds up just as much today to me personally. It was one of the very rare games from that era that actually got an official localization in Brazil, and it had full voice acting and everything which was even rarer, and all this in brazilian portuguese too instead of european portuguese, which is mind-blowing (and the voice acting was actually really good!). Games only started getting frequently localized here in the 2010's. So most games at the time, especially story and puzzle-centric games like Final Fantasy and Resident Evil were pretty inaccessible to the vast majority of brazilian kids that didn't understand a word of english, but that didn't stop anyone from playing, so printing out walkthroughs was common practice. Because of that, having a game like this be fully localized meant a lot. As for the softlock, I'm not sure whether that's a remaster thing or if it also happened in the old version, as I have a faint memory of that happening to me back then but I could totally be misremembering it, so take that with a very big grain of salt, lol. Also, can't you just hold shift to run? And if I remember correctly, you can also use the arrow keys to move, and you can use a gamepad in the remaster (probably, since obviously you can use it on console). I have the PS4 version so I can't really speak on the PC remaster, but there's probably also a way to bind the movement keys to WASD if that's not already the case, so you could move and run with the left hand while having the freedom to use the mouse on the right hand. So I urge you to keep playing it as it is absolute gold from beginning to end, and don't be afraid to bust out a walkthrough if you're taking too long, as the puzzles don't get any less cryptic from here, trust me. But yeah, great video and production value despite the game's technical difficulties. Keep it up!

Howdy Ben, I recently discovered your channel via your Sly Cooper video, which caught my interest since I also grew up playing that game as a kid. Since then, I've been binge watching all of your videos throughout the week and I gotta say, I think you've quickly become one of my favorite channels on the web! You're editing and writing are top notch, and your analysis on the games you've covered have been great so far. I never expected to find games like the Crooked Man and Ghost Trick interesting before discovering your channel, but your videos on them got me invested in 'em and I found myself getting entertained by what they had to offer! Grim Fandango was actually a game I was thinking of checking out awhile back since it was made by LucasArts, who also made all the Star Wars games I grew up with. From what you've shown so far, this game looks incredibly charming! I took a look at some gameplay footage and you were right, the voice acting gives everyone so much character (Your fill in was pretty good too though, lol). After seeing this, I was considering buying it on Steam but apparently I actually have it for free on Xbox since I got Xbox Game Pass, so I think I'll give it a shot sometime soon! I saw in your Patreon video that you were accepting suggestions for games to review. I would have given you a few bucks to suggest them on Patreon had I had the money for it, but since I unfortunately do not at this time, I hope you'll be fine if I share them here for now. I do however think they're right up your ally, so I do hope you'll get a kick out of them. Without further ado, here's my list: Half-Life: On the topic of playing old games and seeing how well they hold up, this game is a classic! It's an FPS game where a secret U.S government-funded research facility called Black Mesa conducts a failed science experiment that tears a dimensional rift between Earth and the border dimension, Xen, which causes several aliens from Xen to teleport to the facility and attack the the science team. You play as Gordon Freeman, a Black Mesa Scientist who has to try and survive the oncoming alien onslaught and escape the facility. Now I know you said in your Sly Cooper stream that you weren't the biggest fan of shooters, but let me tell ya, I can bet you the FPS games you might have played weren't on par with Half-Life. This game is one of the most influential games of all time. If you know a game that wasn't at least inspired by it, I can guarantee you that it was inspired by another game that was inspired by Half-Life. The game was extremely groundbreaking for its advancements in gameplay, sound design, artificial intelligence, and especially story telling. Though you do play as a named protagonist, Gordon Freeman himself never speaks in the entire game, and the game never takes control away from the player via a cutscene. This essentially makes Gordon a personification of the player, and allows you to fully get immersed in the world that the game has to offer. As such, every aspect of the game is so expertly crafted to keep the player's immersion intact and makes excellent use of environmental story telling, offering a thrilling experience like no other. Since you like some good horror and puzzles in your games, I think you'll be happy to hear that Half-Life features various puzzles between its combat encounters and horror elements appear throughout the game as well. If you end up enjoying Half-Life, I highly recommend checking out the rest of the series since they're all fantastic. Just make sure that if you play Half-Life one, don't forgot to play its expansions called Half-Life Opposing Force and Half-Life Blue Shift before playing Half-Life 2 since unfortunately I've seen a few people miss out on them. I do like the second Half-Life better, but I do wanna be clear that's only by a little bit since they're all excellent games; Half-Life is without a doubt my favorite game series of all time. If you're interested, the entire series aside from the recent Half-Life: Alyx is in a bundle on Steam that is currently on sale for just 5 bucks, which is a massive steal if you ask me (Though as of writing this comment, the sale ends in a few days so unfortunately you only have so much time to get them for a cheap price). It's also worth noting that the games are best getting into blind. Just make sure you avoid playing "Half-Life: Source", I can get into more detail about it later but it's basically a broken version of Half-Life. Resistance 1 and 2: If you're interested in covering more classic Playstation titles, I'd say these ones are definite highlights. They're made by the same people who made the Ratchet and Clank series and the recent Playstation Spider-Man titles. Resistance is an alternative history FPS series where alternate circumstances after WW1 result in WW2 never happening and the Russian Civil War is interrupted when an alien race that would be later be referred to as the "Chimera" by humanity, sends their forces to Russia in order to conquer the planet. The Chimera deploy small bug-like Chimeran creatures called "Crawlers" that infect the human populace of Russia and create Human-Chimera Hybrids. Said Hybrids would use their increased intelligence to create weaponry and technology that is far beyond anything that humanity has created. Using their tech, they are also able to create biologically engineered non-human-infected Chimera creatures made for the sole purpose of combat. Russia blockades its entire country in order to prevent the Chimera from infecting and conquering the rest of Europe and hopefully defeat the Chimera. The rest of the world however, unaware of the Chimera's presence on Earth, takes this as a threat from Russia. Thus, a several decade long arms race is formed by the nations of the world, elevating human technology and weaponry to new heights (though still having the WW2 look given the time period that these heights started development at). It isn't until 1949 however where Russia is eventually defeated by the Chimera, and the Chimera begins its invasion of Europe. The Chimera's forces and technology at this point are so vast and powerful that they are able to overwhelm all of Europe in a matter of weeks. You play as Nathan Hale, a U.S Army Soldier sent with the rest of the U.S Army to England in order to aid British forces in their defense against the Chimera. Though the series doesn't include any puzzles like Half-Life does, I think you might enjoy many of the horror aspects that Resistance brings to the table and you'd probably dig a lot about the Chimera. Though they can be confused for a hive mind, that is not actually what the Chimera is, as each Chimeran creature and human-hybrid has its own consciousness. Instead, Pure Chimeras such as "Angels" create a telepathic link between all Chimeran lifeforms that allow them to communicate telepathically. This gives the Chimera a militaristic edge over the humans by being able to receive orders from Pure Chimeras on the fly, while also allowing the human-hybrids to perform complex military tactics on the battlefield since they still have an intelligent mind (unlike actual hive mind creatures such as the Flood from Halo). Interestingly, before the Hybrids started speaking the Chimeran-language in Resistance 2, all of the Hybrids in Resistance 1 actually speak in perfect English, though they still sound a lot more alien than a normal human does (It's kind of hard to hear them during combat but it's really cool when you get a chance to hear them. It's also worth noting that the Hybrids do not have any memories of their past lives but keep their intelligence). This is what I think makes the Chimera especially terrifying. If something like Zombies infected every human on Earth, then every human would just be a dumb drone that couldn't contribute to any kind of advancement. The Chimera however could just replace humanity and yet due to the intelligence of the Hybrids and other Chimera forces, advances in technology and scientific fields could still be made on Earth, even though humanity was forcibly erased. It's a really interesting but scary thought. Both games go into a whole lot of detail about the Chimera that wasn't explained in this comment that I think you'd really enjoy. If the games sound interesting to you, I'd totally suggest checking them out; it's one of my favorite game series next to Half-Life. Unfortunately however, the games were never ported to any of the newer Sony consoles, so you'd have to get them on the PS3. PS3 emulation isn't the most accessible thing on the planet right now and even then, I don't think it's optimized enough yet to give the games justice, so using an actual PS3 to play them would give the best experience. If you do have access to a PS3 though, it's really easy to find a cheap copy of them online or in a retro game store. I do however suggest only checking out Resistance 3 if you get curious about it because personally, I don't think it's very good. Without spoiling anything, it introduced a weirdly lighthearted tone for what is supposed to be a pretty dark series and it retconned the Chimera to be a legitimate hive mind, which makes absolutely zero sense considering what the previous two games established and it ruins a lot of what makes the Chimera interesting, imo. I know this comment was pretty long, but I've really come to enjoy your content and really appreciate all the effort you put into it, and so I wanted to share some games that might interest you. Your videos have all been such a good time I think you really deserve your recent boost in popularity. If any of the games I've mentioned sound interesting to you, please let me know so I can share additional information about them that'd be important to know before playing them. Take care lad, and as someone who's going into College in September, good luck in College. If your College work is as good as your videos, I think you'll succeed!

Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!

2:26 it means Manny was told to go to the land of the living and find a good client that was killed by the poisoning as there were so many victims they can't assign each individual reaper (travel agent) an individual client so like the boss said "first come first serve"

The voice acting and sound effects are great 🙏😊

It takes a minute to set up but if you install a virtual audio cable and then enable listen on it in Windows audio settings you can hear Discord without it actually entering the default source meaning you can desktop capture the audio and still balance your mic and discord separately

Every topic of your videos have been a hit, I’ve been curious about this game but I never got into it!

I've heard quite a bit about this series but nothing of true substance. Thank you for taking the plunge and giving this a review. It was a lot of fun and I eagerly await the next part :D

You should make a video about "A space for the unbound" it's a really good game with a heartbreaking story that I think fits your style

Is this that “Undertale” game all the kids are talking about these days? In all seriousness: I’ve been getting back into point-n-click games lately, so it’s cool to see you covering Grim Fandango. Btw, have you played Machinarium? It’s got fantastic and charming art and animation. Thought you might be interested.

now we just need the rest of the game.

Can’t wait to see the rest!

Love Grim Fandango and this was a solid video. Hope you figure out the audio issues and it's a shame that Remastered is such a shoddy port. If worse comes to worst you could always grab footage of the cutscenes from youtube and credit the uploader(s) possibly

Loves your voice acting was funny/great hope you do the rest of the game. Great video

i remember this game because it was the first game i ever played with a brazilian dub, it was great

great video!

nice i hope you cover the rest of the game.

I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO BUY THIS GAME ON STEAM BECAUSE I WANTED A NEW DETECTIVE GAME WHAT THE HECK??????????

Common Benjamin once again W content

yes yes yes A hundred times yes Thank you so much for this I am looking foreward to the next part and do hope you can find a way to record the audio somehow I loved this game for so long and think it isn't talked about enough thank you great video

this game looks so cool

Those voiceovers are amazing! The game seems pretty fun story-wise. But the highlight of the video is totally the voiceovers.

Thank you for playing this game so I don’t have to. Sorry about all the bugs and glitches for it. Your voice acting was spectacular

huh, didn't know ben did all of his voiceovers in a room with a skeleton spawner and low light level

As a lover of skeletons in media, be they video game skeletons, movie skeletons, cartoon skeletons, or book skeletons, I CANNOT WAIT for your vid on Year 2

we need a part 2

One more skeleton sound and im going to nibble on bones

10/10 Ben voice acting, chef's kiss mwah~

Great vid as always, your voiceovers got some good laughs out of me lol!

Idk if you plan on doing the rest of the game but please do! I like your video style and im too dumb to figure out half these puzzles myself and too impatient. But ive been waiting for someone to do some kind of video on this game for so longg

I really like this game. I remember playing it a few times. Double fine always make some great stories and world building. Great video as always

alright so we gotta [BONES] sprout [BONES] hi [BONES] m

Where is part 2 Ben? We need more top-notch voice acting Ben!

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For a second I actually thought the minecraft skeleton sounds were actually from the game XD 💀

Woooohooo Grim Fandago! Heck yea, been asking for this for a while!

This is such an awesome game. Glad to see it getting some attention! ☀️☀️

WAKE UP HONEY BENAGAIN JUST DROPPED A NEW BANGER

Hey, here another like and comment for your algorithm

the minecraft skeleton sounds 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Are you still going to do year 2?

I've always wondered, what do you think about Majora's Mask?

Hey Ben, maybe in the future you can do a video on the Fear and Hunger series. It looks like it’s up your ally.

Hi Ben! Thanks for videos you make, I really enjoy them :) I would like to recommend a game, I don't know if you heard about it, but I think it'll be a banger. It's called "A child of Light"! It's about a girl, named Aurora and her story in the different world of hers. I think you'll like it :)?

How come you didn't just look up the cutscenes

dead joke intended 😭

why didn't I see a notification for this video, sorry if I'm late

Please let there be a fix for the audio, please show the rest of the game, please please please!

This game’s amazing. Everything about it makes my brain tickle, it’s wonderful

I can't with the Minecraft skeleton sounds 😭😭

God I love this game

Grim Fandango is easily one of my all time favourite games. Such a fun world full of charming characters. So happy to see it being covered!

Do year two

you cool

You could have just gotten the cutscenes from online, lmao

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I got stuck early on and gave up. I do however quite like the aesthetic of the game.

10:13

Let's go new video

the cutscenes voice acting is just MMM 👌 _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):

Your voice acting is top notch

papyrus real????????????????????????????

I Drive

So Manny Was 100x More Successful Then THE DOD ITSELF It Goes To Show Not To Underestimate Someone Just Because They Come From A Different Background Or Life Hardships Keep In That Messing With Manny There Will Summon Fore Great Consequences For The Higher Ups And Any Poor Soul Who Went After Manny...

How's it going Ben?

You never finished this series :

The voice acting isn’t bad, I think when he reviews a new game with no voice acting he can fill the roles and his friends can help too.

I have mixed feelings about this game, it definitely has a personality, and I used a walk through just to get through it because oh boy. The story was ehhhh and I wish I could give it a thumbs up but its a bit too scrambled and feels like a fever dream. That being said, fever dreams aren't always bad if you just let your little light shine.

Who is the voice actor? their voice is so alluring

I know Ben's avatar is 2D but I didn't think his delivery could be this flat.

Skeleton noises during the dialogue is so goddamn annoying.

Damn, Ben. You thought of becoming a voice actor? Please don't.