When comparing Waking Mars vs Grim Fandango Remastered, the Slant community recommends Waking Mars for most people. In the question“What are the best Android tablet games?” Waking Mars is ranked 43rd while Grim Fandango Remastered is ranked 44th. The most important reason people chose Waking Mars is:
The puzzle design in each level/room allows for clever thinking in order to solve. This makes for a fun game that is not too stressful.
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Pros
Pro Clever puzzles
The puzzle design in each level/room allows for clever thinking in order to solve. This makes for a fun game that is not too stressful.
Pro Great Story and design
A beautiful story about a return mission to mars that is complimented by the gorgeous artwork.
Pro Living ecosystem that can be interacted with
Pro Inspired by the day of the Dead holiday, Mexican folklore and film Noire
Grim Fandango is self admittedly inspired by the Day of the Dead Mexican holiday as well as Noir style films.
Pro Challenging
Compared to modern point and click Grim Fandango actually requires the player to pay closer attention to details or even take their own notes. While this may not be everyones cup of tea, for long time point and click adventure game players it is a refreshing change back to the norm.
Pro A world of depth
The world is immersive and the characters feel like real people.
Pro Stellar writing and voice acting
While the art design and music come together to create a cohesive world oozing with atmosphere, the near-Pixar quality voice work and writing breath life into the characters in way few other games have managed to achieve.
Pro Improved controls and UI
The controls were remastered to feel like more modern point and click adventure games I instead of the tank controls that turned so long time gamers off. From fully enjoying the game. The UI was cleaned up and made easier to use
Pro New commentary track
The current remastered developers have added a new commentary track from the original key developers to the game.
Cons
Con Tends to be easy
There is not too much difficulty in the game being that very few things can harm the player and even where there are they only harm so little it is not really a problem.
Con Improved controls and interface
The controls were remastered to feel like more modern point and click adventure games I instead of the tank controls that turned so long time gamers off. From fully enjoying the game. The UI was cleaned up and made easier to use
Con Some puzzles are obtuse
While the quality of puzzles is generally fantastic, there are a few offenders that may force players to resort to a "hail Mary" strategy of clicking anything and everything in hopes of stumbling on the solution.
Con No tutorial
A missed opportunity with this remake is the chance to finally add a tutorial.