#Four on the floor darkest dungeon install

Video games just werenвЂ™t supposed to have such high-brow conceits as character development, year-spanning story arcs or musical scores that could rival anything playing at the nearest cinema.

Many considered games to be a childish pursuit, designed to keep hyperactive kids at bay. There were few exemplars when it came to first-rate video game narratives back then.

The game had a wholly original, irresistible aesthetic. Depicting the afterlife of Aztec folklore, infused with a jazz-era soundtrack and populated by characters straight out of a Raymond Chandler novel. Cannily melding the 3D engine of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II with beautifully illustrated pre-rendered sets, FandangoвЂ™s designers were able to create a stunningly unique and absorbing game world. Developed over a three-year period, Fandango had been conceived and driven by Full Throttle-visionary Tim Schafer (he of later Psychonauts fame) as a further evolution of the genre on both technological and stylistic fronts. Released in October 1998, Grim Fandango was to be LucasArtsвЂ™ final foray in the adventure game genre that it had perfected. I didnвЂ™t know it at the time but I was about to discover my favourite video game.

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#Four on the floor darkest dungeon install

Returning from my familyвЂ™s annual West Country jaunt the next day, I raced upstairs to install the demo of the cryptically titled Grim Fandango. Somewhere between the ZoneвЂ™s endorsement, the fact that it was a new LucasArts title and this intriguing depiction of deathвЂ™s beckoning hand seized my 11-year-old selfвЂ™s gaze. Clad in his reaper cloak, Manny adorned the front of PC ZoneвЂs cover-disc, under the tantalising offer to вЂbe the first to play LucasArtsвЂ™ fantastic new adventureвЂ™. IВ first met Manuel Calavera in a small Cornish newsagent.