residual/residual — Issue #405: GRIM: Game cannot be finished if player manipulates the snow grinder.
Author: juj
Created: 2011-10-29 18:24:40+00:00
State: open

For reference, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6FgNNE4iYtw#t=233s

0. Load this savegame http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/grim16.gsv

Scenario A: Proper sequence (shown on the video):
1. Select bone from inventory.
2. Use bone to the snow grinder. (select it from inventory, walk next to snow grinder and press enter)
3. Pick up the snow grinder by pressing enter.
4.Observe that Manny uses the snow grinder with the bone in it, and then picks it up.

Scenario B: Bad sequence, makes game uncompletable:
1. Walk next to the snow grinder.
2. Press enter to manipulate the snow grinder.
3. Observe that Manny uses the snow grinder, then tries to pick it up, but promptly places it back on the table.
4. Select bone from inventory.
5. Use bone to the snow grinder.
6. Pick up the snow grinder by pressing enter.
7. Observe that Manny uses the snow grinder, but does not even try to pick it up, but leaves it on the table.
Expected: As in #4 in scenario A, Manny picks up the snow grinder with the bone in it.

For reference, here is a savegame after scenario B: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/grim18.gsv .

Note: This might not be a bug in residual, but the game scripts themselves. The reason I suspect this is because of this walkthrough: http://www.the-spoiler.com/ADVENTURE/Lucas.Arts/grim.fandango.5.html which was not written using residual (says it was written in 1999), but with the original game. Search for the text "Get the grinder" on that page, and see that it says:

"(You can't do 11 and 12 earlier, if you do it after step 9 the games starts acting up, crashing,
the inventory acts strange, ... So don't do it!)"

so perhaps there was something there in the original game even.