Editing Grim Fandango (section)

=== Setting ===
''Grim Fandango'' takes place in the Land of the Dead (the Eighth Underworld), where recently departed souls aim to make their way to the Land of Eternal Rest (the Ninth Underworld) on the Four Year Journey of the Soul. Good deeds in life are rewarded by access to better travel packages, provided by the Department of Death, to assist in making the journey (such as sports cars and luxury ocean cruises), the best of which is the Number Nine, an express train that takes four minutes to reach the gate to the Ninth Underworld.<ref>{{cite video game |title=Grim Fandango |developer=LucasArts |year=1997 |quote='''Celso''': The Number Nine?<br />'''Manny''': That's our top of the line express train. It shoots straight to the Ninth Underworld, the land of eternal rest in four minutes instead of four years.}}</ref> However, souls who did not lead a kind life are left to travel through the Land of the Dead on foot, which would take around four years. Such souls often lose faith in the existence of the Ninth Underworld and instead find jobs and stay in the Land of the Dead. The travel agents of the Department of Death act as the [[Grim Reaper]] to escort the souls from the Land of the Living to the Land of the Dead, and then determine which mode of transport the soul has merited. Each year on the [[Day of the Dead]], these souls are allowed to visit their families in the Land of the Living.<ref name="manual"/><ref name="Schafer design diary"/>

The souls in the Land of the Dead appear as skeletal ''calaca'' figures.<ref name="Schafer design diary"/> Alongside them are demons that have been summoned to help with the more mundane tasks of day-to-day life, such as vehicle maintenance and even drink service. The souls themselves can suffer death-within-death by being "sprouted", the result of being shot with [[Bioweapon|"sproutella"-filled darts]] that cause flowers to grow out through bones,<ref name="pcgamer preview"/> rapidly feeding off the calcium of the soul's skeleton. The ones who are sprouted are reincarnated. Many of the characters are [[Mexican people|Mexican]] and occasional [[Spanish language|Spanish]] words are interspersed into the [[English language|English]] dialogue, resulting in [[Spanglish]].<ref name="sfgate review"/> Many of the characters smoke, following a film noir tradition;<ref name="manual"/> the manual asks players to consider that every smoker in the game is dead.<ref name="manual"/>