"The physical world gave us possibilities we didn't have before": How Grim Fandango's 3D environments revolutionized PC gaming in 1998
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/adventure/the-physical-world-gave-us-possibilities-we-didnt-have-before-how-grim-fandangos-3d-environments-revolutionized-pc-gaming-in-1998/Open linkView original on piefed.world
Loved this game. I don't think I ever finished it, though. Maybe I got stuck?
Same thing happened to me. Loved the game but kept getting stuck on parts that ended with me just running around just spamming the interact button to find the intractable I had overlooked. I refused to look up guides but after the 3rd time getting stuck, I just wasn't having fun anymore.
GF had prerendered backgrounds, no?