FearNet.com Reviews Grimm as a Series
2008-08-29 14:14
Carl Lyons said:
"My fifth-grade social studies teacher, a skinny Leonard Maltin lookalike, will always be remembered by me for two reasons: his tradition of rewarding class participation with Jolly Ranchers, and his post-lesson readings of the Grimm Fairy Tales. Not the saccharine, Disney-fied versions, but the old-school vicious morality plays that your parents would never have let you read. We would sit quietly, a gaggle of gorehounds, as he told us in an oddly dispassionate voice about wicked stepmothers being crushed under grindstones, Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilating each other’s feet in order to fit in the glass slippers (and the resulting arterial spray that tipped the none-too-bright prince off to their ruse), and countless other acts of torture, violence, and mutilation. Great stuff for ten-year-olds, no doubt.
"It’s in this spirit that American McGee, creator of the classic Alice and two other games nobody cares about, brings us Grimm, an episodic foray into these days of gore—er, yore. You play as Grimm, a hirsute troll with a massive beard, a constantly full bladder, and the ability to corrupt everything within range of your rotund frame. As Grimm explains in the charming theme song, he’s sick and tired of his stories being softened up, so he travels through them, slowly turning everything back into the tales of terror they once were..."
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"My fifth-grade social studies teacher, a skinny Leonard Maltin lookalike, will always be remembered by me for two reasons: his tradition of rewarding class participation with Jolly Ranchers, and his post-lesson readings of the Grimm Fairy Tales. Not the saccharine, Disney-fied versions, but the old-school vicious morality plays that your parents would never have let you read. We would sit quietly, a gaggle of gorehounds, as he told us in an oddly dispassionate voice about wicked stepmothers being crushed under grindstones, Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilating each other’s feet in order to fit in the glass slippers (and the resulting arterial spray that tipped the none-too-bright prince off to their ruse), and countless other acts of torture, violence, and mutilation. Great stuff for ten-year-olds, no doubt.
"It’s in this spirit that American McGee, creator of the classic Alice and two other games nobody cares about, brings us Grimm, an episodic foray into these days of gore—er, yore. You play as Grimm, a hirsute troll with a massive beard, a constantly full bladder, and the ability to corrupt everything within range of your rotund frame. As Grimm explains in the charming theme song, he’s sick and tired of his stories being softened up, so he travels through them, slowly turning everything back into the tales of terror they once were..."
Read the rest of the article here.