Where is my damn Grim Fandango DS

[Dark Jaguar]

Perhaps you misunderstand. The idea is that you have the inventory SCREEN at the bottom, not that he's literally dragging around a giant billboard full of items just below him. So in other words, instead of having to pause the game and select from an awkward "flip through my inventory slowly and tediously" thing, you just click on the item on the screen and it's selected. In the game, it would still show Manny picking the item out of his coat and all, because that's where it would be, but you'd be able to select it a lot quicker. Gone would be the silly "scroll through one item at a time" thing they had in the original (even if the idea of him rummaging through his coat while you select is... cute... it's hardly something I was all that fond of).