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Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events

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A sweet little game with a decidedly off-center sensibility, just like the bizarre books it's based on. If you're familiar with the books, you'll know what to expect; if you're not, perhaps you'd better read one or two first to get an idea of what's coming.

Game play consists of directing the Beaudelaire children around various locations trying to survive their greedy "uncle." The game is divided into problem-solving sections and fighting sections; the former is mostly brain work, though there's some rather annoying jumping in places, and the fighting is mostly hand-eye coordination, though a little strategy is required to survive. (Fighting in this case means squirting mosquitoes with eau de cologne and throwing bags of horseradish at evildoers. There's no blood involved.) All the voices are done by the actors from the movie, most notably Tim Curry and Jim Carrey, what a team-up! Graphics are good enough. I had no difficulty loading or running the game on my 3-year-old machine with Windows ME.

The game as a whole is a lovely fun quirky thing; it might be a bit too complicated for kids under about 10, and it might be a bit bland for kids over about 16. Oh, and it includes a free child's admission to the movie, good till the end of the year (2004). Lovely!

Considering what a disappointment I found a movie to be, the fun of this game makes up for it.
In A Series of Unfortunate Events, you play as the three Baudelaire orphans. You must jump, attack, and discover your way through the 'Lemony Snicket world', avoiding the horrible Count Olaf.
The neat thing about this game was that how you got through the game didn't rely on how quick your fingers hit the keys, but how quick you can discover the little things that depend on weather you advance in the game or not. It got annoying at times, but I managed to work through it. The downside of the game is that 80% of the time you're looking for invention particles--nothing much else.
Overall, this is a very good game, but you'll enjoy it more if you've read and enjoyed the books.

If you dont want to take the time aside to read the books(which you should) get the game. It covers most of the book and adds more. For example Mr. Poe, the gulible banker who is in charge of finding guardians for them, does so in the game but at each place he leads the baudelairs their adventure is atleast a little bit different.


Trevor Oliver
12 years old

This is a fun and challenging game but can also be a litlle confusing.
This game keeps you on the edge of your seat when you have to jump or run from place to place to get things! It is also a little challenging to stay going in a stait direction when you first start to play it but you get used to it! Also when I was playing it was a little confusing what to do after I reached level 2 because the characters were just kind of walking around on the screen and I didn't know what to do!
But after I figured out what to do it got really exciting! Hope if you buy it you will like it too!

This game has everything! Puzzles for kids who like a challenge and rediculous tasks for those who like to laugh.

This unusual game is fun and satisfying. I absolutely love it! The atmosphere is Victorian and mysterious, the graphics are excellent, and the levels are fun and challenging. You go from place to place playing as the three Baudelaire siblings. There are many obstacles throughout it. Often, Violet will come up with a bizarre device to get you through these. You then must collect a number of household objects to build it.
These inventions are pretty cool. The two you use the most are the Lobber and the Smasher. The Lobber chucks various items at enemies to stun them. Once they are stunned, you must hit them with the Smasher, a boot attached to a jack in the box. Other inventions include the Lockpick, Sprayer, and Lever Yanker.
The missions are fun and exciting. Through the game, you must uncover a secret passage to go to Justice Strauss's library, spray mosquitoes with Eau de Toilette perfume, capture escaped reptiles, wade through leech infested pools with Violet's stilts, and climb Olaf's tower with a grappling hook. You'll absolutely love this incredible game!

Please note that this review is for the PC version of this game. There's no doubt about it, the game is very cute and truly fun as it is based upon the exact premise and story of the movie. As I've found so very often these days, the creators of these games are in such a hurry to capitalize on a book or a movie's popularity that the game is thrown together in a very slipshod manner (see EA Games' Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets for PC..shame on them for releasing it the way they did...ugh). The programmers obviously took no pride in their workmanship here. The graphics are fair, at best, and there are times when you may target something and the program fails to respond right away, necessitating the repositioning of the cursor several times to get it to work. The scenes where you must jump from one platform/rock/box etc. to another is just downright annoying. The characters are difficult to position and the run-jump coordination of the program is all off. The poor graphics give the player little help in depth perception in these scenes. There are also areas in which the graphics are incredibly annoying to the eyes...when your character is moving about the scene, the scenery moves in a very stilted, stunted sort of flashy way (I'd say strobe-like, but it is a dark game, not a bright flashy one). This annoyed not only my 43-yr-old eyes, but also both of my childrens' eyes (8 & 11yrs). Overall, it was fun, but if you're keen on gaming, and glitches and poor graphics bother you...avoid this one. If you're looking for a cute adventure for the 7-11 year-old crowd...you'll probably like this one. Another game along these lines, but with better graphics and much more of a challenge, was the first Harry Potter game for PC- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

While the Lemony Snicket books are fantastic, this game's programming flaws make it only fair. The great concepts are still there--character perspective swaps, gadgets that Violet makes, etc--but the play requires a high level of manual control that's not supported by this game's sloppy programming. This makes play frustrating. Another oddity is the inability to save at will; users are forced to play to a certain point before saving. If this is a bug, the patch isn't out for it yet. Overall, this is a disappointment.

There are many things that are best to be AVOIDED. Such include: deadly snakes, fatty burgers, villians named Sally and THIS GAME. The gameplay is rather DULL a word that here means repetitive and uneventful. The voice acting is ABYSMAL, a word that means so bad that I couldn't stand it anymore and turned off all sound. The graphics are okay at best. The only thing that is mildly intresting is that as you progress in the story mode (same version of the story that apeared in the equally bad movie) you can unlock Count Olaf's Theature Posters and words with Snicket's deffinitions. But even this isn't enough to truly motivate you. Please don't make the mistake of buying this game. Save your money.
With All Do Respect,
Discusted Snicket Fan

Yeah, the game is based on the movie. All the challenges were challenging but not much related to the movie, so all of you video game players who think if you know the movie, you can beat the game in a zip, geuss again because it's more challenging then that because they "expanded" what they could do from the movie and makes it more challenging. You first start with Count Olaf's house, going through Uncle Monte's Reptile Room, then so forth...the ending its hard, but that's what makes the game challenging. This game should be longer, cause it's fun.