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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Category: CONSOLE_VIDEO_GAMES

Genre: Action Games

Platform: Playstation 2

Plot Outline:
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is the only game that lets players experience first-hand the misadventures of the savvy and resilient Baudelaire orphans as they narrowly escape from the clutches of the villainous Count Olaf who is after their inheritance. In the game, players switch between the three orphans, mastering each one's skills to solve puzzles and collect various items to build ingenious inventions. Players make their way across 20 levels filled with puzzle-solving and platforming challenges. Each of the three kids has their own unique talents and skills. There's Violet, the oldest child and the inventor of the family. Then there's the middle child, Klaus, the bookworm. And lastly, there's baby Sunny, who has a penchant for mischief and four very sharp teeth.

ESRB Rating: Everyone

Studio: Activision Inc.

Country: USA

Language: English

Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada)

Format:

Number of discs: 1

Features:

gather objects throughout your adventure to build ingenious inventions for solving tricky puzzles
vanquish the villains
experience the adventures: over 15 different missions to explore
Solve tricky puzzles to get away in time and prevail
Experience 20 different missions based on the books and movie - From exploring Count Olaf's mysterious mansion, to Uncle Monty's intricate hedge maze and Aunt Josephine's rickety house

Comment:
I enjoyed this game quite a bit--I ended up putting all of the other games I was playing aside to just finish this one. You play as the three Baudelaire kids. The story follows the 2004 Lemony Snicket film fairly closely, as you must first escape Count Olaf's decrepit mansion, then avoid being killed by a train before you head off to Uncle Monty's herpetology paradise, Aunt Josephine's seaside town, and finally save Violet Baudelaire from a fate worse than death. The environments are attractive and fun to explore, and the game play and puzzles are neither too easy nor too challenging and frustrating.

For most of the game--as you explore environments, solve puzzles, search for secret rooms and such, you can switch between Violet and Klaus Baudelaire as you please. For many "important" events, such as boss fights, you must play as one or the other, as they each have different skills and weapons. For some sequences--those that are basically 2D platformer sections (the entire game has some platformer aspects, but it's usually loosely employed and 3D), you must play as Sunny, the baby Baudelaire (and this is the only time you can play as her).