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Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Fortunate Family Games
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Rating: 4,
Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User
Lemony the game is not for hardcore gamers. It doesn't aspire to be. It shouldn't be compared to Warcraft or Resident Evil 4.
The game was developed by AMAZE for Activision. Any one familiar with the first three Harry Potter Movie co-ordinated games (through Electronic Arts EA Games) is familiar with Amaze.
The first three Potter games were fun and a bit of challenge for children and for those adults who were new to PC gaming. The player wandered around the magical world of Hogwarts, collecting jelly beans and wizard cards. What was fun was not completeing the tasks or learning new magic, what was fun was the freedom to discover new areas and find secret places.
Fans of the Potter games will recognize the same mechanics of gameplay outfitted in a new location, jelly beans are replaced with golden eyes, golden hearts refuel stamina instead of chocolate frogs, playbills and letters are granted instead of wizard cards. Players will also recognize the flavor of wonderful score the game is set to, enjoyable, appropiate, but not overbearing with some familiar notes.
Lemony isn't quite as good as the aforementioned Potter games. The reason being Lemony is not a fun story. While ficticious, Lemony is a story of the relentless abuse of three very droll and very wealthy orphans. Its much more fun to play as a boy, who has left his abusive Aunt and Uncle behind, entering a magical world to be educated at Hogwarts. I rather enjoyed learning to how to fly Buckbeak in Prizoner of Azkaban. In Lemony, I was rather relieved upon solving the train signal puzzle, the thought of having children run over and over and over by a train until I did, was depressing me.
Yet, Lemony will provide some consolation to those who have been disappointed by EA's latest Potter offering, The Goblet of Fire. While there is an adjustment to the droll circumstances, the task of discovering your world will take over and the game will eventually command your attention.
While Lemony isn't bad, it isn't that good, either. They renderings of the children are not the most flattering they could be, and the villians are boorishly ugly.
The gameplay controls aren't half as good as the Potter games, and they weren't the greatest. There's a match game puzzle in a cellar, that only shows up per every install, instead of every game. I did complete it and nothing happened on my game, which maybe the reason the puzzle won't show up in the rest of the games in a particular installation. It has done this twice on me, and I'm not going to uninstall and install a third time to see if it happens again. It had no effect on my score or letter or eye collecting. The camera angles aren't well mapped for shooting. I was supposed to shoot a rat, but the camera got behind a ceiling lamp, and while the rat was biting me, all I could see was the inside of a lamp shade. Suff like that.
Still its better than most children's games out there, and it plays! As you may have guessed, there is violence. When I shoot a rat in Lemony, it is shot with a rotten egg lobber. Rotten eggs are your bullets, and the player stuns the enemies, instead of killing them. About time.
I've played Lemony three times, the third time it was going through the motions. Once the few skills of jumping, aiming the egg lobber, and the boot puncher had been mastered, there wasn't any interest left. But for the time I did play, I did enjoy it.
The games by AMAZE are a category unto themselves. They are not action games based on a trigger finger, nor are they the point click boring adventure games beset with brain teaser puzzles in a futuristic world. They are a relaxing time where you don't have to test your brain, just delight it.
If you have never played the Potter games and are new to PC gaming I recommend Lemony, it is a good place to start. If you are a fellow Potterhead and felt betrayed buy Goblet of Fire, Lemony will sustain you.
As far as the mini-game disc, I have it and never installed it. No one wants to play arcade style games around here. But the two game set is worth its price whether or not you, the purchaser, plans on playing or not playing the mini-game disc.
marf
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