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Veggietales: Larry Boy and the Bad Apple | 
 enlarge | From: Crave Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $7.99
You Save: $12.00 (60%)
New (17) Used (10) Collectible (1) from $6.85
Rating:  11 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: SLUS-21440
Model: P2SVGG 650008399530
UPC: 650008399530
EAN: 0650008399530
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | The action-adventure game features LarryBoy, the popular plunger-headed crime-fighting cucumber featured in several best-selling videos, in his quest to save the citizens of Bumblyburg from temptation. When trouble appears, the citizens of Bumblyburg call world-famous crime fighter LarryBoy! Aided only by his trusted butler Alfred (played with zest by Archibald Asparagus), LarryBoy is everything t |
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Product Description
The action-adventure game features LarryBoy, the popular plunger-headed crime-fighting cucumber featured in several best-selling videos, in his quest to save the citizens of Bumblyburg from temptation. When trouble appears, the citizens of Bumblyburg call world-famous crime fighter LarryBoy! Aided only by his trusted butler Alfred (played with zest by Archibald Asparagus), LarryBoy is everything that his alter-ego Larry the Cucumber is not: bold... confident... relentlessly driven... brazenly heroic! Well, actually, that's not entirely true. While he tries to create this impression, inside, LarryBoy is still plain-old Larry. LarryBoy attempts to save the day with clever use of his super-suction ears and the many features of the Larry-Mobile. Call him a kinder, gentler, slightly slower superhero!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Two stars because it's Larryboy, but that's about it. July 26, 2008
lisam5305@yahoo.com
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Graphics are ok, nothing great. Game is boring and frustrating at times. Very mundane, a lot of "grabbing musical notes". After you have played this game for about 15 minutes, you will never want to hear Alfred's voice again. I would not buy this game again.
Fun, but poor quality October 27, 2007
K. Smith (La Canada, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 9-year-old likes this game alot. Our complaint, though, is in the quality of the disk. The game freezes at a particular point. Veggietales gladly replaced the disk, but the 2nd one also freezes at the same point. I have called Crave Entertainment several times over the last 2 weeks to see if it's our equipment. I get a message saying "Sorry our game isn't working, we'll call you back." But so far they haven't called back-the implication being that they have alot of games that don't work! I would return it and get my money back, but my son says it's fun up to that point, and he wants to keep it. I rated it 4 stars for fun, because it is frustrating when the game freezes.
 Kid & Parent Favorite May 12, 2007
S. Bromenschenkel
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My child loves playing this game and I like him playing it. He has fun, and doesn't think he is learning anything but talks about what he has learned. I love it. I would like more games by VeggieTales for him.
My 2nd grade boy really enjoys this game February 19, 2007
Mike Brown
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My 2nd grade boy really enjoys this game. I like to watch him play it because the graphics are colorful and pleasing on the eyes. My only complaint is that, when Larry "dies," sometimes you get sent back quite a ways in the game. That became less of an issue as my son got better at the game control, but frustrating at first. The game was better than I expected it to be.
I love LarryBoy, but this is sloppy game design January 23, 2007
A. Kohlstrom (Midcoast of Maine)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love LarryBoy and VeggieTales. My son received this game from his grandmother for Christmas. He is a pretty good gamer, however, he regularly needs me to help him complete a level. Moreover it often takes me, an avid gamer, multiple tries to complete the level because LarryBoy falls off of platforms for no reason at all. The control is soft and very inexact - making what should be a basic platformer unbalanced and at times overly difficult. Also, the camera regularly lags behind the action or gives insufficent views of what is happening (such as jumps you are to take or platforms you are to mount).
Finally, on a personal note, I am disappointed by the graphics - which would look excellent on the PS1, but now, at the end of the PS2's lifecycle, we have all come to expect more. I'm especially shocked that a computer animation company wouldn't demand the graphics of this game be closer to the quality of visuals on their computer generated videos.
The bottom line is that my son is still enjoying this game and is still a LarryBoy and VeggieTales fan, but many a young gamer will be unable to play this game entirely by themselves (or without massive frusteration) simply because of sloppy game design.
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