Game Review - Leisure Suit Larry
Oct. 26th, 2004 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sqlrobTitle: Leisure Suit Larry - Magna Cum Laude
Platform: PS2
Genre: Adventure/Minigame
Price Paid: $5.99 (Rental)
Would Pay: $9.99
Complete: 2/3
To quote a lament from Larry Laffer in the game "Whatever happened to old fashioned point and click?". Gabriel Knight made the transition to 3D fairly well, but the same can not be said for poor old Larry and his nephew. There is not much to this game, there is a world you can wander around as in most adventure games, but there are little to no actual puzzles. Everything happens in minigames. The selection of minigames is rather small:
The only thing that kept me playing this was seeing what they were going to do next. I never thought I'd say this, but Al Lowe must have been a moderating influence on the original Leisure Suit Larrys. Those contained a lot of innuendo, but this was bordering on soft core porn. I don't know how this ended up with an M rating over an AO. There's lots of toplessness (strip line dancing anyone? How about strip trampolines?), a manically masturbating monkey, and a fountain to the "greek goddess" bukkakis (what she's the goddess of and what the fountain looks like is left as an exercise for the reader).
Platform: PS2
Genre: Adventure/Minigame
Price Paid: $5.99 (Rental)
Would Pay: $9.99
Complete: 2/3
To quote a lament from Larry Laffer in the game "Whatever happened to old fashioned point and click?". Gabriel Knight made the transition to 3D fairly well, but the same can not be said for poor old Larry and his nephew. There is not much to this game, there is a world you can wander around as in most adventure games, but there are little to no actual puzzles. Everything happens in minigames. The selection of minigames is rather small:
That's the entire game. Play those games to get money, and play those games to advance. Later in the game it starts costing money to play, at which point I said forget it. Make a mistake and you have to go around collecting money to play again. It feels like something done to stretch the game out (I played about 10 hours and was 2/3 done. If I wasn't trying everything, it would probably have taken less time). Without having to bother with collection, I would guess there's maybe an hour left. With money collection, five or six.
Press the right button at the right time Press the right button to music (aka DDR lite with horizontal scrolling instead of vertical scrolling) Steer the sperm to the right conversation choice Tapper clone Collect items and don't get caught Deliver items in a time period Quarters Aim a squirt gun Pong clone
The only thing that kept me playing this was seeing what they were going to do next. I never thought I'd say this, but Al Lowe must have been a moderating influence on the original Leisure Suit Larrys. Those contained a lot of innuendo, but this was bordering on soft core porn. I don't know how this ended up with an M rating over an AO. There's lots of toplessness (strip line dancing anyone? How about strip trampolines?), a manically masturbating monkey, and a fountain to the "greek goddess" bukkakis (what she's the goddess of and what the fountain looks like is left as an exercise for the reader).