Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry

I grew up playing LSL ever since the original 1987 release. I didn't even know there was a reboot of the series until it popped up on a GOG sale. I really enjoyed it! I found it much better than the previous couple titles. There were more than a few laughs to be had and I liked the modern twist. I found the game to be fairly tame, but roughly in line with the original. Some content will likely offend some players, but what LSL game doesn't? Some of the puzzles did get a bit repetitive, running from A to B and back to A, but part of that is just the way adventure games are. There were no "quick time events" which was appreciated. Overall, I would recommend it and found it to be a worthy title.

Larry Laffer has always been a man stuck in time. Even in ‘Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!’ (1996), he continued to embrace his 1970s fashion and sensibilities wholeheartedly despite his long history of misadventures with women. The world has changed a lot since 1996. The brand of humour that Al Lowe is known for aren’t as appealing or widely acceptable anymore. So even if Lowe continues to make ‘LSL’ games, you’ve got to wonder if they’d be as popular as the ones in the 1980s/90s, let alone survive the current sociopolitical climate. So, it was VERY surprising to see Larry make a comeback with ‘Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry’, a soft reboot of the series. It acknowledges and honours past ‘LSL’ games, but forges its own new path without Lowe’s involvement. While there’re fewer sexual innuendos than the first five ‘LSL’ games, ‘WDDD’ can be as raunchy as ‘Love for Sail!’. It’s thankfully also funny, though the humour may not be so tongue in cheek. You’ll still get to see Larry screw up his encounters with women by chance or by his own doing. Having Larry waking up to find himself in the 21st century (for some reason), trying to make sense of modern technology and dating practices, celebrating gay love as much as his being titillated by lesbian love, and the game mocking hipsters and social media culture are amusing. However, while ‘WDDD’ certainly doesn’t shy away from the naughty bits, it’s nowhere as sexy as ‘LSL3’ or ‘Love for Sail!’. This may be an unpopular opinion, but departing from Lowe’s style of humour from the 1970s/80s helps ‘WDDD’ from being seen as old-fashioned. This game won’t win the approval of all fans of classic ‘LSL’ games, but I think it’s an admirable, competent soft reboot. It’s really worth giving a chance, especially now that it’s getting a sequel. Who knows? This just may be the start of a ‘LSL’ renaissance.

If you played Larry in the past and looked at any of the trailers for this latest installment, you probably downed combat gear already. "It's ugly!" "it's modern" "it's lost it's identity". Well put those torches and pitchforks away, because WDDD is ACTUALLY not bad. It takes a while to get going and some of the jokes land flat, but the game is good for the olympian task it had to acomplish: bringin Larry in the 21st century. Yes, there are gays in the game. And tranies. And there was a brief moment initially when i thought to myself "ugh, don't". Thankfully, they didn't. And after a few hours I had no problem seeing Larry in a world where gender preference doesn't matter. It's all good. What's not so good however is the minor bugs littered around that ruined my flow. Really easy stuff to fix as well, like a dialogue line triggering the wrong voice line. Makes me wonder how much effort was put into actually testing the English version. Some of the jokes also fell as flat as a pancake; but that's to be expected on any adventure game without strong writters backing it up. Humer is subjective, after all. Perhaps it would've been better with more jokes and perhaps less reliance on referencial or pun humour. But in my oppinon the biggest problem the game has is the lack of animations. You can really see this was done on a budget (at one point, Larry has to climb something and he just 'teleports' on top of it). Situations where you'd expect more animations seem stiff and lifeless. Overall a decent reboot of LSL for the 21st century. I would say it merits something of a 7/10. Will get the next one in the series at full price, just to support the devs. But I really hope the writters stepped up their game.

Games from the early Seirra era may have been special at the time and helped create the early adventure game genre. It wasn't really until the mid to late 90s that they were in their golden era and all the pitfalls that made adventure games suck had been overcome. Sierra unfortunately as a pioneer of the genre made a lot of mistakes or inferior games to what game after, unfair dead ends, eye splitting graphics, clunky interfaces. Ron Gilbert, in the early 90s saw what Seirra was doing and decided to do better with Monkey Island. Where as the old Seirra games have a charm of their own, they are no where near as enjoyable or easy to play as what came after. No one wants to spend 10 hours on a game only to have a stupid dead end for forgetting a fork in the first 5 minutes. This game actually captures the adult humor of the originals and actually has more sexual scenes in it than the originals. Larry was always trying to seduce women in the original and this is the same formula. Larry was always a simp, only a idiot would say else wise, and he's a simpl in this too.Those who don't find this comparable to the original have rose tinted glasses and strong bias towards the original games. There wasn't any nudity in the first game. The humor is about what you'd expect, similar to the other 7 games. This game is superior, having been released decades after Sierra's arcadic approach to adventures. The story is solid, the puzzles are solid, the graphics are well done as well as the animations, the voice over is quality. It's right up there with Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded or Leisure Suit Larry 7, the only two enjoyable games of the original bunch. It's not perfect but it's leaps and bounds ahead of what came before. I don't actually have too much to say about it. After trying ALL the games in the series, I finished and enjoyed these two and Reloaded. This is a playable game with minor technical glitches here and there. I'd replay this.

I enjoyed this game a lot. The new visual style does way more justice to the original Larry than most of the sequels. Humour is funny and the puzzles enjoyable. I only got completely stumped a few times and the solutions did make sense in the end. Bit of a shame about the ending, but I guess Larry got what he deserved.