Posted on: April 20, 2019
Yatesy15
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R.I.P Larry
As a kid who grew up in the naughty Nineties and loved PC adventure games, Leisure Suit Larry is one of my most adored video game characters of all time. Larry 7: Love for Sail is in my opinion the best adventure game ever created, I can't remember laughing so hard in a video game in all my life. Needless to say the monstrosity of that Box Office Bust thing is a mental scar I try and forget every day. But when I saw that Crazy Bunch were bringing Larry back to Lost Wages as a point-and-click adventure game it was like the sequel my younger self had been waiting for and surely a time portal back to a happy time. At first, I loved the setup, having Larry somehow emerge back in 21st Century Lost Wages, his unfamiliarity with the modern day creating many a funny gag. However, about 2-3 hours into the game I came to realise something.....Larry hadn't embarrassed himself somehow, he hadn't gotten himself into a risque situation with a hot chick, in fact where are the hot chicks that Larry is meant to woo? Rather, where has all the raunchiness gone??? It quickly dawned on me that this wasn't the Larry that I know or remembered. This was a very neutral, point-and-click cartoon adventure, with the sexual comedy dialled WAY down to the frigid reading. As a big Larry fan back in the day, it saddens me to say that Larry has become a casualty of the politically-correct, overly-sensitive euphoria that is crushing all sense of humour in the Western World. The puzzles are fun and challenging, the jokes hit the mark on occasion, but eventually they were not enough to hold me. Box Office Bust notwithstanding, this is the only "Larry game" that I didn't finish, except it isn't a Larry game. Unfortunately it's just a cheap, dull animated story that you will soon tire of and make you weep for the sad environment that Larry has been resurrected in.
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