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Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry - Larry's trip to the 21st century

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https://www.crazybunch.biz/games/leisure-suit-larry-wet-dreams-dont-dry/




https://af.gog.com/game/leisure_suit_larry_wet_dreams_dont_dry?as=1649904300

Now officially announced. Developed by German studio Crazy Bunch and published by also German publisher Assemble Entertainment (which re-released the entire Larry games on Steam some time ago).

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Hey ladies, I’m back in business! My new adventure, Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, takes me – whatever the route or twist of fate – from the end of the ’80s directly into the 21st century and wow, how the world has changed! While my view of the world and women from way back in the 1980s collides with modern reality harder than the breasts of a lusciously stacked blonde jogging along a beach, I’m all set to date my way across the modern world!

In a “point & click” adventure I’d call typical for the genre we mutually experience how I fall head-over-heels in love with Faith, the hot-to-trot assistant to the boss at Prune, a technology enterprise successful worldwide. Since even dating is done digitally nowadays, the first thing I have to do is to work on my score at Timber, the totally hip, can’t-get-anywhere-without-it dating app where I date women, satisfy their needs, and accordingly pick up points for my Timber profile. And whenever I get a chance in between, always briefly check out a few new bikini pix at Instacrap – the 21st century is gnarly smill!

Features:
Leisure Suit Larry is coming in the 21st century – and no, there’s no word missing here
• Explore a lovingly designed, non-linear game world set in the modern world with over 30 handdrawn venues
• Use “Timber”, the ingame app, along with an innovative dating mechanism to date women, consequently improve your score at Timber, and ultimately clear the way to get to Faith, the women of your dreams
• Solve true-blue puzzles and interact with over 30 handdrawn characters
 
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Ahh, a game that was primarily held together, even if barely, by its humor, now with 100% more German humor! What could go wrong!

It also looks like Larry spent some time on the rack.
 

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Shouldn't Larry be an obvious manlet for obvious size jokes? Do Germans not have double entendre yet?
 

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They should team up with SWERY, if they were bold enough to riff on D4

Actually, LSL co-written by SWERY could be something else.
 

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As others said, for a game that lives or dies by its humor and idiosyncrasies of its main and secondary characters, as well as knowing what Germans did to some other franchises like Simon the Sorcerer that they took over the rights for I don't have much confidence:



On the other hand I can't really complain about Germans continuing to keep Adventure games alive and there might be an Off-chance that they could at least pull off a "Deponia".
 

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I can confidently say this will be god awful as every german "funny" game I ever played was horribly cringeworthy with the humor. And yes that includes the Deadalic games :P

Also I hate the artstyle.
 

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LSL 6 is probably the best one in the series. A pretty huge world, a lot of interactions, pretty decent (I recall) puzzles, overall a very good game with some rather mild erotic undertones.
 

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LSL 6 is probably the best one in the series. A pretty huge world, a lot of interactions, pretty decent (I recall) puzzles, overall a very good game with some rather mild erotic undertones.

Does it have unfair dead ends? I like the style of the old sierra games but I hate the dead ends they built in everywhere. I don't wanna go game over in an adventure game and have to start all over because I missed to pick up an item in the first hour of the game which I need 10 hours later :?
 

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LSL 6 is probably the best one in the series. A pretty huge world, a lot of interactions, pretty decent (I recall) puzzles, overall a very good game with some rather mild erotic undertones.

Does it have unfair dead ends? I like the style of the old sierra games but I hate the dead ends they built in everywhere. I don't wanna go game over in an adventure game and have to start all over because I missed to pick up an item in the first hour of the game which I need 10 hours later :?
I don't recall running into any, at least. Unfair dead ends were mostly a thing in early Sierra games, LSL 6 was similar to 7 in terms of puzzle design. LSL 6 has a lot more random funny deaths, BUT they basically let you immediately click the "Oops!" button and undo the decision that lead to your hilarious demise.
 

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Larry now looks like he has been stretched by a some gym-going chad.
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German article with some more juicy... details: https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/lei...ams-dont-dry-larry-kehrt-zurueck,3329952.html

No Al Lowe involvement apparently.

Google Translate said:
It's just like Larry's last failures are not from the original creator Al Lowe, but the German team Crazy Bunch still wants to remember his spirit: way with stupid mini-games, back to classic point and click adventure .

Back to point and click:

Google Translate said:
We do this in a classic point-and-click style: solving puzzles, combining items, conducting dialogues and thus reaching their goal! In the middle part of the game we should be allowed to move quite freely through the 30 locations of the city before the story threads converge towards the end.

The developers promise that the puzzles for adventure veterans should be really nice crisp. Sounds good! And visually, the chic drawn scenes and characters can already be seen in our unfinished demo version more than.

Modern times:

Google Translate said:
Funny is already Larry's first attempt - he gets to a would-be influencer, of all people, who hardly perceives him, because she is too busy to stage every second of her life for the Internet. But a real screamer was not included in the introduction.

And the question remains, how well does Larry actually fit into this modern society that he wants to satirise. Should not we be a little further than chasing women for the high score?

This conflict should be part of the game, the developers promise: Larry is to experience some surprises when his image of women from the eighties bounces on strong and modern ladies - at the same time it wants to avoid the game but to be socially critical or on the suggestive humor of the series to renounce. No easy balancing act, the developers have charged there. Wet Dreams will release Do not Dry in the fourth quarter of 2018.
 

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Unsurprisingly this looks like total garbage. Shitty visuals and shitty current year "humour". Absolutely Haram.
 

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Of course Eurogamer misses the point of the Larry games entirely and they seem to dislike the series in general and not just the post Love for Sail trash.

Leisure Suit Larry is back from the dead for some reason

Why?



There's a new Leisure Suit Larry game for some reason.

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry comes out autumn 2018 on PC and Mac. Like the Leisure Suit Larry games of old, this one's a point and click adventure "with questionable pickup lines".

The note to press includes the following eye-rolling line: "Larry moves straight from the 80s into the 21st century. In times of #metoo and online dating via smartphone, Larry has to find his way around."

It's the work of a German studio called CrazyBunch. Bet they're a crazy bunch!

There's more. The note to press also includes a line from Larry himself, a man out of time in so many ways.

"Hey ladies, I'm back in business! My new adventure, Leisure Suit Larry - Wet dreams don't dry, takes me - whatever the route or twist of fate - from the end of the '80s directly to the 21st Century and wow, how the world has changed! While my view of the world and women from way back in the 1980s collides with modern reality harder than the breasts of a lusciously stacked blonde jogging along a beach, I'm all set to date my way across the modern world!

"In a point & click adventure I'd call typical for the genre we mutually experience how I fall head-over-heels in love with Faith, the hot-to-trot assistant to the boss at Prune, a technology enterprise successful worldwide. Since even dating is done digitally nowadays, the first thing I have to do is to work on my score at Timber, the totally hip, can't-get-anywhere-without-it dating app where I date women, satisfy their needs, and accordingly pick up points for my Timber profile. And whenever I get a chance in between, always briefly check out a few new bikini pix at Instacrap - the 21st century is gnarly smill!"

I thought the Leisure Suit Larry series died after ex-Eurogamer extraordinaire Ellie Gibson savaged 2013's terrible Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded. In her 2/10 review, Ellie concluded: "The world did not need this Leisure Suit Larry game, and it does not need any more."

Did the crazy bunch not get the memo?





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Eurogamer is getting slammed for this piece. There is hope in the world after all.
 

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