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Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry
Aug. 16th, 2020 04:20 pmI bought this game on a Steam sale a few days ago and just finished it a few minutes an hour or two ago.
I feel that Wet Dreams Don't Dry is way closer to the being like the original Leisure Suit Larry games than the more recent entries (not counting the second remake of the first game, given that it was, you know, a remake of the first game).
The basic plot is simple: Larry Laffer in the 21st century, trying to make sense of everything that has changed from the 80s to now. There's more to it than that, of course, but that's the overall theme.
At the very beginning of the game, Larry wakes up in modern times in the ruins of the underground lab from the original game. What this means, essentially, is that this is not the same Larry Laffer that went through the original series of games. I mean, it is him, but it's the him from the era of the first game, who never experienced any of the events of the subsequent games. Basically, it's almost as if Larry from In the Land of the Lounge Lizards stepped through a time portal directly from 1987 to now (or at least 2018, when WDDD was released). There is one character from the original game (Lefty, the bartender) who remembers Larry and is surprised to see him again after all the years that have passed, and you later meet a character who thinks this new Larry is actually cosplaying as the original Larry, which is kind of funny.
Honestly, I really like that concept, because that allows the people making these new games (there is already a sequel coming) to ignore all the baggage of continuity from the previous games (not that the original games ever really cared all that much about continuity between games in the first place), while also leaving the possibility open for this new Larry to maybe someday meet the original Larry, assuming the creators ever wanted to go in that direction. (Though, given that the last time the original Larry Laffer [in name only] was seen was in Box Office Bust, then maybe it would be better that they never do go in that direction. If, on the other hand, they were to just ignore the two 3D games completely and pick the thread of the original games up from a point after Love For Sail, it could potentially work. Again, assuming they want to do anything like that at all. It certainly wouldn't be necessary.)
I'd say that this game is probably about as risque as LSL2, which was probably the tamest of the bunch from the original series. There's never any full frontal nudity (unless you count stone gargoyle tits at one point) or explicit sex or anything (or if they do show anything at all, it is so unrealistically silly as to still be on the tame side), but it's certainly suggestive. There's a lot more hard swearing ("fuck," "shit," "goddamn," etc.) in this game than in the originals, but that didn't bother me.
I think the humor is pretty good as well. It's the same sort of silly, raunchy stuff that was in the original games, but with a more modern twist to it. It is a wee bit more on the... scatological side than I would like, but nothing too awfully disgusting.
And, yes, Larry is definitely voiced by Jan Rabson in this game. All is right with the world, at least on that front.
The only thing I wish is that they would try to get Al Lowe involved (assuming he would want to be). As I said in the earlier post linked above, apparently they never tried to contact him about the new games (though in game, there is something about Mr. Lowe not returning their calls or some such, but that was just a joke). That said, though, I think this new game is a fairly worthy successor to the original Leisure Suit Larry games, with or without Mr. Lowe. It's certainly better than the two 3D games. (I still don't think Magna Cum Laude was all that bad, but yeah... Box Office Bust is still one of the absolute worst games I have ever tried to play.)
(EDIT) Welp, that's that, I guess. *sigh + shrug* (/EDIT)
I feel that Wet Dreams Don't Dry is way closer to the being like the original Leisure Suit Larry games than the more recent entries (not counting the second remake of the first game, given that it was, you know, a remake of the first game).
The basic plot is simple: Larry Laffer in the 21st century, trying to make sense of everything that has changed from the 80s to now. There's more to it than that, of course, but that's the overall theme.
At the very beginning of the game, Larry wakes up in modern times in the ruins of the underground lab from the original game. What this means, essentially, is that this is not the same Larry Laffer that went through the original series of games. I mean, it is him, but it's the him from the era of the first game, who never experienced any of the events of the subsequent games. Basically, it's almost as if Larry from In the Land of the Lounge Lizards stepped through a time portal directly from 1987 to now (or at least 2018, when WDDD was released). There is one character from the original game (Lefty, the bartender) who remembers Larry and is surprised to see him again after all the years that have passed, and you later meet a character who thinks this new Larry is actually cosplaying as the original Larry, which is kind of funny.
Honestly, I really like that concept, because that allows the people making these new games (there is already a sequel coming) to ignore all the baggage of continuity from the previous games (not that the original games ever really cared all that much about continuity between games in the first place), while also leaving the possibility open for this new Larry to maybe someday meet the original Larry, assuming the creators ever wanted to go in that direction. (Though, given that the last time the original Larry Laffer [in name only] was seen was in Box Office Bust, then maybe it would be better that they never do go in that direction. If, on the other hand, they were to just ignore the two 3D games completely and pick the thread of the original games up from a point after Love For Sail, it could potentially work. Again, assuming they want to do anything like that at all. It certainly wouldn't be necessary.)
I'd say that this game is probably about as risque as LSL2, which was probably the tamest of the bunch from the original series. There's never any full frontal nudity (unless you count stone gargoyle tits at one point) or explicit sex or anything (or if they do show anything at all, it is so unrealistically silly as to still be on the tame side), but it's certainly suggestive. There's a lot more hard swearing ("fuck," "shit," "goddamn," etc.) in this game than in the originals, but that didn't bother me.
I think the humor is pretty good as well. It's the same sort of silly, raunchy stuff that was in the original games, but with a more modern twist to it. It is a wee bit more on the... scatological side than I would like, but nothing too awfully disgusting.
And, yes, Larry is definitely voiced by Jan Rabson in this game. All is right with the world, at least on that front.
The only thing I wish is that they would try to get Al Lowe involved (assuming he would want to be). As I said in the earlier post linked above, apparently they never tried to contact him about the new games (though in game, there is something about Mr. Lowe not returning their calls or some such, but that was just a joke). That said, though, I think this new game is a fairly worthy successor to the original Leisure Suit Larry games, with or without Mr. Lowe. It's certainly better than the two 3D games. (I still don't think Magna Cum Laude was all that bad, but yeah... Box Office Bust is still one of the absolute worst games I have ever tried to play.)
(EDIT) Welp, that's that, I guess. *sigh + shrug* (/EDIT)
