Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry

I initially despised this game. I found Larry's voice acting to be grating, the jokes to be ill-timed & ill-intended, and the premise to be profoundly puerile. But my love for mad-cap point-and-click adventures along with some well-designed inventory puzzles eventually won me back.

I also must admit that the game isn't as misogynistic as it initially appears. All the characters are flawed, and many of the women, while objectified by Larry, are written with more depth, albeit typecast depth, than they'd need to be as mere objects. Larry is never presented as anything more sinister than a perpetually horny and rejected loser. And while he might go to creepy lengths to get laid, besides being conversationally crude, and having some plot-justified antiquated understanding of acceptable behavior, he doesn't really do anything to hurt or offend the women (or anyone else) around him. By the end I was rooting for the poor guy.

The production must have been low budget as corners were cut that shouldn't have been. Anytime an inventory object is used, Larry reaches out an open and empty palm that really should be a modified character animation with the item in question. Almost no incorrect item combinations have unique responses, a typical source of comedy gold. The ending felt abbreviated, though the epilogue somewhat mitigates that.

I dabbled a bit in Leisure Suiting in my own hormone-driven adolescence, and I suspect that earlier me would have appreciated much of this humor more than over-the-hill me. But even over-the-hill me found the classic tail-chasing game-structure to be simple, moderately compelling, and even on occasion, ironically sexy.

It was dark and I was drunk...

The name's Larry, heh, Larry Laffer.

Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry, puts you in the shoes of Larry Laffer, who has just woken up after around 30 years, in New Lost Wages, seemingly, without having aged a day. We're in the 21st century now!

A tech company, known as Prune has risen to power in recent years, with their range of smartphones, known as PiPhones. They're also responsible for the AI assistant, Pi, and the dating app, Timber. Under strange circumstances, Larry goes to the Prune headquarters, where he meets Faith, who he is immediately enamoured by. There's only one issue though, she'll only go on a date with him after he reaches a certain score on Timber. You know what that means? It's time to start dating the ladies!

Now, I've never played any games in the series before this one, but wow, this was an incredible experience. Larry is such a funny character, with his sense of humour and one-liners. He really made it so that there was never a dull moment throughout the game. Jan Rabson did an amazing job.

I just love how Larry pretty much has the inventory space that Steve from Minecraft has, stuffing anything of use into his jacket pockets, whether it be something large like a moose head or like thirty small objects, his inventory is like a pocket dimension, and it's pretty hilarious to see.

All companies in this game are actually just spinoffs of real life companies, like Unter mimicking Uber, Prune being the Apple of this universe, and Timber, being well, Tinder, just to name a few.

The music is another great aspect of this game, especially the main menu, which I could listen to on repeat for hours.

The game feels very reminiscent of the point & click adventures made by Carmel Games that you could play on Mousecity. Although, there is a lot more content to be seen here.

I implore you to try this game, if you love a good point & click adventure. Definitely try to get it when it's on sale, as it's normally around 85% to 95% off, which is a steal! Otherwise, fantastic game and I can't wait to play the sequel!

great all time point and click game

Bought this game on discount - great adventure, took me about 10 hrs to complete. Ability to enjoy this game depends on your tolerance to silly poop jokes. I'm personally past the age where I found explosive diarrhoea funny, the game sometimes overdoes those and gets gross, but generally it's quite fun and lighthearted story about always horny middle-aged guy, desperately trying to get laid. I haven't played any previous titles, this game walks a fine line by always hinting, implying and comically representing really perverted stuff, but never actually showing anything overly explicit, so this is not a porn game. I find art style and voice acting quite pleasant, puzzles are really good, my favourite type actually - when items almost always are used in some non-conventional way, which still somehow makes sense. Larry felt a bit annoying in the beginning, but towards the mid game I found myself sympathising to him, as his silliness is quite charming and his misfortunes are amusing (to contrast that with Deponia series for example, where protagonist sometimes can be quite cruel and mean). I wanted to keep playing after I finished the game, I'm going through part 2 as I write this :)

Storyline, cartoony looks, humor

first time playing one of these games... old school nostalgia filled with pure cheese

As a big time point and click lover this one is one of my favorite
Highley recommanded

Done. Mostly liked.

Ok, let's dig a little deeper :)
Good:
- Humor
- Easters
- Just a little of sex theme (it's hard to call it 18+ game, though no sex actually shown, even the naked boobs are very occasional )
- No time-pressure: easily playable drunk and relaxed.
- The clues and information are *mostly* good and points you in the right direction how to solve things.

Not good:
- No autosave. You must manually save the game otherwise the progress going to be lost.
- Animations are cheap: only the basic actions and some key cutscenes are properly animated.
- If you expecting Larry to get laid - this routinely goes bad and all "sex" episodes are turned into a joke. At least there is humor.
- The main story is not complete without epilogue (not a bad thing, and the epilogue is a must after main game is done). Do not try it before finishing the main game - spoilers.
- Got stuck with few puzzles. ended up looking in a walkthrough.
- The game shortens near the end, left me with an impression there should be just more content. No epic "boss fight" either.

TL;DR
Entertained, jokes are (mostly) good. But there is no replay value once done.

Would recommend to my friends son.

I enjoyed the game: logical puzzles, a pleasant atmosphere, and decent jokes. It's a shame that the game's developer shut down. I really wish there were more games about Larry. I recommend it.

fire

yes

good story

A very good and funny game. A game that actually made me laugh a couple of times. This a big compliment coming from me because usually I don't chuckle at comedies. I do enjoy being entertained by them but I find myself more amused rather than laughing at them. The jokes in these games were good and got me to laugh.

Is very short and simple point and click game.

As long as you get it when it's 90% off, it won't be a regret.

At full price, you're an idiot for paying.

Starts well/funny, Larry's voice weak acting, art is superb but for me personally falls down to toilet level jokes too fast and too soon and it kills otherwise good start and then it follows at that pace. Cant compare to old games, never played them. A tad too much running around different places and collecting way too many items before you can make use of them. And dialog a must to get something out of characters all the time petty much, some times you have to talk a lot before you get to a line that progress the game, that's not how it's really done in PCA games lol.

One run time for me and no thank you for the second time.

Larry's back! Not as wonderfully sleazy as the original games, but still a fun point and click.

Larry, why are you gay ???


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☑ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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Bro...

Buy this game if you want to feel like an old pervert. Wait, isn't that what I do most days anyway?

Fun, funny game. Overall I had fun,

Great reboot of the franchise. The call backs to the old games are great, the humour is on point for a LSL game while doing a great job playing the fish out of water/man out of time thing.

Had a good time with this one, preety simple for a point and click puzzle game. Only got stuck on one part, mostly because of resolution and scaleing issues, so make sure to have them well set up or some items will overlap, makeing some puzzles harder.

I played one of these games way back in the day and tired again on Magna Cum Laude, so I decided to try this one as well. I thought the story was ok for the most part, and the graphics were pretty good as well, but me the game made me laugh a lot. Granted, the humor is mostly crude and some of the visuals are as well, but having Larry transported to the now and trying to figure it all out (since he is still stuck in the 80's) was pretty funny, and at times ingenious.

The only downside for me was how many times you have to go back and forth to the different locations and sometimes finding the one item you need was great big pain in the ass! Also, what you might think should be able to be combined or what you think should work in solving a puzzle was typically not what worked. You spend a lot of time with trial and error and that can make it rather boring.

If you are going for the achievements, it can get a little tricky at times, but most are easy, but there are some that are not marked and will involve you just clicking every object on the screen.

This is not the greatest game ever, but still some disgustingly funny lines and disgustingly funny visuals gave some pretty solid laughs (and a couple of laugh out loud moments).

6.5/10

This game was fun for the most part, if a little short, but it had a lot of issues with it. Often the translations from German to English leave a native English speaker confused as to what the text/audio is meant to be saying. This happens in a part of the game where the translation to English is used to solve a puzzle. I was stuck here for a while, till I started thinking about other times I saw grammatical errors in the game, and I started to think in terms of someone speaking with bad English and was able to get past the section. There are other times where the voice acting doesn't match up with the subtitles, voice overs are played a scene too early, and a couple instances where there are subtitles, but the voice over is missing entirely.

Another issue with the gameplay is constantly having to travel from Scene 1, getting a clue from a conversation in Scene 2, going back Scene 1, only to find you have to go back to scene 2 to get more information, via dialogue, from the exact same character, and this will get repeated multiple times. This happens several times in the game and is very, very annoying! I didn't care for the, basically, forced hint system, which shows you all the interactive items on the screen, by pressing the Spacebar, and sometimes pops up automatically; there is no way to shut this off. One of the fun aspects of oldschool Point & Click games is that they forced you to use your eyes and evaluate everything in a scene to make sure you didn't miss anything. Besides, when the mouse cursor hovers over an interactive object, you get a text description of what the item is.

The game has multiple-choice dialogue options, but, 9 out of 10 times, regardless of the dialogue you choose for Larry, the character has the same response. So, what's the point of having various options for things to say if the response isn't a reaction to what Larry said? Lastly, when you try, as I always do, to combine an object with another object, or use an object on something, or someone, else in the game, the responses are randomized. If you try the same action again, using the same two items, you will get a different response. This is reused on almost everything in the game and it really detracts from the immersion into the world of Larry Laffer. There are so many missed opportunities to have fun responses to Larry trying to combine things that most wouldn't combine, or using an item on a person, when most would never attempt to do something so bizarre. That's what made the old Larry Laffer, and other Point/Click games, so fun to play. In addition, it gave those games replay value, which this game doesn't have.

With all that said, I would still recommend this game when it's on sale. I bought it for 90% off and feel I got my moneys worth. I wouldn't have felt that way if I had paid the $30U.S. that is the regular Steam price. It took me 21hours to finish the game and that's because I try everything that I think might be good for a laugh. If you're the sort of person who rushes through a game you could probably clear it, easily, in half the time.

Leisure Suit Larry was a popular series of point'n'click adventure games by Sierra back in the '90s. You played as Larry Laffer, a horny middle-aged guy who's still a virgin. Larry's life goal is to make sweet love with a woman... almost any woman. Unfortunately, he's a nerdy-looking douchebag, so women don't find him too appealing. There were 7 Leisure Suit Larry games released back in the day, the last one was in 1996. More than 20 years passed before there was another sequel, and this game is that sequel.
In this episode, Larry is somehow transported from 1987. to present day (it's unclear how exactly). This modern world holds many wonders for our horny friend and it's designed like a total parody. Developers decided to openly mock gen Z, hipsters and woke 'culture' and I absolutely love the setting they created. The story revolves around a company named Prune (which is supposed to be Apple), their dating app Timber and the prototype of their new PiPhone. Only ever looking to get laid, Larry somehow gets tangled in Prune's corporate politics, sowing total chaos everywhere he goes along the way (as usual).
Wet Dreams Don't Dry looks and sounds pretty good. I applaud the developers for sticking to goofy and colorful 2D graphics. Voice acting and sound effects are also on the level. As far as point'n'click adventures go, this one is fairly easy. There aren't many dialogues and you'll spend most of your time solving simple puzzles. Most locations only hold several points of interest and you can only visit a couple of locations at a given time, so you won't be exactly overwhelmed with options. I got stuck briefly a couple of times, but you can always try combining 'everything with everything' in these situations and you'll get unstuck quickly. Because it's so easy, you'll glide through Wet Dreams Don't Dry in about 10-15 hours. However, the game is insanely fun and I played through it in an eye blink.

Wet Dreams Don't Dry is a worthy sequel to Sierra's legendary Leisure Suit Larry games. The game is a little short, but it's also fun and can be quite hilarious at times. I strongly recommend it to everyone except people with mental issues who are offended by jokes against woke 'culture'.

Score (out of 10):

8