Being totally honest I don’t suspect this review will actually take me that long to do, because what I have to say about Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice can be summarized in just a single sentence. “Better than Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, but still not as good as the OG games.”
Handled by the same studio who worked on reviving Leisure Suit Larry from the dead with Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, CrazyBunch, Wet Dreams Dry Twice is a direct sequel to Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. Picking up a little bit after the end of the previous installment, with Larry, our Leisure Suit wearing man out-of-time, seemingly being prepared to be wed to the mayor’s daughter.
In case you’re not fresh on what Leisure Suit Larry even is, well, that’d be because it is a porn game series from the late 90’s. It follows a short king by the name of Larry, who wears a Leisure Suit, and goes around attempting to impress women and hit on babes way out of his league. He’s kind of an innocent idiot but with a helping dash of stereotypical chauvinism and sexism, and somehow in the end he is always able to land the target babe he sets his sights on.
My own history with LSL goes back to 2004 when I played my first LSL game, Magna Cum Laude, which was a major change in style for the series with a 3D world, no puzzles, and for the fact you don’t actually play as Larry but as his Nephew. But I got hooked, and after watching some old Game Grumps videos where Danny Sexbang played some of the real old gems, I just had to get aboard! Luckily GoG sold a big pack of the series for dirt cheap, and I ended up playing everything as far back as LSL 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work. I did try to go back further, but I’m terrible at Text input games.
Needless to say I’m an old hat when it comes to Leisure Suit Larry, so when I heard a new studio was trying to follow in the foot steps of the defunct Sierra Entertainment, I was excited to see what they could do. Sadly CrazyBunch were new to the gaming scene in many respects, and while I could see their passion, they just didn’t nail the vibe LSL once had. Likely because a true blue LSL game in this day and age would bomb, so they had to update some things to keep it relevant and hip with the kids. The jokes surrounded an Apple knockoff called Pi, a Steve Jobs knock off called BJ, and the woman behind the scenes running it all and the new apple of Larry’s eye; Faith.
This new Larry was also learning to be current with the times, losing a lot of his outdated wit to be more politically correct. Not that he loses it all, but his new companion who provides a lot of color commentary, Pi, the Siri-like ai in Larry’s phone, has been hard at work teaching and training Larry to fit in. Which to quickly explain, is due to the fact Larry got frozen in cryo-stasis, so he’s a relic from a bygone era. However even with all that training and work, Larry can still pull out the real “oh wow, did he really just say that” lines. Which by the way were all voiced by the original actor who played Larry in every game since LSL 6, Jan Rabson, who sadly passed away a couple years after Wet Dreams Dry Twice was released.
And would you look at that, I’m already going on this long when I thought this would be a one and done. Seesh. Well I guess to clarify what Wet Dreams Dry Twice does better than Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, are that Larry actually gets laid, Larry actually gets the girl he wants in the end, and yeah, that’s about it. Might not sound like much, but for a porn game to have no, well, sex in it, is like Ginger Ale without the ginger, like a painting without paint, like an iPod without music. Wet Dreams Don’t Dry was a fun time, what with the fetch quests, the humor, the puzzles, and the references. But it had no sex, and no matter what game in the series you look at before, they all had some sex in them. Wet Dreams Dry Twice solves this issue within the first 30 minutes, basically handing Larry sex on a silver platter. Which leads to an amusing bit where he’s confused why he’s not being asked to do a dozen different things for the woman, but happily accepts the romp in the end.
And it’s not just once or twice for Larry in this installment, no no, our man gets to slap his hot dog in some buns a total of six times; seven if you count Faith in the end. This is a huge W for Larry and for the game, as I think this may be the most sex Larry has in any LSL game ever made. Though Magna Cum Laude may contend with that, it wasn’t Larry as the main character there, so that one doesn’t count. But Larry scoring isn’t what really did it for me in the OG games, it was the secrets and humor. Now I may be a bit old fashioned, but this nuanced style that is suppose to play into the whole cancel culture stuff was pretty dry and about as funny as learning someones name is Dick. And the secrets, well, there were none! Everything you find and use here is meant to be found and used, which was pretty disappointing for someone like me who wants to explore and find the hidden gems. Oh there is content you can miss, but you’d have to be not paying any attention to the game to not see them coming.
So yes, CrazyBunch, you did better. Heck, you even set it up for Larry to finally have a damn fine waifu that he can settle down with and have a kid or two. But, LSL will never be what it was, because the original creators, like Al Lowe and crew, do not work together any longer and will probably never from some horror stories I read about the reboot they did for Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded. It was their brand of humor and direction that really solidified what a LSL game would be, but don’t let that discourage you! Al might be an old man shaking his cane at the youngins handling his original creation, but you’ve done good for the most part. The new Larry looks good, the art style is fun, the puzzles were head scratching, the fetch quests weren’t too long, and Larry finally gets laid.
Which means…
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice gets a 7.2 out of 10
Handled by the same studio who worked on reviving Leisure Suit Larry from the dead with Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, CrazyBunch, Wet Dreams Dry Twice is a direct sequel to Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. Picking up a little bit after the end of the previous installment, with Larry, our Leisure Suit wearing man out-of-time, seemingly being prepared to be wed to the mayor’s daughter.
In case you’re not fresh on what Leisure Suit Larry even is, well, that’d be because it is a porn game series from the late 90’s. It follows a short king by the name of Larry, who wears a Leisure Suit, and goes around attempting to impress women and hit on babes way out of his league. He’s kind of an innocent idiot but with a helping dash of stereotypical chauvinism and sexism, and somehow in the end he is always able to land the target babe he sets his sights on.
My own history with LSL goes back to 2004 when I played my first LSL game, Magna Cum Laude, which was a major change in style for the series with a 3D world, no puzzles, and for the fact you don’t actually play as Larry but as his Nephew. But I got hooked, and after watching some old Game Grumps videos where Danny Sexbang played some of the real old gems, I just had to get aboard! Luckily GoG sold a big pack of the series for dirt cheap, and I ended up playing everything as far back as LSL 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work. I did try to go back further, but I’m terrible at Text input games.
Needless to say I’m an old hat when it comes to Leisure Suit Larry, so when I heard a new studio was trying to follow in the foot steps of the defunct Sierra Entertainment, I was excited to see what they could do. Sadly CrazyBunch were new to the gaming scene in many respects, and while I could see their passion, they just didn’t nail the vibe LSL once had. Likely because a true blue LSL game in this day and age would bomb, so they had to update some things to keep it relevant and hip with the kids. The jokes surrounded an Apple knockoff called Pi, a Steve Jobs knock off called BJ, and the woman behind the scenes running it all and the new apple of Larry’s eye; Faith.
This new Larry was also learning to be current with the times, losing a lot of his outdated wit to be more politically correct. Not that he loses it all, but his new companion who provides a lot of color commentary, Pi, the Siri-like ai in Larry’s phone, has been hard at work teaching and training Larry to fit in. Which to quickly explain, is due to the fact Larry got frozen in cryo-stasis, so he’s a relic from a bygone era. However even with all that training and work, Larry can still pull out the real “oh wow, did he really just say that” lines. Which by the way were all voiced by the original actor who played Larry in every game since LSL 6, Jan Rabson, who sadly passed away a couple years after Wet Dreams Dry Twice was released.
And would you look at that, I’m already going on this long when I thought this would be a one and done. Seesh. Well I guess to clarify what Wet Dreams Dry Twice does better than Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, are that Larry actually gets laid, Larry actually gets the girl he wants in the end, and yeah, that’s about it. Might not sound like much, but for a porn game to have no, well, sex in it, is like Ginger Ale without the ginger, like a painting without paint, like an iPod without music. Wet Dreams Don’t Dry was a fun time, what with the fetch quests, the humor, the puzzles, and the references. But it had no sex, and no matter what game in the series you look at before, they all had some sex in them. Wet Dreams Dry Twice solves this issue within the first 30 minutes, basically handing Larry sex on a silver platter. Which leads to an amusing bit where he’s confused why he’s not being asked to do a dozen different things for the woman, but happily accepts the romp in the end.
And it’s not just once or twice for Larry in this installment, no no, our man gets to slap his hot dog in some buns a total of six times; seven if you count Faith in the end. This is a huge W for Larry and for the game, as I think this may be the most sex Larry has in any LSL game ever made. Though Magna Cum Laude may contend with that, it wasn’t Larry as the main character there, so that one doesn’t count. But Larry scoring isn’t what really did it for me in the OG games, it was the secrets and humor. Now I may be a bit old fashioned, but this nuanced style that is suppose to play into the whole cancel culture stuff was pretty dry and about as funny as learning someones name is Dick. And the secrets, well, there were none! Everything you find and use here is meant to be found and used, which was pretty disappointing for someone like me who wants to explore and find the hidden gems. Oh there is content you can miss, but you’d have to be not paying any attention to the game to not see them coming.
So yes, CrazyBunch, you did better. Heck, you even set it up for Larry to finally have a damn fine waifu that he can settle down with and have a kid or two. But, LSL will never be what it was, because the original creators, like Al Lowe and crew, do not work together any longer and will probably never from some horror stories I read about the reboot they did for Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded. It was their brand of humor and direction that really solidified what a LSL game would be, but don’t let that discourage you! Al might be an old man shaking his cane at the youngins handling his original creation, but you’ve done good for the most part. The new Larry looks good, the art style is fun, the puzzles were head scratching, the fetch quests weren’t too long, and Larry finally gets laid.
Which means…
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice gets a 7.2 out of 10