You may think, then, that Larry 7 is more or less the same as all the other ones. As usual, Larry tries to date every chick he comes across, and as usual he fails miserably. The game is set on board the luxury cruise liner HMS Bouncy (oo-er). Thank the Lord they avoided the temptation to use fmv (digitised Larry would have been an absolute disaster). Sierra obviously realised this because the latest game in the series sports very hi-res cartoony-type graphics that suit the games' particular brand of bawdy humour. Larry 6 was decidedly plop in the graphics department. Worry not, however, because things are looking up big time with Larry 7. The second game wasn't too bad, but the third one was decidedly ropey, and the less said about the more recent ones, the better. Unfortunately, things went rapidly downhill after the first episode. It was genuinely funny and a corker of an adventure game.
LSL I was the first graphic adventure to appear on the pc. Then again, it might be down to the fact that I was only one year old at the time, and was yet to develop the sophisticated sense of humour I have today (Benny Hill, for example, has me in stitches).Įither way, the fact remains that this series, as far as many gamers are concerned, deserves a place of honour in the pc gaming history books.
I don't know if we all fell it for it at the time because there was nothing else around (Cwe' meaning, ahem, veteran pc gamers), or because at that stage Al Lowe was still trying to work out how to disappear completely up his own arse (a feat he managed to pull off admirably in Larry 6). When the original game was released, it was actually quite a hoot. So You Don't Think Al Lowe Is the funniest guy in the whole wide world, eh? You don't think that the Leisure Suit Larry series is the most hilarious thing you've ever seen? Well, er, to be honest, the last couple were a bit crap, but it wasn't always like that, you know.
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