Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (VGA Remake)

What kind of characters and adventures did not create the developers of computer games. Then we heroically save the Earth / Kingdom / Future (underline the necessary), then we unravel the secrets, then we search for missing people / objects. But Leisure Suit Larry is the adventure of ... huh ... personal privacy.

The player will take control of the hero of a very special kind. And the matter is not in his unluckyness or methods of solving puzzles (familiar here with the classics of the genre will hardly be surprised). The goal of the little man named Larry Laffer is to have a good night in the Lands of the Holiday Lizards (free translation from English "Land of the Lounge Lizards"). And Larry will surely achieve his goal, because he is an (un) aging lady in love, a veteran of the love front and just a charming girl. He always looks great. His suit - the last scream of fashion (70s). His well-groomed, but very thinning in the temples and neck, the hair clearly demonstrates an excess of androgens in the body. His nose is big enough to stick in all the wrong places. And his natural charm and ability to have a conversation more than once will “surprise” the beauties of the night city of Lost Wages (literally from English. - “The City of Lost Salaries”).

The original game was created in the 1987th year, had a text interface and a rather scanty (in comparison with the remake) graphics. Since the beginning of the 90s, Sierra began to transfer the most successful quests of the 80s to a new “engine”. Leisure Suit Larry in 1991 appeared to have a full-fledged graphical user interface and mouse support, and it was drawn with the expectation of 256-color VGA-adapters.

Speaking of design and design, Larry is the direct heir to the text SoftPorn Adventure (1981). Do not be confused by the root “porn” in the name of the ancestor - the game is not focused on satisfying the hungry strawberries. It would be more correct to call the gameplay “ironic eroticism” (well, or “parody obscenity” - as close as possible). There are a lot of “below the belt” jokes, but still Larry is a rather funny quest, having much more in common with other Sierra works than with things that are usually labeled “For adults only!”.

Among the shortcomings, the scourge of graphic adventure games of that time can be noted - pixel-hunting is not obvious (the graphic resolution is very small, game screens are original, and interactive objects scattered across locations are not always easy to see) and some unpredictable consequences of the main character's actions. For example, you have no idea how many deadly dangers await a person in “Lands of the Idle Lizards”! It is especially scary that some “traps” work like time-mines. So, without using contraception during a meeting with a representative of the “oldest profession”, you will receive a “game over” only with going out - well, not a couple of years later. Although, frankly speaking, against the background of puzzles from Goblins, Larry's actions seem very understandable, and it is better to make mistakes like the one described in computer games than in real life.

Separately, I would like to say a few words to the address of the Russified version, which was played by most of our compatriots with you, who got acquainted with Leisure Suit Larry in the distant 90s. After reshaping most of the dialogues and duty phrases, SAE and MVK (the same guys that translated Gobliins), using native slang, spoiled the original somewhere, somewhere, on the contrary, made a successful translation, but it can be said that the localization task was successful handled it.

Whether to play Leisure Suit Larry is up to you. If you are a principled opponent of the fact that the topic of the relationship between the sexes can be treated easily and ironically, then no game can convince you of this, and Larry is no exception. If you do not mind trying on a snow-white holiday suit (eng. - "Leisure Suit"), an elderly seeker of love affairs - this game you might like. As a quest (move away from focus) Larry, of course, is good and can be quite adequately perceived by adolescents and adults. I think that now I would hardly be impressed with such a quest, but then (when the voice was thinner, and the democracy was more like it). Although, generally speaking, it is better to hide Larry from the children ...