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Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude

For me, the new Larry became a guilty pleasure, and I am not very good at mini-games. So if I can bed Morgan, I am pretty sure most of you out there with at least some familiarity with pushing buttons can too. Just don't expect a true adventure game of old. Oh, and the game has a lot of fun with sex and sexy situations. If this type of thing makes you even the least bit uncomfortable – like if watching old Benny Hill reruns sends you to confessional – might I instead suggest to you something with a more Sid Meier flavor.

As an adventure or puzzle game, Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude falls short. It merely offers a jumble of the reaction-tests found in games like Space Channel 5, Tapper or Whack-a-Mole. The titillating moments certainly deserve some credit for helping maintain your interest here, but it's the game's humor that's the real star and, ultimately, the only reason to keep playing once the allure of polygonal boobies has worn thin.

If you can forgive its brain-dead gameplay and occasionally frustrating design, Magna Cum Laude is a hysterically entertaining romp through a world of wacky sexual hijinks.

Nee, Olli, lass das mit dem Sprechen, den schlüpfrigen Aufreißer nimmt man dir nicht ab. Ergebnis: Der deutsche Larry ist eindimensionaler als sein US-Pendant. Ansonsten ist die Humor-Transplantation gelungen. Holzhammer-Gags und Polygon-Pos sind die Sahnestücke von Larry 8 – so üppig die Oberweiten, so dürr das spielerische Skelett. Die Minispielchen gehören auf den Müll, bleibt Gackern und Geifern. Wem das genügt – nicht nachdenken, zugreifen.

Iconclude by stating that this game will be able to motivate the hormone-heavy gamers amongst us for a couple of hours. The reasons for this will at the beginning be the (often not fullfilled) promises to female nudity, but after a while only the mostly funny and burnt stories combined with the will to finish the game remain as sole drives. Only the real die-hard tittylovers will really enjoy this game, the rest can let this game perish in the store shelves. One final tip: nude breasts can be found all over the internet and you don't even have to play one mini-game to get it: Google is more than enough! I myself am patiently waiting for an old-school Larry adventure and in the meantime I'll practise my charmes on living test subjects.

All that being said, this question remains: Is this a game that is worth your hard earned thirty dollars? I can't honestly say that it is. The reason is that LSL:MCL, while a very hilarious game, is not much of a successor to the LSL crown. The original LSL games were true, unabashed adventure games that required intelligence, wit and time to work through. The fact the game also featured a boatload of comedy about getting laid was just a bonus - the LSL games were fun to PLAY. LSL:MCL is nothing of the sort. This game is little more than a treasure hunt, with more than a few repetitive mini-games you have to play to move on to the next phase. The game offers next to no challenge, and requires nothing more than quick fingers to work your way into the shorts of the throngs of campus girls everywhere.

Apesar de trazer algumas referência clássicas da série (como uma cópia do famoso bar Lefty's que apareceu na gênese do personagem), "Magna Cum Laude" definitivamente não foi feito para os fãs originais da série. Ainda existe muita coisa divertida para ser vista, mas a fórmula básica mais irrita do que diverte.

Still though, kudos to Vivendi for at least attempting to resurrect Larry for a new generation of gamers and double kudos for having the courage to stray from Larry’s adventure roots. In the final analysis, Magna Cum Laude is not a bad game simply because it features no adventure elements, it’s just seems to be a misguided attempt, punctuated by moments of hilarity. Cut the arcade games in half, add a few more musical numbers and a few real puzzles and LCL:MCL would shine.

Because of the shallow gameplay, I can't imagine anyone playing through this game once, much less multiple times. It's a simplistic romp into gaming nostalgia that won't appeal to anyone but the most retro of the retro-gamers out there. The fun is minimal, so save your money for something better. And if you really need to see digital flesh, you might consider an anime DVD over this.

My boyfriend isn't really into videogames. He is, however, really into boobs, so I figured Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude would be the right gaming gateway drug for him. Boobs will make a man do almost anything, right? Wrong. Boobs will not make a man play repetitive minigames. Boobs will not make a man sit patiently through innumerable loading screens. And boobs will not stop a man from recoiling in horror at a cut-scene in which a girl appears to have sex with a bundle of flaming twigs that is actually a short guy dressed in a mascot suit. In short, boobs will not make a man endure a bad videogame.

Never has a game so made me want to scream – at the world, the sun, and the developers behind Magna Cum Laude.

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude is one of the worst games we've ever seen. As much as we'd like to see more sexual content in games, we're afraid Magna Cum Laude will do for Mature games what Showgirls did for NC-17 rated movies. The only reason it's not getting an 'F' is because it does have quite a few boobs, and we like those a lot. Conversely, we do not like this game at all. Although it's hard to ignore the siren call of digital boobery, please, cover your ears and swear an oath of gaming celibacy. You'll thank us in the morning.

At one stage the original Larry sitting in a bar laments "whatever happened to point and click". He should have pined more generally for the Larry franchise. The opening 5 minutes of Love For Sail has more humour and merit than I found in the hours I wasted on this. There is more I could tell you but I won't. Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude is not sexy or clever, entertaining or witty. Call me a fuddy duddy if you will, but my recommendation is to go play something - almost anything - else.