Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice [Xbox]

CrazyBunch’s Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice is the follow-up to last year’s Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. Once again, playing the titular Larry Laffer, you’ll find yourself exploring every orifice and touching everything you can to find out how to progress. Wait, let me explain - if you’ve never played a Leisure Suit Larry game before, they are point-and-click adventure titles that are absolutely stuffed with phallic imagery, sleazy jokes and crude humour. At the climax of the previous title, Larry had met and fallen in love with a busty secretary called Faith, who he last saw drifting out to sea after accidentally exploding BJ’s mansion.

Now Larry is stranded in Cancúm (yep, you read that right), and due to wed the chief’s daughter in a forced wedding - so he’ll need to find a way off the island to track down and rescue Faith - his one true love - and avoid getting hitched! Speaking to the chief, El Rey, will allow you to hear a run-down of the previous game’s events, which is helpful if you’ve not yet played it, or if you’ve since forgotten! Larry still isn’t quite used to life in the 21st century, with much to learn about technology and all of the changes as to what is and is not politically correct that have happened over the time he’s been gone. After setting off from Cancúm, Larry gets caught in a storm - and ends up trapped on another island, Kalau’a.

Art style is once again gloriously phallic and over the top. Leisure Suit Larry is definitely not a franchise for prudish people. Each scene is meticulously crafted, with a variety of characters to talk to and objects to interact with. You can freely move the cursor to explore your environment, pressing X to view anything of interest, or you can press in the left and right sticks to highlight all interactive objects in the room. Using LT and RT will also quickly cycle through any item of interest, or relevant exits too, and this helps to keep things flowing. Combining objects to create the correct solution to puzzles can sometimes be challenging, but by ensuring you scan every area well as you go, you’ll avoid missing out on any important items (nothing worse than backtracking when you can avoid it!).

The voice acting is superb, with more dirty jokes than you can shake a dick, sorry, stick at. There’s tonnes of stuff that will catch your eye, from underwater shapes that resemble boobs to toilet roll and lube perching on a chair in front of the TV, giving you a good laugh. Larry will also react in various ways to interactive objects, such as sniffing a pair of panties he found (and identifying them as being recently worn by Faith), and conversations with other characters is always entertaining - particularly Pi, his Siri-like phone companion, who is never short of a funny retort or disgusted comment.

You’ve got access to a bunch of apps on your PiPhone, that will help you keep track of your progress and what tasks you need to complete, as well as your inventory. You can take photos this time round too, for items that may prove useful but just aren’t feasible to stuff in your pocket, so that you can refer back to them later. We’re also introduced to a Blueprint app, where certain things can be built out of a bunch of different stuff you’ve collected, and photos will be required in here too as some items you need are likely to be pretty big. The puzzles are fun to work out, and while they are sometimes a bit… outside of the box in terms of their solutions, it gives you opportunity to hear some of the quips Larry and Pi will come out with when you investigate different items and test to see if they combine.

Overall, we had a lot of fun with Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice, and found it to be as good if not better than it’s predecessor. Available for £33.49 on the Xbox Store, or £54.24 in a double pack (a DP, if you will) of both Wet Dreams titles that’ll score you a saving of £12.74. I said this with the previous game, and I’m gonna say it again here - I do feel that it could be a little cheaper, in all honesty. The two-pack definitely has an attractive saving, however at over 50 quid for the two, it’s still a lot to swallow. I’d probably recommend that you wait for a sale, unless you’re a big fan of point and click games, and dick jokes - don’t forget the dick jokes.

In the end, we decided to give Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice the Collecting Asylum rating of 8/10.

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Thank you to Assemble Entertainment for the Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice Xbox review code!