Bro what?

this what ppl where gooning to back then. They dont make em like they used to

cant play the game. does not work

If you are a Steam Deck user, don't buy this game because it is unplayable

GOOD GAME BUT IT RESET MY PROGRESS. DO NOT BUY

Undoubtedly the greatest game ever made

game crashes too much. don't make a game if you can't do it properly. useless game developers should be arrested for fraud

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna ♥♥♥ Laude was part of the free Leisure Suit Larry – Retro Bundle on Fanatical. I recently finished the original series for the first time, so I decided to try this one next. While it’s still an adventure game with nudity and sexual content, I was surprised by how much the tone and gameplay had changed compared to the older titles.

You play as Larry Lovage, the nephew of iconic protagonist Larry Laffer. As a college student, Larry’s goal is to land a spot on the dating reality show Swingles. To achieve this, he must gather tokens of affection from various women across the campus. The game is divided into five chapters, with each chapter allowing Larry to romance up to three women.

The game's shift to 3D graphics brings a colorful, cartoony look. Both the visuals and audio elements are okay, with decent sound design, music, and voice acting, even if they don't stand out. At times, certain areas felt a little empty with minimal sound or ambiance.

One of the few enjoyable moments in the game is the appearance of the original Larry Laffer as your tutorial guide. While he doesn’t do much beyond guiding you at the start (and hanging around in a bar), having him back with his original voice actor was a fun nod to the past.

It’s an interesting idea to introduce a new protagonist, but they gave Larry Lovage almost the same look as the old Larry, which feels lazy. And compared to Larry Laffer, the new Larry is just obnoxious. He’s rude, annoying, and acts like a frat boy. I found him hard to like. The old Larry had charm, and I rooted for him. Here, I didn’t. On top of that, Larry Lovage can pee anywhere—whether in front of people or in a building—and constantly farts (pretty disgusting!).

While the game has some funny moments, the dialogues aren’t that great, and the jokes are more crude than clever. The older games had more subtle jokes and clever innuendos, but this one goes for cheap, vulgar laughs that don’t always land, are offensive or outdated.

There are also weird gameplay choices. You can run around in third or first person, talking to women you want to romance, but almost every interaction revolves around playing one mini-game after another. There are about 10 different mini-games, but most of them use the same (often QuickTimeEvents) mechanics, like the dancing and trampoline mini-games, which are basically the same. After seeing these mini-games a few times, they get boring quickly. During conversations, you’re forced to play a mini-game where you control a sperm icon at the bottom of the screen. I appreciated the slight changes you could make to the conversation by collecting certain items in the mini-game. It’s a small interactive touch, but the overall execution feels awkward and you can’t really concentrate on the conversation happening.

Some of the mini-games don’t even work properly. The coin toss game feels random, and I couldn’t find a way to fix it, so I ended up skipping it after having to play it several times before winning. The drink mixing game, where you press WASD according to on-screen prompts, was so fast that I failed within seconds. This might be an issue with newer PCs not handling the game well, but it was still an annoying experience, and even capping the FPS didn’t fix it.

To make things worse, the game is filled with loading screens. Since you’re constantly running around—entering buildings, moving between different parts of town, and progressing through various locations—you encounter a loading screen at almost every turn. While it’s understandable to have them between major areas, the frequency is overwhelming. There are also loading screens after every mini-game and before and after each dialogue. And these screens are pretty long for such an old game. It feels like they stretched them out to show off the women featured on them.

Here’s a breakdown of what happens in the tutorial:

• You click on Sally Mae → Loading screen
• Dialogue happens during a mini-game → Mini-game ends, score screen
• Close the score screen → Loading screen
• Walk to the drink mixing table → Loading screen
• Play mini-game → Score screen, loading screen
• Walk back to Sally Mae → Loading screen
• Repeat mini-game during dialogue → Score screen, loading screen
• Three more mini-games → Each with loading screens before and after

Doesn’t sound too fun, right? And this cycle continues with every mini-game and interaction.

There’s a strange sound glitch during the chapter transitions. After completing a chapter, a short sequence introduces the next three women for the following chapter. The audio during these sequences is so quiet that I had to crank up my speakers to hear anything, only to lower the volume again immediately to avoid blowing out my eardrums once normal gameplay resumed.

In terms of exploration, the game allows you to run around different environments like the campus, the frat quarter, and small neighborhoods. But there’s not much to do beyond collecting tokens by clicking on items scattered throughout the world. These tokens let you unlock special game modes, like partial nudity for characters or artwork (or skipping annoying mini-games). You can also collect money by clicking on items, and this money can be used to buy items that make some mini-games easier or to buy new clothes. Some women only talk to Larry if he’s wearing the right clothes, and some dates even cost money.

Rather than featuring the puzzles or challenges you’d expect from an adventure game, the gameplay here is reduced to running from point to point and playing a series of basic mini-games. It’s a shallow experience compared to the point-and-click (and text parser) style of the earlier Leisure Suit Larry titles.

It’s obvious that this is a console port, not just from the awkward key bindings but in nearly every aspect of the game—from the clunky movement to the UI design. Everything about the interface feels like it was meant for a controller, and the keyboard and mouse controls seem like an afterthought. For example, the right shift key is used for peeing, and taking photos is bound to the * key. You also can’t rebind keys. On top of that, the game has no subtitles, which is a basic feature that would have improved the experience, especially considering the poor sound balancing in some scenes.

It feels like a quarter of the game is spent on loading screens, half on mini-games, and the last quarter on running around and clicking on things to collect tokens. This game just doesn’t capture the same charm as the original series. It’s a far cry from what made the older games fun.

I have played the other LSL games, and while they're bad, they're not this bad. This game is pointless and has none of the fun of the rest of the series. Terrible. -10 stars

It's a bit jenky on a modern desktop computer, but still enjoyable.