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Leisure Suit Larry 5

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Sierra On-Line
Machine: PC (MS-DOS)

 
Published in Ace #055: April 1992

Leisure Suit Larry 5

He's Larry Laffer! She's Passionate Patti! And they're in a whole lot of trouble! Leisure Suit Larry 5, the latest instalment in the impossibly successful adventure series chronicles the spying adventures of America's favourite lounge lizard.

In what promises to be the most sexy adventure in the series, the player must guide Larry and Patti through a world of porn and mobsters in the quest to keep good, honest smut on the airwaves. Initially taking the role of the audition, host of America's Sexiest Home Videos. Larry quickly becomes embroiled in a hair-brained underworld plot to get all porn off the normal market and drive it underground where enormous profits can be made.

It's all pretty standard point-and-click stuff, but this time the player alternates between the very different personas of Larry and Patti, allowing both to get into sexy scrapes and also avoiding and particularly severe cities of "Sexism!" from bendy liberal wets.

Again, the hand-painted 256-colour graphics and game design are an excellent splint for what occasionally lapses into a bout of pretty lame gags. However, this time Larry does have moments of absolute brilliance, and the continual promise of a further saucy pic of a top spy in a saucy pose is enough to keep you coming back for more. No? Well, please yourselves.