Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

Unlike the first Larry game , it uses a linear plot similar to other Sierra quests, especially the King's Quest series . The player controls the movements of the character with arrows on the keyboard, mouse or joystick , for the rest of the actions a text parser is used . Larry here does not move around the same city, but enters various mazes ^[1] . For a successful passage, the player must receive certain items that can be collected during the game, otherwise Larry will not be able to move further on the plot ^[1] . Although the game does not visually limit the travel time, some events happen on the timer, and the player has to hurry ^[1] .

As in other games in the series, when the main character, Larry Lafer , interacts with female non-player characters , their portrait is displayed on the screen; however, it is reduced in comparison with the first part ^[1] . Unlike her, Larry is punished for flirting: if he flirts with randomly met women, he is killed, which ends the game ^[1] . This part also has a “catchphrase”, which the player enters at the beginning and which is repeated later ^[1] . The default expression is “ have a nice day! ” .

At the very beginning of the game, Eve, whom Larry met in the last part, kicks him out of his house. At the end of the first part, Larry is shown with Eve and is supposed to have become her lover, but in fact, having met him on the lawn, Eve says that she barely remembers him. Larry accidentally wins the lottery and gets a million dollars; then he gets on the set of a dishonest transmission and wins a super prize: a trip on a cruise ship together with the beautiful Barbara. On the way to the ship he gets a secret microfilm , which attracts the attention of the KGB and the crazy scientist Dr. Nonuki, who want to get a microfilm.

On a cruise ship, Larry discovers that Barbara sent her mother in her place, and escapes from the ship in a boat . A few days later he carries him to the shore of the island in the Pacific Ocean . Fleeing from the KGB agents, he gets on a plane from which he jumps with a parachute. He lands on the island of Nonontun, where Dr. Nonuki practices his atrocities. Making his way through the jungle, Larry meets Kalalau, the daughter of the leader Kenivauwau , who explains to Larry that Nonuki interferes with turning the island into a tourist trap, allowing the islanders to get a low-paid job there. Larry sneaks into the volcano where Nonuki’s base is located and accidentally kills him, freeing his slaves, including Patty Polyester ( English Polyester Patti ) . In the last in-game video, Larry marries Kalalau, the medicine man rejuvenates him, and he has sex with Kalalau while the volcano explodes.

The game has recurring locations that enhance the comedic effect; for example, almost every place Larry visited has a fashionable hairdresser , and they all look exactly the same.

For the Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love , the recently created Sierra's Creative Interpreter (SCI) engine was selected, which supported a resolution of 320x200, a mouse and a sound card . As in King's Quest , the style of drawing in this part is realistic, especially the portrait of Larry himself ^[1] . This game became the only one in the series where Larry cannot flirt with women until the very end, because of which there is no age check in it; at the same time, there are separate scenes of pixelated naked bodies there ^[1] .

Among the women Larry met is Rosella from Daventry (the main character of King's Quest IV ), this is one of many examples of reciprocal references in Sierra games ^[1] . One of the last scenes depicts Patty Polyester, who became one of the game characters in the third and fifth parts under the name Passionate Patti ( English Passionate Patti ) ^[1] . Patty is blonde here, however, in the following games, her hair color has changed to dark ^[1] .

In this part, a new copy protection system is used: at a certain moment, the player needs to enter the phone number of one of the women shown on the screen; it is written in the booklet attached to the game.

According to Al Lowe , this and other games in the Larry Weekend Costume series have sold over 250,000 copies. ^[3]

Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) received mostly positive reviews: Commodore User gave her 9 points out of 10, and Computer and Video Games - 90% ^{[4] [5]} . The 1994 re-release for Amiga received 84% ^[6] .

In a 1989 review by Bob Guerra from Compute! considered that the second part surpassed the original and came out very interesting, as well as much less predictable than the plots of television. He praised the game’s graphics and plot twists, which made him feel like he was watching a real living world ^[7] . In 2000, Adventure Classic Gaming decided that the second part is not the best in the series, however it is funny and it is interesting to play it ^[8] .

In 1991, PC Format placed the first three games of the series on the list of the 50 best games of all time ^[9] .

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