Which, we suppose, is progress for the series at least. While most of the women Larry ends up taking out on a date are often a caricature of sorts - such as a social media-obsessed hipster you meet during the game’s opening hours - they’re not two-dimensional airheads solely defined by their sexual attraction. It’s a game that’s constantly lampooning itself and modern dating sensibilities, with its entire premise based around the quest to improve Larry’s Timber rating. As a man-child out of time, Larry finds himself with social media obsessed people obsessed with platforms such as Instacrap, Farcebook and Timber. So, naturally, the first thing he does is start looking for women.
With his flared white suit and greased back hair, Larry emerges from a dark basement to find himself in a city he barely recognises. Wet Dreams Don't Dry does this by transporting Larry from the slapstick hedonism of the ’80s to the ‘woke’ era of today. That doesn’t mean new developer CrazyBunch is holding off on the smut, but it’s at least doing so with a sense of self-awareness. That Larry Laffer - the greasy protagonist and self-confessed ‘ladies man’ who’s always looking for love - is consistently the butt of the joke, rather than the often cartoonish women he’s pursuing, helps water-down the often tasteless dialogue. In fact, it’s a competent little point and click adventure that dials back into the conceit that made some of the earlier games so popular. Thankfully, Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don’t Dry isn’t a bad game. And the fact the series has produced some truly terrible titles over the years, crude jokes and all.
However, the mixture of school playground humour and Carry On levels of sexual innuendo makes them a real oddity, especially in today’s increasingly sensitive, PC-minded culture. There’s clearly an audience for them - you don’t release roughly 10 games over the last 30 years without gaining a decent following (yes, they’ve been around that long). The Leisure Suit Larry games are one of those things no one really admits to liking.
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