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From a now college student who grew up on the original games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a teenager I would play the original Leisure Suit Larry games (all of them) and I loved them. Then I saw this. I couldn't believe it. A LSL game in college!!! I love how much this game shows what college is really about. The graphics are great, and the mini-games are fun, especially the beer pong :)

PARENTS BEWARE: If you have kids that live away for college, you might want to pass on this one. It'll make you want to pull your kids out of college!

What happened to the humor of Larry Laffer??

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: January 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well....what can I say. This is the worst Larry game ever. I had so much fun with all of the other ones, from Land of the Lounge Lizards to Love for Sail...I have played them all (sometimes several times each) and had a ball. The games were actually funny and enjoyable back when you needed to use your wits, not your joystick hand (pun intended!)to have a good time.

This version, however is not only boring, but repetitive and crass. Where, in previous Larry adventures, the sexual humor was witty, here it is just crude and obnoxious. It takes quite a lot to offend me, but this game has done it. I played it for a very short while before uninstalling it...I have NEVER done that before with a game and I have played dozens and dozens, some not so great, but never bad enough not to finish.

Another very annoying thing is the screen loading. Every time you try to do anything, (talk to a girl, play a game, enter a building, etc...) you have to wait several seconds for the screen to load. What a pain!

It was much better when Larry was an inventory/adventure game.

All I can say is this: if you like to play very poorly designed arcade games, and you like to hear the "F" word a lot, you'll like this game. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

Adult Fun, Adult Theme, this cool game is for adults mom.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"Mother's Against Video Game Violence" eh? And here I was convinced that Norman Bates killed his mom. I crack up when some self-important fool comes online and tells everybody what human nature is "supposed to be". We're all supposed to pass this game over because miss high-and-mighty mommie dearest is "against it". HA!

I belong to a group too. It's called "Adult Gamers Against Mothers Who Want Game Manufacturers To Do Their (bleep)ing Job For Them." Deal with it; games have ratings for a reason, the same as DVD's Films and TV shows- control your kids! Don't try to cut the grownups out of their fun because of your delicate sensibilities! Enough said.

This is a fun game *for young adults* who have the maturity to put this stuff in it's proper perspective. I don't think it's better than the O.G. Leisure Suit Larry-but I liked it and I think that people who are not familiar with the original LSL games will love it, so sorry mom-I guess you'll just have to tell your kids what they can and can't play until they are old enough to tell you where to get off.

I bet it will really tick her off to learn that "Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Uncut and Uncensored", an Adults-Only-rated version of a game, (which is already for adults only), is available now. LOL.

Where's Al Lowe?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: January 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I notice that there's no mention of Al Lowe anywhere from Sierra. Here's the simple truth - if the genius creator of LSL's 1 - 6 is missing, then this isn't an LSL game at all - just a cheap rip off.

Message to pointy-haired bosses at Sierra: You can buy the LSL concept. You can buy Larry's image. But if you don't have Al Lowe, you don't have anything.

You will bust a gut...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

as many others have said, the mini games will get dry after playing them so many times.. eventually you will start to master the game of quarters and figure out ways to get out... now for all those who have played LSL8, i know that i was sore that Larry Laffer was not the main character and Al Lowe was also missing.... however sierra did do a good job on this game in terms of awesome graphics, gameplay, and nudity. (btw you can hex the file to unlock nude mode early in the game)... it is well worth the 30 bucks compared to the newer games out there and i would reccommend this game.. even my g/f made her own save and started playing.. she busted a gut laughing on the jokes because she never played a LSL game...

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm in my 30's now so I played the original LSL series as a teenager. Wow what a difference.

The original LSL games were adventure games where you had to figure out what to do next, which objects to pick up, what to do with them, who to give them too, etc. They were a fun challenge that could last for days on end.

The Magna Cum Laude is really just a series of directed mini-arcade games and challenges. If you ever get lost and can't figure out what to do, you can look in your black book and see a list of people that are waiting to interact with you. It even tells you where they are. You go up to them, and you either start an arcade game, or there is a brief cut scene, and then you start an arcade game.

I gave it 2 stars rather than 1 cause some of the cut scenes and story lines are cute and funny. I really liked the demonic voice of the band girl. That had me laughing.

I wouldn't recommend this unless it was clearance priced for under $10.. And I don't think it will be long before it's there.

An Insult To That Which Was Larry

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking at this game because you enjoyed the original LSL series, know that this is not in the same calibur. The games are simple and repetitive. Certainly not the complex and amusing puzzles of the original. Some of the mini-story lines are amusing but overall it is not that original or entertaining.

Worst disappointment ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What they have done to the LSL line is a travesty. There is no adventure, no strategy, just mind-numbing mini games that Larry must play. The mini games are boring and stupid. The games on my cell phone are better than these. One of the games involves pressing the arrow keypad in the correct sequence over and over. EG the computer will tell you to press "Up, down, left right, left, up, left, down, right" very fast. You must get the sequence right, and then copy several more sequences. Remember "My Simon"? It's like that. The rest of the mini games are equally bad. Avoid this game at all costs!

Gets boring after the novelty.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I admit I played LL1 and 2 from a friend when they first came out decades ago. However, LL:MCL falls short of imagination. Instead we get a far more sophisticated LL character beyond his supposed age with touted 90,000 lines of dialogue, and far more crudeness and now gay bars. Most of the girls are airheads or psychos, too young for their own good, and having a LL game in college just doesn't seem in line with LL's traditional adult storylines. Overall it gives younger players the wrong impression of LL. LL wasn't trying to score as much as possible, he was on an eternal quest to find a real relationship. Like another reviewer said, it feels more like a "volleyball bod" game. That and the drunken mini-games become impossible to play after while. the 3D world seemed too compressed as well.

Funny but repetative

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game has good dialogue and jokes but the game requires a few mini-games to be played over-and-over to succeed at any task. A big flaw is you look more at a mini-game (directing your swimming sperm around conversation obstacles) during dialogue than watching the animation. That same game can be used for entertainment because hitting certain obstacles can lead to a very funny conversation. It's much like to LSL's of the past but with better graphics. I'd give it 7 out of 10, fun but can be annoying.

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