Leisure Suit Larry is so much immature fun that even playing it alone can be quite embarrassing.

User Rating: 6 | Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! PC

This reviewer once had this game pressed into this reviewer's hands by cheekier friends, likely as a form of harassment of sorts. To be frank, this reviewer had repeatedly refused to play the game - the whimsically suggestive box art with its leering protagonist (with terrible hairdo, no less) and non-descript stereotypical bimbos were quite the turn-off for this reviewer at the time. Eventually, this reviewer, adamant in stopping what was perceived as incessant cheekiness by said friends, decided to play the game.

This game is tucked under the adventure game genre (likely for a lack of a more specific genre for it and its closeness to but definitely not over the brink into the pit of pornography). This much is clear to this reviewer upon starting the game, after seeing the (suggestively shaped) cursor moving in tandem with the mouse about the menu screen - and then watching the protagonist stuck in a situation so awfully shameful but otherwise befits the initial puzzle of an adventure game that would set the theme for the rest of the game.

This reviewer was very much aghast at this point, but otherwise thoroughly amused and interested in playing further.

What follows next are a series of puzzles that the all-too-eager protagonist has to solve, via making observations that are riddled with painful puns and often suggestive imagery (and much of it are quite useless to the player in solving said puzzles). The solutions themselves are just as silly and often result with the protagonist getting into very hilariously embarrassing situations, highlighting the protagonist's surprisingly endearing tendency to bungle really hard.

The other characters are wafer-thin caricatures, perhaps deliberately so, as their voice-over scripts reek so much of stereotypical riff-raff that it is easy to suspect that the developers had purposely designed them this way. The narrator's and protagonist's quips certainly add to this suggestion.

Normally, this reviewer would be rather insulted with all of the aspects of the game mentioned previously, but the apprehension pretty much melted away when the fourth-wall-breaking qualities of the game showed itself - more often than not - in the game. Some of the more ridiculous and inane moments in the game are punctuated with humorous back-and-forth between the narrator and protagonist, often poking on the feedback of fans of the previous games and the developers' allegedly whimsical response to this.

This reviewer also had the misfortune of being heckled by friends as well when playing this game - specifically having to receive walk-throughs that documented the oft-immature so-called Easter Eggs in the game. Many of these Easter Eggs contained some of the silliest puzzle design that this reviewer has ever seen, and the results had this reviewer pining for a cleansing shower whenever each was unlocked.

All in all, this reviewer did somewhat find this game enjoyable - more so as friends no longer pestered this reviewer about this game. In fact, this reviewer actually looked forward to how the next Leisure Suit Larry game can top the ridiculousness of this particular entry.

It is therefore quite disheartening to know that the IP that this game belonged to has since devolved into a lousy mess that is not only not-friendly to kids but to just about everyone else as well - the aforementioned friends included.

At least this reviewer no longer needs to worry about being bothered about the next game in this IP.