Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice | Review

Developers CrazyBunch and Publishers Assemble Entertainment two years ago did us all a solid by reviving the legendary Leisure Suit Larry point and click adventure games with Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. Be sure to treat yourself and check out our review of Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. A short note, we had a blast. Fast forward to now and we received the opportunity to review the sequel, Wet Dreams Dry Twice. The question we have is, can Larry hit that spot again that’ll have us coming back for more?

Folks, it’s time again to leave your sensitivities at the door, roll with the laughs, and best yet, learn that it’s okay to be offended and laugh even harder at stereotypes. This is our review of the return of the mack himself Mr. Larry Laffer in Leisure Suit Larry, Wet Dreams Dry Twice.

As we stated before, we loved Leisure Suit Larry, Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. It was our first official roll in the sheets with a Leisure Suit Larry game since being young, we weren’t able to play such adult-themed games. Now we are all grown up and we can do what we want.

The Leisure Suit Larry games are point-and-click adventure-type games. The goal Larry usually revolves around getting up close and personal with a particular lust at first sight which is done by completing some task or tasks and helping the Bell in distress. You solve the very clever at time puzzles by finding various items and combining them to get the solution. All these key things are back in Wet Dreams Dry Twice.

Wet Dreams Dry Twice picks up where Wet Dreams Don’t Dry ended on the island of Cancum. If you haven’t played Wet Dreams Don’t Dry, you can get a recap and be caught up by your good friend and soon to be father-in-law El Ray. In preparations for the wedding, you soon find out that your only true love Faith, who became missing, is alive and thanks to your smartphone Pi, has a clue to where she might be. Let the adventure begin!

Coming back to this series was like riding a bike and we were ready to click and find and collect every random item we could. We learned from the first game that just because we couldn’t figure out what an item was for, we will need it sooner or later. Some puzzles required some real thinking outside of the box thinking, but most were fairly straightforward requiring you to just have the correct item.

We are happy to see that some improvements were made on this go-round. A couple of those improvements that we appreciated was our to-do app which kept track of tasks and objectives we needed to accomplish. That was an issue in the first game where we would have a number of tasks to do and we would leave, then when we started the game back up we would say to ourselves, what were we doing again. Another improvement we liked was the ability to highlight all the items that you could interact with. This helps save some time searching randomly for items. Also, there are times when there might be two items closely together, and highlighting would show you both items. Added also this time around is the ability to snap pictures of items too large to carry as well as a blueprint app that allows you to construct various items.

Wet Dreams Dry Twice is still a Leisure Suit Larry game so it is easily not for kids. It is chock full of adult humor, tons of innuendos, and a lot of suggestive imagery. There will be things that you come across that will have you saying whoa and have you looking over your shoulder to see if someone was seeing your screen. You know, things you’d find in a Leisure Suit Larry game.

The game however still also has the crisp beautiful hand-drawn look and the wacky characters are very, very, very interesting to say the least. The dialogue comes across as cheesy at times, which actually fits the scope of the game. The one-liners at times will have you chuckle out loud, but then have you slightly embarrassed that you chuckled at it.

All in all folks, this game knows exactly what it is and totally owns it. It dishes out the eye-rolling humor and offers up some more for seconds. Larry’s heart of gold still shines through and in Wet Dreams Dry Twice it continues to shine brightly.

Wet Dreams Dry Twice is available for PC and Mac and you can get purchase it on GOG as well as on Steam. Confident Gamers was provided a game download key to provide a fair opinion of the game and its components.