Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (1988)
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) is a 1988 point-and-click video game made by Sierra On-Line.
Larry Laffer's happily-ever-after lasts about one screen before his sweetheart boots him to the curb, broke and single again in Los Angeles. Then he blunders into a nest of KGB agents who decide he is worth chasing across the globe. Al Lowe's second Leisure Suit Larry keeps the polyester-clad loser stumbling through cruise ships, tropical islands, and airports, one bad pickup line at a time. It is a point-and-click comedy that runs on innuendo, pratfalls, and Larry's undented optimism. Cheerfully lowbrow, and in on its own joke.
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What is Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) about?
Larry Laffer's happily-ever-after lasts about one screen before his sweetheart boots him to the curb, broke and single again in Los Angeles. Then he blunders into a nest of KGB agents who decide he is worth chasing across the globe. Al Lowe's second Leisure Suit Larry keeps the polyester-clad loser stumbling through cruise ships, tropical islands, and airports, one bad pickup line at a time. It is a point-and-click comedy that runs on innuendo, pratfalls, and Larry's undented optimism. Cheerfully lowbrow, and in on its own joke.
When was Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) released?
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) was released on 27 October 1988.
Who made Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)?
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) was made by Sierra On-Line.
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Larry's comedy sits at the root of the point-and-click adventure tree. For where that storytelling went, The Walking Dead and Life Is Strange keep the talk-and-choose rhythm but swap the laughs for drama. Play them for the lineage more than the tone; Larry's brand of gag is very much his own.
Globe-trotting adventures across exotic locations
Larry 2 flings its hapless hero from cruise ships to tropical islands with the KGB in pursuit, so match that wanderlust. The Assassin's Creed games turn whole eras and continents into playgrounds, Black Flag opens up the Caribbean, and Dishonored and Sekiro drop you into richly built foreign cities worth getting lost in.
Story-driven games where choices matter
Underneath the innuendo, Larry 2 is a comedy of one man bumbling through a plot he barely understands, and these games put story first. Life Is Strange and Detroit: Become Human hand you branching choices, The Walking Dead makes every decision hurt, and The Last of Us tells its tale with real weight.
Landmark games everyone should play
If Larry 2 sent you down a retro rabbit hole, these are the pillars worth your time. Ocarina of Time and A Link to the Past defined the adventure template, Super Mario Bros. 3 remains a platforming high point, and Shadow of the Colossus and Baldur's Gate III show how far the medium has come.