• Leisure Suit Larry 1 - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
  

  3 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded
  

  5 hours playtime

  37 of 40 achievements

played the original leisure suit larry and then followed it up with the reloaded version. one of my troubles with the older adventure games where you type commands like “talk girl” is that it’s difficult to know if i need to try different words for my command or if i need to try something different. the remake doesn’t have that, plus it adds voice acting and other modernization along with lengthening the story a little. i don’t think anyone would feel like they missed anything playing just reloaded and skipping the original.

the achievements in reloaded include one that looks very annoying to get (jackpot on a slot machine if i’m remembering correctly) but i did play a second time through to attempt to get most of them. pretty sure i did the whole lotta shakin one correctly but it didn’t unlock so i decided to move on with two remaining achievements i could reasonably get and one i don’t want to spend time on.

i suspect the humor style and subject matter of the larry series could turn some people away (you could easily argue that it devalues women, and its humor is certainly crude), but i had fun with it. this game is also pretty short if you know what you need to do (which you mostly will in reloaded if you play the original first like i did). i definitely have a bit of nostalgia toward leisure suit larry since i knew about it while it was still somewhat new and wanted to play it but didn’t have money and wasn’t old enough. if you don’t have the nostalgia you might want to play more modern adventure games instead.