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Question by smilebig924: Theres a game thats online and a girl goes around and jumps on the guys who dance w/ her. Idk the name.Name?
its an online game and i totally forgot the name, and the girl runs around and jumps on the heads of guys cuz theyre trying to hit on her and dance with her. I completely forgot the game. anyone know it?

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Answer by ai_nacco_2000
You’re talking about Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.

It’s crude, it’s politically incorrect, and it’s strictly for adults only… but the Laffer legacy’s eternal quest to find “love” is still endearing.

Let’s save all involved parties a lot of time, discomfort, umbrage, and outrage: If you can in some sense call yourself sensitive, politically correct, conservative, easily offended, a minor in the eyes of the law, or in any way a proponent of progressive feminism, stay the hell away from this game. You don’t want to see any of it, and nobody who enjoys it wants to hear you complain about it. In fact, don’t even read this review! Check out Katamari Damacy — it’s extremely fun, cute, and won’t offend anyone.

The Leisure Suit Larry games of Sierra yore were strictly point-and-click, two-dimensional “affairs,” but Magna Cum Laude is a mostly free-roaming 3D game. It stars not Larry Laffer, but his equally amorous nephew, Larry Loveage. Even the game’s very name implies that our hero must cope with the daily trials of life at “Walnut Log Community College.”

It’s a rough, brightly colored life, almost devoid of actual academic pursuits. Instead, it largely consists of off-color humor, simple games, all manner of ethnic, social, racial, and sexual stereotypes, mandatory substance abuse, and a seemingly disproportionate population of attractive, accessible females (so yes, it’s a fairly realistic picture of college).

Loveage (who has the same innate sexual appeal that Larry Laffer had; i.e. none) wants to get himself onto a “reality dating” television show (Swingles) that’s come to his campus. Oddly enough, the prerequisite for appearing on a show that aims to help one lucky guy score with women is… well, to present “tokens of affection” from the women he’s already scored with!

Loveage maneuvers around campus and some surrounding neighborhoods in a follow-cam viewpoint. He’ll elatedly skip if his self-image is high, mope if it’s not, and weave about in an about-to-yack stagger if he’s hammered. Confidence in oneself (and shallow, outward appearance to others) is paramount in the game: certain girls won’t even talk to Larry until he acquires the sorts of clothes and demeanor that most appeals to them. Talk about brutal truths! This is a game, after all, that will flat-out tell you “You are too sober for this girl.” Deal with it.

One way to “deal with it” is, frankly, to get drunk (just in case the game’s profanity or actual, virtual nudity didn’t get that coveted “M” rating, High Voltage had to have a back-up plan). It may help you initially appeal to some potential dates, but it can also come back with a vengeance. Much of the game is sprinkled with simplistic mini-games that are similar to the drinking game Quarters, the video game Tapper, or dance games comparable to the rhythm challenges of Space Channel 5. The games are tougher if you’re too soaked in hard liquor or beer.

Even for long-popular adventure games, the issue of dialogue has always been, well, an issue. It usually boils down to clicking on every dialogue choice in turn, only to find that there’s very little ultimate “choice” at all. Magna Cum Laude makes conversing a real-time game mechanic: Players literally steer the conversation via control of, well, a little sperm. Do it right, and Larry will fumble his way through the conversation so that the girl is willing to continue their interaction. Do it wrong, and the girl rapidly loses interest as Larry’s voiceover puts his foot further and further into his mouth.

The mechanics are simplistic, but some of the dialogue can be pretty funny… well, until you’ve heard it three or four times. For better reaction speed, Larry can “drain” some of his blood-alcohol content in a quiet corner of the quad — yes, there’s a button for this.

Gags aside, two main issues are glaringly evident: One is that the simple mini-games, however gussied-up, are very familiar and get very repetitive. The other is that the game really does veer into extended crudity and vulgarity at times, definitely crossing that vague barrier known as “the line.” Both the humor and the sexuality hit redlines — expect explicit sexual references, nudity, the virtual (albeit comedic) condoning of college age drinking, and frequent dropping of “the F-bomb.”

We still found ourselves laughing more often than not, but sometimes it was from pure shock-value. Nothing is new here, but you don’t play a Larry game for new, inventive mechanics; you play it to laugh and to get to the next off-color gag. Sometimes Magna Cum Laude succeeds, and other times it feels ponderously puerile, but sustained humor is the hardest thing to squeeze out of games, right after sustained horror.

If you’re a Larry fan from way back, Magna Cum Laude takes the series into a pleasing new direction. But it needs a greater variety of challenges to be more appealing. If “adult” — and oft-puerile — subject matter offends you, Magna Cum Laude will be like a long, sharp stick in your eye.

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