What was really insulting was the remarks of the programmers that thought they were witty by criticising your current score in the game.Īs a stand-alone game it is good, but play the original and you will have a far more enjoyable experience. In this new version it is painful to watch through this slow sequence and it destroys the joke. In the older version there is an awesome death sequence which is really rather humorous and turns the tables on the 'instant death' which adventurers at this time would complain about. This lacks the mature humour of its predecessor, which is odd for something which was essentially a replication. What can I say except to play the original, it is so much better in terms of control. The cursor responded to my earlier movements at one point as I try to obtain an object - the drunk says 'oh, well if you don't want it.' and the object is obliterated. the wine, did not look like what they were meant to be. The worst thing was the inaccuracy of the mouse pointer: when changed, for instance, to a glove to use objects, it often missed the spot you would expect to hit. On playing, I expected it to be preferable to the original 1987 version but I was totally wrong. The one saving grace is the music which is very very nice in comparison with the bleeps of the Eighties. but it was a great loss that the blackjack table animation had been kicked and it looked instead like a slot machine. The blackjack game was nicer though essentially the same, just a bit tidied up. Perhaps the system might have been considered a little less harshly when it was released, though it is lacking even for 1991. How bizarre that it was faster to type in commands in the old version than in the newer point & click. For instance your own character on screen gets in the way when you want to click on the bar stool, etc. The wacky graphics slowed down action and gameplay. Playing the first Leisure Suit Larry alongside this one, I found that the original was so much better.

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