The Leisure Suit Larry series were always a sort of distant interest to me. I had heard of them, and being the Adventure Game addict that I am, I always wanted to someday try them. Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude was perhaps everyone here's first forray into the depraved world of everyman Larry Laffer and his nephew, Larry Lovage--Lovitch? Anywho~

Premise~
Young Larry is hired by his uncle, Uncle Larry, to work at his film studio lot, in a ploy to fish out a mole working for another studio. The adventure is full of full rounded women, vile-spewing hollywood executives, and...actors with horse fetishes.

Gameplay~
Gone is the item collection and money expenses, save for the golden Larry Awards that act as the games Hidden Packages. Instead, Larry takes to platforming himself across the studio from objective to objective. Walking can become tiresome as the lot is huge, so you can easily 'highjack' a lot cart~ which means the driver just scoots over to the passenger side and lets you drive for a while, then drives off as soon as you get in.
Platforming: This game's jumping mechanics makes Prince of Persia look forgiving. Collission detection could be a whole lot tighter~If I had a dime every time I tried to double jump onto a ledge, only to initiate a wall jump, sending myself usually flying off to my death, I'd have about...(one sec while I do that math)...Fifteen bucks. All a persistent player can do is work around the mechanics and make it work.
Minigames: These are the fun bits. Director Games, Dreamscapes, side missions~ These are the breaks in monatony of jumping and running, and sketchy button pushing and annoying door-opening sequences.
Perversion: Face it, this is the reason you're playing the game. Boobs and butts galore, and more dirty jokes and a Dennis Leary routine. No full nudity as in the previous game though, and no hint of unlockables later on...yet.This will more than likely be a topic for another edition of The Perverted Gamer column.

~I give this game a 7 because...if it wasn't for the fact that me and Larry are so much alike, this game wouldn't be worth playing. I like to think of Larry as the Everyman in Gamer Society. The delusional yet lovable doofus who strives to do well, and usually gets stepped on, but accumulates enough minor victories to get out on top. The only difference between me and him is the fact that I don't possess the devils luck~ There is no way I could sleep with that many women in one day, and still walk around without getting the crap beat out of me, or get fired or arrested for a lot of the things Larry does.
It's a shame the game itself, a new release, cost me a little less than 20$, which in a way tells me the fate the series.

Grab it for a cheap laugh, but there will be some f-bombs mixed with that laughter.

Pro: Funny as hell.
Con: The platforming segments will make you swear.
Pro: Graphics are an improvement over Magna Cum Laude.
Con: Not quite 360 standard. Then again, it IS cartoon oriented.
Pro: A good deal of minigames to keep you busy.
Con; No sign yet of unlockables.

~Score: 7 mysteriously stained underpants out of 10.