Ah, college, a busy hub of learning and mental stimulation, not to mention talking monkeys, booze, easy women, porn fairies, pimps and reality dating shows. If your college life had the former instead of the latter, well then, too bad for you, because my pal Larry Loveage’s college experience was like that. Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude is an adventure game from High Voltage Software and Vivendi Universal Games and to say the least, it is…. interestingLarry Loveage is a seven year college junior who is- to put it bluntly- a loser, and one day he sees an ad on T.V. for a reality dating show, called Swingles, Larry- given the impression that he’s a ladies man- attempts to gain access to the show’s pool of contestants, but first he must prove himself. This involves various mini-games, including playing drinking games, such as quarters, hand-eye coordination games, slaps, and a disturbing version of pong. The games, while entertaining at first, slowly lose their appeal and become somewhat tedious, but that can be easily overlooked because the game is, by far the funniest game I have ever played.

The writing of the game, albeit crude, is very, very well done, I was in stitches through most of the dialogue mini-games, where you steer a little sperm through an obstacle course, avoiding red ‘bad’ icons and hitting green ‘good’ icons, either way it goes, the obstacles provide a funny, although not very different conversation. But writing is one thing, acting is another, and here, Larry scores yet again, the voices are spot-on and very, very funny, and fit the games many, many awkward situations, such as a Larry finding out that a mime has a bit ‘more’ on her that he likes. Most of this, tied in with the games soundtrack, which features such music as Motley Crue’s ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and ‘I’m too sexy’ by that one group…you know them, anyway, the soundtrack fits perfectly and accents the whole “teen sex romp” feel very nicely. The game, however as funny as it may be, is not without its faults, the game is overly easy, because it’s reliant on mini-games, it gives you the option to skip out on any mini-game at the cost of four or five of the game’s secret tokens, which are extremely easy to find. Also, as I stated before, the mini-games get repetitive, and loose their appeal, the only one that I can honestly say that never lost its charm was the conversation game. And on top of that, the game needs to load everything, which breaks up the pace of the game badly. Also, the graphics are somewhat basic, and while it’s doesn’t earn a demerit, because it captures the cartoon feel of the game, they could have benefited from a wee bit of polish.