To put it simply, Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry is a love letter to a seemingly dead genre. The first Larry game debuted back in 1987, and point-and-click titles were one of the most popular options in the late '80s and early '90s, with Sierra Online as the top developer company. Fast-forward to today and most games are about complex plots, impressive graphics, and cool gameplay mechanics, so is there even place for a simplistic-yet-challenging graphic adventure in the modern era? On console?! Sure thing!

If you're around 30-40 years old and miss the good old days, this game is for you! And if you're in your twenties and want to experience what it was like to be a horny gamer when internet access was a luxury and lewd content had more pixels than the ones in the censoring patch, go for it too!

Leisure Suit Larry games are known for 2 things: erotic content (softcore) and a lot of pop culture references. You can expect social criticism and a lot of easter eggs and inside jokes for old fans, but Wet Dreams Don't Dry also acknowledges itself as some kind of reboot to the franchise. What you definitely won't find here is a deep plot, because a lot of things are just an excuse to have fun with Larry Laffer… or just laugh at him. All that being said, a few sections of the game are incredibly hard thanks to some weirdly solved puzzles, so difficulty really depends on your experience with graphic adventures and how you deal with inventory items. You'll need to think way outside of the box!

While the golden era of graphic adventures forged its glory in spite of technical limitations and the lack of flashy graphics, no game could survive in the actual gaming world without decent visuals. Wet Dreams Don't Dry is so colorful that really stands out, but we think it's its cartoon-like art-style that catches your attention. Every location has enough elements to pick your interest, yet there's a ton of other details that encourage you to take your time and explore every corner and item in front of you, plus the smartphone-like navigation of the menu feels like a nice gimmick for the modern generation.

Even if the most part of the game uses this modern visual style, some sections take you back to the pixelated past, not only with retro-inspired scenes but also a few surprises that longtime fans will appreciate.

There's not much to say about Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry's music, and that's because it fulfills its role perfectly. In a game like this, it's very important to have a soundtrack that never tires or distracts you, especially when you don't know how much time you'll spend looking at the screen while trying to figure out what to do or where to go to solve a puzzle. On another note, Larry Laffer's cheesy voice is perfect and some lines are supremely delivered, with all secondary characters doing exactly what a Leisure Suit Larry game needs.

The first thing you need to do when launching a new game is to confirm you are older enough to experience an adult story. Oh, but clicking on "I'm 18+" won't do, and the game will test your knowledge on pop culture and some events that occurred in the '80s and '90s. If you're not that well-versed in these topics, then you're in for a hard time... but just keep trying!

As with any point-and-click video game, the gameplay is all about carefully exploring every stage, solving puzzles, looking for items for you to "borrow" or just unlocking new dialogue options from previously met characters. Helping people is not always easy since you may need to do a lot of things before acquiring the item they need, but also because you need to squeeze your brains when trying to combine items and/or use them in the most creative ways. Truth be told, this is not a genre suitable for all audiences, but Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry's difficulty level is pretty accessible when compared to some older, similar games.

Now in the role of Larry Laffer, who for unknown reasons wakes up in an underground man cave with almost no memories, we start the game thinking our goal is to discover what happened to him, who put him in that situation, and why he doesn't recall a thing. However, soon he forgets about that and sets another objective for himself: having sex with Faith, a hot secretary working for Prune who only dates men with at least 90 points on the Timber app.

You see, the story revolves around Larry finding a special smartphone and taking it back to their owners; Prune, a parody of Apple, is a world-famous enterprise and proud developer of the PiPhone, and Larry just happened to stumble upon a secret, unique unit with the next version of the PiPhone AI assistant installed. However, coming straight from the '80s —like, literally— Larry is not what you'd call a tech-savvy guy, and that's why he has no idea how the stupidly famous Instacrap or Timber apps work. In fact, he doesn't even know that they existed, or what they are for. And why do we mention all this? Well, that's because a lot of gameplay mechanics have to do with using Larry's smartphone to your advantage.

Other than clicking on the screen to find/use an object or moving around, you need to use your apps. With Timber, you get to know and date a handful of characters that will help you on your journey; with Unter, someone drives you from one location to the other; and with Instacrap, you unlock funny cutscenes. The inventory icon also appears as a smartphone app.

For obvious reasons, a point-and-click game works better on PC, and even the Nintendo Switch version of Wet Dreams Don't Dry fits the bill if you go for the mobile approach, playing undocked and using your fingers to drag and drop. On PlayStation 4, unfortunately, you'll need some more time to get used to the buttons, and everything feels kind of unnatural for a bit... that's without saying the guide in the upper-right corner is something you won't find on the original PC version. With only 3 to 5 buttons to memorize, do you really need to sacrifice a clean interface just to throw that hideous, unnecessary guide in?

Beyond the reasonable problems that you'll find when trying to play a point-and-click graphic adventure —a genre that was conceived with a mouse and keyboard in mind— on console, the PlayStation 4 version of Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry is just as fun as the PC one. If you only play PS4 games or you don't matter using a controller instead of a mouse, then you won't regret any single minute you spend seducing girls (and boys) with Larry!

If you ask us, we recommend you to go for the PC version of the game, but playing on PS4 is not bad either. Another thing we recommend you is to find time to play it when no one is around... unless you don't care other people watching you play a game full of dirty jokes, moaning, dildos and other phallic figures, naked ladies, and stuff like that.

If you want a good laugh, tons of pop culture references, and a game that does justice to one of the gaming world icons, look no further! And if you want more gaming reviews and the best anime-related content, then keep browsing Honey's Anime!