New Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry Gameplay Trailer Arrives

Assuming no premature releases (a situation Larry’s definitely never had to deal with), Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry will be released next week. To keep fans happy until then, Assemble Entertainment is teasing us with a new gameplay trailer showing off Larry’s new old-school adventure style.

The trailer emphasizes that gameplay is back to the point and click adventure style that fans know and love, not the dreadful minigames that characterized the unsuccessful spinoffs featuring Larry’s college-age nephew. Of additional note is that Jan Rabson, the voice of Larry in Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out, Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love For Sail, and the 2013 remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is back to voice Larry in this new installment of the series.

Assemble Entertainment also recently released the theme song for the game. This little ditty takes a nice riff on the classic MIDI style of the old games, while bringing it up to fully instrumented modern performance.

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry Revolves around our loveable loser being somehow transported directly from the 1980s of the first game to the 21st century, with no stops (or pesky sequels) in-between. It’s a reboot of sorts for the franchise, but does provide plenty of opportunity to make callbacks to the earlier games while mocking the insanity of modern dating.

Larry will be pursuing the latest love of his life, Faith, the “hot-to-trot” assistant at global technology behemoth Prune. But the road to love is paved with all sorts of bad Timber dates, questionable choices, and probably a few other hookups.

While series creator Al Lowe doesn’t appear to be involved with this game, the humor does seem to at least be closer to the style of previous Larry games. Will Wet Dreams Don’t Dry mark a return to form for the series? We’ll find out next week, as the game comes to Steam for PCs and Macs on November 7th.