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So this is the first Leisure Suit Larry game - where we switch from Larry to Patti?

What were your thoughts on this? Did you enjoy having a game that suddenly switched away from Larry to this newly introduced character? And did you play it when it came out - or later?

I played it for the first five or six months ago. Before that, I somehow despised the series: I remembered playing a bit of LSL7 after The Beast Within, when I was in search of another Sierra adventure (and they were extremely difficult to find, here in Italy), but it disappointed me so I put that aside. It was only, like I said, five or six months ago that I dug it and played it. I guess that, not being particularly interested in women, invalidated my previous judgment of the games: then, when I finally find the will to play them all I discovered that the first three games are less about the women, and more about Larry search for love (with the satisfying sex intercourse thrown in between as a "diversion" from the main love interest). To this day, LSL3 remains my favorite mainly because of the "switch" you talk about, and because it was the more geared toward sentiment, and because playing as Patti was incredibly fun and the finale - funny and touching at the same time!

I really enjoyed LSL3 (and all the LSL games - because really - is there much difference in personality between Larry and I?) - but for me it wasn't even about the pursuit of women - it was more about knowing each time it WAS going to lead to some kind of miserable - but very funny - failure. So it was about the humor of what was going to happen when things seemed to be going so "right" for Larry.

I'm not looking for women myself, but that never really stopped me from playing LSL!
Not sure about the gender change... but I don't nearly like the Patti puzzles/sections as much as the Larry ones.

Is it because you identified with Larry more, you think, since Patti was new?

Well... I do identify more with Larry... and I don't like Patti so much. Can't say why though.