Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded (LSL1 remake) : what do you think?

[Monsieur OUXX]

I've just come across that gameplay video, and it looks like a solid remake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2TuF_v88yo

By "solid", I mean, it's only just a remake, but the new backgrounds seem to be excellent (not just the drawings, but also the composition, special effects, etc.) and the jokes and narration are preserved. Nice little touches like the transition effect between rooms with the shape of Larry's head (it's useless but it's those little things, y'know)

They've also re-thought the interface, they din't just copy-paste it. It seems to be much more intuitive now. A few examples: You now see the cab's itinerary. They didn't stuff all the casino's rooms on the ground floor. They re-thought the backgrounds to make them more dynamic.

So what do you say? Am I super naive or is this what you can call a good remake, as opposed to the Monkey Island SE?

[AGA]

I enjoyed it.  A lot more that the MI1 remake (although the second was better).  There are a few new puzzles and characters too, so it's definitely more than just a 1:1 remake of the original game content.

[Monsieur OUXX]

Talking about that, I've played LSL6 for the first time in 15 years yesterday, and I was amazed to discover it was hi-res (640x480?). I had no idea, because last time I played it, in was in 320x200 -- but I guess the CD version came in two resolutions, one of them taking advantage of young hi-res technology.

Which leads me to.. GOD, is LSL6 ugly-looking! I was shocked. I had already noticed how sloppy the graphics were in the 320x200 version. But it made it even more visible in hi-res. There is an overuse of shitty dithered gradients. But the bad kind of dithering: the one where the pixels are arranged in organized patterns, but those patterns conflict with each other. It's like Sierra digitized some pictures and then reduced color-depth with some cheap painting program that couldn't even do what Deluxe Paint was able to do for the last 10 years. Also, most of the flowers and trees are just digitized pictures that are badly copied and pasted over themselves and over the drawn background.

Long things short: a visual nightmare, and very newby-looking.


      Worst beach in the history of point n' click

That's even more surprising when you see that LSL5 was very pretty. Seriously, Google it. It's close to DOTT, apart from the characters animation. Very good taste. Anyone know what happened to Sierra that year? Like, did they take shrooms?


               Larry 5