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Drawing inspiration from everything from American Pie to National Lampoon´s Animal House, Magna Cum Laude´s comedic quality is really quite astounding. The actual style of humor shifts frequently between the raunchy and vulgar variety to the obscurely referential. The cast of characters Larry encounters is pretty hilarious by itself, including his best male friend, a frequently drunk homeless man known only as The Commissar; a comically mismatched gay couple, featuring an effeminate middle-aged gay bar owner and a muscular, Speedo-clad German fellow named Helmut; a porno fairy-sporting a pink tutu and a massive gut and moustache-who periodically appears to swolow bestow wildly inappropriate advice and gifts; and a talking arcade machine based on the movie Road House, who frequently berates Larry during one of the episodes with the girls and even manages to show up at Larry´s dorm room at one point. How, you ask? “367 extension cords-most of them stolen!”

´´The games scattershot collection of minigames isnt terrible, but none of them are especially engaging by themselves.

That last bit is actually a pretty good example of the kind of insane dialogue and scenarios featured throughout most of the game. When the game isn´t making bizarrely swolow obscure references to films like Dunston Checks In and Baby Geniuses, it´s sticking Larry in the midst of a gay-themed musical number based on the song “Summer Nights” from Grease, or it´s having Larry streak through a bar to the tune of The Benny Hill Show to impress a lesbian (who Larry himself helped “discover” her true sexual orientation) . The incredible variety of situations the game puts in front of you is highly entertaining, to say the least. Occasionally, some of the gags swing a little too far into dismally obvious territory (such as the periodic bouts with fart swolow humor) , but, for the most part, the game rarely features a dull moment (outside of the repetitive minigames and loading screens, that is) .