![]() ![]() His ability to find the positive in having his top half divorced from his bottom was most admirable.Īt the core of the game is a rudimentary but reasonably expressive combat system. One raspy chap told me, while I was lopping his lower half off no less, that he was off to meet his cat Fluffy in heaven. The zombies have some fantastic one liners, too, usually delivered after they’ve undergone open chainsaw surgery. The chitchat between Juliet and her bodiless boyfriend Nick is sharp – they bicker, flirt and slice through the carnage with humorous quips and at the end of it all it feels like a genuine enough relationship. Imagine that? While we shouldn’t spurn the merry act of reducing zombies to a squall of rent flesh, rainbows and soaring limbs, it’s the script and the two leads that give Lollipop Chainsaw its soul. Onward!īrushing aside the silly scene-setting, it’s a well enough told story that is at times exquisitely funny. Oh and her boyfriend is a decapitated head fastened to her belt buckle. The game doesn’t bother wasting too much time with the who/what/where/why/when/how: Juliet is a professional zombie hunter and there’s a zombie coup. ![]() Juliet wakes on her 18th birthday to learn that the undead have annexed San Romero High School (that’s an accident waiting to happen). You take control of barely legal teen heroine Juliet Starling – fan of lollipops, short skirts and industrial sized chainsaws. “Suda-san looked over the game design and supervised the project as an executive producer.” The game’s credits list Suda as creative director and Yasuda as executive producer, however.Lollipop Chainsaw is a Suda Goichi game with all the trappings. “As Suda-san was very busy handling development on other projects at the time, I served as director and producer, creating a joint development team consisting of staff from Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games, overseeing development directly,” Yasuda said. Yasuda’s original announcement of the remake sought to minimize Suda’s contribution to the game beyond the initial pitch. Suda followed up: “To add my two cents, like James Gunn says, neither he nor I am involved in this project at all, and Grasshopper Manufacture has nothing to do with development or anything.” But as articles are starting to slap our names on there, I think it’s important to make clear no one ever approached us about it.” I neither endorse nor condemn it! I simply don’t know anything about it. “I heard about it for the first time from Suda a couple weeks ago. “Neither I nor Suda 51 are currently involved in this,” Gunn tweeted. Update (July 6): Goichi Suda and James Gunn have both clarified that they are not working on the remake of Lollipop Chainsaw. Polygon’s original review noted “rampant tonal problems and aggressive undercurrents of misogyny” that will be sure to draw renewed attention in the remake when it arrives next year. Though always tongue-in-cheek, Lollipop Chainsaw - which was co-written by James Gunn, no less, between the releases of his films Super and Guardians of the Galaxy - had a leering attitude to its scantily-clad heroine that might not pass muster today. The development team might also find that tastes have moved on since 2012. This might be controversial, as the original’s semi-cel-shaded look was part of its trashy charm. There will also be a “more realistic approach” to the game’s graphics. Yasuda noted that the game will have to be changed for its remake - particularly the 15 licensed songs on the soundtrack, which will largely be replaced. think of the game as very precious to us, and did not want to leave it in limbo.” “Various factors resulted in things making it so that fans can no longer easily play Lollipop Chainsaw, and it has been some time since players have not been able to access the game on current consoles,” Yasuda said. But his message did not mention the original development studio Grasshopper Manufacture or its founder, and the game’s co-director, Goichi Suda, known as Suda 51. He also said that the game’s Western publisher Warner Bros. Yasuda said that he had bought back the rights from the game’s original Japanese publisher, Kadokawa Games, and that the “original development staff” were working on the remake. Producer Yoshimi Yasuda shared the news on Twitter. ![]() The remake is due out in 2023, but no platforms were confirmed. Lollipop Chainsaw, the cult 2012 game about a cheerleader battling zombies while her boyfriend’s disembodied head dangles from her waist, is being remade. ![]()
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