![]() ![]() His dying words - "You're getting a C-minus, bitch!" - make you wonder what you'd have to do to get an F. While you can't attack him directly, hopping over him and unleashing mid-jump chainsaw slashes tends to do the trick. Fitzgibbon before hurling his podium at you. Mini-bosses feature too, and they're as tongue-in-cheek as the rest of the game. With great zombie-slaying power comes great zombie-slaying responsibility. ![]() There's a disarming sense of guilt associated with cutting down those you failed to save just moments ago. Fail to rescue them in time and they'll join the ranks of their undead brethren, resulting in extra-difficult zombies. If you rescue your fellow classmates, they'll shower you with coins before inexplicably evaporating in a cloud of pixelated ash. Despite Slither scribe James Gunn taking a co-writing credit, Lollipop Chainsaw feels very much like an Eastern rendition of trashy Americana. It's the kind of low-budget nonsense with a Japanese twist that adds to the game's charm. Lollipop Chainsaw being cut from the same cloth as other Grasshopper games (and Dead Rising for that matter), innocent civilians have the hilarious habit of standing in the same place, pantomiming their panic. Throughout the bloddy, confetti-filled halls of San Romero, other students can occasionally be found in trouble. Murdering the undead fills up a glittery gauge in the corner and filling it all the way unleashes a special ability consisting of brief invulnerability and extra-powerful attacks. Getting a multi-decapitation combo results in a "sparkle hunting" bonus where the screen turns blue and rewards you with a score bump and extra coins (which will be used for upgrades, though this isn't being shown off yet). The combat sees light attacks carried out with pompoms strung into heavy attacks performed by the titular chainsaw. Its sickeningly sweet rendition of violence is such saccharine eye candy that, if the sexualised portrayal of a barely-legal high school student didn't make you want to take a shower, the cacophony of colour will make you want to brush your teeth. Probably because the blood doesn't look authentic, but rather like hyper-real neon blood, wherein amputated limbs glow like Christmas lights. Juliet animates beautifully, and vivisecting the undead in showers of blood, rainbows, pixels, stars and coins is extremely gratifying.Ĭuriously, for all the blood in the game, it doesn't feel gory. Really, really good - it's as exciting as your first kiss as a teen. The combat in Lollipop Chainsaw feels good. Whether she decided to bring her chainsaw and the decapitated head of a guy named Nick (which Grasshopper's not talking about yet) with her to school before she found out about the zombie invasion is anyone's guess, but anyway - all that stand between her and getting converted to the undead are her chainsaw and high school spirit. The demo begins with Juliet arriving at San Romero High on her 18th birthday, only to realise the school has been overrun by zombies. Lollipop Chainsaw is a lot like the John Hughes movies it's riffing on, with judgmental first impressions of this scantily clad blonde dissipating like the social cliques of The Breakfast Club. Happily, any concerns that a Western influence has turned Suda's vision into a generic cash-in are quelled as soon as the action starts. Both cheerleaders and zombies feel overly familiar Grasshopper's always excelled at showing us things we've never seen before, and white trash stereotypes thrown together with zombies is a mix that's close to being worn out. The story of 18-year-old zombie hunter and cheerleader Juliet Starling massacring hordes of the undead in a sunny suburban high school seems uncharacteristically tame by studio head Suda 51's esoteric standards. Lollipop Chainsaw is no exception, though this time there's something a little different about it. Grasshopper Manufacture's games have always had abstract, manic personalities. The zombie outbreak has been caused by Juliet's former classmate, an evil goth sorcerer named Swan (voiced by Sean Gunn)ĭeveloper: Grasshopper Manufacture (No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned)Įurogamer gave the game a pretty favourable preview () the other day. ![]() ![]() The enemy zombies are led by "a group of zombie rock and roll lords". She carries with her the severed, yet still living, head of her boyfriend Nick (voiced by Michael Rosenbaum), who she decapitated after he suffered a zombie bite. Lollipop Chainsaw focuses on zombie hunter and cheerleader Juliet Starling (voiced by Tara Strong) who fights hordes of zombies in San Romero High School, which Starling formerly attended. ![]()
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