After being teased final month, a Lollipop Chainsaw remake has formally been introduced by Dragami Video games.
Yoshimi Yasuda, CEO of Dragami Video games and producer on the unique Lollipop Chainsaw, confirmed that the venture is in improvement with a deliberate launch in 2023. Platforms have but to be revealed although we’ll probably see it seem on PlayStation techniques and perhaps the Nintendo Swap on the very least.
The studio hasn’t shared any footage from the Lollipop Chainsaw remake, although guarantees visible enhancements for the goofy zombie-slaying motion recreation. As well as, it’s been confirmed that employees who labored on the unique will return to assist convey the sport to a brand new viewers. Launched in 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Yasuda highlights how troublesome it’s to entry the sport on trendy techniques, this being a part of his motivation to convey LC again from the useless.
Lollipop Chainsaw has gamers tackle the function of cheerleader Juliet Starling, who finds herself in a zombie apocalypse on her 18th birthday. Alongside for the experience is her boyfriend Nick. Properly, his nonetheless dwelling decapitated head that Juliet lopped off after he was bitten by a zombie. Fortunately for him, Juliet comes from a household of zombie hunters. Within the recreation, Juliet makes use of a chainsaw to kill zombies which disappear in sparkles. This characteristic would later affect James Gunn’s stylistic alternative for 2021’s Suicide Squad when Harley Quinn goes on a rampage.
In our overview, Tuffcub didn’t come away too impressed by the sport, writing, “Lollipop Chainsaw options among the crudest language ever heard on a online game, barely a second goes purchase with out an insult being flung and that is completely demonstrated by the primary boss battle. Zed, a punk rocker who assaults by uttering curse phrases which then seem on display in big letters and rush in direction of Juliette. You may actually be killed by the phrase ‘Cocksucker’.
Supply: 4Gamer