![]() And the game includes zombies, a threat that's been used way too much this generation. I wanted to love the game much more due to its content and approach, but the glaringly simplistic gameplay and flow made the six to seven hour experience a tad repetitive. Lollipop Chainsaw is what it is, a Suda51 production featuring a unique style wrapped in basic play mechanics. They range from fighting a zombie Viking who disintegrates into a bouncing giant head to a funkadelic pimp who talks with a synthesizer and floats around on a mini UFO with babes. Boss battles, though easy, fair much better, offering better enjoyment in their approach. Sounds fun until you actually drive the slow-moving tractor that needs to kill anywhere from 100 to 300 undead. ![]() The ramps are abused to hell and back in the stadium stage to the point of being obnoxious, and you're even forced to mow zombies using a tractor a couple times in a condensed crop field. ![]() They give you a break from the norm, sure, but I wouldn't go so far to call most fun. Examples include running around in a life-size Pac-Man maze while avoiding killer munchers, as well as dashing and jumping off ramps in succession on rooftops. You're not always going to be slicing and dicing throughout the game, though, as attempts are made to add variety, often to varying degrees of success. There's enough here to make the standard gameplay bearable to the end. Juliet will yell at Nick for being racist towards zombie cows, comments are occasionally made about his head being a fashion accessory, and goofy things are discussed during fights, ranging from favorite colors to pole dancing. I was even shocked when Pac-Man Fever started playing at one point! The conversations between Juliet and Nick are amusing, too. People like Justin Bieber and Stephen Hawking are mentioned, a famous Fist of the North Star quote is uttered, and the song Mickey by Toni Basil always plays when you're exhausting the special bar. Lollipop Chainsaw is also loaded with pop culture references, new and old, Japanese and American, enough that every person who plays will spot at least one thing they know. The game is a rollercoaster ride of silliness, pitting you against zombie break dancers, using Nick's head during spinning attacks, and literally getting stuck in mindtrips where you're forced to fight giant birds. Huh? Yeah, she performs magic to keep Nick's head alive. In just the opening stage alone, zombies are sliced in pieces by the dozen, a bus filled with normal students explode, vehicles crash everywhere, and your avatar chops off her boyfriend's head to save it from his zombified body. Her skills are put to great effect when, on her birthday of all days, a zombie outbreak occurs in and around her school, San Romero. In this plot written by James Gunn, you're in control of a highschool cheerleader, Juliet, who also happens to be a professional chainsaw-wielding zombie hunter. If you have played a Suda51 game, or at least know them, you're going to see the usual suspects here: loads of gore, excessive use of vulgar language, and just a straight-up, bizarre trek. However, Lollipop Chainsaw shouldn't be dismissed immediately, as the game provides quite a bit of humor and style to keep you enthralled. So if you're expecting a game changer from this title, you're in for a huge disappointment. ![]() In the gameplay department, Lollipop Chainsaw doesn't even try hard to be different from previous 3D hack'n slash titles you'll fight waves of enemies using simple button combinations ad nauseam, activate a special bar for one-hit kills, lock-on to erratic bosses and evade their predictable attacks, and purchase new, powerful moves from shops. " Lollipop Chainsaw is what it is, a Suda51 production featuring a unique style wrapped in basic play mechanics." ![]()
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