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==Reception==
==Reception==
Japanese magazine ''[[Famitsu]]'' gave the game scores of 9 out of 10 from four reviewers, adding up to a total score of 36 out of 40.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gantayat|first=Anoop|title=Lollipop Chainsaw, Persona 4 The Golden Score High Marks in Famitsu|url=http://andriasang.com/con1c2/famitsu_scores/|publisher=Andriasang|accessdate=11 June 2012|date=2012-06-06}}</ref>
Japanese magazine ''[[Famitsu]]'' gave the game scores of 9 out of 10 from four reviewers, adding up to a total score of 36 out of 40.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gantayat|first=Anoop|title=Lollipop Chainsaw, Persona 4 The Golden Score High Marks in Famitsu|url=http://andriasang.com/con1c2/famitsu_scores/|publisher=Andriasang|accessdate=11 June 2012|date=2012-06-06}}</ref>
The game currently holds a 69 on metacritic.<ref>http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/lollipop-chainsaw/critic-reviews</ref>
The game currently holds a 69 on metacritic, with widely mixed reviews ranging from as high as 91% (A-) from [[NeoGAF|Gaming Age]] to as low as 20% (1 out of 5 stars) from Quarter to Three. Other review scores include 9 out of 10 from [[Destructoid]] and 7.5 out of 10 from ''[[Game Informer]]''.<ref>http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/lollipop-chainsaw/critic-reviews</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

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Lollipop Chainsaw
Developer(s)Grasshopper Manufacture
Publisher(s)Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Director(s)Ikeda tomo
Producer(s)Goichi Suda
Artist(s)NekoshowguN
Writer(s)James Gunn
Composer(s)Akira Yamaoka
Jimmy Urine
EngineUnreal Engine 3[3]
Platform(s)PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
Release
Genre(s)Hack and slash
Mode(s)Single-player

Lollipop Chainsaw (ロリポップチェーンソー) is a hack and slash video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles. It features Juliet Starling, a cheerleader zombie hunter fighting zombies in a fictional California high school.[4]

Story

Lollipop Chainsaw focuses on zombie hunter and cheerleader Juliet Starling (voiced by Tara Strong in English and Eri Kitamura/Yōko Hikasa in Japanese) who fights hordes of zombies in San Romero High School, which Starling formerly attended. She carries with her the severed, yet still living, head of her boyfriend Nick (voiced by Michael Rosenbaum in English and Kenichi Suzumura in Japanese), whom she decapitated after he suffered a zombie bite. It is also revealed that Juliet will be assisted by her sisters, Cordelia Starling (Linda Cardellini), the elder one and Rosalind Starling the younger sister.[5] The enemy zombies are led by "a group of zombie rock and roll lords" who were former high school students who were turned into intelligent zombies. [6] The zombie outbreak has been caused by Juliet's former classmate, an evil goth druid named Swan (voiced by Sean Gunn), who seeks to break the barrier between the human world and the Rotten World, a world inhabited by zombies and other demonic forces.[7]

Gameplay

Lollipop Chainsaw is a hack and slash video game with gameplay resembling Suda51's No More Heroes games. In the game, Juliet has light attacks, which are acrobatic kicks and punches, and heavy attacks which use a chainsaw. The light attacks are intended to herd enemy zombies together so that Juliet can finish them off all at once with heavy attacks. Killing enemies and saving classmates that are being attacked by zombies will fill up Juliet's star meter, which is used for super attacks.[8] Juliet's boyfriend Nick, a disembodied head hanging from her skirt, can be used for various purposes, including being kicked at enemies by Juliet or being put on the body of a decapitated zombie to control it. When the player completes certain tasks in the game, Juliet's chainsaw will be upgraded. Suda has also said that part of the gameplay "might involve sound".[9]

Development

Before its announcement in July 2011, Lollipop Chainsaw was first mentioned as an unnamed game featuring "stylish action" in an October 2010 article on 1UP.com detailing Kadokawa Shoten's partnership with Grasshopper and Prope. Suda described it as featuring "really extreme twists" and being very funny. He optimistically declared that he thinks the game will be "a really big title in the worldwide market.[10] Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish the game outside of Japan and filmmaker James Gunn had a hand in developing the game's story and characters.[11] Gunn has said that many of the people he works with in his films and other projects are also working on Lollipop Chainsaw.

For the characters, the illustrator NekoshowguN (she is known for her previous works on music games GuitarFreaks and DrumMania) had designed the characters for Lollipop Chainsaw and the chainsaw that Juliet Starling holds, but NekoshowguN said that she did not design the enemies. On February 1, 2012, it was announced that Jimmy Urine from the electro-punk band Mindless Self Indulgence would compose the music for the boss segments. He will also provide the voice for Zed, a punk-rock themed boss.[12] On March 6, 2012, it was announced that one of the DLC available for the game will be a set of different costumes for Juliet based on five different characters from four anime series: Rei Miyamoto and Saeko Busujima from Highschool of the Dead, Shiro from Deadman Wonderland, Manyū Chifusa from Manyū Hiken-chō and Haruna from Is This a Zombie?.[13]

Reception

Japanese magazine Famitsu gave the game scores of 9 out of 10 from four reviewers, adding up to a total score of 36 out of 40.[14] The game currently holds a 69 on metacritic, with widely mixed reviews ranging from as high as 91% (A-) from Gaming Age to as low as 20% (1 out of 5 stars) from Quarter to Three. Other review scores include 9 out of 10 from Destructoid and 7.5 out of 10 from Game Informer.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Ishaan (March 5, 2012). "Lollipop Chainsaw Cuts Through North America And Europe In June". siliconera. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  2. ^ Anoop Gantayat (March 6, 2012). "Lollipop Chainsaw Dated for June 14". Andriasang.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  3. ^ "Behind closed doors with lollipop chainsaw: Zombies, cheerleaders, gore". digitaltrends.com. Retrieved 2012-5-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Text "publisher" ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Lollipop Chainsaw's Lead Is A Chainsaw-Wielding Cheerleader Who Likes Pink". Siliconera. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
  5. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74q8GVYixTQ
  6. ^ "My new video game with Suda51 & Grasshopper: Lollipop Chainsaw". James Gunn. 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
  7. ^ http://www.giantbomb.com/swan-rules-zombies-with-a-non-conformist-fist-in-lollipop-chainsaw/17-5523/
  8. ^ "Lollipop Chainsaw hands-on preview". Gamesradar. 2011. Retrieved 2012-04-5. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ "Suda51 Talks Up Lollipop Chainsaw". 1UP.com. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  10. ^ "Grasshopper, Yuji Naka Tease New Projects". 1UP.com. 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  11. ^ Johnny Cullen (2011-08-01). "Warner to publish Grasshopper's Lollipop Chainsaw". vg247. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
  12. ^ http://www.destructoid.com/jimmy-urine-doing-music-voiceover-for-lollipop-chainsaw-220850.phtml
  13. ^ Hachima Kikō (2012-03-06). "Lollipop Chainsaw Game Gets Crossover Costumes from 4 Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
  14. ^ Gantayat, Anoop (2012-06-06). "Lollipop Chainsaw, Persona 4 The Golden Score High Marks in Famitsu". Andriasang. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  15. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/lollipop-chainsaw/critic-reviews
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