![]() You will complete your first run through of the game in 5-6 hours. ![]() Lollipop Chainsaw is not beyond having issues over and above easily offending the fairer sex (and any male other than highly sexed teenagers or randy Japanese business men) Many of the cut scenes seem deliberately framed to avoid the need for lip syncing, almost to the point of awkwardness and elements such as Juliet’s phone seem tacked on to accomodate this. The artstyle may not be to everyone’s taste, but I like the cartoon-esque, almost hand drawn feel and think it suits the mismatched colourful cacophony of blood spurting zombie corpses and rainbow-trailing chainsaw attacks. The soundtrack is of a very high quality and the end of level boss fights are often cleverly associated with the music that goes with them. The level set in an arcade particularly shows a lot of fan service to gamers, with some memorable sections playing homage to some classic games of the past. These will give you even higher rewards if you manage to include some of the harder to kill higher level “named” zombies in your final chainsaw beheading death stroke. The majority of your enemies are your standard braindead shuffling morons, which when arriving by the schoolbus load, allows you to build score shattering combo kills. The level design is varied and provides an entertaining background to the creepy sexual carnage. The basic mechanics of combat are simple, not in a critical way, but in a way that makes the game easy to pick up and play, allowing for a level of customisation that permits you to learn the more complicated combos as you progress, while still managing to keep combat interesting. I really wanted to like Lollipop Chainsaw and there are a number of reasons that someone would. Just to make it more palatable to a wider worldwide audience.” Perhaps they are happy to make a very personally catered game that is less successful, but I fear that too much of this behavior will prevent Grasshopper from being able to afford to manufacture anything else. They just need one strong voice in there saying “ Suda, that’s crazy, I like it. It strikes me that Grasshopper Manufacture are one influential boardroom executive away from making great games. I missed out on Killer7, had sold my Wii by the time No More Heroes was released and, despite the lead character being named after my football team and the demo of Shadows of the Damned making me laugh, I did not like the Resident-Evil-style tank controls bought to the table by Shinji Makami. I have, up till now admired the zany Sudi 51 of Grasshopper Manufacture, and his games, from afar. Japan is often mockingly criticised for it’s “selling of school girl knickers in vending machines” and while the prospect of a pig tailed school uniform wearing cheerleader may be the source of sexual fantasy the world over, Lollipop Chainsaw takes it to an extreme that perhaps the rest of the world is somewhat uncomfortable with. I do not consider myself a prude, but there is a line. That this respite is found in a pair of hot pants and a skimpy top speaks volumes in itself. Having an achievement related to manually rotating the camera to an upskirt shot further cheapens the experience and it all lead to me actively being pleased to change in to a less revealing outfit. The constant - and I do mean constant - camera shots that very deliberately give you upskirt shots of Juliet’s skimpy cheerleading costumes, soon wear down even the patience of someone who has an appreciation of the quirky Grindhouse feeling they are aiming for. I should not feel that I have to apologise to a whole gender, just to have fun with the mechanics of an otherwise enjoyable third person hack-and-slash combo-heavy action game. The over sexualization of the lead character is at times a little crass…when it is being restrained at others it is bordering on the sickly perverse. ![]() My enjoyment of the game was constrained by a number of factors, the most prominent of which is so frequently thrust in your face it is hard to ignore. Her wacky all American upbringing is not as concerning as her Japanese heritage - and I am not just talking about her sexual deviant of a sushi slicing expert sensei. His outsider-looking-in perspective on the family profession acts as a constant reminder for just how insane the situation is and frequently gives rise to some hysterically funny dialogue. Juliet then goes on to confess to Nick about her less than conventional family life and sets about saving the day, with Nick reluctantly along for the ride. Publisher: Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment.
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