Lollipop Chainsaw



Lollipop Chainsaw (ロリポップチェーンソー?) is an upcoming action video game being developed by Grasshopper Manufacture for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles. It features Juliet Starling, a cheerleader fighting zombies in a fictional California high school.[3] Grasshopper CEO Suda51 will serve as creative director for the game, and the main characters were designed by the female artist NekoshowguN. {| class="toc" id="toc"

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[hide] *1 Story
 * 2 Gameplay
 * 3 Development
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links
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[edit] 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), who she decapitated after he suffered a zombie bite. The enemy zombies are led by "a group of zombie rock and roll lords".[4] The zombie outbreak has been caused by Juliet's former classmate, an evil goth sorcerer named Swan (voiced by Sean Gunn).[5]

[edit] Gameplay
It has not been officially stated what type of game Lollipop Chainsaw is, but it appears to be a hack and slash akin to Suda's No More Heroes games. In the game, Juliet's main weapon will be her chainsaw, but she will also be able to use her acrobatic skills to kill zombies. 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".[6]

[edit] 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.[7]

It is also reported that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish the game outside of Japan and that filmmaker James Gunn has a hand in developing the game's story and characters.[8] Gunn has said that many of the people he works with in his films and other projects are also working on Lollipop Chainsaw.

On Wednesday, February 1st, 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.[9] &nbsp