Lollipop Chainsaw Remake announced for 2023 release date
<p class="">Juliet Starling will be kicking zombie ass again in 2023 with a remake of Lollipop Chainsaw announced for 2023.</p>
Juliet Starling will be kicking zombie ass again in 2023 with a remake of Lollipop Chainsaw announced by Dragami Games and original game producer Yoshimi Yasuda.
It’s been ten years since the release of Lollipop Chainsaw on PS3 and Xbox 360. The hack-and-slash game from Grasshopper Manufacture was directed by Tomo Ikeda and Suda51 and written by Masahiro Yuki and James Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy/The Suicide Squad fame.
Yasuda posted the following message on Twitter when announced the game:
“Lollipop Chainsaw was born as a result of Suda51 discussing creating a new game with me. I saw great potential in Grasshopper Manufacture’s proposal, and just one month after Kadokawa Games was founded in April 2009, we started the development project on Lollipop Chainsaw, in May 2009.
As Suda-san was very busy handling development on other projects at the time, I served as director and producer, creating a joint development team consisting of staff from Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games, overseeing development directly. […] Furthermore, a Warner Bros. senior manager suggested that we have the game’s script rewritten and that we leave it to film director James Gunn, which we gladly agreed to. All of this good fortune resulted in Lollipop Chainsaw, which was released in June 2012, being loved by many players all over the world, selling over a million units worldwide.”
Yasuda continues by saying that various factors have made the game unplayable for many. And that they want to make it playable for all fans again.
“We, the original development staff on Lollipop Chainsaw, think of the game as very precious to us, and did not want to leave it in limbo, where players who want to play it cannot. As such, we purchased the Lollipop Chainsaw intellectual property from Kadokawa Games and decided to develop a remake.
We have already contacted Warner Bros, about development, and are being supported by them in this endeavour.”
The significant change noted by Yasuda for the remake will be the music. Without noting exactly how many of the original licensed songs would make it into the remake, Yasuda mentioned they’re finding it difficult to “implement them at this time.”
Lollipop Chainsaw’s remake will also feature more “realistic graphics.” I’m not sure if that just means better, given how far technology has come, but I do hope the game doesn’t lose its cartoon style, as it was a big part of the game.
Lollipop Chainsaw remake is set to release sometime in 2023.
Did you play Lollipop Chainsaw? Are you looking forward to the remake? Let me know in the comment section.
Dylan Blight
[He/Him] Dylan Blight is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Explosion Network, an independent Australian publication covering video games, film, television and pop culture. Since founding Explosion Network in 2017, Dylan has written and produced reviews, news, interviews, features and podcasts across the entertainment industry, while overseeing the publication's editorial direction and content.
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