Wait, what? Where the fuck have you been? Where's the rest of the Fantastic Four reviews? Who do you think you are nonchalantly waltzing back into my life as if you didn't leave a gaping whole in my heart?
Okay so maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but I do feel like I should explain myself. After a while I just felt like I had to write these blogs because I was obligated to and it wasn't fun anymore so I stopped for a while. Then I got a job and that's been taking up a lot of my time too. but I do miss it, so I will be posting more blogs now just not as often. Now that that's out of the way let's get into it shall we?
Lollipop Chainsaw is a zombie action game that came out in 2012. What interested me in it was not only the plot, which was appealing, but also the creator. The creative director of the game is Suda 51 and if you're not familiar with his work, he has worked on Killer 7, the No More Heroes series, Shadow of The Damned and most recently Killer is Dead. He always adds this twisted black sense of humor to his games that I am a big fan of.
There is not much of a story to Lollipop but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't know about you but when I go to see a zombie movie, I don't go for the plot. The game opens up with our heroine Juliet Starling on her birthday, heading to her high school to meet her boyfriend Nick Carlyle. On her way to school she gets ambushed by a horde of zombies. Juliet seems un-phased by this, pulls out her trusty chainsaw and proceeds to kick all sorts of zombie ass. As you can see from the image above, by the time she gets to Nick, he has already been bitten. Just when we think this star-crossed romance is over, Juliet says she thinks she can save him. Nick then wakes up and is just a decapitated head. Juliet confesses that she cast a spell on his disembodied head to keep him alive and she comes from a long line of zombie hunters, please don't think she's weird.
Before Nick can even accept any of this Juliet begins wearing him like a purse and rushes outside to find some emo douchebag trying to open the gates of Hell. This guy decided to start the apocalypse because he was picked on in school! Well anyway, he summons five super zombies that will be the boss fights for the next five levels. Each one is really unique and plays differently. Also they are all music themed. There is the hippy chick zombie who plays folk music as you fight. Then there's Funky Zombie who's voice is entirely auto-tuned and Juliet accuses him of mocking Stephen Hawking. There's the Viking death metal zombie who eventually just turned into a giant head bouncing around the stage. The final boss was no different. When you defeat all of the five zombies you learn it was all just a plan to summon the zombie of zombies Killabilly.
I'm sure you can tell from the Image above but Killabilly is basically just a giant zombie version of Elvis. When I say giant I mean giant. Like Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man giant. The stage begins and you have to make a bridge out of the cars he is throwing at you. After that, you have to hide behind cars and buildings to avoid his eye lasers. Oh did I forget to mention that Killabilly has eye lasers 'cus he totally has eye lasers! When you finally reach him and fight him, you then need to climb inside him and defeat him. That is how you do a boss fight ladies and gentleman.
One of the main reasons I didn't pick this game up when it first came out was the character of Juliet. Whenever I saw a clip of the game, she seemed to be just a blonde ditzy bimbo. I am happy to say that I was wrong. Juliet has ditzy moments but she is such an awesome ass kicker and with Nick as the helpless character, it really reverses the usual male/female roles. The humor in this game is great. As I said before, Suda 51 always puts in twisted jokes and this is no different. My favorite joke in this game is when you change Juliet's outfit Nick will make comments like, "Man I wish I had my penis."
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