You might think that this work is a figment of the imagination of a drunken savage. But among the gross violations of the rules of art we find in "Lollipop Chainsaw", to our even greater surprise, sublime passages worthy of the greatest genius.
The text was written just in anticipation of the release of the remaster this year. And, at the same time, as an accompanying text for immersion in the series Onee Chanbara.
Lollipop Chainsaw
After spending three evenings Lollipop Chainsaw I understand three things. First, I definitely miss the games of the 6th and 7th generation of consoles terribly. They are incredibly addictive and full of unrestrained creative impulses that overflow. Second – specifically like this, like HERE they don’t do it anymore in the modern entertainment industry. Third – bring more! I want more!
Juliet exudes work ethic
(y Xbox 360 There is no way to take screenshots, so the images for design were taken from the Internet)
Hey perv! Don’t be looking up my skirt!
This creation is a delightful, incomparable, perfect chainsaw-zombie-shredding Suda 51-similar schizophrenia in the best sense of the word, inspired by the atmosphere of the 70s and 80s from small American towns, the spirit of rockabilly, as well as comedies/horror films about almost adult idiot teenagers and perky but sultry cheerleaders. Lollipop Chainsaw – a game of the 7th generation of consoles, rare in its accuracy and impossible for today, in which you can destroy the dead to a mix of Needled 24/7 – Children of Bodom and swashbuckling guitar tracks from himself Akira Yamaoka, that cuts riffs in a metallic, dirty, heavy and recognizable style, and then sharply turns into psychedelic, then into funk, then into punk. The maestro is submissive to all genres – I will definitely demonstrate this further in the text.
"Needled 24/7" groups Children of Bodom
Tell me how the morning should begin for 18-year-old graduate, cheerful star cheerleader Juliet Starling? From a shower, breakfast and, of course, a bike ride towards the park, where a guy is waiting for her, not forgetting to crush zombies with wheels along the way until her two-wheeled friend turns into scrap metal. Without raising an eyebrow at the loss, the girl takes out a neat, no less pink chainsaw from her pink handbag (without frills with rhinestones) and will start dashingly shredding zombies left and right, not forgetting to stun them with impact – literally! – dancing with pom-poms.
This is what the plot looks like during the zombie apocalypse on her birthday – when else will it happen?? The best decoration of the holiday will be explosions and omnipresent panic. The whole bacchanalia takes place to the cheerful barbershop tune “Lollipop" groups The Chordettes, smoothly flowing into something heavier. The general broken frenzy of the Japanese interpretation of American cinema is ideally emphasized by the feisty, but very successful, biting black humor, which, again, is impossible today (because of the repulsed protolerastic policy in the West, so that sensitive degenerate snowflakes don’t get offended once again by some senseless crap and start a “bund” on Twitter). This humor is successful, carbonated, omnipresent, audio-visual and wildly parodic and daring. For example, when dying, zombies in the gym can, at the most unpredictable moment, say something like:
— I’m dying! And I’m fucking fat!
(- I’m dying! And I’m fucking fat!)Zombie in the gym
or, for example, on a construction site, next to boomboxes:
— I can’t get this song of Katy Perry out of my head! What a terrible way to die.
(—I can’t get this Katy Perry song out of my head! What a terrible way to die!)Zombies on a construction site, next to boomboxes
I’m not talking about the main characters themselves, who can indulge in extravagant vulgarities:
(Juliet) — Killing zombies gives me total wood!
(Nick) — That’s a weird thing to say
(Juliet) – Killing zombies gives me a hard-on! (nipples, obviously)
(Nick) – To say such things… is not entirely normal
Juliet and Nick at the very beginning of the story campaign
The general tone of the story and the plot here are a joke – the game cannot be taken seriously, under any pretext. This is a rollickingly bad but funny comedy that needs to be treated as such. You should also be prepared for the ubiquitous, deliberately stupid, but successfully pasted into the timing punches. After all, in what other work will a young American cheerleader up to the tenth generation chirp smartly in Japanese and learn from an Asian-looking sensei of comically short stature, as if he had just come running from some Karate Kid?
I’m a Zombie Hunter… Don’t Hate Me-e-e!
Oh yes. Juliet’s boyfriend named Nick is practically a corpse from the very first minutes of the game: he was bitten on the hand by a zombie. But it doesn’t matter: the main character, with well-groomed hands, sawed off his head with a chainsaw before the infection reached the brain, conjured Zombie Hunter’s magic and now he is always with her – in the role of a talking accessory hanging on her luxurious buttock. Here it’s important to add a word about the English voice acting: it’s not just great, it’s excellent! The voices were chosen conscientiously, the actors perfectly understand what roles they are playing and behave accordingly, without antics and unnecessary farce.
The gameplay is quite simple: we rush as cute Juliet through linear levels and, in a simplified slasher manner, destroy zombies with a chainsaw, reaping a super-yielding harvest of lifeless heads and limbs, stunning zombies at will and jumping on them like a leapfrog – in order to confuse. The feeling of the battle is arcade, a little specific and requires a certain habit, but you gradually adapt and get into the rhythm, feeling for the most winning combinations of attacks, of which there are a couple of dozen. Some of these attacks are opened in separate special shops scattered throughout the levels – for the currency that falls from the zombies. Also in these same shops you have the opportunity to buy Juliet ammunition, lollipops for her pocket so that she can heal up later, fan service costumes, discover new music for a custom playlist, gain improvements for combat characteristics, as well as special coupons that launch a variation of Russian roulette and thereby help avoid death. Replenishing the health of our cheers-excellent student occurs with the help of the lollipops included in the name, which she simply adores. They, like coupons, can be found scattered in the nooks and crannies of levels.
Hey, zombies, put a dollar in my skirt and I won’t kill you! Haha! Just kidding – I’d kill you anyway!
Hey zombie, put a dollar in my skirt and I won’t kill you! Haha! Just kidding – I’ll kill you all anyway!
But the player will not https://casinomax.uk/withdrawal/ be satisfied with just a chainsaw and pom-poms. Gradually, the arsenal is replenished with a special gun, which allows you to shoot zombies from a distance and deal with flying creatures that are furiously bleeding from all the cracks. It’s great that almost every such mechanic is accompanied by some kind of mini-event – then you need to protect Nick, seated on the headless body of a zombie pitcher in an impromptu zombie baseball game with the dead constantly attacking him. Then, using Juliet’s “dash” mechanics, rush through a series of rooftops with high springboards, jumping along them like a saiga. Then play a kind of basketball with zombie heads, cutting up defenders with a chainsaw and carefully removing the dead tops – and so on. And in general, in what other game can you mow down zombies with a combine harvester under You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) groups Dead or Alive?
I said that the bosses here are the most colorful? This one also speaks through a vocaloid and is all funky
The bosses do not lag behind the general frenzy – every damn time they are the most colorful, memorable typical, but completely crazy ghouls that need to be dealt with in a unique way. Just look at the battles with a local Viking in the supernaturally floating Rook or a completely drug-fueled fight in another dimension with zombie-hippies! Some bosses even throw in remarkable homages to other games and elements of pop culture, including many famous retro ones. What is characteristic is that all this is presented with a production that is quite good for an AA release in 2012, with a modest production budget. The tactics and duration of the battle are different for everyone, but at the same time it is easy to read and understand.
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – Dead or Alive
The Way of the Fist – Five Finger Death Punch
Stop Reading, Start Doing Pushups — Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows.
Am I the only one laughing at the name of the group “Destroy, Build Again, Before God Withers away”?»
Riot Rhythm – Sleigh Bells
1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT
Heroes Of Our Time – Dragonforce
Nemesis – Arch Enemy
Needled 24/7 – Children of Bodom
Mickey – Toni Basil
Empire State Human – The Human League
Cherry Bomb – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Rock ‘N’ Roll (Will Take You To The Mountain) – Skrillex
Speed - Atari Teenage Riot
Pac Man Fever – Buckner & Garcia
Lollipop – The Chordettes
Full playlist available here. Below I will list the tracks that got me hooked. In some places the recording is noisy and extremely dirty:
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – METAL VII: Zombie Tackle [Akira Yamaoka].
Colorful slaughter for massacre
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – ROCK II: Burning Pompadour Zombie [Akira Yamaoka].
I like the melody of the composition
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – ROCK IX: To the Rotten World [Akira Yamaoka].
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – ROCK VIII: Scattering Guts [Akira Yamaoka].
I drank quite angrily, but I remember how great it was to smash dead creatures to pieces while listening to it.
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – FUNK I: Happy Hand Club [Akira Yamaoka].
Sounds nice. Vigorously
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – FUNK II: Sparkling Sunglasses [Akira Yamaoka].
Yamaoka is burning like crazy.
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – FUNK III: Groovy Zombie Trap [Akira Yamaoka].
Indeed, GROOVY! Worm Jim APPROVED.
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – FUNK V: Retro Diapers [Akira Yamaoka].
Calm, slightly imposing track.
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – METAL IX: Viking Zombies Sail On Lightning Seas [Akira Yamaoka].
Meat-o-o-o! During the sausage part, flashbacks from the 2000s to the track were activated “Damage King” by Frank Klepacki for the game Universe at War: Earth Assualt (listen from 0:44).
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – PSYCHEDELIC VII: The Queen’s Rotting Funhouse [Akira Yamaoka].
In this calm there is a threat
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – PSYCHEDELIC VIII: Zombie Guts [Akira Yamaoka]
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – PUNK IV: Junkyard Killing [Akira Yamaoka].
"Californian" punk. If anything, there is such a subgenre – California punk. All positive and optimistic
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – PUNK V: My Friend is Zombie? [Akira Yamaoka]
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – PUNK VII: Love for my Insane Lover [Akira Yamaoka].
Green Day ordered?
Lollipop Chainsaw OST – PUNK VIII: Cannibalism101 [Akira Yamaoka].
It’s hard to find a more punkish riff than this one.
The game took place on Xbox 360. Its technical condition is quite good. Powered by Unreal Engine 3, so the characteristic texture and color correction of the engine is in place. There are few sub-loads, high-resolution textures load quickly, there are no glitches. The render produces 30 frames per second, but it feels choppy: the visual side urgently needs a small per-object and per-camera Motion Blur to make the movements of everything look smoother. On PS3 the situation is similar – you can play on old consoles without fear for your nerves.
Personal rating: 7 out of 10. I lost a few points for the slight but consistently noticeable general clumsiness of the game in small things. This is especially true for several phases in a couple of bossfights, but this is not particularly worthy of mention in the main text.
P. S. For some reason, short-format opinions leave me with a slight feeling of incompleteness. You too?