Lollipop Chainsaw Remake Confirmed For 2023, Will Include New Music
After weeks of speculation and a cryptic social media post, Lollipop Chainsaw has been confirmed to receive a full remake in 2023 — complete with updated graphics and a new soundtrack. Developed by No More Heroes studio Grasshopper Manufacture and co-written by James Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad fame, the original Lollipop Chainsaw was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012 and achieved a cult following due to its over-the-top tone and morbid sense of humor that harkened back to pulpy horror fiction like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Players took on the role of Juliet Starling, a high school cheerleader who battled hordes of zombies with the help of her trusty chainsaw and the talking, disembodied head of her boyfriend Nick.
Despite its positive reception and high sales figures, Lollipop Chainsaw never had any sequels or updated ports for later consoles and was even left out of Xbox’s backward compatibility catalog and Sony’s new PlayStation Plus line-up. However, there have been signs that Lollipop Chainsaw is set to return in the new console generation. Back in June, original Lollipop Chainsaw producer Yoshimi Yasuda tweeted that the campy zombie hack-and-slash classic that he helped publish under his old company Kadokawa Games would be making a comeback under his brand-new studio Dragami Games. The message was vague enough to leave fans speculating whether this would be a simple remaster or a full-on remake of Lollipop Chainsaw, but it was enough to get fans excited at the possibility of slaying the undead hordes as Juliet once more.
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Earlier today, July 5, IGN broke the news that Lollipop Chainsaw is indeed
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