Lollipop Chainsaw remake with ‘more realistic’ graphics is launching next year
As teased last month, Lollipop Chainsaw is making a comeback as a full remake set to release next year. The news was confirmed earlier today by the original game’s producer and director, Yoshimi Yasuda, over Twitter. Some of the original development team is also on board, along with Yasuda. However, while the announcement should get your chainsaw revving, there are some caveats. The Lollipop Chainsaw remake team is aiming for “more realistic” graphics, and some songs aren’t coming along for the ride.
According to the message by Yasuda, the new game is going to look and sound a bit different. With modern hardware being more powerful than that of 2012, the game’s release, the Lollipop Chainsaw remake will boast “a more realistic approach to the graphics this time.” That’s quite the hammer to drop. The original game was far from realistic, with bright colors, glitter, and rainbows highlighting every zombie massacre. Perhaps Yasuda means these effects will be more robust and high quality, rather than gritty and dark. Otherwise, the game could lose its gaudy identity.
The Lollipop Chainsaw remake is losing out on some songs, sadly. Yasuda mentions that the 2012 release included 15 licensed songs, but it would be “difficult for [them] to implement all of them this time.” Instead, the game will include some new tracks. Hopefully, the team is at least able to keep “Cherry Bomb” by The Runaways. That was pretty much the theme song.
Yasuda launched into a story of the original game’s creation in the announcement. And there is some interesting lore to match the overall bizarre game that is Lollipop Chainsaw, where you play as a zombie-killing high school cheerleader. The game began development in 2009. It was created under joint
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