Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Will Be Returning In 2024

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Dragami Games has announced a delay for the upcoming re-release of Suda51 and James Gunn action game Lollipop Chainsaw.

Dragami has also revealed that the rerelease will go by the title of Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP. While it was originally intended for release this year, it will now be rescheduled to summer 2024.

As reported by Gematsu, Dragami shared this press release:

“Although development of RePOP was carried out with the intention of a 2023 release, our commitment to providing the best possible quality experience to our players led us to making the hard decision to extend the development period in order to ensure this.

We sincerely apologize to all who had been waiting for the latest installment in the Lollipop Chainsaw series, and kindly ask for your understanding in this matter.”

Lollipop Chainsaw was originally released in 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This was a noteworthy but late seventh generation release. It holds the distinction of being developer Grasshopper Manufacture’s most successful game to date, selling one million units. It also came in between two other notable Suda51 games, Shadows of the Damned and Killer is Dead.

While Suda51’s works are more of an acquired taste, compared to Hidetaka Miyazaki’s breakout hits, he is in somewhat the same boat as Ken Levine, popular and bankable in the industry, but idiosyncratic in their visions, and not as interested in matching the grandiose scale of AAAs nowadays.

Lollipop Chainsaw has a somewhat convoluted rights history as well. It is one of the last games made by Grasshopper Manufacture under their original publisher, Kadokawa Games. The year after its release, Grasshopper Manufacture was acquired by Gungho Entertainment. It would move ownership