Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP ‘will now be a remaster rather than a remake’
Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP will now be a remaster as opposed to a remake, according to Dragami Games.
“We have changed the game design of RePOP from Remake to Remaster based on your requests,” said studio founder Yoshimi Yasuda.
Without further clarification, it’s impossible to say what this actually means for the title, although it could be that Dragami intends for it to more closely resemble the original than was previously planned.
Yasuda was formerly the CEO of Kadokawa Games, which published Grasshopper Manufacture titles Lollipop Chainsaw and Killer is Dead in Japan. He was also executive producer on both titles.
He left Kadokawa last year to form Dragami Games, before announcing that one its first projects would be a Lollipop Chainsaw remake.
私たちは皆さんの要望を踏まえRePOPのゲームデザインをRemakeからRemasterに変更しました…!!!
We have changed the game design of RePOP from Remake to Remaster based on your requests! pic.twitter.com/IRcfQRXN6a
— 安田善巳 Yoshimi Yasuda (@yasudaD5) <a target="_blank" rel=«noopener» class=«link-external» href=«https://twitter.com/yasudaD5/status/1712619161275269424?ref_src=» https:>October 13, 2023
Some aspects of the announcement – including that it would have a new soundtrack, a “more realistic” art design, and that original creative director Suda51 and co-writer James Gunn wouldn’t be involved in the project – left some fans worried.
Yasuda attempted to address some of these issues last summer, saying: “The primary goal of the Lollipop Chainsaw Remake project is to make it so that players who wish to play Lollipop Chainsaw can do so easily, not to make a new Lollipop Chainsaw game.
“Of course, the ideal thing to do would be to make a remastered version of the original game, changing nothing.
“However, we were unfortunately
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