We Need A New Bully Alongside Lollipop Chainsaw
Lollipop Chainsaw just had a remake announced, and regular readers of TheGamer will know that I have written about this phenomenon more than is wise. Perhaps even more than is healthy. I’ve celebrated Juliet Starling’s comeback, written about my reservations on how the game may have aged, as well as my disappointment that James Gunn and Suda51 (the two most influential voices in the game’s creation) have been cut out of the remake. But now is the time to move on to the slightly adjacent topic of Bully. I would like Bully back.
Bully has always felt like Lollipop Chainsaw’s twin brother. Bully is a boy and Lollipop Chainsaw is a girl in the same way dogs are boys and cats are girls. That is to say, they’re not, but everybody basically thinks of them that way. That doesn’t mean only boys can play Bully and only girls Lollipop Chainsaw. I played both, but then I’m a boy who became a girl, so figure that one out. What I mean is both games are fairly similar at their core. They’re cartoonishly violent, feature over the top characters, and take the typical tropes of a school as their foundation. Basically, Jimmy and Juliet should just kiss already, except Juliet has a boyfriend and I guess it would be twincest. Moving on.
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Bully, officially called Canis Canem Edit in the UK thanks to a morality panic over happy slapping, has fallen on hard times. ‘00s Rockstar is the only developer that could have made it, but unfortunately ‘00s Rockstar became ‘10s Rockstar, and its priority shifted to making games as big as they can possibly be. ‘10s Rockstar gave us Red Dead Redemption and its sequel (the latter being a contender for the most technically astute game ever),
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