Lollipop Chainsaw
Is Lollipop Chainsaw worth all the hype? Is it worth buying? Is it worth staying up all night to beat it in 1 night because it is so awesome? SPOILERS....YES! That's what I did lol. Read more below!
Graphics
The graphics in Lollipop Chainsaw are top notch. Very colorful, beautiful, and vibrant. I knew I liked seeing blood shoot out of zombies when you decapitated them, but I now also love seeing rainbows shoot out of them along with the blood.
The creators of this game paid a lot of attention to detail in the characters, the zombies and the levels alike. I didn't see any glitches or anything throughout the entire game. BEAUTIFUL....COLORFUL.....AMAZING!
SCORE : 10/10
Gameplay
Lollipop Chainsaw is an action adventure type game, but it is def. not an adventure for children. It's full of blood, guts, swearing and sexual inuendo.
You can do high power attacks with your chainsaw, low sweeping attacks with the chainsaw, jump attacks and you can even fight hand to hand with your cheerleader pom poms.
You want to try and decapitate atleast 3 zombies at once to collect sparkles which power up your special meeter and to collect silver medals to unlock things. When you use your special ability you start blinking and sparkling all super star Mario style, and you do WAY more damage than usual, also the song Hey Mickie starts playing....You know the song....Hey Mickie you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickie...hey Mickie.....yeah that one. If I got it stuck in your head....good...join the club!
You can also stun enemies either by using pom pom attacks or by hitting blue barrels. Stunning them makes it easier for you to decapitate them and get those precious combos!
When you kill zombies or destroy things around the world you get gold medals to spend at shops scattered around the town. You can buy new moves, upgrades for your health, strength etc..New songs, new costumes and concept art.
There are different kinds of zombies too. Regular zombies, zombies without legs that crawl around (Which you can cut zombies legs off and turn them into these zombies, exploding zombies and fire zombies....there are other zombie types but I will let you discover them for yourself because some of them are a surprise!
In order to get past some obstacles Juliet must hop, jump, and flip over things or slice through them with her chainsaw. She has a chainsaw that can cut through concrete and steel rebar rods.....I want a chainsaw like that.
There are also events where you have to put Juliets boyfriends decapitated head onto a headless zombie body and then input button commands to move further through areas, and get through obstacles. All in all the game is fun as hell to play!
SCORE : 10/10
Story
In Lollipop Chainsaw you play a highschool cheerleader named Juliet Starling and you have to save your school, the rest of the town and ultimately the world from zombies that originated from a fog the came out of The Rotten World, which is the equivalent of Hell I guess, and you have to do all of this on Juliets 18th birthday!
A hole was opened in the Rotten World by a goth kid bomber that went to Juliets school. San ROMERO Highschool.....Yes named after the great George Romero.(The game is full of little nods like this. There is also a level later in the game called FULCI Fun Center. After Luccio Fulci!)
Early in the game Juliet reveals why she kicks so much ass when it comes to killing zombies.....no spoilers here really....She is a zombie hunter....infact her whole family his, both her sisters and her father. Her mother seems to be the only normal one in the family, sounding like a normal mom when you talk to her on Juliets phone....which she keeps inside her chainsaw.
Early in the game you are introduced to Juliets boyfriend, Nick....who gets bitten and Juliet has to remove his head.....But she uses magic to keep him alive....as a decapitated head. Poor Nick....Although he does get to spend all day attached to Juliets butt...so it's not all bad lol.
There are dozens upon dozens of zingy one-liners throughout the entire game, and some of them are freakin hilarious. Such as the O'Bannon Farm level, Nick makes a comment about the cow manure smelling like a German porn....or the Fulci Fun Center level they make a gamer joke...."If a guy wearing a red hat and blue over alls pops out I'm gunna' shit myself." I nearly died laughing several times in probably every level of the game.
Anyway I'm getting ahead of myself. The goth kid releases 5 boss zombies into the world and each of them represents a different form of music....Punk Rock, Viking Metal, Psychadelic Rock, Funk, and Rock n' Roll, and you have to defeat each of them to stop the infestation of the Earth by smart mouthed zombies.
SCORE : 10/10
Replay Value
As I said previously there is a shop where you can buy various different things. More than likely you will not get enough to buy everything on your first play through the game. There are plenty of upgrades to your health, strength, Homing distance (for further shooting and targeting) and recovery (Which allows you to stand up faster after being knocked down.)
Also there are a bunch of skill move attacks that make zombie slaying easier....and funner....I don't think that is a word....but it is now, because I say so, therefor it is! All of those things can be bought using the gold medals you collect from killing zombies and destroying things in the environment.
There are also around 2 dozen alternate outfits for Juliet to wear. Including bakinis, different cheerleader outfits and even the outfits of some of the girls from the anime Highschool of the Dead (Great anime btw, check it out).
Also there are a bunch of MP3 songs you can buy and listen to in the game, from several different styles of music. Some of them are a bit poppy but others are full blown metal songs that kick ass!
Finally you can buy concept arts for the characters and levels and the outfits, MP3s and concepts arts can all be bought with the harder to acquire silver medals, that you get throughout the game.
So there are plenty of things to unlock in the game, not to mention the game is fun as hell to play so the replay value is great, however there is still room for improvement there, game could be a little longer but that's no biggie...it's still roughly 8 hours long...so average game length nowadays I guess. lol
SCORE : 9.5/10
Overall
Overall this game is....parden my french....FUCKING AMAZING! I highly recommend it for any gamer....well....any gamer that is above the age of 18 and not offended by gore, foul language, or sexual innuendo that is lol. If you love games like that...then this is def. for you!
SCORE : 9.9/10
Graphics
The graphics in Lollipop Chainsaw are top notch. Very colorful, beautiful, and vibrant. I knew I liked seeing blood shoot out of zombies when you decapitated them, but I now also love seeing rainbows shoot out of them along with the blood.
The creators of this game paid a lot of attention to detail in the characters, the zombies and the levels alike. I didn't see any glitches or anything throughout the entire game. BEAUTIFUL....COLORFUL.....AMAZING!
SCORE : 10/10
Gameplay
Lollipop Chainsaw is an action adventure type game, but it is def. not an adventure for children. It's full of blood, guts, swearing and sexual inuendo.
You can do high power attacks with your chainsaw, low sweeping attacks with the chainsaw, jump attacks and you can even fight hand to hand with your cheerleader pom poms.
You want to try and decapitate atleast 3 zombies at once to collect sparkles which power up your special meeter and to collect silver medals to unlock things. When you use your special ability you start blinking and sparkling all super star Mario style, and you do WAY more damage than usual, also the song Hey Mickie starts playing....You know the song....Hey Mickie you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey Mickie...hey Mickie.....yeah that one. If I got it stuck in your head....good...join the club!
You can also stun enemies either by using pom pom attacks or by hitting blue barrels. Stunning them makes it easier for you to decapitate them and get those precious combos!
When you kill zombies or destroy things around the world you get gold medals to spend at shops scattered around the town. You can buy new moves, upgrades for your health, strength etc..New songs, new costumes and concept art.
There are different kinds of zombies too. Regular zombies, zombies without legs that crawl around (Which you can cut zombies legs off and turn them into these zombies, exploding zombies and fire zombies....there are other zombie types but I will let you discover them for yourself because some of them are a surprise!
In order to get past some obstacles Juliet must hop, jump, and flip over things or slice through them with her chainsaw. She has a chainsaw that can cut through concrete and steel rebar rods.....I want a chainsaw like that.
There are also events where you have to put Juliets boyfriends decapitated head onto a headless zombie body and then input button commands to move further through areas, and get through obstacles. All in all the game is fun as hell to play!
SCORE : 10/10
Story
In Lollipop Chainsaw you play a highschool cheerleader named Juliet Starling and you have to save your school, the rest of the town and ultimately the world from zombies that originated from a fog the came out of The Rotten World, which is the equivalent of Hell I guess, and you have to do all of this on Juliets 18th birthday!
A hole was opened in the Rotten World by a goth kid bomber that went to Juliets school. San ROMERO Highschool.....Yes named after the great George Romero.(The game is full of little nods like this. There is also a level later in the game called FULCI Fun Center. After Luccio Fulci!)
Early in the game Juliet reveals why she kicks so much ass when it comes to killing zombies.....no spoilers here really....She is a zombie hunter....infact her whole family his, both her sisters and her father. Her mother seems to be the only normal one in the family, sounding like a normal mom when you talk to her on Juliets phone....which she keeps inside her chainsaw.
Early in the game you are introduced to Juliets boyfriend, Nick....who gets bitten and Juliet has to remove his head.....But she uses magic to keep him alive....as a decapitated head. Poor Nick....Although he does get to spend all day attached to Juliets butt...so it's not all bad lol.
There are dozens upon dozens of zingy one-liners throughout the entire game, and some of them are freakin hilarious. Such as the O'Bannon Farm level, Nick makes a comment about the cow manure smelling like a German porn....or the Fulci Fun Center level they make a gamer joke...."If a guy wearing a red hat and blue over alls pops out I'm gunna' shit myself." I nearly died laughing several times in probably every level of the game.
Anyway I'm getting ahead of myself. The goth kid releases 5 boss zombies into the world and each of them represents a different form of music....Punk Rock, Viking Metal, Psychadelic Rock, Funk, and Rock n' Roll, and you have to defeat each of them to stop the infestation of the Earth by smart mouthed zombies.
SCORE : 10/10
Replay Value
As I said previously there is a shop where you can buy various different things. More than likely you will not get enough to buy everything on your first play through the game. There are plenty of upgrades to your health, strength, Homing distance (for further shooting and targeting) and recovery (Which allows you to stand up faster after being knocked down.)
Also there are a bunch of skill move attacks that make zombie slaying easier....and funner....I don't think that is a word....but it is now, because I say so, therefor it is! All of those things can be bought using the gold medals you collect from killing zombies and destroying things in the environment.
There are also around 2 dozen alternate outfits for Juliet to wear. Including bakinis, different cheerleader outfits and even the outfits of some of the girls from the anime Highschool of the Dead (Great anime btw, check it out).
Also there are a bunch of MP3 songs you can buy and listen to in the game, from several different styles of music. Some of them are a bit poppy but others are full blown metal songs that kick ass!
Finally you can buy concept arts for the characters and levels and the outfits, MP3s and concepts arts can all be bought with the harder to acquire silver medals, that you get throughout the game.
So there are plenty of things to unlock in the game, not to mention the game is fun as hell to play so the replay value is great, however there is still room for improvement there, game could be a little longer but that's no biggie...it's still roughly 8 hours long...so average game length nowadays I guess. lol
SCORE : 9.5/10
Overall
Overall this game is....parden my french....FUCKING AMAZING! I highly recommend it for any gamer....well....any gamer that is above the age of 18 and not offended by gore, foul language, or sexual innuendo that is lol. If you love games like that...then this is def. for you!
SCORE : 9.9/10