Lollipop Chainsaw

For Suda fans, Lollipop Chainsaw will be another title that'll quickly live up to your high expectations.  A presentation and soundtrack that takes you well away from gaming's conventions.

It's generally a bad idea to judge anything by its title or cover, but one look at either pretty much spells out what to expect from Grasshopper Manufacture's latest fever dream, Lollipop Chainsaw: comic books, pop music, rainbows, titillating exploitation and lots and lots of violence. These are all the makings for perfect video game pulp, and in many ways Suda51's vision of chainsaw-wielding che...

Lollipop Chainsaw's brilliant ideas rub shoulders with some pretty terrible ones.

Lollipop Chainsaw is a game that goes back to the arcade days, when political correctness and a rich, driving environment could all take a back seat to a pure, unfiltered shot of instant, mindless self-indulgence. It’s a blatant and cheap pitch driving on a certain niche to sustain its short length and repetitiveness, but sometimes that’s ok.

Lollipop Chainsaw arrives at time when many video game publications are in post E3 recovery mode.  After pounding the carpet on the show floor for days I am still trying to get back to 100%.  So needless to say, some mindless zombie slaying fun with a chainsaw toting hottie is exactly what the doctor ordered.  Lollipop Chainsaw is exactly as advertised as it is a ‘hack and slash’ game for the Play...

Lollipop Chainsaw doesn’t even attempt to differentiate itself from the genre, and most of what it does try new in the realm of its characters and writing ultimately ends up taking away from an incredible-on-paper action game. The music and sidekick are really all you can rely on to stay great from start to finish. The rest of Lollipop Chainsaw is all over the place before it ultimately settles fo...

Zombies seem to be the one horror staple that cannot be depicted in truly horrific circumstances, instead usually having an element of comedy about our brain eating chums with the odd exception. Nothing before now has quite taken that sense of humour to the level that Suda 51 has though – with the high camp of Lollipop Chainsaw sure to divide gamers. Whether or not you take the subject matter seri...

Lollipop Chainsaw never delivers a dull moment. Lollipop’s story is fun and humorous, and is only improved by its colorful characters. The gameplay is not only intuitive, but fresh when it comes to the variety Grasshopper Manufacture offers to players. Suda 51 has proven again that his talent for making video games is something unique and original in a market focused on delivering realistic experi...