Horror notoriously enjoys subverting gender roles and placing strong female heroines at the fore - Alien's Ripley, Halloween's Laurie Strode and through to Planet Terror's Cherry Darling. Exploitation cinema has over time been allowed a certain amount of respect - could this just be an example of exploitation gaming?Īrguably it is more than that. Given Lollipop Chainsaw's overt connection with horror cinema - particularly the schlock and grindhouse of the late 70s - the volume of bare and barely legal flesh shouldn't come as a huge surprise. She completely ignores the grimy advances of the high school students she rescues ("I'm totally gonna masturbate to you tonight"). She takes everything in her stride but worries about her weight. She has hopes and dreams, she's driven by her own desire to succeed and to make her father proud, she's powered by relentless positivity but tinged with self-doubt. Juliet is fleshed out and oddly believable - not just the one-dimensional wank fantasy that many have casually dismissed her as - and played with spark and verve by Tara Strong. Of course, it's the rather delightful subtext pulsating through Lollipop Chainsaw that casts any notion of misogyny or sexism over the rainbow and into the distant yonder entirely. While the marketing may have focused on Juliet's looks, there's so much more to Lollipop Chainsaw. The opening scenes depicting Juliet Starling in her bedroom sucking on a lollipop are suggestive, sure, and there's a touch of uncomfortable upskirt (and one scene where her pervy old sensei falls face first into her breasts) but is this really anything more than Carry On humour? At a completely base level it might be titillating, puerile and even a bit crass, but as with everything Suda 51 puts his name to, there's so much more going on. At a glance it's just another in a long line of cynical action games, ready to fade into insignificance alongside Onechanbara and X-Blades.īut Lollipop Chainsaw isn't misogynist. Pretty girl, cheerleader outfit, perilously short skirt. Beyond the Tomb Raider fiasco (which to me seems a non-debate until the actual game is released), the most common target for the ire of the misogynista is Grasshopper's Lollipop Chainsaw. Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.The word misogyny has crept its way into the gaming vernacular recently, thrown about accusingly and often - if you ask me - incorrectly at any game that dares to show a female in any light other than stoic and masculine. We’ll undoubtedly hear more about the Lollipop Chainsaw remake in the coming months. Happy 10-year anniversary to the only video game I've ever worked on, with the maestro #LollipopChainsaw /6Jd0yodlvT Įven though Gunn is an enormous name in Hollywood now, he’s clearly proud of Lollipop Chainsaw, even taking time to celebrate the 10th anniversary last month. But as articles are starting to slap our names on there, I think it’s important to make clear no one ever approached us about it. I neither endorse nor condemn it! I simply don’t know anything about it. “I heard about it for the first time from Suda a couple weeks ago.” “Neither I nor are currently involved in this,” Gunn said on Twitter. Gunn helped write the first Lollipop Chainsaw, while Suda51 was in a producer role. Suda51 of No More Heroes fame isn’t returning either. It’s a shame since sawing zombies in half while “Needled 24/7” by Children of Bodom blasted was good fun.Īrguably the most surprising note about this remake is James Gunn, director of films like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad, will not work on the project. Namely, 15 licensed songs from the soundtrack will not return. Yasuda’s note mentions that Lollipop Chainsaw ‘s remake will differ from the original in several key areas. about development and are being supported by them in this endeavor.” “As such, we purchased the Lollipop Chainsaw intellectual property from Kadokawa Games, and decided to develop a remake,” Yasuda continues. “We, the original development staff on Lollipop Chainsaw, think of the game as very precious to us and did not want to leave it in limbo.” “Various factors resulted in things making it so that fans can no longer easily play Lollipop Chainsaw, and it has been some time since players have not been able to access the game on current consoles,” Yasuda said on Twitter. Yoshimi Yasuda, producer of the original release, wants Lollipop Chainsaw to be more readily available on modern platforms. On Tuesday, Dragami Games announced the remake will launch sometime in 2023. There’s a remake of Lollipop Chainsaw in the works, but James Gunn and Goichi “Suda51” Suda are not involved.
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