After a tease last month, we have confirmation: Lollipop Chainsaw will be getting a full remake in 2023.
Announced by publisher Dragami Games – which is helmed by the original game’s producer Yoshimi Yasuda – the game will arrive globally next year, although an official title or platforms have yet to be announced. It will be developed by “a combination of development staff from the original release, including Yasuda as a producer, and new development staff from Dragami Games.”
The game will aim to recreate the original, but Yasuda explained that the remake will feature several key differences. Thanks to the power of next-generation hardware, the new game will feature “a more realistic approach to graphics.” Less welcome to fans will be the news that music licensing issues mean that, unlike the first game’s 16 licensed tracks, in the remake, “apart from a few licensed tracks, the soundtrack will consist of new music.”
Juliet Starling in action in Lollipop Chainsaw. (Image: Dragami Games)
Yasuda teased that the game would be returning last month to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The cult action game was released in 2012 and saw game director Suda51, film director James Gunn and Yasuda collaborate to bring the story of Juliet Starling, a high school cheerleader caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak.
Writing about the creation of the original game and its new return, Yasuda explained, “Unfortunately, various factors have led to things so fans can no longer easily play Lollipop Chainsaw, and it’s been a while since players have had access to play the current consoles.
“We, the original Lollipop Chainsaw development team, consider the game very valuable to us and we didn’t want to leave it in limbo where players who want to play it can’t.” As such, we purchased the intellectual property of Lollipop Chainsaw from Kadokawa Games and decided to develop a remake. We have already reached out to Warner Bros regarding the development and have their support in this endeavour.”
The game became a cult hit, but in our 5/10 review, IGN said, “Lollipop Chainsaw doesn’t even try to differentiate itself from the genre, and most of what it does is try new things in the realm of its characters, and the writing ultimately ends up taking from an amazing action game on paper.”
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