Whenever one of the stronger zombies knock Juliet to the ground, you’re forced to mash the B button (on an Xbox 360 controller) until she gets back up. Some can fly, some will shoot things at you, some will glow blue and then charge you, knocking you to the ground. There are different variations on the zombies you’ll fight, of course. The game’s strongest combos are the ones that maximize your chances of nailing a Sparkle Hunting bonus, and there are only a few of these.Īs a result, the game’s strong start soon settles into a generally repetitive process of culling the zombie hordes with the same set of spammed attack combos. The more effective you are at taking out multiple zombies in one combo, the more you’ll receive a “Sparkle Hunting” cash bonus for accomplishing the feat. It quickly becomes clear as you unlock new attack combos that there are really just a handful of highly effective buys that you’ll generally want/need to spam as you fight to stay alive. Those basic parts all work in the context of the hack ‘n slash adventure that Lollipop Chainsaw is, but there’s a lot less depth than there initially seems to be.

No More Heroes 3 won’t be Switch exclusive anymore come OctoberĮpic Game Store fights back against review bombs with new user rating system The task of clearing the walking dead out of San Romero High School falls to Juliet, a job that she embraces wholeheartedly as she slices her way through six levels, taking out the Dark Purveyor boss at the end of each one. Those skills prove to be conveniently handy when the school’s Goth-iest outcast, Swan, cracks open the barrier between reality and the Rotten World, creating a zombie army that would make George Romero proud. In Lollipop Chainsaw, you step into the teen-sized sneakers of Juliet Starling, a high school cheerleader who moonlights, along with the rest of her family, as a chainsaw-swinging zombie hunter. It’s a fun game to play in a lot of ways, but it’s definitely going to hurt as well. There are great ideas and hilarious writing coming out of the game’s every pore, but the entire experience is marred by a technical execution that ranges from tedious gameplay to downright questionable design choices. Depending on some conditions, one or another of two different endings, a good and a bad one, will be displayed.Lollipop Chainsaw is the latest game from Suda 51 and his talented team at Grasshopper Manufacture, and it’s pretty typical for a Grasshopper release in a lot of ways–for better and for worse. Massacred zombies jet bursts of light instead of blood. The gold medals are used for upgrading the character's stats and buy new signature moves, while rare platinum coins can be rewarded for killing special zombies or Sparkle Hunting. By killing many zombies, it can earn you two types of medals (which are used from an in-game shop called Chop2Shop.zom).

When the player completes certain challenges in the game, Juliet's chainsaw and skills will be upgraded, gaining new abilities as you progress further into the game. Juliet can place Nick's head and attached on a zombie's decapitated head and allows the player to control Nick possessing the zombie's body while assisting Juliet. Juliet also carries the disembodied head of her boyfriend, Nick, who was bitten by a zombie and hangs him with her skirt, can be used as a projectile device. Three categories of attacks may be performed: Light attacks (acrobatic kicks and punches by using her pom-poms), Heavy attacks (furious chainsaw slashes), and Super attacks (used for killing zombies and saving classmates will fill up Juliet's star meter). Juliet now has to rid the school of the undead outbreak. Everything began in Juliet's classroom, whereas a schoolmate of hers started to turn students into zombies in order to undo the barrier separating our world and Rotten World, a dimension where demonic and undead beings dwell. The locale for the events is San Romero High School. Lollipop Chainsaw is a hack and slash action game with gameplay resembling No More Heroes series, featuring a zombie-slaying cheerleader named Juliet Starling as the main protagonist.

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