Suda 51 announces "Lollipop Chainsaw"

[evilakito]

I like boobs, zombies, and chainsaws as much as the next guy, and Suda has great track record, yet this somehow doesn't seem to spark a lot of excitement in me. I must be getting old.

[kal]

I didn't mention it but the image provided looks a hell of a lot like Dead Rising's 2d stuff.

[megatronbison]

Oh yay zombies- cause they haven't been done to death!
Still though- he says this is going to be less about the gore and more about fun - so give me some fun Suda!

[loempiavreter]

It will all depend if the bosses will be HouseOfTheDead-tastic (my boss standard for zombie games) with the usual attention GHM gives bosses since No More Heroes.

At least it looks a lot better then I feared it was gonna be:

As for Grasshopper's new project, president Goichi Suda was even more taciturn. "I can't say anything concrete about this project yet," he said, "but I do guarantee that it'll feature stylish action and some really extreme twists. I showed the game off to an overseas publisher, and they couldn't stop laughing -- I mean, just bending over and laughing. How many games do you know that can make you laugh like that? When I saw that, myself and Yasuda were like 'Yes! This is really gonna work!' I think it's going to be a really big title in the worldwide market."

Source: www.1up.com/news/grasshopper-yuji-naka-tease-projects

And this combined with the then trademarked "Lollipop Chainsaw" name, always had me feared that the Kadokawa project would be some dull, super deformed lolita running around with a chainsaw that hacks out rainbows and balloons out of persons or something.

But when are they gonna show something from that Kinect project, Codename D (or most possibly called, Diabolical Pitch, which is GHM latest name they owned the rights for). And what happened to Sine Mora the GHM SHMUP?

[Vokkan]

Hopefully this will be a clever tribute to the cheerleader/splatter-genre, rather than just Oneechanbara with production values. With Suda51 at the wheel it definitely leans toward the former.

It will be vulgar though, that's for sure.

[Mega Moses]

Suda51 has yet to disappoint me on any of his games I've bought. Definitely need to pick this and Shadows of the Damned up. Glad that the general consensus for SotD in this thread seems to be positive.

[kisai]

Bad Girl lives!!

[Mega Moses]

Jul 22, 2011 0:30:52 GMT -5 kisai said:

Bad Girl lives!!

Press triangle to start crying and hope a zombie accidentally walks too close to you so you can instantly kill him.

[Kyrael Seraphine]

Day one purchase? Or is it only a day one import?

[X-pert74]

Jul 22, 2011 2:49:18 GMT -5 Kyrael Seraphine said:

Day one purchase? Or is it only a day one import?

Suda said they already have interest from a Western publisher, so for once I have no fear that this won't be coming outside Japan.

[kal]

Jul 22, 2011 3:13:05 GMT -5 X-pert74 said:

Jul 22, 2011 2:49:18 GMT -5 Kyrael Seraphine said:

Day one purchase? Or is it only a day one import?

Suda said they already have interest from a Western publisher, so for once I have no fear that this won't be coming outside Japan.

I was under the impression that Suda51 games either sell well or better in Western countries than Japan. He's such a big name you'd really be crazy not to bring his stuff across.

[X-pert74]

Jul 22, 2011 12:48:08 GMT -5 kal said:

Jul 22, 2011 3:13:05 GMT -5 X-pert74 said:

Suda said they already have interest from a Western publisher, so for once I have no fear that this won't be coming outside Japan.

I was under the impression that Suda51 games either sell well or better in Western countries than Japan. He's such a big name you'd really be crazy not to bring his stuff across.

Yeah, this is true. The first No More Heroes sold very well in North America and Europe in particular, but in Japan (at least initially; I don't remember lifetime sales) it only sold 10,000 copies.

[munchy]

So this game's being published by Warner Bros. Too lazy to find the actual press release, so here's NeoGAF:

www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=439254

The fact that the press release specifically uses the phrase "zombie rock lords" makes my hype level for this game shoot up about fifteen levels.

[loempiavreter]

Zombie rock lord bosses yeah, Suda doesn't leave his boss legacy he created since No More Heroes.

[Wildcat]

Warner Bros.' involvement details - www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/08/01/lollipop_chainsaw_scenario_and_publisher/

Website - us.lollipopchainsaw.com/#

Certainly a unique spin on the zombie action genre - it doesn't sound like it'll be long for it to make it out here, either, as the game's 75% complete already. Grasshopper's on fire this year.