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.

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.

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