Lollipop Chainsaw comes out this Friday with it's chainsaw firmly in cheek. The crew behind Killer 7 and No More Heroes are definitely running as wild as an over-active kid in a candy store can with T&A, George Romero references and a format that owes more to Robert Rodriguez' rebranding of the "grindhouse" term than a simple Walking Dead walker.
Giving us brief glimpses of the boss battles featuring the zombie rock lords lead by a sad goth high school kid that had to go and turn all evil instead of just listening to Robert Smith on repeat.
Lollipop has all the strains of Grasshopper Studio's last major relase, No More Heroes 2, with hyper-saturated pop culture references not so subtly under the rainbow and gore sheen that killing zombies can cause. There's also their traditional sense of numbing boss battles by giving each rock and roll zombie lord at least three forms--the Death Metal Viking? His final form involves transforming into a giant head, eating his body and then spewing lasers. Surely it won't cause someone to rage quit, will it?
Lollipop Chainsaw is out today.
