I have created a blog!
Not entirely sure how to do this, but here we go!
I got my hands on Lollipop Chainsaw about two months back and finally got the chance to check it out. At first glance, I did not expect much of it other than the fact that it has the protagonist as a cute blonde American girl named Juliet Starling with pigtails and a perfect body in a skimpy high school cheerleader uniform that hunt zombies and sucks on lollipops. Okaaay... I did, however, expect the music and soundtrack to be awesome though since Jimmy Urine of MSI and Akira Yamaoka are the composers for the game.
When I popped the game in, I enjoyed the graphics of the game and the style in which it was drawn, but it just felt like a very repetitive game right off the bat. Yeah, I get that it's a hack and slash game killing zombies and that actually sounds awesome because I like hack and slash games, but it did not capture me like the Devil May Cry series did even though essentially it's pretty much the same. I hacked it out and finished the first stage, it was very Japanese in which it has a score card and grades you harshly on your time, hits, deaths, etc. I was like, "Okay, I suck...next stage *click*" and did the same things over and over again.
Hanging off her belt is her bodiless boyfriend, Nick Carlyle. He whines and complains pretty much throughout the game and he gives the most obvious tips. In the second stage, Nick becomes kind of useful and you
can buy "Nick tickets" and use him as a sort of dazing weapon.. or a
piggy bank. Where does the coins come from? I don't know >.> With
those coins/zombie medals you can buy upgrades and other
skills/accessories through "Chop2Shop.zom." When you are in the shop, you get to listen to the ever repeating 1958 song "Lollipop" by The Chordettes.
The main antagonist is a goth sorcerer dude named Swan and you can guess why he summoned a zombie apocalypse... whatevers. All the zombies are pretty much the same throughout the game. There were some...farmer flying zombies...? It's nice to have some variation...but as zombies do, they hurdle in masses and follow each other. Then later on you meet her Sensei, Morikawa, her sisters, Cordelia and Rosalind, and her daddy, Gideon, that looks like an Elvis impersonator. They are a pretty cool bunch.
The boss fights are just about as mindless as the regular zombies mobs. They look cool, but they are easy to figure out and are just as repetitive. They repeat the same few lines and the same few moves.
About half way through the game I started to like the game more. I don't know if it was because I was bored and just wanted to play a mindless game or it got more elements to make it more fun, but I started to enjoy it and wanted to finish it. The last boss is so ridiculous, it is awesome. Now that I finished playing the game, I kind of want to go through it and get all my achievements. Maybe I'm just an achievement whore, but at least I will play it again?
Overall, the game to me was just bland. Nothing special and the music also fell short for me as well. At least there are no glitches in the game! Yay. I probably would play the game again if I feel like just playing something that requires pushing the same two button over and over again, but that's not saying a lot for the game.
...and I have a feeling that a lot of girls are going to be cosplaying as Juliet Starling in the very near future, if not already....
