This long-awaited remaster of a cult classic, zombie-killing action game is finally revealed with a release date

What you need to know

• Dragami Games has uploaded the first trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw RePop, a next-gen remaster of a 3rd-person action game of the same name originally developed by Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture studio.
• Lollipop Chainsaw has you play Juliet Starling, a high-school cheerleader/zombie hunter on a quest to save the world from the zombie apocalypse.
• Lollipop Chainsaw RePop is scheduled to be released on September 25, 2024, on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.

On June 14, 2024, Dragami Games uploaded to their YouTube channel the first trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw RePop. This game is a long-awaited remaster of Lollipop Chainsaw, a 3rd-person action game released in 2012 by Grasshopper Manufacture, a studio headed by No More Heroes creator Suda51 and renowned filmmaker James Gunn.

The trailer also reveals that Lollipop Chainsaw RePop will launch later this year on September 25, 2024 for home consoles and PCs.

For those who haven't played the original game, Lollipop Chainsaw RePop has you assume the role of a high-school cheerleader named Juliet Starling. She also happens to be the latest descendant in a long line of skilled zombie hunters.

On her 18th birthday, a group of evil zombie villains called the Dark Purveyors suddenly kick off the zombie apocalypse at Juliet's school, and her classmates are being eaten left and right by countless undead monsters. Now it's up to Juliet (and the talking decapitated head of her boyfriend, Nick) to save her classmates and slay the zombie hordes by chopping them up with her chainsaw.

Lollipop Chainsaw RePop will feature the same over-the-top hack 'n slash gameplay of the original title but will feature several improvements for its visual presentation and combat system.

Aside from these improvements, Lollipop Chainsaw RePop will also feature a bunch of new gameplay content.

A cult zombie action game remastered for a new generation

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I admittedly never played the original Lollipop Chainsaw when it first came out in 2012 despite being a fan of Suda51's most famous work, No More Heroes.

I distinctly remember critics and a few people I know of criticizing Lollipop Chainsaw for its somewhat sluggish combat system, unpolished performance, and long loading times which killed the pacing. Despite those flaws, it was loved by fans for its quirky humor, delightfully insane and nonsensically fun story, excessive violence, and memorable characters.

This new RePop version seems to be addressing all the issues people had with the original game while adding new features to entice new players like me who never got to experience it the first time around. It's certainly grabbing my interest with the promise of cleaner input responsiveness, faster attacks the more you play well, and not having to put up with archaic, gameplay-intrusive quick-time-events anymore thanks to the new Auto-QTE feature.

However, will Lollipop Chainsaw RePop stick the landing and fulfill its promises to fix the original game's flaws and rise to become one of the best Xbox games ? Help Juliet and Nick put down the Dark Purveyors this Fall to find out when Lollipop Chainsaw RePop launches on September 25, 2024, for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.