More details are emerging on the bizarre and obviously unhinged new Suda 51 game ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’, with details hearkening back to some unusual ideas of Zombiism, a recent Zombie Friendly anime series, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and chainsaw obsessions:

Scott Warr, producer on Lollipop Chainsaw at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, provided a behind-closed-doors sneak peak at the bloody good game at the business center. Running on Unreal Engine 3, Lollipop Chainsaw introduces Juliet Starling, a typical cheerleader at San Romero High… on the outside. But like Buffy and her vampire slaying, Starling has a thing against zombies. She secretly hunts them with her athletic moves and her beloved chainsaw. Her world comes crashing down when zombies invade her high school, and the blood-letting is unleashed.

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As she progresses through the game, Juliet is on a quest to figure out who caused this zombie outbreak, and why. The second half of the demo introduces a top-level boss, Zed, who’s actually one of the zombie rock lords responsible for the game’s undead outbreak.

The punk rock zombie, complete with Mohawk and spiked microphone stand, breaks the notion that words can never hurt.

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So far, so good. There’s really no game you can compare Lollipop Chainsaw to, not even past Suda 51 titles. With this fresh new character, who’s completely cute and lovable on screen, and the fresh premise of undead teenagers and rock zombies; this game will hopefully be the start of a brand new franchise for Grasshopper Manufacture.

The ‘Buffy’ vibe was fairly obvious from the get-go, although I’d argue ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ is also more than a little reminiscent of recent Zombie Friendly anime ‘Kore wa Zombie desu ka?’, what with the neon pink, chainsaw wielding madwoman and all.

What I find more interesting, at least in a historical sense, is the punk rock Zombie angle. I’m afraid, given that information, Digital Trends fell down on the job a bit; how can you talk about rock Zombies of any stripe without mentioning legendarily campy 80s film ‘Hard Rock Zombies’?

It’s a pretty easy movie to remember, featuring Zombies and Nazi ‘sex perverts’. Also, bizarre auto-cannibalism and Hitler.

Yes, not just any Nazis, but Hitler too.

More recently, although not strictly speaking a Zombie film, ‘Night of the Punks’ was making the indie horror circuit rounds.

Regardless, are we seeing a revival of the Rock-Zombie concept? What about Punk-Demons?

I guess we’ll have to wait and see the impact ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ has.

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