Dragami Games recently teased that a Lollipop Chainsaw revival was in the works and the newly established studio has revealed that it will be a remake tentatively titled “Lollipop Chainsaw Remake”, which will not prove too surprising considering all the companies cashing in on nostalgia.
Kadokawa Games previously owned the rights to Lollipop Chainsaw, but it was passed to Dragami Games as part of a corporate split. A combination of staff from the original game, including Dragami Games CEO Yoshimi Yasuda, will work with the new Dragami Games staff on the remake, which has a release set for 2023 as part of the game’s 10th anniversary.
Yasuda, who has taken on the role of producer for Lollipop Chainsaw Remake, shared a message on Twitter and explained that the remake will feature overhauled visuals and new music due to licensing issues:
14 years have passed since I started the Lollipop Chainsaw project.
Lollipop Chainsaw was born as a result of Suda 51 discussing creating a new game with me. I saw great potential in Grasshopper Manufacture‘s proposal, and just one month after Kadokawa Games was founded April 2009, we started the development project on Lollipop Chainsaw, in May 2009.
As Suda-san was very busy handling development on other projects at the time, I served as director and producer, creating a joint development team consisting of staff from Grasshopper Manufacture and Kadokawa Games, overseeing development directly. Suda-san looked over the game design and supervised the project as an executive producer.
In January 2010, the aid of a friend of mine working at Warner Bros. led to us successfully grasping a chance with the Warner Bros. greenlight committee, and Warner Bros. thus becoming the publisher for the game in all regions outside of Asia. Furthermore, a Warner Bros. senior manager suggested that we have the game’s script rewritten, and that we leave it to film director James Gunn, which we gladly agreed to.
All of this good fortune resulted in Lollipop Chainsaw, which released in June 2012, being loved by many players all over the world, selling over a million units worldwide.
Unfortunately, various factors resulted in things making it so that fans can no longer easily play Lollipop Chainsaw, and it has been some time since players have not been able to access the game on current consoles.
We, the original development staff on Lollipop Chainsaw, think of the game as very precious to us, and did not want to leave it in limbo, where players who want to play it cannot. As such, we purchased the Lollipop Chainsaw intellectual property from Kadokawa Games, and decided to develop a remake. We have already contacted Warner Bros. about development, and are being supported by them in this endeavor.
One thing that we have to tell fans of the original game is that even though the original staff are working on the remake, there will be elements that are different from the original. For instance, the original game had 15 licensed songs used in the soundtrack, but it is unfortunately difficult for us to implement all of them this time. As a result, aside from a few licensed tracks, the soundtrack will consist of new music. Additionally, since we have access to consoles with higher specifications, we will be taking a more realistic approach to the graphics this time.
In any case, our goal is to make it easier for gamers who want to play Lollipop Chainsaw to do so. Please look forward to the game’s 2023 release.
Sincerely,
Lollipop Chainsaw Producer
Yoshimi Yasuda
“we will be taking a more realistic approach to the graphics this time”. In current day, this generally translates to less sexualized with higher resolution.
Yep, and “realism” in this context means “Girls can’t have boobs bigger than B-cups you porn obsessed freak! Also, girls in real life never show skin like their midsection, so she should be in a full body one piece!” according to the anti-fanservice mob.
I’ll be flabbergasted if the size of her boobs is unchanged, but I am wholly expecting her cleavage to be completely covered up. I am also expecting all the DLC of various ecchi anime/manga characters’ outfits to be completely gone too, so say goodbye to the Rei, Saeko and Chifusa cosplays.
It’s bad enough how the feminist boomers are censoring designs like you pointed out, but now they also engage in making female characters UGLY AS f♥♥k ON PURPOSE
Just remake the game without changing anything. f♥♥k.
Music licenses expire. Understandable.
If it comes out for pc it’s fine.
welp this is about to be ruined and censored to hell…..
no point to bother with this remake especially with them adding in words like realistic that word alone isnt suppose to be used with anything not real ….games, anime, ect
but there it is for this remake and now it will be ruined
I never was a fan of Suda’s games but with his recent woke outings like NMH3 I’m not sure this will be any good even for people who liked the original.
The fucking jews has take over Kadokawa
https://group.kadokawa.co.jp/global/ir/esg/social/diversity_inclusion.html
Of course you wouldn’t be, I swear you’re always the guy that has to be a contrarian no matter what the article is.
You mean………. he’s a realist then. Yes, I would have to agree.
Neither did Kojima, twice.
konami hasn’t made anything worth mentioning since kojima left.