Lollipop Chainsaw is the new author's project Grasshopper Manaufacture and Visionnaire Goiti Courts. The developer made a name for himself at kind of games such as Killer 7, No More Heroes and the Flower quest, Sun and Rain, in which the protagonist was connected to different things using a suitcase-decifrator and tried to know their essence.
In Lollipop Chainsaw, there were without Lucador aesthetics, monologues and deep meaning. In No More Heroes, a professional killer and part -time opera singer performs a party on a baseball field before killing his victim; Compared to what the courts are happening in the new game, it is a very adequate dramatic scene. Japanese even attracted James Gann, director and scriptwriter of the film “Tromeo and Juliet” and the series “Porn for the whole family”.
It is not surprising that baseball is now playing with a grenade launcher, decomposing chirlaiders and the head of a young man in a tie.
The night of the living dead
According to the creative vision GRASSHOPPER ManUFACTure , The end of the world will not come from a meteorite that suddenly fallen to the ground or, God forbid, an accidentally spread virus. Everything is much simpler: for the apocalypse, the sad Got-Nick is responsible-its universal suffering and anger somehow opened the portal into another dimension, from where zombies invaded our world (with fairly predictable consequences).
[[Bullet]] Fans of spectacular angles, attention! Any attempt to look at the heroine under the skirt outside the cut-scenes is stiffly suppressed-Juliet closes the causal place with his hands.
The only one who can save humanity from extermination is the chirler from the San Romero school, Julis Starling. The end of the world fell on her eighteenth birthday, and the invasion of the dead – just what Julis was preparing all his life. She grew up in a family of hereditary hunters for evil spirits and killed the first zombie sharply sharpened with a ratio of six months. Apocalypse for Juliet is a simple and understandable situation, but not for her young man Nick. The guy bit the zombie, the girl did not have time to help him and cut off her lover with a strong -willed movement, revived her and put it on her belt, so that she released caustic comments, enjoyed a piquant look and bit the julis for her ass.
What is happening on the screen looks like a bizarre combination of Alive clip, singer Alison Goldfrapp and comic book "Scott Pilgrim against all". Despite the invasion of the dead, there are not nightmarish landscapes around, but rainbows, sparkles and asterisks, people with brightly painted chainsaws are worn, and zombies listen to rock music.
Achieve success
With all the mocking madness, Lollipop Chainsaw is a rather old -regime arcade arcade BEAT ‘EM UP with all its characteristic attributes: a table of results, linear levels and predictable gameplay. Traditionality here is felt in everything, and this is not always good. Enemies attack strictly defined combinations and quantities until you kill everyone, not to advance further, the patterns of multi -stage bosses are remembered at a time, and the game itself is deliberately designed for several passages: buy all costumes (for example, striped swimsuit), special receptions and improvements for the heroine will not work right away.
[Bullet]] Hunting chainsaws of the blonde is equipped with a reactive engine, a mobile phone and a mysterious generator of the rainbow and pink sparks.
Blonde Starling knew the Tao of the chainsaw and fighting chirler pompons. She gracefully jumps over the dead, easily and naturally cuts off their heads-the more at a time, the more spectacular the effect and more points (the game at the same time grabs the exciting stop frame and shows it on a star-for a radiant background). The problem is that to perform beautiful acrobatic techniques, you need to write out such sketches on the gamepad that it reduces the fingers.
[[Bullet]] Disorients Disorients Zombies. The stunned dead people are much more willing to part with their limbs.
Another thing is that the game can easily go through using only a couple of basic attacks and special fiberons-so more convenient and efficient, but quickly bothers. Annoys that the player does not have the proper degree of control over the situation, as, for example, in Batman: Arkham City , Why every duel with a zombie resembles a lottery – every time you guess how many dead people the beauty Julis will be able to pull off their heads before they suddenly block or turn off their feet.
Kavay completely
Stylistically Lollipop Chainsaw, as well as Shadows of the Damned , risky enough, but funny. There are many funny details in it. For example, the zombies-musicians who adore rock are commanded by the dead in the game-this seems ironic, because all these identical, unlearned, dirty and dilapidated non-formals have to be cut. You can evaluate ultrapostomodermanism when in the game about zombies zombies play an Arcade about zombies, or to imbue a strange scene with a harvesting combine, a hundred living dead and the song You Spin Me Round from the odious Britons Dead Or Alive.
[[Bullet]] Severe Nordic Black-Metalist on flying Drakkara-this is just the top of the iceberg. Be prepared to meet face to face with a psychedelic rock adherent and a fan of Fanca.
Just do not deceive yourself – Lollipop Chainsaw is primarily a deliberately muffled story about a stupid, but unusually sweet heroine. A serious person will probably look at what is happening with an acidic mine: “How could she become a professional zombie hunter before the invasion of zombies? Where did she get the chainsaw? Why is a phone in a chainsaw? And why in general this girl knows how to revive the cut heads?»But if you are ready to come to terms internally with the fact that a long -legged blonde, who sincerely considers the invention of Autotun, a cynical mockery of Stephen Hawking, is able to save the world, then you will probably like the game.
Game mechanics often fail, but this is not so important, because first of all Lollipop Chainsaw is a powerful audiovisual experience. Goiti court has long shifted the accent from gameplay to excellent dialogs and bright characters. About Lollipop Chainsaw I want to tell friends, show them videos and screenshots. Only here a person instead of gratitude for salvation can autically say that Kenyan women have huge asses. Zombies skillfully parody Alan Wake , They shout wild indecency and mumble something about the fertilizer of the fields in urine. The enormous sizes of the old zombie are sadly lamenting “I am dying, and I am fat”, and the other dead man cannot throw out of his head an annoying motive from the song of Katy Perry.
Sometimes developers joke so well and on time that the game has to pause to recover. The combination of unhealthy fetishism, vulgar jokes and the good old ultranasia invented by the judge turned out to be so fun so that a stupid smile does not leave the face – I want to rejoice in the endless rainbow idiocy, although in the depths you understand that it is not to laugh at such nonsense, generally speaking. It would be worth it.
Lollipop Chainsaw serves as an excellent shock therapy for those who are tired of the disgusting stories about mandatory self -sacrifice, difficult moral choice and the fate of mankind.
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Gameplay:
7
Graphics:
8
Sound and music:
9
Interface and management:
7
Waited?
Stylistically competent Beat ‘Em Up with a disappointing combat system. Lollipop Chainsaw should be played, if only because sometimes you need to relax from games with a serious face, and it is easier to be easier.
Mania rating: 7.5
"Fine"
Shock and awe
Shocking and avant -garde from the world of video games
Lollipop Chainsaw In some ways, echoes the film “The Empire of Feelings”-the love novel ends almost in the same way as the story of Juliet and Nick, unless in the movie a sweet Japanese man from strong feelings cuts off his young man not his head, but male dignity and leaves for a walk along with him Tokyo cramped streets. The viewer is shocked, and "gambling" asks the question – are games that can cause rejection or shock?
[[Bullet]] Phantasmagoria.
Exist. For example, Phantasmagoria – Quest from Roberta Williams. The scriptwriter began with mocking King’s Quest , and then suddenly composed a story about an obsessed illusionist and a young married couple. Edrien and Don move to an old estate. The girl opens a suspicious box in the basement, after which her husband-photographer gradually begins to go crazy. Edrien herself is faced with visions – the previous owner of the house inventively killed five of his wives and annoyed "burned" on the sixth. The player, along with the heroine, looks at family scandals from the past: a lover of rummaging in the garden received an iron scoop in her teeth, an alcoholic – a red Burgundian bottle in the eye, and a glutton was forcibly fed with giblets. It sounds not as scary as it looks: Phantasmagoria was an interactive film, in which, although mediocre, real actors played. Because of this, I had to not only turn a blind eye to a terrible rape scene, but also rearrange the disk in the drive once in half an hour-the game was already released on eight CDs.
[[Bullet]] Monty Python and the Quest for Holy Grail.
Another defiant quest, which used real videos, did without excessive violence, but mocked the player with might and main – we are talking about Monty Python and the Quest for Holy Grail. In the game based on the film of the same name, several genres mixed at once. King Arthur helped to lose plague corpses into the pit, which went to the ground as figures in Tetris (decomposed by filling the line), cooled the speed of reaction and knightly behavior in the mini-game called “Sew the Virgin”, as well as cut off the limbs to the invincible black knight (battle It was worked out for both sides, the game behind the Black Knight was a bulky simulator with a detailed dashboard, on which blood pressure indicators and the number of remaining arms and legs were displayed, and through a small slot in the center it was evident how the king of England was flickering). At a certain moment, an inexhaustible source of money appeared in the game – poop. It was worth throwing the heroes found, sorry, a piece of shit, coins poured out of it hail – it makes sense, as it turns out later, no, but the player could throw feces for half an hour and rejoice at the full pockets of gold. The most interesting thing is that such a motley of the game is perfectly echoing with the idea of a film – the film is an intertextual collage, which also combines several visual genres.
[[Bullet]] Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeland.
Since they started talking about gold: the hero of the game Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeland could only dream of full pockets of money. According to the plot, a small deity promises a bachelor and a loser of the tingle of women, glory and wealth, but when simple male happiness remains a stone's throw, it turns out that, like in any financial pyramid, a solid contribution is first required. Tylla is endowed with great power, and a great responsibility, indefatigable thirst for profit and green tight -fitting costume made of latex come with her. Pink -cheeked Tingle mines local currency, pays for bodyguards and gives bribes to other characters. The hero has a lot of expenditures, and the situation is aggravated by the fact that the current balance directly affects the strip of health: without a penny in his pocket, he will die. Unfortunately, the game dispersed with a small circulation-primarily due to an extremely extravagant cover.
Like Tingle’s Rupeland, Cho Aniki – In no case is a homoerotic story, although hints are clearly present. Muscular bald men in swimming trunks fly in space, shoot male rays from holes in their heads on other muscular men, as well as an Elvis zombie spaceship. In between the salvation of the Milky Way, the heroes are engaged in gardening. The phallic symbolism and suddenly crawling hands raise some questions, but even so Cho Aniki looks more organic than brilliant vampires from modern literature.
[[Bullet]] pu li ru la.
Pu Li ru la – A game about the fairy -tale kingdom with the agrarian name Earth of the radishes, where time goes only when specially trained people turn the keys in a special mechanism. The keys are predictably abducted, time stops, and the residents of the collective farm turn into robots. The first two levels of heroes are quite culturally beaten by mechanoids, and then the situation changes: instead of robots, digitized Asian faces appear, no less digitized smooth ass of the sumoist and giant female legs, between which the door opens and pink elephants run out; in a word – the triumph of Dadaism, extraneous objects are not in their places.
[[Bullet]] Muscle march.
Cho Aniki and Pu Li Ru La belong to the Japanese suck Kuso-Ge, which literally translates as "shit". So, Muscle march -Just an exemplary kuso-ge. A crowd of pumped men in swimming trunks is trying to catch another man. He is desperately trying to escape, pierces the walls in his path, and indeed in horror from the current situation. Despite playfulness, mischievous pitching pursue a fugitive not for what you thought about, but with the goal of taking a protein cocktail. The gameplay resembles a television show, where a wall with a slot in the form of a human silhouette moves on a participant. The player with Vimout in his hand accepts characteristic bodybuildings and helps the crowd catch up with the thief. If you do not like muscular men predictably, you can always change them for a bear in the diaper. True, why protein by a direct bear, we never found out.
All these games are characterized by what few people played in them. The same Cho Aniki sold much worse than her soundtrack, and Phantasmagoria was created in the wake of scandals about cruelty in video games. The problem is that game designers are trying to apply those mechanisms to the games that do not always work successfully in art. The avant -garde and shocking the more valuable, the brighter the emotions cause Betfred Casino, no matter what. Most often this is a simple desire to shock. On the other hand, an attempt to challenge the player or the viewer is sometimes connected with internal author's experiences. Someone may appreciate the touching relations of the farmer and pigs in the film Tierry Zeno “Wedding Vase”, but for many it is just a movie in which a person silently creates indecency with a pig.