Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP will now be a remaster versus a remake, in keeping with Dragami Games.
“We have modified the sport design of RePOP from Remake to Remaster based mostly in your requests,” stated studio founder Yoshimi Yasuda.
Without additional clarification, it’s unimaginable to say what this truly means for the title, though it may very well be that Dragami intends for it to extra carefully resemble the unique than was beforehand deliberate.
Yasuda was previously the CEO of Kadokawa Games, which printed Grasshopper Manufacture titles Lollipop Chainsaw and Killer is Dead in Japan. He was additionally govt producer on each titles.
He left Kadokawa final 12 months to type Dragami Games, earlier than saying that one its first tasks can be a Lollipop Chainsaw remake.
私たちは皆さんの要望を踏まえRePOPのゲームデザインをRemakeからRemasterに変更しました…!!!
We have modified the sport design of RePOP from Remake to Remaster based mostly in your requests! pic.twitter.com/IRcfQRXN6a— 安田善巳 Yoshimi Yasuda (@yasudaD5) October 13, 2023
Some elements of the announcement – together with that it will have a brand new soundtrack, a “extra reasonable” artwork design, and that unique artistic director Suda51 and co-writer James Gunn wouldn’t be concerned within the challenge – left some followers frightened.
Yasuda tried to tackle a few of these points final summer season, saying: “The major aim of the Lollipop Chainsaw Remake challenge is to make it in order that gamers who want to play Lollipop Chainsaw can achieve this simply, to not make a brand new Lollipop Chainsaw sport.
“Of course, the perfect factor to do can be to make a remastered model of the unique sport, altering nothing.
“However, we had been sadly unable to incorporate 16 of the licensed songs, which had been an awesome a part of the unique sport’s really feel, and so we’re as a substitute aiming for a remake that’s as shut as potential to a remaster.”
Addressing issues that the plot could also be modified, he added: “We imagine that Lollipop Chainsaw’s story is a big a part of what followers love concerning the unique sport, and we, the event workers really feel the identical. As such, the story is not going to be modified within the remake.”
Yasuda additionally referred to fan concern that in his unique announcement he stated the remake would have “a extra reasonable method to the graphics this time”.
“The point out of how the sport could have a extra reasonable look within the earlier announcement was meant to discuss with how we are going to make use of the superior rendering expertise obtainable in present sport consoles,” he defined.
“We don’t want to change Juliet’s design, and the belief that we need to is baseless. We had been those who created Juliet’s mannequin information after nice trial and error ten years in the past, and really feel connected to her greater than anybody else.”
Finally, Yasuda addressed worries that the sport’s sexualised content material could also be “censored” for at the moment’s audiences, by suggesting that there are not any intentions to censor the sport.
“We haven’t but mentioned the problem with the platform holders but, and thus can’t say something concerning the matter,” he stated, “however what we are able to say is that we intend to barter with the platform holders to make it in order that the sport will be as near the unique model as potential.”
In August, the ultimate title for the sport was introduced alongside information that Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP had been delayed from this 12 months to 2024.
