Writer and developer Dragami Video games not too long ago introduced a Lollipop Chainsaw remake, getting near-instant issues of whether or not the sport could be remake with out censorship.
Censorship issues for the remake have been so nice that Dragami Video games CEO Yoshimi Yasuda actually responded to fan issues, pledging a remake “that’s as shut as potential to a remaster.”
Issues get attention-grabbing within the CEO’s response, nonetheless, when he doesn’t outright tackle censorship issues with the Lollipop Chainsaw remake, saying they must “negotiate with the platform holders” to allow them to make it “as near the unique model as potential.”
Our different report confirmed authentic author James Gunn nor designer Goichi ‘SUDA51’ Suda usually are not connected to the Lollipop Chainsaw remake. This naturally obtained followers additionally involved whether or not or not the remake will keep true to the unique.
The unique Lollipop Chainsaw was notorious for not solely its intercourse attraction, it’s punk soundtrack with licensed music, but additionally its ample quantity of showing pores and skin through its copious variety of bonus costumes for protagonist Juliet.
Right here’s the phrase from Yasuda:
It has been per week because the Lollipop Chainsaw Remake has been introduced. Many followers have inquired in regards to the contents of the earlier announcement, and we wish to take the time to share our ideas and intentions concerning the challenge.
The first purpose 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. After all, the best factor to do could be to make a remastered model of the unique sport, altering nothing. Nevertheless, we have been sadly unable to incorporate 16 of the licensed songs, which have been an ideal 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.
We’ve got taken discover that there was hypothesis that the remake will change the story. We imagine that Lollipop Chainsaw’s story is a big a part of what followers love in regards to the authentic sport, and we, the event employees, really feel the identical. As such, the story won’t be modified within the remake.
Moreover, we don’t intend to vary the aesthetics of the sport. The point out of how the sport could have a extra practical look within the earlier announcement was meant to seek advice from how we are going to make use of the superior rendering know-how out there in present sport consoles. We don’t want to change Juliet’s design, and the idea that we wish to is baseless. We have been those who created Juliet’s mannequin knowledge after nice trial and error ten years in the past, and really feel connected to her greater than anybody else.
Lastly, we discovered after the announcement of Lollipop Chainsaw Remake that many followers are fearful about censorship within the sport. We’ve got not but mentioned the problem with the platform holders but, and thus can not say something in regards to the matter, 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 could be as near the unique model as potential.
thirteenth July 2022
Lollipop Chainsaw Producer
Yoshimi Yasuda