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So what was our favourite thing that we loved about Lollipop Chainsaw ? Well you could ask that a thousand times and none of them would be the gameplay. We would say it has to be the very dark yet amusing sense of humor and even the shocking vulgarity.

There are very few games that will set the tone of a game so early on. Within the first few minutes you are watching a voluptuous blonde welcome you into her bedroom with open arms, who then decides to take a steamy shower and then suddenly taken from this safe environment to being surrounded by zombies where your only goal is to slaughter everything you can get your hands on. If you are offended by the first few minutes then it wont take long until you quit because the obscene insanity erupts like a pubescent volcano.

Lollipop Chainsaw falls into the category of games that are not afraid to make fun of themselves as they know what they are and are not afraid to flaunt it.

Everything is extremely violent. extremely sexual and all thrown together with rainbows, puppies and sparkles. However at some point there will come a time where the whole over the top game play including the skimpy dressed cheer leader just loses its appeal, as hard to believe as that sounds.

For the amount of corpses you will amount, you will hear Juliet being called a Whore, talking about masturbating and ever commenting on her over sized breasts. The main goal for Lollipop Chainsaw is the money shot be it up her skirt or down her shirt. However, as stated before this will all come to the point where all of this violence and sexual innuendos hit a brick wall and leave you asking why?

After a couple of hours into the 6 hour campaign I was sick and tired of hearing anything anyone had to say, imagine watching The Only Way is Essex for more than 5 minutes then you will kind of get what I mean. The only character who actually spoke some sense was Nick, Juliet’s boyfriends who consists of nothing more than a head attached to a piece of string. Nick is a welcomed character who is full of witty jokes and banter which is a complete contrast from Juliet who is simply put an idiotic bimbo and to me is the only character that stands out from the cast and has more purpose than just being a piece of virtual eye candy.

When we tell you the kind of weapons you will get your hands on you will think, “wow that is surely going to provide endless amounts of fun” well you couldn’t be more wrong. Juliet has a choice of pom-poms, a chainsaw and a gigantic  over sized gun. The sad truth is that there is no true combat to allow the enjoyment of wielding such j weapons just a few basic moves, which consist of a couple of attacks partnered with a dodge function. If you want any form of combat system you have to work to unlock them and to be fair is just a long process to be able to accomplish which should have been available from the get go as the game in my opinion has very little replay value to justify the taking up the task of unlocking them. If I can complete the game without a vast array of combos why would I need or even want to replay the same campaign to unlock moves which are clearly unessential for progression.

However, one of the greatest problem is that there is no real threat in the game and no particular difficulty as the only difference between enemies is some may have more health or even explode on death. The feeling you get is that they are in fact cannon fodder put in your way to deny you a quick completion and waste time rather than provide a challenge.

Overall Lollipop Chainsaw does offer some amusing moments but these are short lived in a rather forgettable game which is lacking in so many areas that even it’s humour and well endowed protagonist cannot distract you from therefore because of this we are scoring this game a rather average 5 out of 10.