How much enjoyment you get out of this really depends on how much you vibe with the game's humor and style. The writing, partially done by James Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy and Suicide Squad fame, is great. It's refreshing to see a game embrace humor and make it one of its core selling points, especially since a reliance on jokes is often seen as hurting potential sales.
The voice acting and line delivery are some of the best I've seen in the medium, it's just so expertly directed. Cutscene direction, licensed music, and the overall insanity of it all also help make this a pretty unique game.
Unfortunately, the gameplay can't really keep up. Sure, it works, but combat is simple and not especially smooth. The ps360 generation is one filled with character action games and solely based on gameplay, I have a hard time recommending this over the likes of Bayonetta, God of War, or even something like Force Unleashed.
Level Design is pretty boring, and the game's visuals often look bland. There are also tons of loading screens that break the flow of the game, occasionally even interrupting cutscenes.
Ultimately, watching a few minutes of game dialogue or cutscenes is probably enough to determine whether this game is for you. Did you laugh at the jokes and do you enjoy R-rated James Gunn writing? If the answer is yes, then get the game. Or at least try to do so - the prices for used copies are skyrocketing, and I personally don't think that a 4 hour game with mediocre combat is worth $40+ for a used copy.
There is a remaster/remake coming up, so at least you can always wait for that. Personally, I'd have prefered a simple port. Lollipop Chainsaw is a product of its time, but that also means that a remake would either have to change some of the jokes (and potentially lose what makes it so unique) or risk carrying forward some unfortunate elements.
Don't get me wrong, the humor didn't age terribly overall - but at the same time, fighting through a school setting with panicking students and cops unloading their guns really doesn't feel as fun as the creatives thought it would back then. It's a 2012 game, released pre-BLM and pre-#metoo, in a time in which America thought racism was over as they got ready to vote for Obama a second time. Times are different now, and while it's possible that a younger version of me would have laughed at "that's racist against cows" jokes, I'm glad that we have moved past that point.
The voice acting and line delivery are some of the best I've seen in the medium, it's just so expertly directed. Cutscene direction, licensed music, and the overall insanity of it all also help make this a pretty unique game.
Unfortunately, the gameplay can't really keep up. Sure, it works, but combat is simple and not especially smooth. The ps360 generation is one filled with character action games and solely based on gameplay, I have a hard time recommending this over the likes of Bayonetta, God of War, or even something like Force Unleashed.
Level Design is pretty boring, and the game's visuals often look bland. There are also tons of loading screens that break the flow of the game, occasionally even interrupting cutscenes.
Ultimately, watching a few minutes of game dialogue or cutscenes is probably enough to determine whether this game is for you. Did you laugh at the jokes and do you enjoy R-rated James Gunn writing? If the answer is yes, then get the game. Or at least try to do so - the prices for used copies are skyrocketing, and I personally don't think that a 4 hour game with mediocre combat is worth $40+ for a used copy.
There is a remaster/remake coming up, so at least you can always wait for that. Personally, I'd have prefered a simple port. Lollipop Chainsaw is a product of its time, but that also means that a remake would either have to change some of the jokes (and potentially lose what makes it so unique) or risk carrying forward some unfortunate elements.
Don't get me wrong, the humor didn't age terribly overall - but at the same time, fighting through a school setting with panicking students and cops unloading their guns really doesn't feel as fun as the creatives thought it would back then. It's a 2012 game, released pre-BLM and pre-#metoo, in a time in which America thought racism was over as they got ready to vote for Obama a second time. Times are different now, and while it's possible that a younger version of me would have laughed at "that's racist against cows" jokes, I'm glad that we have moved past that point.