The game itself takes place on Juliet's 18th B-Day and all in a 24hr. You play as a buxom blonde barley legal high school cheerleader Juliet who attends San Romero High (She is a cheerleader but, she's also a zombie hunter her entire family is The Story (Suda51 and James Gunn co-wrote the script) the story is a short and sweet love letter to three iconic zombie genre director's works mostly cause it shouldn't and it also brakes the forth-wall in little hints It wasn't quite It Takes Two levels of eccentricity, but a lot more is crammed in there than players whose only memory is looking at the cheerleader's panties might recall.Lollipop Chainsaw is a unique new property unlike so many forced zombie titles in the last 15 years Lollipop Chainsaw was constantly throwing new attacks, combat scenarios, and abilities at you right until the end. A lot of modern games which give us huge worlds to run around in sacrifice character progression, only giving upgrades as a means to scale a wall or break down a barrier that only exists to slow progress. It's important too to remember how much the game evolved in our hands. Lollipop Chainsaw was also incredibly stylised, which lends it a sense of timelessness, and its raunchy sensibilities - transgressive in their extreme centering of female agency a decade ago - have avoided awkward ageing thanks to the game's commitment to Juliet as a character. The upskirting Achievement/Trophy undercuts how progressive Juliet could be, but most of the time she's in on the joke. We don't need all characters to be like her, but we damn sure need more of them, especially in leading roles. Lollipop Chainsaw was gaming's answer to WAP eight years before WAP existed. Bella Thorne, Amouranth, Nikita Drugun, and Kylie Jenner are all part of this tapestry too. The brand of feminism touted by Kim Petras' Slut Pop, Lil Mariko's Hi I'm A Slut, Becky G's Mala Santa is not for everyone, but there are legions of women and girls who see the representation and empowerment they offer. With her blonde bunches, thick lip gloss, cutesy voice, and short skirt, she is unapologetically herself in every way. I'm not really interested in hearing about how 'you'd never get away with it these days', because that only ever holds up if you're talking about something like blackface. Meanwhile 2022's Deep Water sees Ana de Armas give a blowjob and then pick a pubic hair out of her teeth. Alfred Hitchcock had to beg for a toilet to be shown in Psycho. Yes, people (and as a result, media) used to be more openly racist, homophobic, sexist, and pretty much any other form of discrimination, but Jayne Mansfield's 1963 movie Promises! Promises! was banned because of a scene where Mansfield is in the bath covered in bubbles. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and South Park are two of the biggest shows on TV and we are rapidly being desensitised to violence, sex, and language in our media. People say it about The Office, which is one of the most popular shows still streaming. The idea of 'you'd never get away with that these days' is one I often struggle with. Lollipop Chainsaw is the sort of game that gets mentioned whenever chuds complain about gaming being too woke these days, even though it was written by the Bernie Sanders-loving commie James Gunn, who these chuds also loathe.
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