Lollipop chainsaw nick11/28/2023 ![]() "What is your favorite color, Nick?" Juliet asks after killing like a gajillion of her former classmates. Their interaction in the first couple stages feels, appropriately enough, like two shy teenagers out on their first date. This interplay seems pretty superficial at times - and it is - but the banter between the two characters while Juliet carves a goopy swath through legions of the undead shows that they're at a point in their relationship at which the superficial is pretty much all they have. Like Johnson, the decapitated demon skull sidekick in Shadows of the Damned, Nick functions as an occasional tool to remove obstacles (via Juliet plopping him onto the neck socket of a decapitated zombie corpse) or even as ammo in an upgrade to Juliet's chainsaw called the "Nick Popper." Juliet uses offscreen magic to revive Nick's head, and she carries him around on her belt for the rest of the game. It's also the start of one of the most charming love stories I've seen in a game. It's the kind of crazy puppy-love move one would expect from an 18-year-old girl in a game from Grasshopper designer Suda 51, whose previous titles, No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned, include save and checkpoint systems (respectively) based on pooping. ![]() Early on in Lollipop Chainsaw, developer Grasshopper Manufacture's new exploitation-inspired action game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, protagonist Juliet cuts off her boyfriend Nick's head to keep him from turning into a zombie. ![]()
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