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Dragami Games has changed the game design of Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP from “remake” to “remaster,” company president Yoshimi Yasuda said on Twitter.

The tweet reads: “We have changed the game design of RePOP from remake to remaster based on your requests!”

Yasuda did not share further details.

Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP was originally announced in July 2022 as a remake of the 2012-released hack-and-slash action game. While originally planned for release this year, Dragami Games announced a delay to 2024 back in August.

Platforms for Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP have still yet to be announced.

Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP game design changed from remake to remaster

Dragami Games has changed the game design of Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP from “remake” to “remaster,” company president Yoshimi Yasuda said on Twitter.

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[March Climber]

Good. It was janky. It just needs to play smoother and feel better to control.

 

[Georges Chiellins]

Seriously, who gives a...

Like what is that going to change.

 

[shaddam]

No peaking under her skirt trophy?

 

[Bkdk]

Hopefully there will be various mods this time, nude and other outfit mods. Would be nice.

 

[YuLY]

Can these buffoons port Shadows of the damned on PC already? yes I know they announced it, but lets get a date, its just a remaster, how long does it take.

 

[Filben]

Seriously, who gives a...

Like what is that going to change.

A remake can usually change a game quite tremendously. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. A remaster is typically more faithful to the original game as they typically increase resolution, offer wide-screen support for old games that haven't had it, add more and/or modern control schemes, iron out some bugs left in the original. Changes to the script and gameplay mechanics and characters usually don't happen in remasters but in remakes.

Look at Tomb Raider Anniversary how a remake looks and look at the announcement trailer for the remasters of TR1-3. This will convey quite good the difference on the same game.

 

[Hypereides]

Seriously, who gives a...

Like what is that going to change.

Did you play the game at all? There's a lot of content that could potentially be deemed offensive today and end up being cut.

 

[Georges Chiellins]

Did you play the game at all? There's a lot of content that could potentially be deemed offensive today and end up being cut.

Screw the sensitive ones. Yes I did play it back in the day on Xbox 360.
Not a fan of changing content in the name of people being butthurt by anything and everything in 2023.
Add a warning, same as has been done for some shows/movies, and that is all.

 

[Reaseru]

After seeing the various screenshots of this "remake" with focus in the main character, i think no one thought it was going to be a full remake of the game. It had "remaster" glued on it since the beginning.

 

[MagiusNecros]

If the remaster retains all the music, all the original content and restores Juliet's original face then great. I think elaboration on what changed is required.

If 16 songs from LP is still cut due to licensing issues it'll be up to modders to put the music back into the game.

 

[Games of Today]

Shouldn't this statement be the other way around?

 

[Success]

Who the hell wanted a remaster instead of a remake?!?!

 

[digoutyoursoul]

No peaking under her skirt trophy?

They will be respecting people’s privacy.....

 

[March Climber]

Screw the sensitive ones. Yes I did play it back in the day on Xbox 360.
Not a fan of changing content in the name of people being butthurt by anything and everything in 2023.

Uh sir… this is a thread about better gameplay, not censorship. You sure you read the info correctly?

 

[Gojiira]

Lame…All the shit aspects, tiny arenas etc will all be the same
Remake was a opportunity to improve the combat and level design, fucking nonsense…

 

[SmokedMeat]

Good, because they sucked at remaking the character.

I still doubt that seashell bikini will survive.

 

[kunonabi]

Good, because they sucked at remaking the character.

I still doubt that seashell bikini will survive.

Lots of things aren't going to survive. It's going to be even more jarring on a remaster. At least in a remake there would be more room to create new elements to replace the stuff getting taken out. I just don't see this whole thing working out.

 

[TGO]

Lots of things aren't going to survive. It's going to be even more jarring on a remaster. At least in a remake there would be more room to create new elements to replace the stuff getting taken out. I just don't see this whole thing working out.

They literally posted this as changes for modern audiences

And while people was pointing out the actual differences the joke went over their head.
The director even said later that besides some music due to licencing issues the game isn't being changed, story, script, gameplay, aesthetics will remain the same.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Lots of things aren't going to survive. It's going to be even more jarring on a remaster. At least in a remake there would be more room to create new elements to replace the stuff getting taken out. I just don't see this whole thing working out.

Akane is STILL best waifu, though

 

[Georges Chiellins]

Uh sir… this is a thread about better gameplay, not censorship. You sure you read the info correctly?

I didn't bring up censorship, I was merely replying.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Akane is STILL best waifu, though

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Cute Slime feet

 

[Fake]

Good. There is no advantage changing a game 'because'.

 

[drotahorror]

Can these buffoons port Shadows of the damned on PC already? yes I know they announced it, but lets get a date, its just a remaster, how long does it take.

Yeah and how long does a Lollipop Chainsaw remaster take? ffs up the rez and unlock framerate. Delayed for another year. Really incompetent devs at these places.

 

[Killer8]

Look up "Jimmy Urine controversy".

This is not surviving some form of censorship.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Seem the remaster will have a revamped combat system when it launches on consoles next year.

 

[LostInTime]

Yeah and how long does a Lollipop Chainsaw remaster take? ffs up the rez and unlock framerate. Delayed for another year. Really incompetent devs at these places.

I think that about alot of these rereleases and remasters. They'll announce them a year two in advance. Why would it need to even take that long to release something like this.

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

This was one of my fave games on the 360. The fighting mechanics were good after unlocking the skill tree a bit, the humour was cheesy but more in a old school video game kind of way that is unfortunately frowned upon a lot these days, along with the unashamedly Sexy main character. It knew what it was and wasn’t afraid of it, and I loved it for that. Can’t wait for the remake.

I’ve even got a poster of her on my wall

 

[SenkiDala]

It was an awful game. But this is what I felt from every Suda 51 game, dunno how this man could have a career by making so mediocre games, to me all his games are like 50 on MC.

 

[LostInTime]

I'll bet this game will look and play the same as it does on the PS3 emulator. That you can play right now for free if you know how.

 

[JonSnowball]

Look up "Jimmy Urine controversy".

This is not surviving some form of censorship.

All I found was this catchy tune:

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[near]

Still can't believe James Gunn was involved in the original. It's also a shame this remake won't have the original OST.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Still can't believe James Gunn was involved in the original. It's also a shame this remake won't have the original OST.

Ugh, that's news to me.

 

[Punished Miku]

Ugh, that's news to me.

He's also in Lococycle.

 

[John Bilbo]

Remakester

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I know I said this before, but I hope this is not censored. If it is, I'll stick to my RPCS3 version on PC if this remaster/remake ends up censored

 

[TGO]

That's a big difference

 

[Deerock71]

Look at Tomb Raider Anniversary how a remake looks and look at the announcement trailer for the remasters of TR1-3. This will convey quite good the difference on the same game.

It's downloaded on my Switch and just TEASING me. The 14th can't get here fast enough!

 

[SmokedMeat]

Looks like a clash of art styles.

 

[TGO]

Looks like a clash of art styles.

Kinda hard to tell from that one screen
But the original was aswell

What I have noticed and it maybe just that screenshot, Juliet's hard black outline isn't present.

 

[Chuck Berry]

This shit looks really fuckin fake

...and if its real, well then BIG YIKES

 

[TGO]

This shit looks really fuckin fake

...and if its real, well then BIG YIKES

They didn't want the backlash that Insomniac got.
On the plus side the her shadow looks great.

 

[Chuck Berry]

They didn't want the backlash that Insomniac got.
On the plus side the her shadow looks great.

Fuck the shadows I wanna know how much of the soundtrack and dialogue will be butchered to "cater to a modern audience"

 

[Beechos]

Who the hell wanted a remaster over a remake. Smh

I guess the fans were too worried about the remake adding woke stuff to it.

 

[near]

Fuck the shadows I wanna know how much of the soundtrack and dialogue will be butchered to "cater to a modern audience"

The soundtrack will almost certainly be different, as they've already confirmed that they've been unable to obtain some licensed music. Minor concerns over censorship, but nothing confirmed on that front.

 

[Killer8]

Everything about this looks and sounds like absolute shit.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The character design for RePOP continues to be done by the character designer of the original version, Nekoshowgun.
She worked with us to create the original character design for Juliet.
The loading screen of RePOP has been redesigned with new visuals drawn by Nekoshowgun, so be on the lookout for that.

 

[TGO]

Wait, so Juliet was actually designed by a woman