Physically, Juliet is also greatly superior to the men around her.
#LOLLIPOP AND CHAINSAW HOW TO#
There are plenty more examples of this interplay throughout the game where Juliet demonstrates a greater intelligence than Nick, and, of course, at a very basic level she is the one that understands how to combat the zombie threat. So for instance early on in the game (early enough that any critic who actually played it before reviewing it should have noticed), Juliet asks Nick – the body-less head that she carries around with her – if he knows Japanese. Starting with the character herself on the surface Juliet is indeed something straight from a 70s or 80s cheerleader film, but that’s merely a ruse with surprising subtlety the game’s writer, James Gunn, reveals an intelligent, articulate and empowered character in Juliet Sterling. But forget the marketing for a second, and look at the game itself – Lollipop Chainsaw, from start to finish, is not only turning the expectation that Juliet would be an airheaded piece of eye candy on the head it’s actually laughing at the very audience it was marketed to. Of course, it terms of the marketing is was exploitative right down the line to appeal the adolescent boys – Warner Bros needed a return on investment after all, and cheerleaders and upskirts are an easy sell. One of the more regular comments I see made about the game is that it is “sexist.” This confuses me greatly because my reading of Lollipop Chainsaw is the exact opposite – this game is one giant criticism of the sexual politics found in games. It's also completely adorable.Now that Lollipop Chainsaw has been available for a while, there’s been a lot written about the game.
Their whole relationship is super fucked-up when you think about it.
By the end of the game, however, he dances over to his objective while Juliet encourages him with a cheerleader routine. The first time Juliet pops Nick onto a corpse so he can move some rubble, he shuffles and stumbles. On the surface, Nick's helping out with wall and zombie removal is a quirky gameplay mechanic, but it also shows the two of them learning to start turning their love's challenges into strengths. I'm thinking that carrying one's boyfriend's head around like a talking purse is a pretty big step that early in the relationship, and it shows almost immediately when he complains about his condition and she attempts to mollify him by offering to sneak him into movies for free. The two heroes haven't been together long at the start of the game Nick proclaims his "fuckin' love" for the first time just seconds before Juliet lops off his dome. "Awesome! I love learning more about you!" "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.
#LOLLIPOP AND CHAINSAW UPGRADE#
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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