Warner Bros. Interactive has announced that it will be bringing Lollipop Chainsaw (the next game from Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture studio) to the West next year on Xbox 360 and PS3.
The game was announced in Japan last month via Famitsu, although details of a Western launch and publishing partner had remained unclear until now.
In what's shaping up to be a typically bonkers Suda51 affair, Lollipop Chainsaw sees high-school cheerleader, Juliet Starling take on a horde of the undead armed with a chainsaw.
Gore is being toned down with a more saccharine-sweet aesthetic where pink love hearts replace fountains of zombie blood from the raging chainsaw of a butter-wouldn't-melt protagonist.
It's an interesting change in direction for the studio that brought us Shadows of the Damned in June, which scored 7/10 in our review and debuted at No.31 in its first week on the UK charts before dropping out of the top 40 altogether.
As with Shadows, famed Silent Hill composer, Akira Yamaoka will handle the musical score on Lollipop Chainsaw, while Hollywood director and writer, James Gunn (Tromeo and Juliet, Dawn of the Dead) has been drafted in to handle the script.
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