

Gunn said on Twitter last year that neither he nor Suda are involved with the new version, adding that "I neither endorse nor condemn it! I simply don’t know anything about it." The remake is going forward without two of the key creative forces behind the original game: filmmaker James Gunn and game designer Goichi 'Suda51' Suda. However, we were unfortunately unable to include 16 of the licensed songs, which were a great part of the original game's feel, and so we are instead aiming for a remake that is as close as possible to a remaster." "Of course, the ideal thing to do would be to make a remastered version of the original game, changing nothing. It is scheduled to launch in 2023."The primary goal of the Lollipop Chainsaw remake project is to make it so that players who wish to play Lollipop Chainsaw can do so easily, not to make a new Lollipop Chainsaw game," producer Yoshimi Yasuda said at the time. Lollipop Chainsaw is currently in development at Dragami Games. It is also lamented that, unfortunately, much of the original release’s soundtrack will be omitted for licensing reasons, so players so expect a brand new score “aside from a few licensed tracks.” Yasuda notes that many of the original game’s development team will be returning to work on the remake, which is expected to have a somewhat more “realistic” aesthetic due to the nature of modern gaming hardware. about development and are being supported by them in this endeavor.” “As such, we purchased the Lollipop Chainsaw intellectual property from Kadokawa Games and decided to develop a remake. We, the original development staff on Lollipop Chainsaw, think of the game as very precious to us, and did not want to leave it in limbo, where players who want to play it cannot,” notes Yasuda. “It has been some time since players have not been able to access the game on current consoles.
