The key to success in Lollipop Chainsaw‘s combat seems to hinge on varying up your attack combos at all times. It’s a powerful weapon, but it uses ammo. The chainsaw also doubles as a firearm, with LT dipping into an aiming mode and RT firing. You can press B to make her jump jumping toward a zombie triggers a contextual vault over the undead foe. Juliet’s two main chainsaw attacks are mapped to the A and Y buttons on an Xbox 360 controller and her punch-and-kick attacks are handled by X. The controls are going to take players a little bit of getting used to. There are zombies to be chainsawed, after all. The zombie threat has brought Juliet here for reasons that aren’t clear, but that doesn’t really matter for the purposes of this demo. The motorcycle ride ends at a giant - we’re talking skyscraper-sized - arcade that’s been built in the shape of an oversized coin-op machine.

That’s the impression I got from the brief bits of story I picked up, at any rate. There’s definitely a Shadows of the Damned vibe here, only with a much more light-hearted tone. The little I could make out was definitely funny, and it was made all the better by some competent voice-acting. Not every word came through, but it’s clear enough that James Gunn’s writing talents are being put to good use in the script for Lollipop Chainsaw. Our first look at Suda 51’s weird and wacky new title, ‘Killer is Dead’ Suda 51's first game finally ventures outside Japan after 17 years 'No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again' features 'Hotline Miami,' 'Shovel Knight'

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