‘Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP’ Producer Assures Fans That Original Devs “Have The Same Feelings About Censorship As You Do”
In once again seeking to ease the fears regarding the remake’s commitment to honoring its source material, Lollipop Chainsaw RePop producer and CEO of its developer Dragami Games Yoshimi Yasuda has assured fans that the dev team behind the original release of the cult classic hack-and-slash title have absolutely zero interest in seeing their work subjected to censorship.
Yasuda, who also served as a producer on the original Lollipop Chainsaw, provided this insight into the internal debate surrounding RePOP‘s development on May 16th via a post made to his personal Twitter account.
Therein, the succinctly informed the public in both Japanese and English, “We, the original staff, have the same feelings about censorship as you do.”
At current, it’s unknown just how many of Lollipop Chainsaw‘s original production team, if any, have returned alongside Yasuda to develop RePOP (though it is known that, at the very least, director SUDA51 and writer James Gunn (yes, that James Gunn), will not be among them).
However, regardless of whether the original devs are taking a stance against censorship from either an internal or external position, the fact that they are so willing and confident to speak up at all – even if it is via a collective statement issued by Yasuda – bodes well for the survival of SUDA51 and Gunn’s original artistic vision.
As noted above, this is not the first time Yasuda has affirmed RePOP‘s intent to release uncensored.
Speaking to the subject during an October 2023 interview with Automaton‘s Taijiro Yamanaka, the producer confirmed, “Now, regarding the scenario and script of RePOP, we have decided to use the original Lollipop Chainsaw scenario and script without any changes.”
Pressed for details on the ‘requests of fans’ he had received, Yasuda detailed, “When we announced RePOP for the first time in July last year, we had used the word ‘remake’ without any specific explanation, which caused some anxiety among fans of the original game. In the following period, we received thousands of inquiries via e-mail and social media from fans containing questions and requests about the project, and among them, ‘Please don’t change the game’s scenario and worldview’ and ‘Please make it uncensored’ were among the most requested.”
“From there, we made the decision not to make changes to the script, taking into account both the wishes of users and international reviews,” he then recalled. “As for requests for the game to be uncensored, we are also working on realizing this to the best of our ability.”
As of writing, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is currently on track to cut things up sometime later this Summer.
More About:Video Games
