The cheerleader
Lollipop Chainsaw turns a high school jock and his cheerleader girlfriend, the protagonist, 18-year-old Juliet Starling, into a lean, mean zombie-stomping machine. The hack-and-slash game, which is getting a remake some time in 2023, is not at all a faithful representation of high school life. It does, however, take the feeling of being pent-up and only being understood by music with guitar in it and turns it into something fun, bright, and bloody.
But the game has a strained relationship with its popular girl protagonist, who, despite her chainsaw-wielding, is often made the joke of a presumed adult male player’s vulturine gaze, especially with an infamous “up-skirt” achievement. Most of the time, this game isn’t accurate, but as a former high school girl, I can confirm that men are weird (to say the very, very least!).
