Let’s get this out of the way. Gal*Gun: Double Peace is an on-rails shooter where the player must shoot sex pheromones at female school goers as they try chase after him. Yeah, it’s weird and completely perverse. If that doesn’t seem like a game you don’t want to play, then the good news is that you’re not missing out on much. That said, I found myself pleasantly surprised by some aspects of the game.
The game’s deeper premise is even more ridiculous than the CliffsNotes version I gave above. An angel in training accidentally hits a high school boy with a supercharged Cupid arrow. Now the boy, named Houdai, is irresistible to most women and must find his true love by the end of the day or he’ll be lonely forever. To make matters more complicated, there’s also a demon who is also causing mischief. What’s really great about the story is how serious it takes itself. The events from the original Gal*Gun are referenced and expanded on, and it’s wild to see how much care was taken in order to flesh out the canon for a series about shooting girls with pheromone bullets. It’s 100% ridiculous, but some real care was taken into the story. It’s a coming of age tale kind of like Kiki’s Delivery Service, if Kiki got into some kinky mishaps instead of transporting baked goods.

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