The role reversal that casts sexy girls as enemies puts a humorous twist on otherwise perverted actions, like hiding out in the girls’ locker room.
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It also turns attention to its own ilk, parodying “pervy anime games” in a way that’s hilarious and quite pointed. With its sexual spin on traditionally violent mechanics, Gal Gun puts a spotlight on this inconsistency. Video games don’t exactly have a great track record when it comes to sex, but they’re not really any better in their handling of violence, and yet ratings boards still consider tone and context in a way that they just don’t do for sexual content. Violence of the same tone and degree as Gal Gun ’s sex regularly gets away with a Teen rating, but on its sexual content alone, Gal Gun picked up a swathe of stricter rulings across the globe: R18 in Australia, ESRB M (17+) in America, PEGI 16 in Europe, and CERO D (17+) in Japan. It’s lewd, but far from explicit, being comically suggestive more than anything else. Gal Gun: Double Peace is particularly potent in this regard, because it highlights the disparity between social attitudes to violence and sex in games. This isn’t the first game to spin shooter mechanics in such a way, of course- Pokemon Snap did this way back in 1999, and I’m sure even that had its precursors-but they’re still enough of a rarity to be a noteworthy subversion of shooter norms. This alone puts Gal Gun: Double Peace in an interesting (and often hilarious) position, but it’s also really refreshing to play a shooter that doesn’t have violence as a thematic core. Instead of killing your assailants, you’re effectively giving them orgasms so good that they’re left unable to move. It’s a rail shooter, like Time Crisis, House of Dead and the like, but instead of bad guys and zombies, your enemies are cute anime girls. Which brings us to the first of many factors that makes Gal Gun: Double Peace such a brilliant game.
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A few of these, or a well placed “ecstasy shot”, is enough to make any girl collapse in a fit of euphoria, giving Houdai a chance to get away. Luckily, the angel gave him a way to defend himself: a magical gun that shoots “pheromone shots”. Never mind how hard it is to profess your love for someone anyway, but Houdai has the additional hurdle of being constantly swarmed by girls yelling admiration and trying to grab him, give him love letters, kiss him, and in some cases, even torture him. The end result? He’s now irresistible to every girl in the school, but he has to confess to his true love by sundown or he’s cursed to be forever alone. However, the distracted angel messes up, and so instead of some regular-strength arrow, Houdai’s struck by a supercharged one. Gal Gun: Double Peace opens with the painfully average high school boy Houdai being shot with a cupid’s arrow.
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More than just a really good, ridiculous rail shooter, this is a pointed satire of erotic games and a welcome critique of gaming’s obsession with violence. I was expecting a silly, pervy rail shooter that didn’t take itself too seriously at all, and while that’s certainly what I got, I wasn’t expecting a game that was so clever and subversive in its approach. I thought I knew what I was getting into with Gal Gun: Double Peace.