Gal*Gun: Double Peace
TL;DR
This game is sort of a retro arcade-style fast-paced on-rail shooter, except instead of using guns to shoot enemy soldiers on a battlefield, you’re using sex pheromones to shoot anime girls in an academy. Overall it’s a great game, and I really enjoy playing it.
Main Pros
- There’s a built-in “panic button” (normally bound to M) that you can press to pause the game and pull up a fake old school RPG game to fool friends or family members if they were to walk in to you being bombarded by lustful anime girls.
– Real player with 30.8 hrs in game
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It’s not a great port: xbox gamepad prompts are everywhere (but mouse and keyboard are working, and in story-critical QTEs you’ll get proper mouse prompts) and there are unexplainable game crashes on some setups, but it is still fun and weird Japanese nonsense. You should buy it, if you are into shooting pheromones at school girls and female teachers trying to express their love to you.
You can call this game “a lewd Japanese nonsense”. It’s an on-rails shooter. Your character moves through the school and then SUDDENLY GIRLS! Thousands of them! And every one of them wants to become your girlfriend forever. You have no choice but to defend yourself. You must disarm them - you do it by shooting pheromones at your attackers. In the best traditions of on-rails shooters, girls are zone-sensitive targets, so it matters where you shoot your load. Disarmed girls will scream with ecstasy and fall on the ground in lewd funny possess. Apart from the standard shooting mechanics, you can see through girls’ clothes while zooming-in…and touch girls in doki-doki mode…and…and don’t judge me.
– Real player with 29.5 hrs in game
Gal*Gun 2
Short review:
Gal*Gun 2 is an arcade-style shooter where you shoot anime girls to deliver them ecstasy, instead of death. You can have characters cosplay and pose for you lol. Great port, I didn’t run into any major issue. Compared to Double Peace, GG2 takes one step forward two steps back, but it’s still stupidly fun. Get DP first if you haven’t, it has a higher fun per unit currency ratio.
A tad bit more info:
Comparing to its predecessor, Double Peace, the gameplay has changed from on-rails shooter to a static 360º VR-ish shooter, but without the actual VR (at least officially supported, check guides for playing in VR). So, instead of the character automatically moving around after an event ends, you now have to choose where to get teleported to next, which kinda breaks the flow (you’ll also see enemies getting teleported into places where there were none before). But at least the cursor doesn’t move by itself when the character is moving, so it might be a huge improvement.
– Real player with 65.2 hrs in game
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I was a pretty big fan of Gal*Gun:Double Peace…it was a lot of fun and there was a frenetic pace so it felt like you rarely could see it all the first time through. Plus there were multiple routes through some levels in addition to the various choices to win over certain girls and that added some replay value to it. Just about the only thing better would be Double Peace in VR.
Well, this is as close as you can get until INTI CREATES CO decides to actually remake Double Peace in VR (I’d probably buy it BTW). This game is missing a few things but it also added a few things as well. Does the trade off work? Is it worth it? Well I’d say mostly yes, but I kinda wish they kept some of the old system.
– Real player with 57.0 hrs in game
Gal*Gun Returns
The very first time I played this game, I still had a girlfriend. We were in a great spot back then. This is probably the only semi-lewd game I showed her. She thought it was funny and cute. Truth be told, I have fond memories of the opening song, as one of the very first times I made love to a real woman was during a non-so-well-thought-out playthrough. Those were carefree days of lazyness and lack of responsibility. Lovable moments of total void, filled with the simple joys of life. Time went by slowly, youth was in full bloom. What a great time to be alive and experience this little gem.
– Real player with 94.7 hrs in game
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TL;DR Summary: 100% hard recommend. Fun, cute/sexy, and appropriately challenging. However, if you’re new to the Gal*Gun series, I recommend trying out Gal*Gun: Double Peace as your first game. If you already enjoyed Double Peace, I definitely recommend this prequel.
I’m going to write this review from my personal perspective of a GalGun addict who has 100% completed not only this game, but all of the others available here on Steam (Double Peace, 2, and VR), and pre-ordered the special edition without even thinking about it. Specifically, I will be comparing to Double Peace, for two reasons - first, both this game and Double Peace are true rail shooters, with very similar forced camera movement gameplay, whereas 2 and VR are stationary wave shooters where you have some control over the camera and when you proceed down the track. Perhaps more importantly though, the other reason is that I think Double Peace, as a sequel to the original console release of GalGun (which came out 10 years ago, and of which this game is a remaster), is a more interesting and robust game. So if you haven’t already played Double Peace, I suggest you start with it. Don’t get me wrong, Gal*Gun Returns is a great game on its own, and I definitely recommend it even to a new player, but Double Peace has more features and is currently cheaper, or essentially the same price for the Deluxe Edition add-on for all the costumes (which is totally worth the extra cost, BTW). So I’m going to assume you’ve played Double Peace, and base the rest of the review on how Returns differs.
– Real player with 89.0 hrs in game