The difference in Gal*Gun Double Peace and its stablemates, of course, is that they’re completely non-violent games. Indeed, before “video games” were even a thing, companies like Sega and Nintendo made electromechanical light-gun games for people to enjoy, and the first ever games console, the Magnavox Odyssey, featured an optional light-gun attachment. Everyone understands the concept of pointing a thing at another thing and pressing a button or pulling a trigger to make something happen. This is largely down to the fact that, at heart, Gal*Gun Double Peace is channelling one of the most immediately accessible types of game out there: the light-gun or crosshair shooter. Because while Gal*Gun Double Peace is very much a game intended to be enjoyed over the long term, it definitely has an immediate appeal that will draw you in straight away. So let’s talk about the elements of Gal*Gun Double Peace that I found particularly striking, beginning with that immediacy angle. I love Gal*Gun Double Peace for its immediacy While I was feeling pretty low about my employment situation, Gal*Gun was a fantastic game to take my mind off all that - because, as we’ll talk about in a moment, it featured both enjoyable immediacy, which helped in the short-term, and long-term appeal that put a smile on my face as I continued to engage with it.Ĭonsequently, while 2016 was not a year I remember especially fondly for general life stuff, it was a great year for gaming for me. Gal*Gun Double Peace dropped right in the middle of all that, and it was the perfect game for me at that time. I’d found myself enjoying a wide variety of different games that you never heard anything about in the mainstream press - nothing positive, anyway - and, in the course of all that, I really felt like I’d discovered the “niche” that I was interested in in gaming. In fact, video games - and the writing about them - had largely kept me sane over the course of the two years since my last regular “permanent” employment.Īs already noted, around about 2010 or so, I came to the conclusion that the “big name” games of the time really weren’t doing much for me, and thus I decided to specifically seek out games that “spoke” to me in some way - which, as it happens, tended to involve cute anime girls in one form or another.
#TIME GAL GAME OVER FREE#
I had been continuing to write about video games in my own free time because it was something I had always enjoyed doing, and I wasn’t going to let something stupid like no-one paying me to do it any more stop me from doing what I love. Throughout 2016, I’d been subsisting on a combination of occasional freelance work and seasonal retail jobs, and it was getting me down a bit. I’d been laid off from a dream job writing for a relatively mainstream games journalism website a couple of years prior - a website where I’d managed to establish a solid reputation as someone who actually gave “otaku games” a chance rather than writing them off as pervy, problematic rubbish - and I’d been struggling ever since.
When Gal*Gun Double Peace got its first localised release back in 2016, I don’t mind admitting that I wasn’t enjoying the best situation my life has ever been in. I love Gal*Gun Double Peace for its fond memories
#TIME GAL GAME OVER PS4#
The reasons why, upon acquiring a copy of the Nintendo Switch version to try out, I was not disappointed at having to abandon my progress on the PS4 version and start again, but rather I was excited to begin my journey afresh.
#TIME GAL GAME OVER SERIES#
So what I wanted to do today was go through the ways in which the Gal*Gun series - and Gal*Gun Double Peace in particular - has continued to resonate with me over the years. And that is one of many things that makes it so good. And, true to the theory that was already solid in my mind by this point, Gal*Gun Double Peace - and indeed its successors Gal*Gun 2 and Gal*Gun Returns - is absolutely a game that is about more than simple, immediate sexual gratification. The Gal*Gun series isn’t porn, of course - but its erotic elements are hard to deny, whether you look on it as a game about perving on schoolgirls or, as one particularly erudite commenter on the Rice Digital Friday Letters Page had it, that rare example of a game that is well and truly about female pleasure.
This was an idea that I’d been fascinated with ever since I played my first visual novel back in the late ’90s and, largely unfamiliar with the medium at that point, found myself thinking “good gravy, the Japanese sure put a lot of plot in their porn”. More than that, though, it seemed like the perfect poster child for a concept I still continue to espouse: that seemingly lewd, ecchi games - the good ones, anyway - are considerably more than just simple titillation.
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