Gal*Gun: Double Peace - believe it or not, there's context for this Thus, Houdai spends the day trying to find his love and make his confession, while using a Pheromone Gun gifted to him by the clumsy angel to fend off his randy classmates (and teachers). As a result, he becomes irresistible to every woman who sets eyes on him, but if he doesn't profess his true love by the end of the day, he'll be alone forever. Double Peace opens with the main character, high schooler Houdai, being accidentally shot by a supercharged arrow from a cupid angel in training. The big difference between Gal*Gun: Double Peace and Gal*Gun 2 is how that action is framed.
The basic concept of both games is the same: an on-rails shooter like Time Crisis or House of the Dead, but instead of shooting terrorists or zombies with bullets, you're shooting horny, love-crazed girls with "pheromone shots". Related reading: How Gal*Gun: Double Peace turns lewd anime games on their heads. It's good, trashy fun, but after Double Peace, I expected a lot more.
It certainly achieves that in terms of pure gameplay, but it seems to come at the cost of the previous game's clever parody. Gal*Gun 2 has been built up to be, well, a sequel: bigger, bolder, and more ready to push boundaries. It was trashy-and I don't mean that pejoratively-but through that B-grade tone it achieved a pointed satire of a lot of common tropes seen in anime and games. Gal*Gun: Double Peace was a much smarter game than most people gave it credit for.
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