Gal Gun has always been on the controversial side of things and Gal Gun 2 sticks to the highly imbalanced perspectives of this games franchise. Gal Gun is a very selective, hidden and unknown franchise in all honesty. Few know of its existence and those who do are evenly split on the spectrum of whether it's a good game. The answer, a bit of both. In some aspects, Gal Gun 2 has stunningGal Gun has always been on the controversial side of things and Gal Gun 2 sticks to the highly imbalanced perspectives of this games franchise. Gal Gun is a very selective, hidden and unknown franchise in all honesty. Few know of its existence and those who do are evenly split on the spectrum of whether it's a good game. The answer, a bit of both. In some aspects, Gal Gun 2 has stunning features but also critically disappointing ones too.
Gal Gun is the typical "Doki Doki" cuties high-school anime genre. Already a topic despised by people as the theme of a high school filled with kawaii super-cute girls is overused and generic in the Japanese realm of video games with such games such as Doki-Doki literature club, danganronpa, and assassination classroom the video game. However unlike the games listed, Gal Gun fails to put a unique twist on it, or at least one that makes an impact.
In Gal Gun 2 you are chosen as someone worthy of expelling demons. A beautiful angel from heaven named Risu floats down from heaven to give you a VR headset styled pair of goggles and a gun. The girls in your high school have been inflicted with demons and have become extra sexual and erotic. You must expel the demons from their body and save everyone. It's very erotic which causes a lot of controversies.
In Gal Gun 2 there is a small plot albeit there is not much development and the main story can be completed quickly, literally in a couple of hours which is disappointing for an expensive game. The very basic plot as mentioned before is use your gun and goggles to identify girls inflicted with demons and shoot the demons out of their bodies or suck them as the gun also works as a vacuum. There are a few modes to do this but none groundbreaking. The first and most common is a horde type mode where anime girls will appear from multiple directions and you simply have to shoot them into a state of ecstasy to cleanse them. The second mode you must investigate various rooms to find lost items while avoiding girls otherwise you'll get into a mini-wave of battles. And the final is protecting someone from floating mini-demons. The modes are painfully long sessions of the same repetitive nature as there's never really anything new. It's the same, over and over again. But somehow it's addicting and you still want to play the game later.
Similar to Persona 5 you must complete the main quest by a deadline of days, 19 to be exact as I recall, you must finish the main story in 19 days which can actually be completed in 4 (in-game time). You can play 2 missions per day and although some main quests take a certain amount of points to begin, the points can be racked up in a couple of missions. Once the main mission is complete you have on average about 15 days of utter boredom and nothingness apart from complete irrelevant side quests presented by strangers who notice strange occurrings. You CAN skip to the final day but then you miss out on a possibly the one thing the game does right.
Character development. There are 3 sets of girls you can talk to, your shut-in gamer neighbor Chiru, classmate nanako and two girls from Gal Gun double piece, an earlier game in the franchise. They all have unique stories, and they're enjoyable to watch but they take about 10-14 in-game days to complete all of them meaning you tirelessly have to continue with baseless random missions as you cant skip individual days. Each day will present you further development with those characters which are quite interesting and fun to see but talking to them and watching these developments do not waste in-game time meaning to progress to the next day to find out what happens next you have to complete two stupid missions no one asked for, ever. Unfortunately, you learn nothing about protagonist's backstory, purpose or why he was chosen, it's probably meant to resemble yourself but it's still disappointing
The music, however, is pretty damn good. It's very kawaii anime songs but if you're into that stuff you'll love it, the opening theme, credits and battle music are my favorite which I ended up downloading to my phone because they were that good. There is Japanese voice acting for the game but no English dub option which is a shame since the Japanese voices were low quality and didn't suit the characters, all the enemy girl voice lines were recycled with a slight pitch change leading to no variety, Risu's voice was unfitting and the only people who had fitting VA's were Chiru and Nanako. There are DLC options for the game that are reasonably priced if you're interested, so it's shocking no English dub was available and if there was it was hidden leading to bad organization of DLC content
The UI I found to be pretty though, the Menus were extremely easy to understand and use and I could transition between what I wanted to do seamlessly.
All the mini features like UI and music were perfect. but the core game lacked intensely.… Expand
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