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  • Gal Gun preview: I heart art

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    Ludwig Kietzmann
    Ludwig Kietzmann
    09.17.2010

    I'm so glad my mom didn't attend the Tokyo Game Show with me this year. Being forced to cover the notoriously crowded and humid event in a sweater would be a miserable experience ("You'll catch a cold!"), but the perspiration would go into overdrive if I had to explain a game like Gal Gun: "Ludwig, are you playing a kids game?" (This is always the first question when a game's graphics don't quite portray reality.) "No, Mom, it's cel-shaded. It's an anime-styled, on-rails shoot-her with a first-person perspective. It's called Gal Gun." "Is that a school?" "Uh huh, it seems like a Japanese high school. Judging by the sheer amount of girls fawning over me, it's not co-ed." "Or anything like your school days."