While searching one of the Torii sisters’ rooms, we discover a trash can filled with wrappers for diet gum. Shooting the sister enough times triggers a scene in which we learn that her friend, Amayo Sato, had been in the room cleaning. Hopping over to Amayo’s room, the pixies find her trash can filled to the brim with wrappers. Worried about her weight, Amayo has stopped eating altogether, subsisting on diet gum alone. That’s not good. The pixies take the news very seriously.

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Eventually, the pixies take the news very seriously. Ignoring the non-intervention portion of her orders, Bee-tan and a reluctant Kame-pon leave one of the wrappers where Kira Torii will find it. Not only does this reveal the source of the sweet smell, it helps Kira discover that her friend has a problem.

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Kira confronts Amayo about her diet gum addiction. She explains the dangers of the habit to her friend and tries to convince her that her health is more important than her body image. At first it seems to work, but then Amayo freaks out.

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Which leads us back to the game’s opening. Amayo, convinced she must exercise before she can eat or she’ll grow overweight, dons her yoga gear and begins to furiously work out. It’s up to Bee-tan and Kame-pon to use their happy bullets to put an end to the episode. With Amayo in a manic state, the pixies don’t have to worry about making noise or being seen. They just have to avoid or shoot the emotions, good and bad, overflowing from the human. Should they get hit, they lose some of their clothing, because that’s the sort of game this is. But what’s a little censored nudity when a woman’s life is at stake?

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What a nifty little story to start the game off with. It tackles a sensitive subject with as much tact and sensitivity as a game about horny voyeur pixies can muster. It almost sounds wholesome, doesn’t it?

It’s really not. The upskirts never end. Bee-tan can’t go five seconds without becoming overwhelmed by her thirst for human women, her partner, chewing gum, furniture, or anything else that crosses her field of vision. And the reward for calming down Amayo completely? It’s a bathing scene.

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Gun Gun Pixies is a game that doesn’t try to hide what it is. Japanese developer Compile Heart excels at putting together quirky, pervy adventures like this. I love a game that lets me play as a little person in a big world. If that world includes a bathtub filled with a barely covered human and suspiciously green water, so be it. I was pleasantly surprised to some responsible realism in my sexy pixie shooting sim.

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If only a little.

Gun Gun Pixies launches in North America on September 10.