Heisei Pistol Show

released on Dec 31, 2008
by Parun

Lolita-fashioned gay hitman Heart is betrayed by his ex-lover. In order to get revenge Heart and his trustful companion Pistol abandon the organization, but three of the best assassins follow in their footsteps. A colorful bittersweet story.


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before i played this game i thought it was just a cheap and silly rpg maker game. ITS A LOW-BUDGET AND SILLY RPG MAKER GAME BUT GOD I WAS SO WRONG.

as a queer person who has fucked his vision of love during a horrible time of his life just to find some kind of relief or should i say {happiness} the storyline felt really touching in a way not other videogame has ever made me feel. i would never have thought this "kill bill but with a femboy" type of story would made me feel like this. and i cant really say i fully understand it. it feels too personal to do so. but everyone should experience this game in its life.

love is really a very complex thing.

I LOVE GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!
An absolutely beautiful rpgmaker game. Probably has the best artstyle and graphical flair of any rpgmaker project I've seen. Topped with a heaping of surrealism and a beautiful message on living happily.

The story is not nearly as great or unique as people make it out to be. However, the visuals are BY FAR the best you can find in ANY video game, ever. It's so far ahead of anything else it isn't even funny. That's how good this game looks. It's worth playing for that alone.

We are in 2024, graphics are getting better than we could have ever imagined before, and companies are still racing against each other in hopes of reaching a technical finish line that, time and time again, has been proven to not exist.

Not only famous game directors are receiving more mainstream attention, but big-name actors are also getting interested in the industry, attracting a significant number of outsiders as a result.

From the biggest AAA studio to a single-handed indie developer, all sorts of resources are easily available to help make their projects a reality, and because of it, we are getting more and more releases per year to the point where it's impossible to keep track of them all.

But for some reason, despite all that, this ugly as a sin 2008 game made in the ancient RPGMAKER2000 engine of all things, borrowing licensed music and numerous visual assets, achieved something that's rarely seen in gaming: using the video game format to create something personal; something real.

The uniqueness of its presentation and its quirky, loud nature, completely devoid of ego, hooked me from the start, and it never let me go, not even once it started to get darker as we dived into its abyss.

The plot hit me like a truck because I could feel its sincerity, especially after that ending, which I would feel like a criminal for spoiling because it's one of the absolute bests I have ever seen in any artistic medium.

So, yeah, please give this one a try. Take your time to explore and talk to every NPC you see. Whether you end up loving it or hating it, I'm certain that the experience is not going to leave you indifferent. And goddamn, isn't that alone such a beautiful thing?.

Live Happily or some bullshit, who knows

I can't say I fully understand the game, but I can say it feels like a real outburst of emotion, and emotion is what art's all about.
Packs more emotion into its short playtime than plenty of long games do. Love is a complex thing. Rest well Parun.