Cool game, but a little repetitive.
Reviews for "The Guardian"
A very interesting game to say the least.
Towards the end we see (who I assume to be the boy) die in front of the giant. The giant only knows that his only friend and the one who he constantly protected is gone. The giant realizes that the villagers must have had something to do with this and sets off for them.
However, when you arrive at the village a few questions should dawn on you.
Do these people who tremble in fear deserve death? Is it not human nature to fear what is different?
Also, how do you preserve the boy's memory? Do you use the strength he gave you through the berries and leave his memory in destruction? Or do you preserve the memory by wandering as a way of showing what the boy gave you?
The simplicity of this game only makes these questions more prevalent when you arrive at the village.
I choose to leave the village alone. When I broke down the gates of the village i realized I had broken what made the villagers so bitter. The gates united the villagers and made them hateful of what was different than them. Now they could have a second chance to redeem themselves and learn the accept different people.
Because this game was made to illustrate this message and not to have great gameplay I rate it at 5 stars.
Thank you for making a great game with such a powerful message behind it! I hope to see more work from you in the future :)
Excellent story but the actual gameplay is boring and repetitive. Wasted potential.
Now i'm angry... I wanted sweet revenge for killing my friend, but I don't get it, because after an EXTREMELY slow, long, and kinda' pointless (my own opinion) walk by the giant, I see 4 villagers who shoot me, then the game freezes. I am really upset because this game was really cool. The pixel art is amazing and the music and feel, totally emmersive! The downfall (and a HUGE one for me) was that it took over 5 minutes of me, very painfully, holding down D waiting for this slow lumbering giant to move to the town. The gameplay was good and the storyline was very clean (I picked up a hint of the film "The Iron Giant") My end verdict is please make more games like this, but cut down the long, painful walk. Art was great, music was great, game was great. Keep up the good work.
Kinda frustrating that it has so much potential and yet it is VERY annoying to do the same thing over and over... I liked the atmosphere. But having to hop down the same old stretch of mountains and collect berries EVERY time got old quick. I couldn't even finish the game.
Variety is the spice of life, man... cool idea-- poor execution. Keep working on it.