The Guardian

The Guardian is an erotic visual novel with animated naughty scenes from BlackHeart Games, where the player associated with the Mafia world becomes the only father of the family.

Visual novel as a genre

Visual Interactive Story is a genre of games with minimal player intervention. The gamer looks at high-quality renders, the story becomes clear through dialogue and character interaction. When it's time for an erotic scene, then the image turns into animation. The sex scene can be viewed from several angles. The Guardian provides the player with several juicy endings, so you can rewatch the visual story several times and not get bored with the monotony. The player can control the course of the story, rewinding the uninteresting parts. The game is accompanied by pleasant music, which cannot get boring and is replaced by a quieter and more intimate one during the time when the character gets involved with women.

The Delucci family and their exuberance

The Delucci family is a very noble and wealthy family. Lots of children and nephews - the house is filled with joy, with attractive young girls running here and there who are into all sorts of things: drawing, music, distracted conversations about the world. Secretly from their parents, the little girls, of course, shared their discoveries about sex and naughty fantasies. They all had plenty of money, plenty of riches. A huge house with many rooms, the interior of the latest in home furnishings:

• Big leather sofa with beautiful cushions
• Bright and pretty bedrooms for the girls
• Separate and spacious restrooms
• A cozy porch with a nice front door that is flush with the floor
• Lots of windows to let the light in

Breaking the Idyll

The main character is the father of the Delucci family, he brings money into the family and is respectable. All was well until someone started stalking the protagonist's wife and beloved daughters. Fear gripped the family. Now everyone is worried about their lives. Apparently the gray schemes from the past make themselves felt - to him came back with a vengeance with financial issues. While the whole family is in fear, the protagonist is steadfastly confident and ready to act. The question is how to act - it's up to the player to decide.

Is it worth acting like a victim or joining the situation to get everyone to do what the father likes? The father has long harbored strange tendencies, which are implicated in situations of absolute power. Will the player molest his own daughters, assuring them that he will keep them safe? Will he track down the men who attempted the lives of his wife and children, or will he leave life-threatening incidents unpunished? Will evil come out from within, or will the player remain true to his own ideals?

When it comes to The Guardian the saying, never judge a book by its cover could not be any more appropriate! I came into this with low expectations, expecting it to be a mobile like platformer that has just been pushed onto PC, but that is not the case at all. This is a charming, fun, and well made little platforming game that may start off nice and easy, but let me tell you, this game can get pretty damn challenging. This is a little hidden gem and perfect for you if you are into platform games and want something a little bit different.

Saving The Northern Lands

One of the things that I got a kick out of with The Guardian is the story. This is a very basic story where the northern lands are in trouble thanks to these monstrous creatures and you need to save the day by defeating them all and bringing back piece. There is actually very little story in the game, but I think that is by design. Think of some of the classic platformers like Super Mario World and the original Sonic the Hedgehog and even Kirby, those early games did not have much in the way of a story and that is the case here. I think they were going for a kind of 16-bit vibe here and that is awesome.

Five Brave Warriors

One of the things that did impress me with The Guardian was how there are five playable characters in the game. Each of the different “classes” has their own stats so one may jump higher and be faster, but another may dish out more damage. Plus, they all look different too which is fun. You have a robot, a wizard, an elf, a druid, and an assassin. My personal favorite was the robot as he feels so out of place when next to the others and there was just something super fun about playing as him. I did find that the characters were different enough to make me want to play through each of them.

Kriss Kross Will Make

If you did not yell, JUMP, JUMP at your screen, we cannot be friends! The Guardian is a rather basic platformer, but it is also a fun one. This was clearly made as a mobile game, but I never knew of it before I came across it on PC. The game has you pick your character and then take them through a series of levels that have you platforming and killing enemies and collecting the stuff you need to use the skill tree, yes there is a basic skill tree here. Each of the characters can attack an enemy with a projectile as well as jump on their heads. The jumping on the heads works, but you never feel the “oomph” like you get with a Mario or Sonic. The levels start off super easy, but this can be a challenging game as you progress through it. It may not do anything “new” however, it does what it does very well and I found myself having a fun time with it.

Who Scribbled On My Nauts!

It would be so easy to take one look at The Guardian and just say that it looks like every other mobile platformer. However, I am going to counter that as the first time I saw this game, it reminded me of the classic Scribblenauts series. There is just something about the floaty jumps and the way the character's limbs move that remind me of that series and I mean that in a complimentary way. There may not exactly be a ton of originality at play in this game, but I still enjoyed the style and general vibe it offered and found it to be charming, especially that robot character.

Pros:

• You can play as one of five characters
• I thought the style of the game had a lot of charm
• This is a fun and addictive little platformer
• The presentation is neat

Cons:

• The jumping on the enemies feels a little off
• It is not the kind of game I could see myself coming back to play through again