The Best:
Giant Guardians is a tough one to review as its incomplete and will be so during a very long time.
The best thing about this game is the writing. It tries to be reasonable with the giantess fetish approach. It checks most things in regards of that. It has Guro, it has Gentle Giantess, it has slow paced romance which makes the game seem more realistic to some readers. But thats where the good parts of the game end, the rest can be considered dogshit.
The very first apparent issue, the story itself derails way too often, introducing new branching paths and new characters when its often not really needed. But whats worse the sexy scenes aren't really sex scenes, for instance the author could try to be more about body exploration rather than just the appreciation and worship of any given giantess. Theres nothing really sexual happening most of the time during the sex scenes. You get the choice of listening to the giantess out of survival or just embrace whatever she is doing. You never get into a situation where you for instance can climb onto her and do whatever, nor does the game incentivizes that sort of clearly implied approach to all things sexual. This leads to the player being more like a observer of the world building rather than a character that shapes things. You're essentially just existing to worship any given giantess without any of the payoff.
Or rather, the payoff is being written at such a slow pace that the games buildup and the time it takes to develop towards such outcome doesn't warrant any sort of waiting. Or in different terms, Playing this game is a great waste of time without any of the pay off. Even your average machine translated VN has way better writing and payoff. Even the slow burning ones.
Now when it comes to the quality of the art, it itself is often of varying quality. The art often has this problem that it utilizes this weird perspective that pretends that the main character is looking up at the towering woman, yet in truth it makes the art seem flat and unappealing and hes not really looking at the woman at all.
The best thing about the art is that sometimes it shows the character in scale, which makes it somewhat appealing. The writing however doesn't often complement the art. For instance, these woman are somewhat to scale between 60 and 100 meters, depending on what the artist thought during the time the art was made. Theres some inconsistencies. Even then, when the giantess walks, somehow the main character is able to keep up with that. If you understand the scaling you know that stuff like that is full of bullshit. The art and the writing often fight against each other, with the writing often being better.
The worse thing about me longing for a quality CG and the writing is that the game itself has too many branching parts which seem to be somewhat hidden, somewhat obvious. All of them are of course very incomplete, that essentially lead to nowhere. The only cause is to make you want to see more. So you wait, you get drip fed more. You wait more. After one year of waiting I am done. This game and all the developers are clear scammers of an overall low quality fetish game.
The sounds are all comical, they look weird and sometimes out of place, but they get the job done. Thats basically most of the criticism I can muster up.
Its a shame, its because of the massively toxic approach to making games, making the story itself moves along in a snails pace. I'd not want to play this game again even if I get money from it.
Let this sink in, the times I masturbated to this game was in anticipation of specific situations, only for the game to blue ball you. That alone makes this garbage clear two star material, perhaps even lower but then again, it has solid things in it that others may enjoy.
So, how to make it better? Scenes should be accompanied by a "zoomed in" art that shows the male body. Clearly, the Guardians start to get the hots for the main character and that becomes apparent fairly fast. small body worship should become more and more of a thing. Showing of a male closeup while somehow accompanying and including the giantess would be extremely hot as well. Things like that don't suddenly turn this game into a more bearable three star game, the game itself has too many flaws. But its a good path forward.
I hope that in 5 years, this game is more fleshed out, who knows, maybe it is a deserving four star at some point.
- The Giantess look all thicc
- Some great characterisation
- Fantastic world building in some of the routes
- The writing is very verbose and the prose is solid
- Some of the art sometimes look nice
- Dialogues and writing often fit the scene
- Theres plenty of CG, most of them feel similar
- When the art doesn't look nice, it is at best unappealing
- Too many characters introduced, none of them fleshed out far enough to see what the writer is going for
- Writes itself into a wall way too much
- MC seems a lot like a empty "hentai character" state. He has no personality, rather it gets some as the writing drags along
- And my god, does the writing drag along
- Quality in the writing differs, but is often solid enough to at least feel like it could lead somewhere.
- All of aforementioned mentioned flaws makes the plot seem to go absolutely nowhere, I lost all expectations
- This game will never have a satisfying conclusion to any route
- Often the writing reads more like a parody of smut, rather than it being fetish fuel
- Absolutely no "human worship" or even appreciation of the smaller male body. No hentai-like instinctual "why is this small human having a big dick" kinda thing and stuff like that
- All things considered, its clear that this game is a clear scam that underdelivers and overpromises. Stay away from it at all costs.
Giant Guardians is a tough one to review as its incomplete and will be so during a very long time.
The best thing about this game is the writing. It tries to be reasonable with the giantess fetish approach. It checks most things in regards of that. It has Guro, it has Gentle Giantess, it has slow paced romance which makes the game seem more realistic to some readers. But thats where the good parts of the game end, the rest can be considered dogshit.
The very first apparent issue, the story itself derails way too often, introducing new branching paths and new characters when its often not really needed. But whats worse the sexy scenes aren't really sex scenes, for instance the author could try to be more about body exploration rather than just the appreciation and worship of any given giantess. Theres nothing really sexual happening most of the time during the sex scenes. You get the choice of listening to the giantess out of survival or just embrace whatever she is doing. You never get into a situation where you for instance can climb onto her and do whatever, nor does the game incentivizes that sort of clearly implied approach to all things sexual. This leads to the player being more like a observer of the world building rather than a character that shapes things. You're essentially just existing to worship any given giantess without any of the payoff.
Or rather, the payoff is being written at such a slow pace that the games buildup and the time it takes to develop towards such outcome doesn't warrant any sort of waiting. Or in different terms, Playing this game is a great waste of time without any of the pay off. Even your average machine translated VN has way better writing and payoff. Even the slow burning ones.
Now when it comes to the quality of the art, it itself is often of varying quality. The art often has this problem that it utilizes this weird perspective that pretends that the main character is looking up at the towering woman, yet in truth it makes the art seem flat and unappealing and hes not really looking at the woman at all.
The best thing about the art is that sometimes it shows the character in scale, which makes it somewhat appealing. The writing however doesn't often complement the art. For instance, these woman are somewhat to scale between 60 and 100 meters, depending on what the artist thought during the time the art was made. Theres some inconsistencies. Even then, when the giantess walks, somehow the main character is able to keep up with that. If you understand the scaling you know that stuff like that is full of bullshit. The art and the writing often fight against each other, with the writing often being better.
The worse thing about me longing for a quality CG and the writing is that the game itself has too many branching parts which seem to be somewhat hidden, somewhat obvious. All of them are of course very incomplete, that essentially lead to nowhere. The only cause is to make you want to see more. So you wait, you get drip fed more. You wait more. After one year of waiting I am done. This game and all the developers are clear scammers of an overall low quality fetish game.
The sounds are all comical, they look weird and sometimes out of place, but they get the job done. Thats basically most of the criticism I can muster up.
Its a shame, its because of the massively toxic approach to making games, making the story itself moves along in a snails pace. I'd not want to play this game again even if I get money from it.
Let this sink in, the times I masturbated to this game was in anticipation of specific situations, only for the game to blue ball you. That alone makes this garbage clear two star material, perhaps even lower but then again, it has solid things in it that others may enjoy.
So, how to make it better? Scenes should be accompanied by a "zoomed in" art that shows the male body. Clearly, the Guardians start to get the hots for the main character and that becomes apparent fairly fast. small body worship should become more and more of a thing. Showing of a male closeup while somehow accompanying and including the giantess would be extremely hot as well. Things like that don't suddenly turn this game into a more bearable three star game, the game itself has too many flaws. But its a good path forward.
I hope that in 5 years, this game is more fleshed out, who knows, maybe it is a deserving four star at some point.