Keitai Guardian En

Keitai Guardian En App for iPhone
     This (Released this month) is essentially a dating simulation game.  You have these odd dreams or memories every night.  You are greeted by a gentleman who tells you that you are important (And here your character just thought she was a generic school girl) and that you must choose a guardian to help you and protect you.
     The artwork is nice, the story (As far as I have seen) seems interesting.  They have voice overs (All in Japanese) with English text to read when characters speak.  Of course your parts have no voice over.  You'll have to just read out loud, I suppose.
     I 'would' think this to be a nice application since this was a free download... however... Once you get a couple minutes into the game and have to choose your guardian (From a set of 3).  Once you choose your fellow you are prompted to pay for their story... Not 99 cents?... Oh no, that would be far too reasonable.  You are prompted to pay $7.49 (USD) for the rest of the game.  As if that isn't a low blow in itself, you have to pay an additional $7.49 for the story of each additional guardian, should you choose to play back through with a different character.  That is highway robbery in my book.  I could see maybe paying 5 dollars for the game... if it included all 3 character's stories... But more than seven dollars a piece?  I think not.
     If you decide to purchase this game, let me know how it played out.  I was impressed by the intro part, but not enough to dish out the money they were asking for.
     Alright, let's go over the extra features before I give my final score.  You can lower or raise the volume.  input your own name so the guardians refer to you by what you wish them too (They wont say your name out loud.  Just in the text box, mind you).  You can reset the name in the options, should you decide to.  You can play through 3 stories, one for each guardian.  And lastly there is a gallery mode.  the gallery mode includes the images of the guardians that you have unlocked through the story mode.  Naturally all 3 stories would need to be purchased if you want the full gallery.

      Alright, because of the price, I cant give this game the rating I'd like to.  Especially since without paying for it, I can't really play much of it.  I'm giving it pluses for good artwork and voice acting.  But negatives for the price and lack of free content.
     I think it has the potential to be a decent game.  Remember that this may have adult content, considering it is a dating simulation game.  Keep that in mind when purchasing this for yourself or someone else.  it might not be a good choice for a 10 year old girl, for example.  Give the free intro play through a try and see where you want to go from there.  If you feel it's worth the money or have a lot of spare cash lying around, I say go for it.  But for me... It was just too highly priced for my taste.  Especially considering I know how much coding goes into games like this.  It's really not hard to make.
Rating: 3/5

• Free
• Category: Games
• Size: 124 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: AVANT Inc.
• © 2012 AVANT Inc.

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