Pleasent surprise - game is really good, plot is simple but interesting. Choices matters, gameplay is satisfying, music is awesome and i love the graphics.

This game is like Paper's Please if it felt indie (in the bad way) The characters talk like grating indie game writers and never ever ever ever ever shut up ever They literally will not stop talking and making jokes that aren't funny and references to movies that aren't funny

The gameplay consists of having the game explicitly tell you when a character is a bad guy or a good guy and based on that you let them in or not unlike Papers Please where you would have to make potentially immoral decisions about not letting someone who needed help in order to save yourself. In this game if a character is bad they will say I like to kill people and then your character says Woah this guy's bad! And then you don't let them in and you will get three stars

In order to get four stars you must guess at what the developer wanted you to do and it's nearly always completely random or requires metagaming even with the built in save scumming mechanic which I basically never used because the game was already really easy

Theres a bunch of weird racism in the game too probably because it was written by two white people There's a goblin race that for some reason really likes money and are being put in prison. Really weird to try to make a racism metaphor with the "Goblin Liberation Army" so stupid

Character never shuts up about being in a video game and not a single time is it funny also there are some weird lines ranging from Reddit to "This is the first time in the game I've been okay being twelve" (?)

General plot line makes no sense unless you are the developer who thinks people are either Good guys or Bad guys, Developer thinks that Bad guys should go to prison for the Good Guys

There is a mechanic of crystals and they're a consumable resource to be used on things like the "Truth Spray" which I swear to God makes them tell you the truth and is the right answer basically all of the time but even with that you just never run out of crystals unless you are really bad which I was not so I always had way too many. Also weird mechanic where there are bad crystals that only work 30% of the time but literally why would you bother when you can just use the normal crystals because money in this game doesn't matter...indie

This game sucks and also it's pretty boring I wouldn't even recommend playing it for fun you can just watch a longplay I guess

Also the sprinting sucks

Lil' Guardsman felt like an interactive adult cartoon show. Which in my opinion, was great! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the voice acting of each character. There was a lot of love put into this game! This was a really entertaining piece of work and I would like to see a second game! Hilltop Studios knocked it out of the park. Seeing as this is their first title, is very promising for what's to come. I look forward to more from Hilltop! Worth the $15 I paid!
7.5/10