9/20/2023 0 Comments Itled goose game![]() By touching foiled up areas on the desk and set up, the player can control their character in the game. There are 6 sensors on the goose’s body to that tracks the action player is making. Every last task on the Goose’s to-do list should have you grinning from ear to ear.Player sit on a chair with the goose on their lap. Its gameplay is simple, but rewarding and entertaining. It’s a string of punchlines with the common thread being the everyday villainy of a Goose. Though short, Untitled Goose Game is undoubtedly sweet. Untitled Goose Game is a lot of fun while it lasts. As fun and charming as it is, Untitled Goose Game’s “story” can be completed in about an hour and a half, and although additional checklists appear after the credits roll, they can be completed in about just as much time. Sadly, Untitled Goose Game falls into this category. Granted, I’ll take a game that runs short and leaves me wanting more over a game that overstays its welcome by being obnoxiously long, but there does come a time when a game is so short it feels like it doesn’t quite reach its full potential. The game is consistently fun and funny throughout its runtime, with the game’s one major drawback being that said runtime is all too short. Composed entirely on piano, the music to the game is situational, and will be soft and serene or loud and fast depending on what the Goose is currently doing. Untitled Goose Game also has a refreshingly minimalistic score. There’s no way for the player to truly lose, as getting caught will ultimately just slow the Goose down. Essentially, Untitled Goose Game is like a lighthearted, penalty-free Metal Gear Solid. Untitled Goose Game is one of those titles that’s triumphantly easy. Not that there’s any real penalty for getting caught. Of course, the Goose must complete these tasks as sneakily as possible, because if someone sees the Goose coming, they will appropriately chase it away. ![]() ![]() Though they aren’t difficult to pull off, the variety and humor found in each task give Untitled Goose Game a nice flow and a strong sense of personality. These tasks include but are not limited to: Honking just as a man is hammering a signpost into the ground so that he smashes his thumb, scaring a kid to run away and lock himself in a phone booth, moving a chair just as an old man is about to sit down so he falls on his rump, dropping a bucket on a man’s head, stealing a toy from a kid and placing it in a shop so the kid has to re-buy their own toy, and trapping someone in their own garage.Įach task is its own little joke. Once all but one of the items on a given checklist are complete, that segment’s final item unlocks, and upon completing that, the Goose gains entry to the next segment. Each segment has its own checklist for the Goose to complete, with one item on each list requiring the Goose to collect various items. ![]() The game is separated into five segments, which can be viewed as ‘chapters’ or ‘levels,’ though the transition between them is seamless as part of a single game world. It’s the player’s job to make sure the Goose checks off all of its nefarious deeds to ensure a productive day. The game showcases a day in the life of the Goose, who has made a checklist of different means to mess with people throughout the day. As such, the goal of Untitled Goose Game is quite simple: be a jerk. Hostile, aggressive, and prone to obnoxious honking, the goose is one foul fowl. Now geese, as we all know, is nature’s jerk. ![]() Though with all due respect to both Donut County and Frog Detective, Untitled Goose Game is a bit more fleshed out as a game.Īs the (un)title suggests, Untitled Goose Game is all about a goose. Joining the likes of recent indie titles like Donut County and The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game, Untitled Goose Game is all about the laughs, and even shares a similar, cartoony art direction as those games. Though it may lack in depth and substance, Untitled Goose Game delivers a pure and simple gameplay experience that is consistently fun, and should get a good laugh out of even the most jaded player. The brilliantly titled Untitled Goose Game, by indie developer House House, is one such game. More often, it’s the titles that fully embrace their video game-ness that make for the best examples of ‘games as art.’ And that sometimes includes titles which are unabashedly silly, and want little more than to put a goofy grin on the player’s face. Despite their best efforts, such “art games” are rarely the ones that showcase the unique artistic merits of video games. Since the mid-2000s, many games have come along to attempt to “legitimize” the artistic merits of video games, usually by replicating Hollywood-style cinematic and storylines. Though video games have always been an art form, such a concept being embraced has only been around for a bit over a decade. ![]()
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