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Untitled goose game sequel1/21/2024 ![]() The color palette and graphical design of the characters fit the game’s tone perfectly – from the goose to the humans. Untitled Goose Game breaks no graphical ground, but that lack of innovation doesn’t stop it from being a welcoming environment that feels relaxing and benign – more so than any sort of realism ever could match. Saving for these issues, the game never lost its visual charm or humor. Eventually, when I would get stuck, the restart option became a quick and easy solution to my problems. When I exasperatingly refreshed, the farmer immediately noticed me and I was able to move on as intended – and this was true throughout the duration of the game. Though this kind of softlock was more common than it should be, the game luckily has a restart option in the menu that saves your mission progress whilst resetting the items and people throughout the area. I could not get his attention and spent at least 20 minutes waddling around, thinking I was missing something. I ran into a softlock in the very first area where one of the items on the “to-do list” is to trick a farmer into getting soaking wet. But the one critique I have of Untitled Goose Game is its performance, because I was game-breakingly stuck at least 5 times throughout my playthrough. I never suffered framerate losses or felt uncomfortable with the controls. I never got tired of causing people to chase me around and shake their fist angrily when I evaded them. I found this game to be more challenging than I would have expected, but felt gratified every time I pieced together what to do next. At first, the world looks open and the gameplay carefree, but soon it becomes clear that Untitled Goose Game is an interconnected hybrid of stealth and puzzle elements, which means there is a great deal of analytical and strategic thought required. The level design is fantastic, challenging you to think in a multitude of ways as you sort out how best to stir up a ruckus through your gosling antics. Your goose completes a “to-do list” that leads you into an ever-widening series of little gags that you must complete before advancing into the next area, like making someone buy back their own stuff, trapping a shopkeeper in their own garage, or timing a clamoring noise that causes a man spit out his tea. It’s the kind of game that begs for a sequel, and I will happily play it if the goose continues to roam free, wreaking havoc on other communities.īeing the one who causes the mischief, rather than the one on the receiving side of it, reminds me of childishly satisfying pranks like ding-dong-ditching – clever and (relatively) harmless joy. Though lacking in replayability and suffering from minor (but easily rectified) performance issues, I continued to find layers of fun within the naughty ways the goose pranked and outwitted the humans. It balances humor, art, level design, enjoyable gameplay, and a quirky piano soundtrack that brings the entire experience to life. ![]() Untitled Goose Game is unlike anything I’ve found in a video game before, but is familiar enough to play without needing much hand-holding. So as soon as I watched the debut trailer for Untitled Goose Game, I felt some kind of deeply ironic but spiritual connection to the premise of actually playing as a goose, ruining people’s day in juvenile ways. Ever since, they have become an invasive, traffic-stopping, defecating, overly aggressive nuisance. ![]() A few years ago, Canadian Geese flew several hundred miles south to where I live for the winter, but the gaggle never migrated back.
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