![]() Your guided mischief making is still meant to be a little silly, employing slapstick and comeuppance to decent effect, but the actions are often fairly shallow and too straightforward for their own good, the playfulness of the activity lessened by having it prescribed and related to one very rigid concept for an interaction. The to-do list is essentially a suggestion of silly interactions to have with the game world, many of the means of completing these tasks immediately apparent once you’ve seen the description and found the pertinent characters or items related to it. Untitled Goose Game’s checklist gives the player a handful of objectives for each of the small areas in town, but the actual act of completing many of these aren’t really where the game’s appeal comes from. Other methods of stealth like hiding in bushes or under tables also join this surprisingly sneaky bird’s repertoire, but your own abilities are fairly limited, the only other actions tied specifically to your character being the ability to open your wings up in a manner that doesn’t factor into your to-do list much and really seems to be tied to the game’s true main goal: messing around. By drawing attention away from the area of interest by creating a racket, you can rush in and grab what you need or get past pesky villagers. Most residents will try to shoo you away from any important area or outright block you from stuff that is meant for humans only, so to that end, the goose actually needs to employ stealth tactics, one method it has for doing so being its honk. ![]() Most of your activities somehow involve a degree of problem solving, some outright puzzles like finding the right objects to satisfy your to-do list, tricking a resident into an action like making the gardener accidentally hammer his thumb, or avoiding trouble long enough to get away with an item or prank. For example, the goose needs to drag around the rake due to its size, but it can easily carry around a radio and bother people with the music playing on it. ![]() The goose can carry objects around in its bill, the nature of the object determining if it has an extra function or if it can be properly carried at all. Your capabilities as a goose are fairly limited, the animal actually fairly realistic in the portrayal of its range of actions despite having a degree of intelligence and cunning the bird only has because of who is controlling it. The people of the town have almost no facial features, their reactions conveyed only by body language or punctuation marks that appear overhead, and since they lack any means of speech, they have to pantomime any communication they have such as when you start swapping the possessions of a set of neighbors to create a minor bit of drama. Things are definitely softened some by a soft art direction, everything presented through solid colors without outlines. Many of these actions definitely have a tinge of meanness to them, but for the most part, the citizens of the town are just irritated by the goose’s presence and can revert to their regular lives after tidying up from the animal’s antics. This little list of activities mostly amounts to a series of tricks you’ll be playing on people, things like stealing a gardener’s rake and dumping it in a lake, pulling the stool out from under an old man right before he tries to sit down, or rushing into a T.V. Once it has encountered one of the innocent residents of this unsuspecting burg, a checklist makes itself known, the goose needing to complete a series of actions before they are offered the task that will let them progress to a new part of town with new people to harass. ![]() The unnamed goose at the center of this unnamed game sets off into a humble little town with no immediate endgame apparent. Untitled Goose Game taps on the bird’s increased renown for malice without indulging in anything overblown, the playable goose’s mischief-making without deeper meaning and more akin to pranks than outright harm to the individuals it has chosen to torment. On the internet though, geese have an achieved a memetic level of infamy for their aggressive and territorial behavior. To some, a goose doesn’t seem much different from other waterfowl like a swan or a duck. ![]()
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