{"id":19518,"date":"2019-11-01T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19518"},"modified":"2019-10-16T00:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:55:48","slug":"untitled-goose-game-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/untitled-goose-game-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled Goose Game (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thanksgiving is this month, but instead of turkey, you may want to eat goose instead after playing this game.\u00a0 Untitled Goose Game is a unique and original comical stealth action game where you play as a goose out to cause mischief and mayhem to humans in a small town setting.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

As the titular goose, you waddle around areas in an overhead perspective.\u00a0 You can press a button to pick up nearby objects with your beak.\u00a0 Another button makes you lower your neck, which is handy for going under obstacles and picking up objects low to the ground.\u00a0 There\u2019s also a button to flap your wings, which isn\u2019t really used much, but there is also a dedicated button for honking!\u00a0 Yes, honking!\u00a0 Useful when you want to startle someone or get their attention.\u00a0 The game does a good job at introducing you to the controls at the beginning of the game, too.<\/p>\n

In each area of the game, you\u2019ll have a list of things to do that you can view by pressing the Select button.\u00a0 These include things like stealing a gardener\u2019s keys, turning on a sprinkler to make him wet, stealing food to make a picnic, chasing a boy into a phone booth, making a man fall into a box of tomatoes, and more!\u00a0 Once you cross off most of the items on a list, another couple will pop up.\u00a0 And when you complete one of those, it\u2019ll open up the next area.\u00a0 And the buildup at the end of the game is great!<\/p>\n

While the game is very unique and loads of fun and has been a phenomenon on the internet, it isn\u2019t without its problems, though. \u00a0There are only five small areas in the game, so it\u2019s a bit short.\u00a0 Granted you do get one final list of extra hard things to do after you beat the game, so there is some replay value, but you\u2019ll still be able to run through the game rather quickly.\u00a0 And sometimes the goals and objectives aren\u2019t very clear.\u00a0 Even I had to look up what to do in a guide a couple of times.\u00a0 And while they do explain the basic controls very well, there are times where you need to press a button to stand perfectly still like a lawn ornament, or hide in a box, and the game isn\u2019t very explicit about what button to push to do that.<\/p>\n

But otherwise, the game is so unique and fun and charming and weird!\u00a0 The simple piano music speeds up and slows down to match the actions on screen, and the basic graphics remind me of other games like Katamari Damacy (which just adds to the weirdness).\u00a0 One thing\u2019s for sure, Untitled Goose Game is a honking good time while it lasts!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m surprised this game didn\u2019t get an ESRB descriptor of Comic Mischief, since that\u2019s what this game is all about.\u00a0 You can scare someone into making them hammer their thumb, and make another man fall on his bum, but that\u2019s about as violent as the game gets.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve thought one of the humans would pull out a gun and shoot that horrible goose, but the worst they do is just shoo it away with a broom.\u00a0 You certainly wouldn\u2019t want your kids imitating the behavior of this goose, but I think kids would just giggle and laugh at the goose\u2019s antics instead.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at some of the unclear goals.\u00a0 Untitled Goose Game is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is this month, but instead of turkey, you may want to eat goose instead after playing this game.\u00a0 Untitled Goose Game is a unique and original comical stealth action game where you play as a goose out to cause mischief and mayhem to humans in a small town setting.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to download on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19520,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19518\/revisions\/19520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}