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But every time I pulled on the stool, he would spot it and set it back up. One fairly straightforward goal is to pull out a stool as an old man is sitting down, making him fall in a bit of classic lunchroom slapstick. There’s an organic nature to the haphazard layout, very authentic to a village that’s been on the same spot for millennia, but is it too much to ask for a map?Ī few of the sequences are frustrating, too. Getting around to the various zones of the village is less than straightforward. But a few little things keep the experience from being perfect. Planning and executing that kind of mischief was intensely satisfying to the cackling supervillain center of my brain.
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I then 10) picked up the murdered rose to match my dapper bow and rejoiced in the man’s sorrow. Then I 7) moved the man’s prize rose in its planter, so it was behind the woman’s topiary sculpture, 8) messed up the sculpture so she’d have to trim it with her hedge clippers, and 9) waited for her to accidentally snip her neighbor’s rose.
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In order to accomplish the charming state above, I had to 1) steal the bow off of a woman’s plaster goose, 2) place it in the backyard of her neighbor so he’d throw it back over the fence, 3) steal and hide the plaster goose, 4) stand perfectly still in the plaster goose’s place, and 5) wait for the woman to tie the bow on me, optionally 6) honking and scaring the hell out of her when she was finished. My personal favorite was the sequence of events ending in this screenshot (and the answer to this puzzle qualifies as a mild spoiler, so heads up): I beg your pardon. While most of the goals are fairly straightforward, a few hidden objectives create some delightful mayhem. You’d never be so juvenile as to tie a kid’s shoelaces together, trip him into a puddle, steal his glasses, and then replace them with silly sunglasses. Knowing that these humans are there just for you to pour out goosey wrath upon gives you an excuse to be the complete jerk that you (probably) aren’t in real life. They’ll chase you to retrieve their stuff, but never get so frustrated as to give you a much-deserved kick in the gizzard. There’s a thrill in causing befuddlement among the supernaturally patient humans of the village. (Later in the game you’ll hide in a cardboard box, because of course you will.) There’s a snake goose in my box!
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Most of these are fairly obvious: You’ll need to sneak around the garden and steal stuff to bring it to the picnic area, giving the game a mild Metal Gear Solid feel as you hide things and keep the various humans from messing up your plans. In the first area, it’s suggested you steal the gardener’s keys and collect a few items for a “picnic” on the lawn. The game guides you with a gentle hand, suggesting some naughtiness you can enact in checklist form, but otherwise giving you zero direction. You’re loosed upon the village to spread your fowl malice. It’s more about planning and timing, with almost no call on twitch reflexes. Though it’s not entirely without challenge, Untitled Goose Game is very much a “chill” experience. The simple cel-shaded graphics in muted colors, the basic sound effects, and the soundtrack made up solely of plunky piano music that’s intensely reactionary to your naughty actions. There’s a charm to all of it, in a very Dennis the Menace sort of way.