Untitled Goose Game Honk-All

Untitled Goose Game

Anyone else playing this little gem? I picked it up on Switch(25% off right now on eShop). It's kinda like Hitman without the violence. You run around as a goose and interact with the environment and NPCs in order to progress through puzzle like levels. So far I have been having a good time causing general mischief around town. The art style is fun and it's easy to pick up and down which as usual is a great fit for the Switch platform.

I picked it up as well on the switch, and played through the garden section last night, in between long sessions of Fire Emblem. I love the charm of the game, so even if it’s short I feel like I’ll be happy with my purchase.

I already wanted it several months back based on trailers, but when the marketing material has “dedicated honk button” as one of the seeking points, I knew it was for me. Haven’t needed to use the wing spreading button for anything puzzle related yet, but for now it’s like a taunt button for everyone I come across.

This game is so much fun. I just about died laughing when I got the goose on TV and just honked and honked till the shopkeeper chased me out.

It's attracted the attention of my daughter too, and she usually doesn't want to play games herself. But there she goes, getting the gardener wet and cackling with glee.

It is a sweet, silly game. I love it.

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I passed up getting Link’s Awakening in favour of this. Absolutely hilarious. I mentioned it at work this morning and one of my colleagues said they’d seen it on twitter and they genuinely thought it was a hoax. I confirmed it was a real game, showed them a video (they were dying at the honk noise) and now I’ve promised to bring in my Switch later this week so they can have a go.

My wife has long told the story about when she was a little girl, and a goose stole her sandwich.

Since healing is apparently impossible, I thought instead this game would provide her a great way to continue the cycle of violence.

My Dad had his glasses stolen off of his face and thrown into the lake at the Baltimore Zoo by a swan, which is just a goose with a big bump on its head to hold all its anger. I was there when it happened, and I'm sad to say that because I was around 5, I thought the sight of my father shoulder deep in the lake swearing and searching for his glasses was *hilarious*.

Spoiler:

Well, okay, it's *still* hilarious.... :-)

Robear wrote:

a swan, which is just a goose with a big bump on its head to hold all its anger

That is the greatest description of a swan I've ever seen.

Started playing this last night with my girlfriend, passing the controller back and forth. Great game to play that way. So delightful and wonderful. Love the playful piano music. Sounds like a live musician improvising along with the action on screen.

I like that more games are dipping their toes back into the reactive music stuff that LucasArts was doing with iMUSE back in, you know, the early 1990s.

I've always gotten along with real life geese (and swans), and now I know why!

RockPaperShotgun's review really made me laugh because the reviewer went to the same university as me, which was lousy with geese, and I had the same issue where this game really took me back to being 18 and surrounded by asshole geese with zero f*cks to give.

Jonman wrote:

RockPaperShotgun's review really made me laugh because the reviewer went to the same university as me, which was lousy with geese, and I had the same issue where this game really took me back to being 18 and surrounded by asshole geese with zero f*cks to give.

LOL I wonder if the difference is that the geese that sometimes surround me are Canadian and so they are obliged to be polite.

bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

RockPaperShotgun's review really made me laugh because the reviewer went to the same university as me, which was lousy with geese, and I had the same issue where this game really took me back to being 18 and surrounded by asshole geese with zero f*cks to give.

LOL I wonder if the difference is that the geese that sometimes surround me are Canadian and so they are obliged to be polite. :)

Canadian Geese are some of the rudest, angriest jerks I've ever met, it's unfair that you got the nice ones while the rest of Canada has been at the mercy of these irritable beasts.

Amoebic wrote:

Canadian Geese are some of the rudest, angriest jerks I've ever met, it's unfair that you got the nice ones while the rest of Canada has been at the mercy of these irritable beasts.

Last time I checked I was not in Canada but them damn Canadian Geese have taken over every patch of grass in the city from spring to fall for the past few years. Seriously you can't take a step in any park without stepping on some geese droppings. (/vent)

Game seems good, I'll honk back later.

looks good, my wife was really interested in it but she forgot, gotta remind her

I suggest walking up behind her and honking loudly.

Robear wrote:

I suggest walking up behind her and honking loudly. :-)

Then throwing her keys in a lake.

I think this game has one of my all-time favorite endings.

HONK!

(This game is awesome. I'm having a great time ignoring my to do list and just messing with this gardener guy. This must be what it feels like to be a toddler!)

Amoebic wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

RockPaperShotgun's review really made me laugh because the reviewer went to the same university as me, which was lousy with geese, and I had the same issue where this game really took me back to being 18 and surrounded by asshole geese with zero f*cks to give.

LOL I wonder if the difference is that the geese that sometimes surround me are Canadian and so they are obliged to be polite. :)

Canadian Geese are some of the rudest, angriest jerks I've ever met, it's unfair that you got the nice ones while the rest of Canada has been at the mercy of these irritable beasts.

I have been bit by so many of these oversized jerks!

Vector wrote:
Amoebic wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Jonman wrote:

RockPaperShotgun's review really made me laugh because the reviewer went to the same university as me, which was lousy with geese, and I had the same issue where this game really took me back to being 18 and surrounded by asshole geese with zero f*cks to give.

LOL I wonder if the difference is that the geese that sometimes surround me are Canadian and so they are obliged to be polite. :)

Canadian Geese are some of the rudest, angriest jerks I've ever met, it's unfair that you got the nice ones while the rest of Canada has been at the mercy of these irritable beasts.

I have been bit by so many of these oversized jerks!

I have been bitten by a dog, and a baby opossum, and a woodpecker...but never a goose! I love when they are around with their cute fluffy fuzzy babies too, awwww so precious!

I don't know how many times I've trapped the groundskeeper in the garage, but I do know that it hasn't gotten old yet!

HONK!

Stevintendo wrote:

I don't know how many times I've trapped the groundskeeper in the garage, but I do know that it hasn't gotten old yet!

HONK!

Same for the boy in glasses in the phone booth.

I've trapped the shopkeeper in the garage, but I still have one to-do item in the area, which is to make someone buy something they own. I know how to do it, and have set it up, but the shopkeeper seems to be stuck in the garage. She just goes to the door at the side, opens it, then goes back inside the garage. Is there any way to break her out of that cycle and get her back to the shop?

Clusks wrote:

I've trapped the shopkeeper in the garage, but I still have one to-do item in the area, which is to make someone buy something they own. I know how to do it, and have set it up, but the shopkeeper seems to be stuck in the garage. She just goes to the door at the side, opens it, then goes back inside the garage. Is there any way to break her out of that cycle and get her back to the shop?

Have you tried taking something and putting it in the shop so that she goes after it because it's out of place?

bekkilyn wrote:
Clusks wrote:

I've trapped the shopkeeper in the garage, but I still have one to-do item in the area, which is to make someone buy something they own. I know how to do it, and have set it up, but the shopkeeper seems to be stuck in the garage. She just goes to the door at the side, opens it, then goes back inside the garage. Is there any way to break her out of that cycle and get her back to the shop?

Have you tried taking something and putting it in the shop so that she goes after it because it's out of place?

Yup, she just doesn't seem to break out of her cycle of opening the door then coming back. I was hoping I could pull the lever from inside too, but it won't let me do that.

Disappointed I can't fill my horrible potential.

That does sound strange. I don't think I saw her act like that at all for me. I don't know if you're at this level of frustration yet, but if you chose reset in the menu, it just puts you back at the 'entrance' to the area and tidies up whatever mess you've made. You don't lose progress on your 'to do' list. That should sort her out!

Egyptian Geese like to migrate to the UK just to mess with other geese.