Whenever IвЂ™m spotted and chased the piano amps up into an exciting crescendo, mimicking the effectiveness and importance of music during the Silent Film era, without being distractingly bombastic. I was particularly impressed with the all-piano musical score. The people look more like animated wooden figures than real people, thanks to their lack of eyes and knob-like hands. Becoming a horrible jerk of a goose (in other words, a goose) is humorous and enjoyable thanks to the simple but colorful art style. ItвЂ™s a bit mean-spirited but also feels very goose-like. At a street corner I need to harass a kid, including tripping him and stealing his glasses, and even stealing his toy plane to take to the nearby shop stall and sneakily put it on the shelf, forcing him to buy it back. Once I complete most of the objectives on my To-Do list, the next area of the village opens up, along with a new list of objectives. Distraction and stealth are important, and thankfully the camera allows me to easily zoom out to avoid unwanted detection. The humans in this village donвЂ™t bother me unless I get too close to them, or they see me stealing something of theirвЂ™s, like socks off a clothesline or a manвЂ™s pipe while he reads the paper. The first вЂњlevelвЂќ involves harassing a gardener and stealing objects to make my own picnic. My most important tool is picking up and interacting with various objects around a quaint village, and there are plenty of hilarious challenges to overcome.ДЇrom the beginning IвЂ™m given a To-Do list, making Untitled Goose Game more objective-based (complete with separate levels) rather than a free-roaming goose simulator.

My abilities as a goose are limited to running, honking, leaning down, and unfurling my wings. Untitled Goose Game tries to defy genre conventions, but itвЂ™s essentially a puzzle game with some light stealth elements. Yet as IвЂ™ve come to learn geese are clever, resourceful, and hilariously aggravating, creating a uniquely light-hearted, memorable experience. A normal-size, power-less goose sounds like a bit of a downgrade.

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