It may not be the best, but it has a lot of personality and looks great in action. Mighty Goose is an excellent 2D action game. Only the clumsiest of geese will die early when going into battle, as checkpoints are frequent, and health plentiful. Thankfully, the difficulty is very low, and dying only happens when fighting the stage boss when learning their patterns. The frantic visuals may be too confusing at times, but it is hard to deny that it does give Mighty Goose a fair bit of style and personality. Enemy bullets are not well defined from all the pixels that flutter in battle, and sometimes are too closely matched to the beautifully warm backgrounds. Between all the exaggerated character animation, the constant hail of bullet casings, the screen shake and how colourful the presentation is, Mighty Goose is sensory overload. Death is inevitable with the way how this floods the screen with bullets and debris it becomes almost impossible to tell what is shrapnel that hurts, and what is meant to add to the feel of the combat. Thankfully, the goose can take four strikes before he gets roasted, and while health drops are common, they are not guaranteed. When the screen swarms with baddies, a lot of the time the best option is to fight while air-borne to avoid getting hit. Every weapon handles the hovering differently, and some are better suited than others. While these weapons are mostly conventional, Mighty Goose adds a bit of a new trick to them by allowing players to use them to hover when firing downwards while mid-air. These are incredibly fun to use for how much power they give, and also add a few extra hits as a safety net. No matter which one is used, it will look hilarious and absurd when driven by the goose. Vehicles are present and come in several varieties, like mech suit, tank or motor-wheel. Power-ups include classics, like the shotgun for big damage in small spaces, the homing missiles for fire-and-forget, and some new toys like the energy thrower. duck-walk to stay low and maintain gunfire. Aiming while on foot can be fired in four directions like in Metal Slug, and the goose can even, uh. The controls feel very tight, and the goose can dodge roll for some much needed invincibility frames. The action of Mighty Goose is pure chaos. Finally, some are more technical, like the reflector honk that requires a perfectly timed honk that will reflect large bullets. Some are more offensive, like bombs which are helpful at wiping out shielded goons. Some abilities are passive, like the option to bounce off enemies when rolling, or higher ammo capacity. Mixing and matching abilities, and staying within the budget adds a bit of needed strategy in a game that can become utter bedlam, when out in the field when all the bullets start flying. Each ability has a fixed cost, and the allotted points are maxed at one hundred. ![]() Other upgrades can be equipped, but there is a limit to what the goose can take with him. The piggy mechanic will often drop the heavy machine gun power-up, or one fellow who dashes around slashing at threats like a psychopath. The robo-goose will save other characters who can be recruited as support fighters, all of which can offer some help in stages. ![]() When you have a set-up that is based on a goose in space armour, there isn't anything else required. This is a high-concept action game, so story is not a priority. Sometimes the hero gets into bouts with his archenemy a ninja like crow who is sworn to pluck the feathers out of his rival and get the player's goose cooked. The protagonist is a mercenary who does odd jobs that usually involve an extremely high body-count and a lot of weaponry. Mighty Goose's premise is simple but effective. The cybernetic goose is something out of the '90s from a time when a character like Earthworm Jim could be a hero of a popular game, and would be used to sell a terrible fighting game, like Clayfighter 63 1/3. While Untitled Goose Game takes the foundation of goose simulation and casts players as a cruel villain, Mighty Goose takes the premise and shows the world just how awesome a waterfowl can be when armed to the beak with an arm canon and robo-arms. Geese are traditionally intensely dumb birds that look and sound ridiculous. There is something undeniably appealing about an underdog.
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