Guns and shots feel weighty, and the vehicles feel sturdy and powerful. I’m happy to report that all of these things feel great, with responsive controls. Gameplay is what you would expect from the genre, tasking you with a lot of running, jumping, and shooting. Every augment has a cost associated with it, and you can equip any combination of them so long as they don’t surpass the limit. Unlocked by completing levels or meeting other criteria, these range from granting more ammo from gun pickups to bringing a helicopter CRT television with a gun mounted to with you into each level. The Mighty Goose also has access to special augments, which further improve and grant its abilities. My personal favorite was the mech suit with its beam sword It is perhaps the strongest of the vehicles and can usually be found in highly hidden areas of levels, making for a lovely incentive to explore, Each vehicle comes with a main weapon and sub-weapon. In addition to the gun drops, you will also stumble on vehicles of warlike monocycles armed with machine guns, heavily plated tanks, and small mech suits with faces on them that could have been pulled straight out of the Guren Lagann anime. You can extend the duration of this mode by continuously shooting enemies, so activating it when you’re surrounded is when it is most beneficial because, as common knowledge dictates, geese grow stronger with the blood of their enemies. There is a bit of strategy involved when picking when to use this ability. Seething flames encompass the Mighty Goose’s head, and that goosely-anger makes you nigh-invincible and flows through your guns, making them stronger and giving them additional properties for as long as you are powered up. When full, you will gain access to the totality of goose anger. Seeing the electric tendrils from the electricity gun zap hordes of my enemies that were packed close together never stopped being rewarding.Īs you deal damage and dodge enemy attacks, you will fill a special bar. I was really impressed with how varied each gun felt and found myself excited when a gun would drop that fit the situation I was in perfectly. Each drop comes with a set amount of ammo, but the drops are plentiful enough that you won’t be using the base arm cannon for long in each level. These guns are dropped from enemies during the level or companions or bought using the in-game delivery service. Mighty Goose will have multiple options at its disposal, including a machine gun that has a high rate of fire, an electricity gun with shots that can hit multiple enemies at once, or an immensely powerful shotgun that deals large amounts of damage and can shoot through groups of foes. To vanquish the Void King, you will have to use every gun in your arsenal. This all results in one of the most fun action platformers I’ve had in a long time.

Along the way, you will rescue some pigs, recruit companions like Regular Duck, and pilot heavy machinery.

As an action platformer for one or two players in a similar vein to the classic Metal Slug games, it puts you in the role of a goose strapped into a battle suit, given a small armory worth of weapons and sent to kill the evil Void King. Mighty Goose, from developer BlastMode, asks the question: if you gave a goose a power suit, some guns, and a tank, could they save the universe? Spoilers, yes, yes they could. Geese are angry creatures, sometimes scary creatures.

Mighty goose hidden companions