Разработчик: the Bratans
Описание
Сюжет:
- Отправьтесь в последнее приключение вместе с Мэттью Дэланеем.
- Раскройте тайный заговор и поймите, кто стоит за вашим банкротством
- Что вас ждет в конце - зависит лишь от вас. В конце вас ждет четыре концовки, зависящие от ваших решений и отношений с персонажами
- Разветвленные диалоги, харизматичные персонажи. Гусь-торговец, Кардинал, Молодой Сутенер, Шкура и другие
- Юмор на уровне шестиклассников, но в антураже викторианской эпохи
Геймплей:
- Убивайте гусей.
- Торгуйте с гусями.
- Летайте на гусях.
- Летайте на дилдо-торпедах.
- Застревайте в текстурках.
- Уровни сложности подстроены под все типы игроков, вы можете либо сделать акцент на сюжете, либо на хардкорности.
Игровая вселенная:
- Путешествуйте по четырем детализированным локациям, с уникальными противниками, ловушками и боссами.
- Исследуйте новые игровые механики и возможности в каждой из четырех локаций.
- Наслаждайтесь атмосферой сюрреалистической Викторианской Эпохи
- Восхитительный фортепианный саундтрек от одаренного студента консерватории.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, russian
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7
- Процессор: Intel Core 2 Duo (or equivalent)
- Оперативная память: 2048 MB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: with 1024 MB VRAM compatible with DirectX 9
- DirectX: версии 9.0
- Место на диске: 400 MB
- Звуковая карта: DirectX® Compatible
- ОС *: Windows 7 or later
- Процессор: Intel Core i3 (or equivalent)
- Оперативная память: 4096 MB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: with 2048 MB VRAM compatible with DirectX 9
- DirectX: версии 9.0
- Место на диске: 400 MB
- Звуковая карта: DirectX® Compatible
Отзывы пользователей
Flawed indie platformer with a bizarre but oddly consistent storyline
I cannot in good faith recommend Dungeons & Geese - it is a buggy, clumsy platformer that just screams mediocrity.
However, it surprisingly has some things going for it that may make this a mixed review instead.
I will keep this spoiler-lite regardless.
Set the stage
An old, rich, and (surprisingly relevant storywise) gay drunkard wakes up in a basement after a party, having lost their memory, and has to fight rats by throwing "pink spears" (dildos) at them.
It's just a tad mindblowing as it's ludicrous. It's amazing that someone came up with this and made it into a mostly consistent plot. Once you get out, there's visual novel / old-timey RPG sort of dialogues to enjoy, including one or two dialogue puzzles.
So bad!
Dungeons & Geese is not exactly a masterpiece. It's got numerous flaws:
Unbindable keys and clumsy controls:
- WASD for moving, 'W' for jumping, 'S' for falling faster, mouse for shooting and activating special items, and finally 'Q' for interacting (when an indicator for it shows up).
- Typical of indie platformers (I know, I have struggled with this myself in hobby projects), jumping does not work consistently, as sometimes you cannot jump right after landing (because it does not detect ground correctly)
- Similarly, sometimes you cannot move unless you jump after getting hit or using an item. Rather annoying, to say the least.
Odd, unconventional jumping mechanics: In most platformers, the time you press 'W' (or whatever jump key) affects how high you jump. Not this time! You always jump max. height, a crazy bunny jump. Instead, you can control the jump height and falling speed by pressing 'S'. This gives some much needed control but woah, if it isn't both novel and strange.
Big, inconsistent hit boxes: Sometimes a swinging axe hits you, or a bullet that already zoomed past hits you regardless. Also, sometimes your "spear" hits an enemy (that should die of one hit) and sometimes it does not, instead just bouncing off harmlessly.
Unreliable invulnerability frames: This one's an annoyance. You can generally take three hits before dying. But, being hit by certain enemies can stunlock you and deliver several hits in a row, effectively killing you outright and quite unfairly.
Did I damage the foe or not: Player agency is varied at best. For instance, the bosses typically have no health meters, and then it's often unclear when they take damage if at all. The first boss in particular does not look like it takes any damage from your attacks, then suddenly dies (and somehow its corpse can still damage and kill you). Thankfully, the later bosses have some indicators for getting hurt but after the first boss missing them completely it takes a while to realize this.
Bad English translation: There's numerous typos, and sometimes words cut out, double up, or are written on top of each other. Once, the dialogue soft-locked the game and I had to restart the scenario through menu. The Russian version might or might not be better.
No sound effects: Just Victorian-style melancholic piano music and a volume slider (in the menu) keep you company.
Some good?!
There's three kinds of weapons and three kinds of items. Two of the weapons operate similarly, with the "green spear" being slightly more powerful and being able to stop some foes that are normally unaffected, and the third seems to be only used in particular story mission.
The items are bizarre as the rest of the game.
- Invulnerability pretzels are useful but only if used before taking damage, since if you activate it afterwards, the invulnerability frames provided by the pretzel and the damage are both eliminated after a fraction of a second.
- Health potions (i.e. wine) oddly come with two functions: first, you understandably heal by drinking them, but the secondary use is an attack by throwing the bottle (it figuratively threw me off the balance as well until I figured it out).
- The third one is useful and story-related and most consistent of the three, even in its absurdity.
Crazy and badly translated as it is, the best part of the game is the story. When at first nothing makes sense, it somehow falls together in the end, including having twists to make it interesting. It's not necessarily good enough to suffer through the gameplay though, unless you particularly enjoy vivid, surreal narratives.
Note that the dialogues can be rude and discriminatory.
Art style can be described as either original or ugly, depending on your taste. It's commendable that the characters have varied expressions in the dialogue and the style is consistent throughout.
Technical troubles: No mediocre game would be complete without some
First, I played it in fullscreen, though it always starts in windowed mode. However, when I died, there was a chance that it would hardlock the game and force the game window on top of everything else. I was unable to even Alt+F4 it out. Luckily, I was able to maneuver Steam window to my second monitor and kill it through the library.
Afterwards, I just used the full window so I could more easily maneuver out of it when it happened: it repeated half a dozen times over my playthroughs. Often I had to use Task Manager to kill the process to get it to shut down completely.
Conclusions: Finally it's over
My first playthrough on Hard difficulty was about 4.5 hours, and it was agonising, like expected of Hard. I was able to see three of the four endings on my first playthrough but had to play it again to unlock the last one. The second playthrough (2 hours more) I was utterly spent and opted for Easy.
On Hard there are more traps, more enemies, and they shoot more projectiles than on Easy, and bosses have more hit points. There's also Noob setting that I didn't try out but I expect it would be even easier.
I think you can receive all Steam Achievements by playing on any difficulty setting; it does not seem to matter.
If you have the stomach for annoying and weird controls and just love bizarre settings, you might enjoy Dungeons & Geese. Just don't say I didn't warn you. Also, get it on sale (it can occasionally be snatched with -80%).
~Twistorian Curator~
Glitchy, unpolished control.
its interesting
The epitome of a mediocre game, the controls are a little chunky, there's no sound effects, boss fights have you shooting in the dark, the traps are hard to see, the stuns are very annoying and the purple ladies are BS...
At least it's playable, but not something I would recomend
Waste of time
Unreliable controls and very glitchy. Simply terrible.
Story is fine, but there are some bugs out there that really ruin the overall quality of the game. You cannot kill a rat with an axe whose back is turned to you while stabbing the air, as it deflects the axe (somehow). If you go in front of a rat with a gun, even though its in the middle of its gun cycle, you get instantaneously killed. Lack of explanation for other items (e.g the red bottle) doesn't help players understand the mechanics of the game. Story wise is somewhat hard to understand... Why rats? What is going on with the main character's mind?
Overall game experience is average, lots of things could (and should've) been done to help increase the game's quality.
Thought this game would be much worse and less interesting than it turned out to be. From the very beginning the soundtrack and the atmposhere of it thoroughly won my heart - as if Cupid hit me with the love dildo arrow. Also it took several hours to complete only 5-6 levels of the game - then the game proves to be a hard nut to crack. And there is an intrigue - why the geese and the fate of Mr.Longbeard.
>Start as a Victorian fag
>Drink all night, wake up in some cellar to depressing Russian piano music
>try to escape but get killed by rats
5/7 would do again
Serioudly though, you can have some fun if you don't mind the broken English in the dialogs or the unfathomable amount of bugs (so far). Not a fan of platformers myself, I bought it because it has dildoes in it. And you throw them around. Pity you can't hit vagaygay with them.
I digress.
If you've got extra cash and you want something unusual, this game is for you. If you're not gay, then, well, better go check out Nier Automata, from what I hear they provide achievements to those who manage to get a pantsu shot.
This game is insane. I've played more than 900 titles and this one still is crazy.
Dungeons & Geese is hard, buggy and messy, sometimes I wanted to give up even on first levels. Pleaz, creators, fix difficulty.
But there are still some good parts in Dungeons & Geese. It\s pretty unique for indie-project, music is great, I liked dialogs and characters. It looks like a child worked on drawings, but I liked visualization too, it's better than pixel art. That's for sure.
Game is good, but not for everyone. It was too hard for me, but I still enjoyed it a lot.
Firstly I thought that Dungeons & Geese sucks. But after 20 minutes of playing I liked that. It is obvious that non professionals made this game, it is sometimes buggy, but it definately has it's own spirit.
And it is goddamn hard. Though, I started the game on hard difficulty and never tried easiest ones the picture may be not fool, but it requires, skill, timing and all lotta nerves for sure.
Music is awesome. If you have any opportunity, buy soundtrack. This piano is great, congrats to Vladimir Mitin, whoever he is.
I haven't seen much of the game yet, but two first locations are pretty nice. It looks like a child drew it, but it is still warm and it creates unique atmosphere. Roof Levels are great, nice clouds.
I haven't seen all the storyline yet, it's the weakest point of the game, as for me (because of english localisation mostly, russian is definately better), but charecters are funny and unique, as for me.
To sum up:
+ Game actually works, it is a surprise for indie project
+ Hardcore difficulty (game is challenging) may be - for some gamers
+ Characters (Matthew Delaney, main character is sweet old gay, liked him)
+ Soundtrack
+ Design
- Bugs. Some dialogs lead nowere
- Menu is not excellent for sure
- Dialogs are messed up sometimes, english version sucks ass
For a total 7/10, this game definately is not the worst indie-platformer I have ever tried, quite a surprise.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | the Bratans |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 50% положительных (12) |