Grand Pigeon's Duty

Surprisingly difficult! I had fun playing this game, but you only have room to mess up very few times (1-4 usually). Which means that you'll have to restart multiple times to complete a single level. The soundtrack is pretty good and the English translation is impressive! 7/10

It's cute and funny. The art is great and the broken English is endearing. The 2nd or 3rd level after the tutorial the difficulty spikes and it becomes all but impossible. The problem is that the game wants perfection while having random failure coded into it. You're given very little room for error (12 bullets for 10 targets, for example - oh but there's a sob story about a little baby squab starving so actually it's 10 bullets for 10 targets). You are a moving object (a pigeon) trying to hit moving objects (people), Your bullets (poos) are affected by wind, which blows either left or right (you're told which direction at least). The degree to which your bullets are affected by wind is based on the direction your pigeon is flying, and the poo's own weight - heavy poos fall faster and are pushed by wind less, while little poos fly all over the place. The problem is that the weight of a poop is completely random and unknowable to the player, so ultimately whether a shot hit or misses comes down to luck. You can try to mitigate the RNG in various ways, like lining up your shots perfectly, or trying to aim for "clumps" of pedestrians in the hope a randomly heavy poop will hit someone you weren't aiming for, but ultimately it stopped being fun the 50th time I had to reload a level becuase a shot was randomly a different weight and went flying off in a direction I wasn't aiming. If the game were more forgiving with ammo, or more consistent with firing, I'd have recommended it. As it is, I ragequit after about 25 minutes (steam didn't record my playtime for some reason?). It's worth a buck for the story and art alone, but the gameplay stops being fun very quickly.

I'm gonna do something I don't usually do here, and deconstruct other users' reviews. Seems petty, right? Eh, just try and stop drunk me from writing this review at 2am. I've seen several say "It's a $1 game", which is irrelevant in my opinion. Mainly because there are many independently developed games available online [i]for free[/i]. Another review said "I really wanted to like this game ... it has a Tommy Wiseau pigeon". I love watching "The Room" as much as the next bad film lover, however this games' film references (which, by the way, there were plenty of) felt like vapid pandering at best. Besides, if you're looking for a good game featuring the ever captivating being by the name of [i]Tommy Wiseau[/i] try [url=http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307]The Room Tribute[/url]. It's a brilliant little game, and furthermore it's [b]free[/b]. Stuff shouldn't always get a free pass because it's cheap. This game is basic and repetitive, and the controls are too sensitive to feel comfortable. The pixel art is good enough, but its' near monochrome aesthetic isn't nearly as thematically suited to it as in [i]Papers Please[/i]. The translation leaves much to be desired, often causing more confusion than good. Minor gripe, but there's no Steam overlay either. It sadly, overall, feels like either a free Flash game, a mobile game or a Student Project.

Who knew a modern Potty Pigeon would have a politically charged storyline with multiple branches that dealt with classism and the crushing realities of a greed focused society. Also you get to poop on people. (not so wild about that because it's really tricky once wind gets introduced, but you can figure out a rhythm eventually)

The gameplay is pretty lame, but I'm hooked on the bizarre story and I think playing this is worth it for that alone. I'm even going back to get the other endings!

Not a very good game. It's cheap, it's full of memes, it's simple and frustrating and boring. All you do is push left and right to move the bird left and right. It's simple, no physics, left and right. And you push a button to fire, which goes diagonally left or diagonally right depending on the wind. You have a quota of walking people and stationary vehicles to crap on. You also have a very limited amount of poo. And if you miss, or hit the wrong things so you can't win a level, the game doesn't tell you you're in an unwinnable situation, it waits until you've used up all your bullets then tells you. Also it doesn't show you what your quota is on-screen so you can count them off. So it's frustrating. And simple. And not very good. Do yourself a favour and find a C64 emulator and a copy of Potty Pigeon. It was a much better game. It's probably 30 years old now, but was a much better, much more featureful, arcade game than this. The music was better too. This game... I have limited ammo and I don't give enough ♥♥♥♥♥ to carry on playing.

... tough call. Do you like quirky indie games? Is the price under a dollar? If so, then mayyybe. The gameplay is pressing spacebar to hit targets, but there is a odd little story and it does run well on ubuntu linux. This lone wolf developer took his work seriously, and I appreciate those efforts, in these light-hearted games. I think the steam store screenshots tell the whole story, so take a look, before purchasing.

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