Personally, It's a game I love to hate. growing up near a large lake, I got to see these flying rage machines up close, and to play as one opened up a part of my brain I had closed up for years.
We too used to live near a lake, in an apartment. The geese there terrorized people one year.
We had a tiny little partially disabled girl ferret. She could barely walk but slithered and bounced around with gusto and she had a surfeit of chutzpah.
We bought a little leash for her, and let her explore the grass, bushes, mulch and edge of the lake, and she loved every minute of it, chucking and dooking happily.
Then the geese saw us, and started their "feed us or suffer" swarm. We of course began to back up, and as the long necked avian assholes drew closer, we thought of beating a hasty retreat.
But then our saviour leaped forth! Tiny disabled girl ferret happily bounced around at our feet and then charged at the geese like a little flailing bezerker, loudly dooking the whole time.
I'd never before seen a goose visibly think "oh fuck", and here was a couple dozen double taking geese stopping dead in their webby tracks, like a European general trying to advance east during a Russian winter. Each goose looked shocked, then confused, then terrified as they abandoned any thoughts of camaraderie and fled from this tiny whirling daemon dervish of death.
Tiny girl ferret didn't get within 4 feet of the geese. Not a single of Nature's red teeth or claws were used. But a pound or so of sinewy insane calamity managed to put the fear of a goose god into those beaky bastards.
Unfortunately they kept attacking people and were dealt with somehow. We weren't told how, the apartment complex wouldn't say anything.
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This is a true story. If you want to scare geese away, get yourself a ferret. In fact, get 3 because they are stinky social weasels who love to sleep cuddled up together. I miss my girls and boys, they were so much fun!
Probably one of the more harrowing things I've ever done was egg addling for goose population control in a lake nearby. Nothing like balancing on a canoe fighting off geese with a paddle while the other person sneaks up behind to the nest and does the job.
The one thing the game seemed to fail to capture is the horror as a goose comes up hisses in your face. Geese do this. You know that when some animal comes up and hisses at you it means business.
Occasionally the HN hate machine rains down upon you if your comment doesn't fit someone's narrow idea of what a comment should be. I upvoted, but really it's best to not take votes too seriously or personally as people on here are fickle
There are bots here that vote seemingly at random to try to appear "normal" to HN's anti-spam controls. I wouldn't read into individual votes too much.
I want more games like this.