Mouse: P.I. For Hire Review

In 1928, Steamboat Willie was shown to audiences five times a day in theaters, run as a black and white short preceding the now lost film “Gang War.” The nearly eight minute debut of Mickey Mouse featured “rubber hose” sight gags synchronized to an orchestral soundtrack and twangy sound effects. Mouse: P.I. For Hire lifts the stylings of Steamboat Willie and other cartoons of the era with slickly looped, hand drawn black and white inky art, but where Disney Cartoons succeeded in melding disparate elements to elicit joy, Mouse: P.I. For Hire fails to get its pieces in step.Developed by Fumi Games, Mouse: P.I. For Hire brings a Doom style 2D shooter experience to a detective film noir story about anthropomorphic mice. As hard boiled private investigator Jack Pepper (yes, lots of cheese puns), Mouse has players spraying bullets across a Depression-era city ravaged by mobsters, crooked cops, and a mousey facsimile of armed Nazis, all of whom are complicit in a scheme centered on ki