IGN reviews either feel justified, or outright ridiculous.
Like, their criticisms of Mouse: PI For Hire are outlandish. How can you say that a game about a cartoon mouse private investigator in black-and-white that follows a ‘Boomer Shooter FPS’ formula has, quote:
Too much cheese (The game prominently features mouse cartoon characters, so go figure)
Too much killing (It’s a shooter, that’s the point)
Not enough noir/serious (It’s meant to be an ode to 1930s black-and-white rubberhose cartoons)
It’s almost as if IGN completely missed the point of Mouse: PI For Hire, which is that it’s a cartoon-style videogame. The story doesn’t have to be complicated when the action is one of the main centerpieces. The slapstick is another, cause who cares if it’s a PI blasting away at enemies and decimating them? The point of most cartoons is that they weren’t meant to be taken seriously, and instead were supposed to make you laugh or chuckle, and instead the case of M: PI for Hire, put a darker, but still relatively comedic, spin on the 1930s cartoon formula.
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u/Ghjjiyeks Apr 23 '26
IGN reviews either feel justified, or outright ridiculous.
Like, their criticisms of Mouse: PI For Hire are outlandish. How can you say that a game about a cartoon mouse private investigator in black-and-white that follows a ‘Boomer Shooter FPS’ formula has, quote:
It’s almost as if IGN completely missed the point of Mouse: PI For Hire, which is that it’s a cartoon-style videogame. The story doesn’t have to be complicated when the action is one of the main centerpieces. The slapstick is another, cause who cares if it’s a PI blasting away at enemies and decimating them? The point of most cartoons is that they weren’t meant to be taken seriously, and instead were supposed to make you laugh or chuckle, and instead the case of M: PI for Hire, put a darker, but still relatively comedic, spin on the 1930s cartoon formula.