Mouse P.I. for Hire nails its cartoon-noir vibes, but the real surprise is how it plays

Maybe you're intimately acquainted with Fleischer Studios' 1930s cartoon classics; possibly your cognition beauteous overmuch begins and ends with Studio MDHR's glorious 2017 video crippled homage, Cuphead. Either way, you'll instantly cognize what Mouse P.I. for Hire is going for, and developer Fumi Games beauteous overmuch nails the "rubber hose" look. This is black-and-white epoch Fleischer meets 1940s detective noir; and there's adjacent a spot of old-school Disney thrown in, fixed the seedy satellite of Mouse P.I. - Mouseberg - looks similar it's populated by agelong lost, down-on-their-luck relatives of aboriginal days Mickey.

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