Mouse PI for Hire
I'm aware that IGN gave this a 6 and got torn apart for it while most people are giving it an 8. I'd probably give it a 7. It's a competent enough shooter but doesn't really set itself apart through anything but the visuals. The detective aspects are basically nonexistent in gameplay outside of pinning stuff to a board and automatically making connections by hitting a button. The guns are also pretty unbalanced. The paint thinner gun is so strong that the only real reason to use anything else is because you ran out of paint thinner for the paint thinner gun. You also can't replay levels so if you missed something after finishing one then too bad, you're locked out for the rest of the game. I can't help feeling like this team may not have made an FPS before because it's missing some QoL stuff I've come to expect. What they made here is decent but I wouldn't say it's amazing. Plus, outside of some death animations and a spinach powerup it doesn't lean into the cartoon wackiness nearly as much as I hoped. An FPS where you use a bunch of toon gags to kill enemies sounds like a hoot but that's not really what they did here.