Brutal Mickey Mouse-ish FPS that's riding the public domain all the way to Steam has both a real name and awesome new trailer
Aug. 24, 2024Steamboat Willie lookalike has a new name: Mouse: P.I. For Hire
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You might remember Mouse: P.I. For Hire as the drop-dead gorgeous shooter that went viral across TikTok before going viral everywhere else on the internet. Some people called it aCuphead meets Call of DutyFrankenstein. Some people hailed it as the Steamboat Willie shooter we never knew we needed. But now it has a real name, and a brand new, very cool trailer.
Developer Fumi Games announced that their 1930s cartoon-inspired shooter is officially called Mouse: P.I. For Fire (previously just Mouse), because you play as P.I. Pepper, a mouse, and also happen to shoot lots of mice, naturally. Cartoon violence, Indiana Jones references, and some of the best first-person reload animations I’ve ever laid eyes on are all in the trailer below.
Despite the Steamboat Willie comparisons (heck, even I thought I saw a glimpse of Pete in the trailer), Mouse: P.I. For Hire isn’t actually based onDisney’s early Mickey Mouse renditions. It just so happened to go viral right around the same time as Steamboat Willie’s induction into the public domain, which probably gave thoseSteamwishlists a bit of a bump.
Mickey Mouse imitator or not, P.I. Pepper’s romp looks confident enough in its own retro swagger and exaggerated crook-busting that it doesn’t really need to rely on 100-year-old nostalgia.
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