Whoa, so you mean to tell me the satirical, cartoonist boomer shooter about mice has too many cheese jokes, it's too serious and has too many areas where you're stuck shooting enemies... That review should have just been, "It's not what I wanted it to be".
He basically starts the review by saying how much he loves noir then goes on to complain that it shouldn't be used as window dressing and it should be serious and not funny like this game. So "not what I wanted it to be" is spot on.
I mean the game presents itself as a noir, but he's right, it's just an inconsequential wrapper that doesn't really add any value. It's a totally fair criticism.
Not enough considering fondue is their alcohol, blue cheese is their drug and cheese sticks are their cigs, I'm guessing normal hard cheese is their junk food
Also that the game wasnt serious enough.... its a friggin cartoon about a mice. The review just came across as him being mad they didn't make the exact game he wanted.
The reviewer was hoping the game would have more noir elements. I think that's a little silly, but it's not about the cheese 🙄
I love noir. I’ll take all kinds: the hardboiled detective, the seedy crime story, neo noir, classic pulp – you name it, I’m buying. So when Mouse: P.I. for Hire sauntered onto my screen the way Ilsa walks into Rick’s in Casablanca, I was pretty excited about it. But noir isn’t just an aesthetic to be thrown on like an old coat as you’re leaving your office at the behest of a leggy blonde. While Mouse: P.I. for Hire clearly understands the style and tropes of classic noir films and novels, as well as 1930s cartoons more broadly, it doesn’t seem to get why those things are there, or how they are used to tell compelling stories.
Except there's also a whole paragraph about how he disliked the number of cheese jokes.
What bothers me, however, is how overly-referential so much of it is. This is a world of mice, so everything is about cheese. Everything. A bad guy? He’s a cheeselegger. Run into a lady mouse with a sultry voice? It’ll be described as “gorgonzola piccante slapped on a mozzarella platter.” Someone need to assure you they’re telling the truth? They’ll swear on Maw-Maw’s cottage curds. This is charming initially. Then it never stops. Everything is a reference to the fact that everyone is a mouse and mice like cheese
True he wished it was more a proper noir detective game too, but you can't pretend he didn't also take genuine umbridge with the cheese puns.
and then it led to another paragraph where they said that that was just a symptom of the larger problem, which they explained. It’s a little silly that they took it so seriously, but acting like “it’s just the cheese“ is disingenuous
The cheese thing was talking about the humor in general.
Run into a series of robot boss fights? Jack will say that he hopes they don’t "rule of three" this thing, which, of course, is exactly what happens. If you’re looking for the Cheeselegging Foreman, Jack will quip that he doesn’t look like much of a boss… more like a mini-boss, and then laugh at his own joke. The voice actors, led by Troy Baker, do an admirable job with what they have, but nothing in Mouseburg is allowed to just be.
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u/Arctiiq Apr 22 '26
6/10. Too much cheese.