
Maybe you’re intimately familiar with Fleischer Studios’ 1930s cartoon classics; maybe your knowledge pretty much begins and ends with Studio MDHR’s glorious 2017 video game homage, Cuphead. Either way, you’ll immediately know what Mouse P.I. for Hire is going for, and developer Fumi Games pretty much nails the “rubber hose” look. This is black-and-white era Fleischer meets 1940s detective noir; and there’s even a bit of old-school Disney thrown in, given the seedy world of Mouse P.I. – Mouseberg – looks like it’s populated by long lost, down-on-their-luck relatives of early days Mickey.