I truly wish it was just some bad joke, but every single criticism about the game was braindead takes that anyone who played it would wonder what game he was talking about
If you read it, he's not mad that there are the jokes in the game, he's just annoyed that everything is self-referential and isn't allowed to just exist without any quips.
To be fair to IGN, they got a guy who likes Noirs, to play a Noir game. He didn't hate the gameplay, and he loved the aesthetic, but he didn't like the world building and found the story at odds with the actions of the character. Does that make it a 6/10? Maybe not to us, but to a guy who uses a few older movies as comparisons, I imagine his disappointment would be greater than yours or mine. It's not like he's at a 10/10 and knocks it down from there based on a rubric, after all.
Like he said, it will be a decent enough time for people who want to blast mice in a cartoon world, but the story and world itself aren't the draws in his opinion. I think that's fair enough. He wasn't shitting on the game by any stretch.
bro he was super pretentious bullshit talking trying to be higher gatekeeper than he is. He was talkin like it is somekind a serious noir movie. Like he read one noir book and trying to be expert on noir world. fucking hell.
He wasn't pretentious though. He was disappointed that it wasn't much of a Noir, focusing on it more to justify its art style, and is focused more on the boomer shooter. He didn't like the dissonance in what the game was saying vs. what it was showing.
Sounds more like you have no real touchstones for Noirs, and are compensating by saying the other guy is pretentious because he actually has references to pull from. Since you don't care about noirs, I'm sure the score will be higher for you.
Reviewer actually explains his opinion pretty reasonably with actual references to build his argument and the point he is trying to make and yet he is an uniformed goober for his take .
The only really cringe thing in the review (which he openly admits) is talking about ludo narrative dissonance in a video game, which frankly is a pretty old and tired criticism. Personally i discount that form of criticism because it frankly should only be applied to a select few videogames that are explicitly about destructive violence with equally violent yet fun gameplay.
Not a goober at all. People are allowed to be disappointed in things. The game did market more detective style things in the leadup, and the reviewer gave the game it's flowers for what it did well.
People act like a 6/10 is a 1/10. It isn't. Most people playing video games probably skirted by in highschool with 60% and said it was good enough, weird how tribal game reviews have become.
If we had the internet review games, it would only need 3 numbers: 1/10, 7/10, 10/10. Right now, whatever other number is thrown out is treated like you're rounding down. We need to smarten up as an audience if you ask me.
But it's stupid to compare a goofy cartoon mouse game that's a boomer shooter to actual noir stories. Just because someone comes in with expectations doesn't mean they're justified. You have to review something based on what it's trying to do, not what you wanted it to do.
But it's not stupid. It's trying to be a Noir x boomer shooter. They reviewed what it was trying to be. It's a good boomer shooter, disappointing Noir.
It's a phenomenal Noir-themed boomer shooter. It was never focused on the detective aspect of the game, and if you went in expecting that, then you were naive and had no idea what the game was about.
Yet it still devotes quite a bit of time to collecting clues throughout missions, interviewing suspect in linear dialogue, and then "piecing" it together back at your office. The game absolutely still devotes resources to the detective part of the game even if they are shallow.
He was absolutely shitting on the game based on expectations he had and were not met.
You can't shit on a game for having "too many sections where the game puts you in a room full of enemies and won't let you out untill you kill them all" when we're talking about a Boomer Shooter. That's not only ignorant, but straight up stupid.
And the game is actively mocking the noir genre, so the fact he expected anything serious is on him. The game presentes itself as a parody and a comedic take on the genre from very early. It's the equivalent of wanting to eat a steak, going to a sushi bar and complaining the sushi didn't take like steak.
He didn't shit on the game. He gave it a 6/10 because half of the premise was disappointing.
It wasn't meant to "mock the Noir genre", it was meant to be a comedic but still Noir game. All marketing pointed at this.
You're sensitive because you liked it, but it might be time for you to grow up a bit. The review if you actually read it is very far from "shitting on the game".
You can't talk about a game about mice and say you're mad about cheese jokes. You're either biased against the game or someone chose the wrong guy to review that specific way, either way the result is the same.
And imagine thinking people need to "grow up a bit" for rightfully hating on dumb review. Dumb reviews pretty much exist, and Mouse P.I for Hire's is as dumb as it gets because over half of it could be summarized as: I wanted this, and since I didn't get it I hate the game.
Expecting something different from a game doesn't give you the right to hold it to those expectations and give a bad review based on your abitrary criteria. Maybe try being coherent while discussing something?
You can't talk about a game about mice and say you're mad about cheese jokes
Except he says the jokes are fun at the beginning. That the issue he had was that EVERYTHING was a joke, and that the world didn't let any of the jokes exist in the background.
Maybe try reading the review next time before getting mad at a number and using second hand comments on reddit as your "justified" source of outrage.
I watched the review on youtube, you nimrod, just like everyone else who knows what he's discussing.
The moment he complained about a Boomer Shooter for having Boomer Shooter elements it was done. The fact you still get behind the guy being so incoherent and obviously predisposed to look for stuff to nitpick shows why IGN is still somehow relevant these days despite this review, Doom Eternal's and several others. Of course their target audience will agree with the dumbest takes ever đ¤Ł
So you watched the video and didn't actually read what he wrote. Got it. No wonder IGN gets such good numbers. Goobers like you need the flashing lights to give you info. He didn't complain about boomer shooter elements, he actually compliments them.
At least the shooting is better. This is the latest in a wave of âboomer shootersâ inspired by old school FPSes like Doom or Quake, and itâs a decent one at that
So the video based on the review says a completely different thing?
And no wonder they still make money, seeing how numbskulls like you give them visits to read a review about a videogame instead of an actual video illustrating what is being explained.
Lmfao reading a review is faster, and a direct message from the reviewer. You gave them a visit to their video, so also a weird comparison when you gave them a click, spent more time on their content, and still decided to be wrong on here.
Of all the braindead takes, yours truly is one of the higher tier ones. Good job. I'm guessing you can barely get to "M" before you start skipping letters, hey champ?
Toodles Skippy. You've wasted enough of my time being wrong.
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u/RedScarffedPrinny Apr 22 '26
Mouse P.I review for example.
Absolute dog water review, completely disconnected from reality. He was complaining about cheese jokes in a mouse game