There's Too Much Cheese?!

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There's too much cheese in Mouse PI. At least, that's what IGN seemed to think. But while the internet was ripping them to shreds, I wanted to do the math and see if their take was as monstrous as it first seemed, or were they onto something Gouda? [upbeat music] Hello, internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's always a little cheesy no matter how you slice it. Yeah, [laughs] get ready for a bunch of cheese puns today, theorists, because we're talking about the newly released and wonderfully punny game, Mouse PI. This thing is just bursting with character. It's stylized like rubber hose cartoons from the '20s and '30s, much like Cuphead. But rather than being a platformer, it's a Doom-esque boomer shooter. It also has some pretty great voice acting, and the entire thing is hand-drawn. Everything you see, characters, weapons, it's drawn by hand, frame by frame. Everything you see in the game is hand-crafted. In a world where AI keeps threatening to take away artists' jobs, is it any surprise that people were excited for a game that truly celebrates artists? And if you wanna celebrate artists here, you can go and grab our 15-year anniversary poster that's linked in the description. But to top it all off, this world is full of mystery and interesting lore to dive into. I actually had a whole theory lined up about the seedy underbelly of the Mouse PI world that I was super stoked to get into, but apparently not everyone was as excited for this game as I was. In fact, some people thought it was a bit cheesy. Too cheesy. One specific review from IGN