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Cuphead did something in 2017 that we’d arguably never seen before in a video game, or at least nowhere near the degree Cuphead went to: it built an entire game around completely hand-drawn art and animation a la a 1930’s cartoon. We haven’t seen it since probably since doing all of that painstaking visual work by hand is incredibly difficult, time-intensive, and laborious. But now, a new hand-drawn and hand-animated project is getting ready to grace our PCs and consoles. It’s called Mouse: P.I. for Hire, and fully handcrafted art is about the only thing it’s got in common with Cuphead. Mouse is its own, equally gorgeous game, and after getting a look at a hands-off demo, I’m just as interested in it as I was when I first saw Cuphead. Which is to say, I’m very interested.
As you can obviously see, Mouse is in black and white. It’s reminiscent of the Steamboat Willy era of early animation, complete with guns that are always wobbling even when they aren’t in use, as if they’re made of rubber. (More on the guns in a bit.) As you can also plainly see, Mouse is a first-person shooter. In it, you play
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