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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The mouse couldn't eat the cheese!]]
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4	'''[[https://vgperson.com/games/getmouse.htm GET MOUSE]]''' is a short, freeware puzzle game made in Wolf RPG Editor. It's a simple game with 8 stages (and an Ending) where you have to get the mouse his cheese. The game was made available on May 23, 2021. Notably, the game was made by Sen ([=MouSe=]), one of the developers behind ''VideoGame/{{Misao}}'' and ''VideoGame/MadFather''.
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6	Before continuing, please be advised that, due to the game's short length, knowledge of the tropes involved may diminish the experience.
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8	!!Tropes:
9	* CameraAbuse: The result of a few bad choices, like picking [[spoiler:the Cartoon Bomb]] in Stage 1.
10	* CartoonBomb: One of the options in multiple stages is to summon one of these. [[spoiler:Most of the time, the mouse kicks it at you. But not always.]]
11	* CartoonCheese: Obtaining some [[StockAnimalDiet for a mouse]] is the goal of every stage.
12	* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: The only way to win Stage 3 is [[spoiler:to tell Mouse his dancing sucks]], as otherwise, he's too distracted to notice the Cheese.
13	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Losing a Stage just takes the player back to the start of it, with no other penalty.
14	* ADogNamedDog: The intro to the game states that the mouse protagonist is named Mouse, and that he's a kind-hearted crybaby that would never cause harm to others ([[CameraAbuse a debatable statement]]).
15	* GravityIsAHarshMistress: In stage 5, [[spoiler:if you free Mouse’s arms before his legs, he falls onto his face]].
16	* NonStandardGameOver: While most failures are a quick gag and a cut to black, in Stage 8, there's a whole event for [[spoiler:slaying the mouse instead of feeding it]].
17	* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Stage 7 has the player move a cursor to find and click on a piece of cheese. [[spoiler:The answer is to move the cursor outside of the main image and on the cheese in the question itself.]] Stage 8 is also somewhat unintuitive, in that [[spoiler:you have to Discard Cheese, rather than use it or slay the mouse]].
18	* RunningGagStumbles: In the first couple of levels, selecting [[spoiler:the Cartoon Bomb]] has the mouse [[CameraAbuse kick it at the screen]], failing the stage. However, it's actually the correct option in [[spoiler:Stage 4]].
19	* SchmuckBait: The first stage gives you three items to choose from: Trash, Cheese, and Bomb. As the stated goal is to get the mouse his cheese, the other two options lead to immediate failure.
20	* ShoutOut: Stage 6 references ''VideoGame/{{Misao}}'' and ''VideoGame/MadFather'', as well as ''Dudley and the Mysterious Tower'', in that [[spoiler:the player must answer which of the developer's previous games included a mouse to win some cheese]].
21	* SquashedFlat: The item shoot in Stage 4 is above Mouse instead of next to him, leading to this outcome if [[spoiler:a heavy Log]] is dropped.
22	* StealthSequel: In the Ending, [[spoiler:the sound of a chainsaw is heard before Mouse and a female mouse escape, and the final shot is them at a grave, indicating that the game is (somehow) set in the same world as ''Mad Father'']].
23	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: In the Ending, [[spoiler:a pink mouse with a bow in her hair saves Mouse from falling into a trap baited with cheese]].

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