When you defeat a “Tiny Suit,” whose suit is way too tight, they comment that they can feel their hands again. An enemy type, “The Flasher,” who wears a trenchcoat and reveals his fashion crime to you upon opening, tells you you’ve helped them turn their life around upon defeat. Each enemy type, on “death,” will turn into a more fashionable version of themselves. Many of the little things about Fashion Police Squad really spoke to me and made it such a fun game. The challenges provided were fun, refreshing, and – most importantly – engaging.
Mopeful Games wasn’t afraid of pushing the bounds of the genre they had chosen for their game. At one point, I was playing as Des in a Wolfenstein 3D-style game, followed by a sniper mission where I had multiple bullet types to make sure no fashion crimes were happening during a red carpet event.
Some sections of the game reference older titles both in and out of the FPS genre. The impressive design of Fashion Police Squad doesn’t end there. A lot of care went into level design and weapon cohesiveness. This becomes especially helpful when trying to clear larger distances by getting a good running start before jumping. Likewise, the Wet’Ones, which is really just a soapy water gun, can be shot on the floor in front of you to make you move faster. There’s a fair amount of first-person platforming in Fashion Police Squad, and it’s made actually enjoyable by the gadgets provided. Aside from taking care of those pesky pant-saggers and stunning enemies, you can use the belt as a whip to latch onto poles strategically placed around the city and swing from them. The Belt of Justice is another weapon in your arsenal that also assists you in navigation. Though, if you forget, Haley is always around to remind you what gun is needed when fighting an enemy. There’s a lot in play here, and it’s a rewarding experience to get through without assistance or a reminder of what to do. If someone’s outfit is a little too loud, you can suck the color out of them with your 2DYE4’s alternate fire, which will boost the primary attack. If you run into German tourists wearing socks and sandals, just whip out a sock gnome to munch those suckers off their feet. The Tailormade is essentially a ranged sewing machine, allowing you to pin up and tighten the fit on some of those unfit, oversized suits. Each enemy introduces new combos and weapon features. That grievance aside, the enemy types, in general, are well thought out and fun to fight against. Between the Karen who wears an ill-fitting sack of potatoes and the DJ whose main issue appears to be too much color in her outfit, I didn’t think the women enemy types were well thought out. In fact, my only grievance with the enemy types is that there are only two women enemy types, and neither is particularly compelling. And while most of the enemy types make sense and are fun, there’s a bit of a stretch and a heavy focus on male fashion crimes. Many of the fashion crimes range from baggy pants, oversized suits, socks with sandals, and speedos – things that you’re apt to see in your day-to-day life and might snicker at to yourself or make you roll your eyes. The fashion crimes laid out in the opening paragraph are usually on-point.
Tasked by his partner, Haley, to take care of a few “gray suits” in the area, Des sets out with his 2DYE4 Carbine Elite to blast some color into those monochrome fools. In it, you take on the role of Des, a member of the Fashion Police Squad set out to solve fashion crimes and determine why such unfashionable behavior is happening in our fair city. That unit is the Fashion Police Squad.īorn of the “Boomer Shooter” genre, Fashion Police Squad is a pixel-art, humorous dive back into retro-fps. And beyond the trench coat flashers and socks-with-sandals wearers is a detective unit that was specifically designated to root out and solve fashion-related crimes. Who is causing this unfashionable nightmare? Is it possible that there’s a coordinated effort to create a less fashionable world? Yes, that’s possible. Men with gray suits litter the streets, rubbing arms with neon vest-wearing scooter jockeys and women in ill-fitting potato sacks.
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