User:Dares Phrygius

About me
I first picked up Sly 2: Band of Thieves when it came out back in 2004 and immediately fell in love with everything about the game from the compelling story and characters to the stealth and platforming. I had to play all the games in the Sly Cooper series and I bought Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus after completing Sly Cooper 2 on my Playstation 2. I then bought Sly Cooper 3  in 2005 and became dedicated to the series, constantly replaying and "100%ing" all the games in the series. Back in 2010 I bought the The Sly Collection for Play Station 3 where I knew I was going to enjoy and revisit my nostalgia. As a person who played the orignal games on the Play Station 2 I was being rewarded for my nostalgia after recieving trophies which weren't that hard to achieve for me since I have completed all the games multiple times, and in less than one month I recieved platinum trophies for all three titles which brang back memories. I really hope that in the future Sucker Punch would make at least one game that is equal if not better to any of the games in the original Sly trilogy. I think that there are many possibilities of another game because of Sly's many ancestors. I'm not sure how but I need them to bring back the Sly Cooper we know and love in any way.

Games
''I played all games except for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time because personally I don't like the way they made Sly look and the gameplay looks stale. I'm not saying Sly 4 is a bad game because I haven't tried it yet, I just wasn't keen to play it because I didn't think it would top any of the other Sly Cooper games because it wasn't developed by Sucker Punch. I will try the game eventually but I've seen many reviews and just by looking at the game I knew that it wouldn't top any of the original games. I'll play the game just to find out how the story ends with Sly Cooper but until then I think that Sucker Punch were unwise to not make the sequel themselves. - ''As of July 3 2013

I played through Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time hoping that I would be wrong about Sanzaru Inc, and maybe I should have cut them some slack. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was a fun game but to me it didn't really feel the same way as the other Sly Cooper games. What I really loved about the game were the cutscenes they were as good if not better than the cutscenes in the original Sly Trilogy but other than the cutscenes the game was boring and tedious. The boss fights have you doing the same thing over and over again, the combat feels clunky and so does the stealth and to me the missions were very boring they keep repeating themselves with you having to infiltrate a place hacking and/or collecting something and then leaving afterwards.

Sly's ancestors were interesting in the cutscenes and in the tiny glimpses we saw of them in the other Sly games but I was a bit dissapointed at how they made them look in actual gameplay as well as Sly and the Gang's design. Sly looks like a midget. He is less muscular compared to his design the other games in both the cutscenes and the game, This Sly is older having conquered Clockwerk and Dr. M and should have been at least a few inches taller if not the same height as in the other games but instead he looks like a kid rather than the great thief we all know and love him to be.

Sly's ancestors all looked cool in the cutscenes and they all had thier own unique personalities but seeing them in the game and playing with them was dissapointing. Most of the moves that Sly's ancestors are dull and they could have all been just upgrades for Sly. Speaking of upgrades, there were way less upgrades in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time compared to Sly 2 or Sly 3. Probably the worst thing about Sly Cooper Thieves in Time is the loading screen delay.

I honestly forced myself to buy Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time just for the story because I knew that the cutscenes would be great and they were. I really hope if Sanzaru Inc, want to make another Sly game they would change how all the character styles back to how they originally were designed by Sucker Punch and make the gameplay truer to the Sly Cooper we all knew and loved or they just don't bother making one at all.

Game Rankings

 * 1) Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves
 * 2) Sly Cooper 3:Honor Amongst Thieves
 * 3) Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
 * 4) Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Favorites
My favorite two Power-Ups are Thief Reflexes and the Feral Pounce for Sly. I like combining the two power ups to make free roaming or combat look dynamic and sometimes just running in slow motion as Sly just brings a smile to my face.