Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-5813553-20130217152527/@comment-4619189-20130224204827

Rioichi cooper wrote: Maybe in the fifth one we'll meet Connor at the end and the origins of Clockwerk along with fighting Penelope. Another thing I wanted to bring up is that in the new game Bentley says to Sly (in the heist slideshow) that it will be his job to take the bosses down but in the previous games facing the bad guy of the episode wasn't part of the plan, it was just coincedence that they runned into eachother!

That's not relevant. In the previous games, your heist was purposed to steal something, like the Clockwerk parts. In Sly 3, Bentley would say that they'd need to fight, because their goal in that game was to help out their new recruit with their issue. In the new game, your goal is to help the ancestor get back on track, and defeat the boss from present time. It's not like Bentley would just think, "Hmm let's just get Rioichi's shop running again, but lets leave El Jefe to do what ever he wants with Feudal Japan!"