Board Thread:Sly Cooper series discussion/@comment-1845428-20151130080822/@comment-1845428-20151203183807

Alright, so my idea is this:

We start off in Ancient Egypt. This location is large, about as large as a single episode from Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (maybe a bit bigger). Sly is narrating his thoughts, and ends up coming up with the plan to get to a high point. There is a small platforming segment that acts as a tutorial as we lead Sly around to the top of a large pyramid. We ninja spire jump on the point, and like Assassin's Creed, (which took so much from the Sly Cooper series, it's time for the Sly Cooper series to take back) there is a large sweeping camera shot, showing off the locale.

Cutscene plays. This introduces the player to the story. Sly is in Egypt, year: 1305. BC. He comes up with a plan: Find Slytunkhamen Cooper (the second, I think) and convince him of who he is. The Thievius Raccoonus is the key to getting back to the present.

Anyway, missions happen, you find Slytunkhamen, but the Thievius Raccoonus has been stolen or something (I know, bad guys just really want that book). You get it back, and then Sly writes a small message in it.

"Bentley Waset"

Bentley, in the present finds this message. Waset, present day Luxor, also known as Thebes, is a large city in Egypt. (Please don't use Cairo. That is a modern city, and it would screw up a lot of stuff.) He uses carbon dating to find when Sly wrote this message, though he can assume the approximate date due to the fact that it is written on papyrus, but also that Slytunkhamen II wrote on the page as well.

They go back, using a sliver of the papyrus to put into the time machine, and rescue Sly.

Bentley then explains to Sly why he couldn't save him earlier: since Sly is from the present, his chronology is in line with the present, so even though technically the note he wrote in the Thievius Raccoonus is 3300 years old, it didn't appear in the present until the moment Sly wrote it.

That, in total, takes about 2 hours to complete. From now on, the entire game takes place in Paris, France. It is one very large map; the time they would have spent making 4 or 5 other maps, they spend making just one large, but not too large, dense map, filled with content, including civilians walking around, though I'm unsure what exactly they would do in response to seeing Sly or the other gang members.

Anyway, story-wise, I would love to see something with Penelope returning. She has the potential to be a great villain, though it could also make sense for her to switch back over. Who knows. Total story, I got no idea. I don't think that Sly and Carmelita should be together, though, at least not officially. While we all love that pairing, they are better on opposing sides of the law.