Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-25166563-20150705140221

Character Alignments (Original Timeline):

1. Sly Cooper (Alignment:Good/Faction:Cooper Gang)

2. Bentley (Alignment:Good/Faction:Cooper Gang)

3. Murray (Alignment:Good/Faction:Cooper Gang)

4. Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox (Alignment:Good/Faction:Interpol)

5. Sir Raleigh (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Fiendish Five)

6. Muggshot (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Fiendish Five)

7. Mz. Ruby (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Fiendish Five)

8. Panda King (Alignment:Good/Faction:Cooper Gang = Former Alignment:Evil/Former Faction:Fiendish Five)

9. Clockwerk (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Fiendish Five)

10. Dimitri Lousteau (Alignment:Good/Faction:Cooper Gang = Former Alignment:Evil/Former Faction:Klaww Gang)

11. Rajan (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Klaww Gang)

12. Contessa (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Klaww Gang = Former Faction:Interpol)

13. Jean Bison (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Klaww Gang)

14. Arpeggio (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Klaww Gang)

15. Constable Neyla (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Klaww Gang = Former Alignment:Good/Former Faction:Interpol)

16. The Guru (Alignment:Good/Faction:The Cooper Gang = Former Faction:The Dreamtime)

17. Penelope (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Le Paradox's Crew = Former Alignment:Good/Former Faction:The Cooper Gang)

18. Dr. M (Alignment:Evil/Faction:None = Former Faction:The Original Cooper Gang)

19. Cyrille Le Paradox (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Le Paradox's Crew)

20. Rioichi Cooper (Alignment:Good/Faction:The Cooper Clan)

21. Tennessee Kid Cooper (Alignment:Good/Faction:The Cooper Clan)

22. Sheriff Toothpick (Alignment:Evil/Faction:Le Paradox's Crew)

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The first three Sly Cooper games have given gamers such a sterile gaming experience through soundtracks, storylines, and gameplay which were all great because it was made by Sucker Punch Productions. Who knows what could've been with Sly 4:Thieves of Time, because judging by the many reviews against this game, it seemed as if many people really HATED that game for several reasons:

1: Sly 4 was not made by Sucker Punch Productions. It was made by Sanzaru Games, and although we got to see HD grahics,...it just wasn't the same like the original makers of Sly Cooper lore since the majority of the gamers complained about having to go through too many mini-games, since they've never had to go through with them before in all of the first three PS2 era-based Sly Cooper games.

2: The questionable and sudden move of shifting a somewhat beloved member of The Cooper Gang in Penelope to Le Paradox's team without any valid storyline reasoning at all, and don't get me started on her sudden dislike of Sly Cooper for supposedly holding Bentley back from standing out as a key member of The Cooper Gang.

3: Many of those who had already played Thieves in Time on PS3, they may or may not be surprised to find out that after defeating Le Paradox (the disgraced art collector was finally sentenced to life imprisonment for the crimes he caused during the time travelling adventure), Sly Cooper went missing. Bentley, Murray, Carmelita and Dimitri spent most of the ending trying to trace Sly's whereabouts, with Carmelita taking his disappearance the hardest as her relationship with Sly had already blossomed in between Sly 3 and Sly 4. However, a secret ending indicated that Sly now finds himself stranded in Ancient Egypt without any single communication from his friends.

4: And last but not least to put the cherry on the top, I have a gut feeling that Sly 5 will have to be re-booted to a second timeline with some of the game's past events being remade with a few slight changes that may positively or negatively affect each character. Since the Cooper Gang and Interpol factions are obviously the good guys, with the Fiendish Five, the Klaww Gang and Le Paradox's Crew as the obvious bad guys,...there should be a true neutral faction whose members have their own personal agendas. Let's say Muggshot can be a true neutral because he's the most badass Fiendish Five villain outside of Clockwerk, Penelope because her reputation as a former good guy with a shady past would actually give her a few extra layers in character development and she would be better off a true neutral whose only ally is Bentley,... and finally, the biggest backstabber to both heroes and villains, Neyla because she was able to use The Cooper Gang, Interpol, and even her fellow Klaww Gang members for her own personal gains, so it's safe to say she cannot stay in one faction for longer periods of time, hence her true neutral status. Just like how Penelope's only ally from the good side would be Bentley, I could see Neyla's only ally from the good side being Sly Cooper since Sly seemed to have a thing for her because of her working differently from other Interpol officers and even had the thought of taking her out on a date in Bollywood, probably would've treated him a bit better than Carmelita though simply because Neyla's not a black-and-white Interpol cop.

5: While we're getting into full details about some potentially altered events that could happen,...one altered event would be The Contessa being fully responsible for wrongfully framing Carmelita and Neyla for both of them allegedly being in cahoots with the Cooper Gang at the end of Ep3:The Predator Awakes, so like before, Carmelita, Sly and Murray (and Neyla) were arrested, leaving Bentley to rescue Sly and Murray from jail in Episode 4:Jailbreak, before saving Carmelita and Neyla from being hypnotized in the Contessa's castle/re-education tower. Another possible altered event would be Bentley walking away from the final battle with Clockwerk without being paralyzed down to the legs, and instead of Neyla being the one inside Clockwerk's body, maybe Arpeggio was meant for Clockwerk's body since the poor bird was too small to even fly.

I will now gracefully give Sly Cooper fans (both old and new) some time to look at the Sly Cooper video game series being re-booted into another timeline like what Mortal Kombat had done in recent years, with a few alterations to the game's events from the original trilogy.  