Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-25166563-20150707103316

As we already know in Sly 1 and Sly 2, the fact that Sly had not yet fully developed a love relationship with Carmelita indicated that it was more about Sly only using flirty chit chat to Carmelita as an excuse to escape her clutches and make it more of a cops and robbers chase thing.

Man, if Neyla hadn't betrayed The Cooper Gang and Carmelita back at the third episode of Sly 2, maybe Sly would've been more fully into Neyla than Carmelita if Neyla's betrayal of The Cooper Gang had never happened since they already arranged for a date in Bollywood after Ep3. It would've worked to perfection since Sly wasn't yet fully committed to a love relationship with Carmelita until the events of Sly 3 where Bentley fell in love with Penelope, which only made Sly realize what a coward he was acting towards Carmelita, and that was a year later after Neyla had already been dead. It was the Bentley-Penelope relationship that inspired Sly to be more fully in love with Carmelita.

But then you have to remember that when he faked his amnesia after Sly 3 and prior to Sly 4, Sly was said to have been already retired from thieving and enjoying (not quite) his relationship with Carmelita. It was actually filled with ups and downs since Sly really missed his thieving adventures, and boy, Carmelita was the one who would go out of her way to actually claim that she changed Sly and helped reform from his thieving ways. Yup, I definitely knew Carmelita would give Sly a hard time when she confronted him over his stealing something that took the Cooper Gang to Feudal, Japan from back in time where Rioichi Cooper resided. A recurring Batman-Catwoman type relationship just never seemed to be fully resolved at the end of Sly 4.

So, do you think Sly would be better off with Carmelita or Neyla if he had to have a love interest that wouldn't even dare to give him a hard time?  