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Sometimes I like to replay the whole series to remember how good they were and then remember how thoroughly this one killed the franchise outright.

These dudes were so fucking lazy that they just allow you to make a shit ton of money in level 1 and just always have a high ass stockpile to always buy upgrades that you'll never really use. Every treasure that you find on the map is rarely over 150 coins yet just pick pocketing guards will have a 2/3 chance to net you a 200 or 500 coin worth item, completely negating the point of bringing treasures back. And for some reason ALL OF THEM ARE TIMED but not because they're booby trapped or something realistic like that. They just are and they vanish instead of blowing up if you aren't fast enough to get back to the hideout.

I'm probably the only person irked by this specific change but I really hate that if you jump from a high spot you will now have a hard landing animation on Sly when his whole schtick is being nimble and light on his feet, and makes movement just a little worse. Speaking of movement this game has the most innacurate system for environment interaction out of the entire franchise. You'll try to land or latch onto something and regularly you'll be flung to something off screen or the animation will just give up and you have to reclimb something or fall into a pit, or with the spire jump if you jump off too quickly the game will give you this short hop that will just fling you into pits. I didn't know I was playing every Assassin's Creed.

I ain't usually easily offended but as a black man myself The Grizz is a fucking wild ass character that for all intents and purposes should not have been allowed to exist. That is just out and out no debate a racist caricature of a black person. Like not even Tsao and Mz. Ruby were this bad.

This game overall is just a case study in character assassination but anybody who knows anything about this game has heard this insanely valid criticism ad nauseum so I'm not gonna repeat it.

Your existence.
Is God's failure.

hate this game and my ps3 broke before the boss fight so fuck this

Certainly the weakest Sly Cooper has to offer, and a lot of odd character changes that don't reconcile with the original trilogy, not to mention the undercut of the original ending. Otherwise, not as bad as they say. Some hours of entertainment.

Incredibly overhated, it is one of the weaker in the series but still a super fun game. The art style and ancestor gimmick are top notch. That one Japanese dance scene with Murray is seriously peak gaming.

this was almost my first platinum but i had to sell my ps3

This game makes me really sad. Don't get me wrong, it's a fairly enjoyable platformer still and some of the other coopers are fun to play as but the writing and art style is so much worse compared to the original trilogy. The twist that happens (if you know you know) is actually so dog shit it's unreal. The artstyle is very bland and does not stay true to the very bright and colorful comic book vibe the trilogy was going for and the writing is just so damn bad man. Really upsetting to think this was after such an amazing game like 3 which I still think is personally better than 2.