as a big sly fan since childhood i think this is the most disappointing game ever for me, but even so it still has a few positives

the presentation (i especially love the health bars in this game so much and the animations, both cutscenes and actual ingame animations) and content (buncha collectibles) are at their highest in this game, but then on the other hand the jobs are pretty boring, theres a fuckton of hacking minigames for some reason and the upgrades other than the few classics like paraglide and silent obliteration are so whatever, not to mention the gameplay wasnt as snappy as the other 3 games, everything is so floaty and awful to control, you just slip off of things constantly in a stealth platformer like wtf, how do you go and make a sly game then make it laggy, floaty and with annoying input delay.

since the gimmick is time travel the worlds are pretty diverse and interesting, i really liked the selection they went with, but then the level design is forgettable and nothing to write home about which is such a shame

the cooper ancestors are very colorful and endearing characters (tennessee kid my beloved) but then my biggest gripe comes in, the way they wrote the old characters was a huge step backwards, the development that theyve built for 3 games was just gone for almost every single returning character (dimitri was still good old dimitri). also playing the ancestors feels worse than playing sly because his upgrades dont transfer over to them.

all in all this game is still worth checking out if u like sly imo, you can tell the devs REALLY tried making a good game and not a cashgrab, but dont go in with the highest of hopes. (edit: forgot to mention this game has one of the worst final boss fights in maybe all of gaming)

I have never seen a game fumble the bag so hard like this game. Goddamn I understand why so many people dislike this game. I don't like the Sly games but even I can feel the disrespect. Gameplay was just worse Sly 2. Slightly worse movement, slightly worse hub areas, slightly worse minigames, slightly worse hacking, slightly worse bosses, slightly worse everything. This, combined with an AWFUL, disrespectful story and ending makes it really sad this is probably the last thing we will ever get from Sly. I dislike Sly Cooper as a series, but I don't think this is how he should've gone out.

Handing a beloved series with a strong fanbase to an unproven studio was always going to be a risk, and unfortunately, it did not pan out.

The best thing the game has going for it is the concept of time travel which leads to the most varied worlds yet, along with some of the most unique characters joining the playable cast. The minigames are stronger across the board as well.

However, the narrative is by far the weakest in the series, the loading times are ridiculous, and the level design is questionable at best compared to even the first game. This leads to a very underwhelming experience regardless of how much of a Sly Cooper fan the player is.

This should be a case study for any studio considering handing off their game to other studios.