What a great, nice bow of an ending. The way the developers allowed the story of Sly to finish in such a conclusive way is something that you seldom see nowadays in franchises of this size anymore. Added to that the sheer mechanical diversity of each stage and you're presented with something that, weirdly enough, seems to approach the sensibility of a graphical adventure that was very good at its arcade challenges. It's understandable that many games don't go this hard on presenting you with such a variety of options (I can't imagine how costly it is today), but the real merit goes to the fact that almost all of them are entertaining and enjoyable in their own right, and don't feel meshed together in an incoherent mix of content.