General Tsao was the most fun to me. The hardest for me in difficulty though was Octavio.

Toughest Boss: The Loading Screen

There's a certain feature we will never be able to experience again in later Sly Cooper games when they finally release. That is the ability we learned at the end of sly 3. The ability to traverse or slide along lasers.

The bamboo mission is god tier🙌🏻

Octavio, General Tsao, And Dr. M will always be one of my favourites Sly Cooper Villains outside of Clockwork.

My own list of this, partial speedrunning knowledge of the game, can change some stuff. 17: Dr.M (Beast) Mainly an auto scroller 16: Panda King memory 15: Muggshot (EP 3) Quite easy, as you mentioned, the pistols is reason it's easy.. keep shooting and stand close enough so he only uses pistols. they damage so little it's easier to just shoot. 14: Carmelita (Australia) 13: LeFwee 12: Dr.M (plane) Reason is quite simple. Speedrunning strat for him is just flying in close and keep shooting face up close. 11: Dr.M (Sly) He's simple enough if you can get your push attacks in, as they will stun him quick enough to chain it. 10: Black Baron (on "ground") Push attack is doing good damage, or just keep swiping quickly. 9: General Tsao: Reason is simple.. push attack or knockout dive, do those near a wall and he can be stealth killed. if not? #1 for sure 8: Octavio (Murray) Dodge the flip up, otherwise punch and maybe flop on him. 7: Octavio (Bently) Just dodge everything and it's good enough 6: Black Baron (Plane): A bit like Dr.M but can be a bit more tedious 5: Mask dingo ep 2: Simple enough, run and it's fair, but he can still reach you from annoying heights. good fight tho 4: Dragon... fuck it's bs but try to hit water when he throws you off 3: Tsao (Phase 1): fun, but the shots can be off throwing. Love it more than some stuff 2: Kraken 1: Dr.M(dimitri) screw the controls, it's tedious

I couldn't imagine fighting mugshot not on the rooftops

General Tao: She's a woman, she doesn't know up from down. "Whoa!!! You're Deep Fry!!!" That's exactly what I said first time I've heard that line. Yes. The battle does make you strategize but for me it's the build up throwing down against a great villain who's well written.

What was a better game Sly 2 or Sly 3? For me I like the Sly 2 story better but I hate how you can’t replay challenges like you can in Sly 3

Yes more sly content 😍

I really like the kingdom hearts sound effects you do when you go to each new boss. It’s very cool I think!

Fighting Tsao on those bamboo points was heard. I remember getting pissed off at the game everytime I lost.

in my humble opinion the worst of them was Doctor M he tried to take out Carmelita twice.

General Tso fight battle is based on two Chinese films, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" & "The House of Flying Daggers".

"I'm not a fan of pattern boss fights" *sad Punch-Out!! noises*

I remember getting stuck with one mission with dimitri when he's diving into the water and you had to avoid the clutches of under water robotic creatures. My childlike mind at the time, (when it first came out) struggled with it.

This was years ago, back when I played Sly 3. One time I challenged myself to try and chop down all the bamboo in the forest before beating Tao. The objective was to clear the forest and then beat him, to see if there was an achievement for it. I had no such luck. My approach was to chop down the bamboo on one side of the river first before battling him, then spend the rest of the time chopping it all down in proportion to his health bar. After at least 40 or so attempts, my main reason for losing the challenge was one of us dying before we could get it all down. In the latter half of my attempts at this, it was only on the other half of the river where I would keep dying. The bamboo forest is much bigger than you even realize. It was a hard challenge for me at the time, but it would be fun to revisit.

Damn... who knew *Soldier* from TF2 got so insane that he turned his whole life into a monkey just to run around with a raccoon then try to steal his family savings, all for science an bread.

Awesome video and rankings dude, well done!! -TheSafeHouse

Yes vivi! Finally I’ve been waiting for you to do this video for ages! I already sent you a few other comments on your previous video sorry about that. This is quite a length video indeed though...

Tip for the Black Baron : when you have the intermediate phases with the pigs coming out of the plane, just stay at the left of the window, and spam the square button. The pig enemies have this animation where they bounce on the floor when hit instead of going up and hitting you straight away. This animation makes them bounce out of the plane, making the fight much easier. Also, using the first level of Triangle + Square combo (I'm French so I don't know the name of the attack in english sorry !) Is faster at hitting than any other level, which is usually the most efficient way to do damage to enemies (in my opinion). To be completely honest, this wouldn't be the order I would put these bosses in, but I really enjoyed the video, great work and thank you for it !

I really love the sly content❤️ but i find it kinda funny how you talk about the bosses like a «dark souls turtorial» Keep up the good work

Octavio was probably one of the hardest first bosses in video game history when taken into context

My boy Bentley, put the smack down on Bison, with smarts, wit, and Sly's help. Brains beats Brawn, every time.

The Doctor M flying whale fight is actually pretty easy if you manage to stay right in front of him. The missiles won't it you the green lasers too and you deal damage really fast. But the other Dr M fights are really challenging

Tsao was hardest but still my favourite. I love the fight on the bamboo tips, it's overall my favourite mission. I hated the fight down the bamboos, always took me millions of tries and it even gave me slight anxiety attacks as a kid 'cause the monsters scared me. But last time I played it it literally took me like, 10 minutes or under?? He didn't even have time to attack me at all. I finally learned the strategy to beat him in minutes without him attacking me with monsters

My top 5 hardest Sly 3 boss fights 5:Lefwee 4:General Tsao (Part 2:On the Ground) 3:Crusher 2:Doctor M (Finale:In the Vault) 1:Doctor M (Part 2:In the Water) But yeah I think VTN did a great job,good video

I love the fact there's a youtuber who loves sly Cooper so much. there is no such thing as to much Cooper content

Don Octovio and General Tsao definitely took the cake for me. Plus the Venice, Italy and Hong Kong, China worlds are my two of my most favorite worlds in any Sly game. Dr. M ranks third only because he could've POSSIBLY tipped off Clockwerk about Sly's family whereabouts

My top 5 hardest bosses: 1. Don Octavio (Murray) 2. The Black Baron (Airplane) 3. The Kracken 4. Dr. M (Sly) 5. Carmalarga P.S. I saw what you did there with the outro ;) P.P.S. Can't wait for your Sly 4 bosses!

Pleas, consider the challenge mode of the bosses too! Where you have addictions limitation to win! Another thing, in the tzao fight you can change direction mid-aid, and the second level of charge for the push attack is faster in the fase 2!

i love your videos

Yezzir good vid mate

Push attacks work well on Dr M final phase as well. I never thought to use Knockout Dive. Although to me that doesnt sound like a very good strategy as that requires refilling the gauge with a health pickup. Push attacks have no cost, they are quick to charge, and it has enough pushback that Dr M cant immediately hit you after.

General tsao was the most difficult for me

My top 3 hardest boss fights has to be dr M final fight with sly mugshot with carmelita fox(love playing as carmelita fox) and General tsao with sly

With the black baron I use the level 1 spin attack (triangle square) on the baron, and the level 2 jump attack (triangle triangle X) on his minions.

A lot of the stuff early on I would say is spot on, but seeing you put the black Baron's plane fight so high...I wouldn't personally. Octavio in both phases is significantly harder. His jump attack is not that hard to dodge as you just wait a second after he stops screaming: "HUUUMPH!" pause -Stomp Stomp Stomp - It's just an audio que you have to hear. Everything else is just a dance around his attacks as all are easy to dodge and just whale on him with your cane until he falls off. The adds also go flying with single swings with your cane and are not difficult to knock off right out the gate the moment they spawn. I am fairly successful at knocking all of them out immediately as there is plenty of time to position Baron before he flies off the ledge to grab hold. I found it as one of the easier boss fights in the game personally. General Tao is also fairly easy in his first phase - because of your double jump you can just dodge one way and then dash at him in the middle very easy. Unlike him you can move in two directions before needing to land, which makes positioning and attacking very easy. And his second phase is not that much more difficult (It was when I first played) but it's simple and you have the right method: Push attack to save as much bambo. But once you got the bambo to dodge his dragon or undead hands - he isn't much of a threat with his other attacks. I would honestly label him as number 2 though. You could swing wildly if you had good situational awareness though and just keep a circle of empty space to fight in, using the bambo when needed and jumping back into the circle of nothing to fight. But might get hit by his shield from time to time doing that if not careful. There were not many other battles to really directly compare to - sly 3 had quantity over quality in my opinion. Which was fun - but not many 1 to 1 battles for direct comparison that stand out as difficult. Dr. M was significantly harder, especially if you didn't have knockout dive attached. I found him to be the most difficult as the final boss - really worth it. His charge dealt tons of damage and was hard to dodge if you were using your other abilities as you were right in front of him. The fire and electricity also dealing a lot of damage and flooding the field. I ended up in a really bad loop against him where all he did was charge attack and nothing else; which gave no room to counter attack at all or even hit him to stun him. I got one shot so many times against him too it was just frustrating in general but felt worth it in the end. Over all - if one had to label all the chapter bosses it would probably be 6 Mask of Dark Earth - 5 Lefue - 4 Baron - 3 Octavio - 2 Tao - 1 Dr. M.

At 6:23 I always thought mugshot was getting hit in his little danglers when I was younger

Geneal Tsoa Phase 2, Yep! There's a glitch, although I only actually git it to work randomly like...2-times out of all the playthroughs I've done. I agree on the 1st Phase though, It's great!

Not gonna lie, I’ve kinda been waiting on this 😂

These videos are always interesting

For me on mugshots part 1 with murry I try and keep the enemies near mugshot so when you press the button it and get rid of all the enemies at once

Do you plan to do a future video focusing on sly 4 bosses at all? That would be really cool I think.

General Tsao's infamous phase 2 is actually super easy if you know the exploit. All you have to do it get him down once, and as soon as he stands back up, use the push move as quick as possible to push him back down before he can even start the next move. You just need to stay on top of him with no mercy, and he won't even be able to return any blows because he can continuously be knocked down

1 had sympathy and reasonable anger in the unexpected 2 was set piece and gameplay over ideology and story 3 gave a wild goose chase to seed doubt 4 showed true evil to unify the team and encourage redemption 5 inadvertently tested self worth 6 paralleled corrupt potential of what could be In short, the hazard room wins

Sly 2 was the best. Between environments. Bosses. Bentley saving the gang. However I like how mugshot came back and I liked the dialogue in this one.

I'm surprised Muggshot's Carmelita phase was halfway up the list. My perspective: I've always cheesed that fight by standing on the roof of a building near that starting well, pinning him under the ledge, aiming straight down and pumping rounds into him. Occasionally I'd have to jump up to dodge his dynamite, but it didn't get much harder than that.

VTNVIVI I am a huge fan of Murray bosses in sly 2, 3 and 4. I have one question for you. I know you put Rajan as nr 1 of bosses ranked in sly 2 but who would you put from the esaiest to the hardest of Murray bosses?

Happy New year vivi

Goodness I almost went completely mad trying to beat Tsao on my first run x - x but it was so satisfying seeing that scumbag defeated

17. Camalargja? 0:52 16. Panda King's Mind, 2:00 15. Leefwee? 😂 2:56 14. Mask Of Dark Earth P1, 3:44 13. The St?? Dragon , 4:15 12. Doctor M Phase 3, 5:09 11. Lugshot Phase 1, 6:24 (Need to save my data now sorry 😂)

Don't see anyone saying it, so I'll just point out that you can use silent elemination on Tsao in the ground battle.

Wow. I beat this game recently and forgot most of these bosses were in the game. I think I played sly 2 the most so maybe that's why.

Hey did you know when you are in a disguise in panda king in sly 3 panda king tells you what is the password of new year lol it’s the disguise when you fight TSAO

i didnt even realize that the guards in carmalarga's fight were supposed to b shooting at you

Also that water attack from the pig is actually him spewing gasoline at you and setting it off

The first time I beat Dr. M I beat him "legit" by not using any of Sly's special moves, the second time I beat Dr. M, I used Sly's cane push move and wow the cane push move is so OP

Best bosses of the series not in order: 1. Octavio 2. General Tsao 3. Dimitri 4. Jean Bison 5. Panda King (Both fights) 6. Black Baron 7. Clockwerk 8. Contessa 9. Mz. Ruby 10. Rajon Edit: Honorable Mention: Le Paradox

That's ma Boiii. Tsao is by Far my Favorite villian of Sly 3, because of the two phases, the supernatural world, he is the most flexible, he uses DARK MAGIC Holy shit as Hidden technique. And also he is the only Boss you fighting Not at the end, AND most important he is Not defeated, but goes like a badass who saw that just as training!

I'm with you the chicken was the hardest by a mile, the challenge where you gotta beat him with low health took me like a hundred tries

Technically some of those were the same boss such as with the mask where you had to battle it several different times, the black Baron first in the plane fight then on the plane, don Octavio in the boat and then with Murray, mugshot with Murray then later Carmelita, and of course the numerous fights with Dr. M. Yes this game had 17 bosses when counting each encounter but if counting each of those as a whole it actually is much smaller.

Tsao was so hard for me as a child, mostly in part due to I didn't know about abilities and stuff for some reason. Now I usually find myself just actually using my abilities when I play the games, makes it way easier.

You should do video for all the bosses combined

All of those Boss battles , was fun , and i did them all , and beat all the games , sep for the sly 4 one on the ps4 . but they was fun and frustrating the same time for me .

Subbed for Sly content in a huge fanboy of that game

I think it took me 10 tines to beat tsao. Looking back at it he was a very fun boss

I easily beat Tsao with push atack as his shield cannot block it

Yea, me doing that 2:20 was deja vu all over again. I did it before, and I'll do it again. Wakey, wakey Panda King.

When The Bloody Baron does his jumping attack, use your paraglider and you’ll be fine!

I had lots of fun defeating Octavio I would say that would be my top 1 from Sly 3.

Sly 3 had a lot of difficult boss fights, so hard that poor 10 year old me broke multiple controllers because of rage. I believe my total body count for the controllers to be around 5.

Did you know you can shoot the laser cannons in Dimitri's fight against Doctor M and they'll stop charging? You probably do, but I'll mention it just in case Really helped me in that fight cause I cannot dodge them laser beams

The ending where you get the final blow and your editing music or whatever you got going on loved that

I would put tsao top 10 cus theres gltich that when u push him enough to wall u can use ur silent ob to kill him or just fast repeat that triangle + square

Hey vivi theres a trick at battleing dr.m's 3rd phase . You just need to get very close to dr.m and keep on shooting

Funniest how I just beat this game again and got 100% the other day and got the platinum for it. The hardest boss has to be the Dimitri under water one or Dr M. The others were very easy for me, but that’s probably because I beat them a million times in the past. Octavio can be pretty annoying at times. That first Tsao fight is all about patience and timing and it’s very easy when you get the hang of it. The 2nd Tsao fight is pretty easy too, but on the Master Thief challenge I learned that the push attack is a very fast way to kill him. It can still be tricky if you rush him too much but that move is OP. Worked on Dr M as well

We should make a hashtag for Sly 5. One that will catch on so we can get Sonys attention for just a few seconds.

My top 5 would have to be in particular order. Dr. M phase 2 & 4, General Tsao, Mugshot phase 2, Octavio, Black Barron, & Tsao's Dragon

The Carmelita mask climbing boss phase wasn't hard but I was ;)

U did good but I got really mad at him when dr.m destroyed slys family vehicles and could you do a video on what he meant by only people with some kind of great ancestryand I want to try texting each other I want to know more about Sly and it seems to me that you know a lot

R I P Rick May, the voice of Dr.M in Sly 3 1940-2020

I always disliked the fight with Dr M as Dimitri in phase 2. Cause prior to fighting him as Dimitri, you have to get through the part where you dodge the crab pincers. And that was always a struggle with the underwater directional buttons lol

2:01 my favorite boss fight

lol recently had a dream about sly 5 after not thinking about it since the movie never happened lol and here i am also vivi don't forget to use your combos lol they are the most powerful thing in sly 3 for Murray the good old triangle square is good for the grunts where as if you have a big opponent then using a special skill or just all out smashing square usually gets the job done lol on another note I've use the push attack lvl 1 or 2 (i forget which is available but get the strongest one at the time) against General Tsao if you learn his knockback movements you can get him into a loop where you can constantly push attack him making the fight extremely quick and easy-ish tip for anyone who hates Tsaos battle part which can be mechanically challenging but the power ups and the combo moves along with the game play is why i like the first 3 games to me its better because not only are the skill sets cool and are retained and improved throughout the games but the game play mechanics fluidity of the game and camera motions and overall feeling of the first 3 games were better though the 4th game does bring consistancy and i never really noticed any serious bugs for example in the first 3 games and in the sly collection you can tap the run button and not alert the guards but in the forth if you try this your sure to be spotted at the very least

Ha! That Dr. M Phase 3 bit, I do the same thing with the shield part. It's easier! XD. I always saw it that way, Not cheesing just an alternative.

General Tsao should be hard to beat. As much as he is a terrible rooster, he is a militant master of dark magic. Plus it should make it amazing to finally beat him!

Honestly Lefwe gave me hard time on 3rd phase first time i fought him Cause you have to rely on both jump and duck as well as difrent position he takes of his hat

I really hate that Dimitri under water battle. It's the time when my time has come and it's time to pass the controller to my brother😪 And then he gave me that back after couple of tries😅

I dont know if this counts as a boss but #1:the octavio singing was the best part of the entire series #2: dimitri bc of memories #3: again i dont know if it counts but sly 2 carmelita dance

How about the next video you do what special abilities would slytankhamun, sleigh, Henrietta, Thaddeus, and otto would have in sly 5. That are not in the theiveus raccoonus

Out of 17 boss battles, including the 5 main bosses (I do not consider the Mask of Dark Earth to be a real boss), none was a Bentley boss battle. Sly had some, Murray had one, even Penelope had one, but not Bentley.

3 can be a lot easier. Don’t use charge attacks. Just attack when the Baron upper cuts, when mobs come out, stand beside the door and spam the basic attack so it pushes them off. When it is both, just attack when upper cutting, and wait for the jumps since it will wipe all the mobs.

18:12 Tsao was hard on ground, especially if you didn't you know how to out maneuver him, but really I use charge attacks, (Charge 2 and 3), and the cane push to take him down a peg, and air attack him after he did that, Zombie hands attack from underground, but when it got to the sky part, that was the most fun for me. 🤣 For me, Barron was easy to take down, i only died twice I think, and with M, but I would make M 1, and Tsao 2. And I saw that, 20:06

6:40 I think that’s gas

Lol I was literally speed running the game yesterday

i think that the black baron is easier than the angler fish because the guards can actually help defeat the baron

My top 4 hardest (only 4 because these are the only ones I’ve ever died at) 4. Sly vs doctor M final 3. Murray vs Octavio 2. Sly vs Tsao ( not too hard for me usually but the challenges where you only have half health puts it this high) 1. Dimitri vs doctor M

3. Stage 2 of Dr. M 2. General Soa 1. Dr. Final stage

What is your favorite boss or villain from this game?