It warms my heart to know there are others out there who grew up playing these games, and still love them to this day

Episode 4 of sly 2 was scaring the shit out of me as a child(5yo maybe) because of the dark setting. The fact that, for the first time ever, Bentley was alone and had to fight his own fear to save his best friends got me thru that and I will never forget it. Thinking at this right now made me realize why i give so much importance to my friendships :')

Murry was that dude in Sly 2, best intros and one liners..."fear not, I shall bend it like the truth"

If there were to be a 5th & final Sly Cooper game this is what I'd like the plot to be: Bently, Murray, Carmelita, & Dimitri get a scientist owl to help them build a time machine to go back in time to rescue Sly by using his DNA to track him. But once they find Sly they can only come forward a little at a time, & every time they stop they encounter another Cooper member that they have to help. They could even have Penelope return, but this time as the pirate Black Beard. By the 5th or 6th level, we finally have Sly meet his father, but since Sly knows his father has to die, he's conflicted on whether to try to save him or let him die again. Meanwhile, the owl scientist who helps rescue Sly gets injured through these adventures with the Cooper Gang & he builds a robot body for himself, which we later find out is Clockwork. At the end of the game, Sly & the rest of the gang make it back to the present, but Clockwork steals the time machine, goes back in time, & he gets revenge on what happened to him by making it his life's work to go after the Cooper family. Through this 5th & final game, the story comes full circle as Sly inadvertently created his family's mortal enemy in the form of a bootstrap paradox. The game ends with Sly & Carmelita finally getting together as a couple with Sly ending his life as a thief so he can have a family with her.

Sly 4 feels like it was written by a showrunner who’s concepts for a Saturday morning Sky Cooper cartoon got turned into a game last minute.

Can't believe amazing Sly Content is still being released by the community. You are absolutely goated. Appreciate it!

Sony has proven in the past two years that they can pretty easily bring back games if they want to, and not even have to put too much time and money into it for them to be good. Just look at how they've handled Ape Escape. Despite their big anniversary plans falling through, they've slowly been sprinkling a couple games from the series onto Playstation Network every few months. All they had to do with those is add a simple emulation menu for screen filters, orientation, a Quicksave and Load feature, and a rewind feature. Then they sell them for $10 a pop. They could totally do this for Sly Cooper.

God I wish this trilogy would get the N-Sane Trilogy treatment

I LOVE that I am not the only Sly stan. Love that we have a little community

Sly 2 will always be my favorite Sly Cooper game. I loved that game.

Only God knows how much these games meant to me as a kid. I still have hope for a Sly 5 in the future.

Sly reminds me of Lupin the Third, which had to have been an influence on the developers. Both are great series that deserve more recognition.

My brother and i loved Sly so much we named one of our dogs Cooper. As big of a fan as I was I could never finish sly 4. Still haven't to this day and I'm almost 31yrs old. I'd love for a return though.

Whether 3rd time or 30th time I'll never get bored from your sly reviews

Already watched all these vids, and they're amazing. Excellent wrap up and overview of the series.

Just watching you play Sly 1 makes me want to dive back in and play it. Its crazy how good it feels to run around, nimbly landing on pipes, and whacking enemies with the cane. Seriously such an insanely smooth experience.

Sly Cooper was the shit back when i was a kid. I would sit down for hours at a time playing these games. If you didnt play Sly as a kid you definitely missed out in your childhood.

Sly 2 was my first one in the series too, I saw my friend having it and got a copy for christmas that year. Best game I played to date.😊

Its amazing how similar your experience during the wait for thieves in time is exactly the same as my experience. I was 11-12-13 years old during the time between the announcement and release. And exactly as you described I soaked up every interview bideo, gameplay, article and everything during the 2 year pre release. I played and replayed the trilogy in preparation and also spent my free time thinking of how amazing Sly 4 would be. I also was dissatisfied with the game after it came out and couldn’t tell why. Now in my 20s I’m not mad anymore. Sly 2 is my favorite also for the same reasons you stated.

Hearing you talk about they hype for sly 4 makes me so happy. I thought i was the only kid out there thst really wanted this game! Im gonna have to go back and play the series i still have my ps2 this is about to be a week!

Haven’t watched yet but sly has been getting so much shine lately. I’m really hoping some execs are seeing how much pull it’s been getting on KZfaq, Twitter and TikTok lately. PRAYING for a reboot. Shoutout to J’s reviews. All hits no misses.

Miss sly so bad 🥺

I wonder if any of the writers or developers, from the original sucker punch lineup that worked on the sly series, ever come online and watch any of these retrospectives on their past project/baby. I’m sure they would be moved and love to see his how good of a job they did by putting in the love they did and seeing how this series has been appreciated by so many of us that grew with it. Forever a sly fan and I want more

Such missed opportunities in Sly 4. Certain ancestors could’ve been so cool to meet and LeParadox? What a letdown LeParadox was! Clockwerk is such a cool and mysterious villain. The Claw Gang was full of personality as were the Sly 3 baddies but that low down dirty skunk is so lame compared to all them! Sly said it best, he’s such an idiot who exposed his whole operation cause of his ego! That whole thing about him being from a rival clan of thieves really should’ve been expanded on instead of being left as a last minute reveal and the boss battle should’ve been so much more than a QTE! Like they could’ve had it so we tangle with his ancestors in the various time periods. Also did nobody on the staff question why Sly 4 is just one plot contrivance after another? Even Sly lampshades how unbelievable the gang’s luck has been!

Played sly Cooper at my parents friend house on the ps2 in the basement when we’d go over… I was soooo hooked on this game 😅

Dude all I want is a Crash type remake of the original trilogy. I agree, it doesn't need a sequel.

Dude, you are the best for putting this together. Sly also holds a very fond place in my heart. I dont like platformers, but i love Sly

Awesome video. One of my fav series from my childhood. Super nostalgic.

So many memories in sly 1 and 2, need a remaster. Love your videos on the series

I liked Thieves in Time, but hated the cliffhanger.

The message of Sly 3 falling on deaf ears can be said for so many things. I'm all for letting sleeping dogs lie, most of the time when things get drudged back up for remakes/reboots/sequels from different companies it rarely turns out as good. The comments sucker punch gets are disgusting about telling them they need to make 5 whenever they talk about sly or when they did the anniversary merch. Seems like Sly 3 needs to be played and understood by more people and actually listen to the lesson it teaches. Learn to love and let go, it can always be experienced again. 4 felt like it was made for an even younger audience than the trilogy and lost its charm, ie the story and character arcs being non-existent from past games even. Plus all the character designs are a downgrade alongside the incessant speech lines. Not to mention the ending sequence where the characters are chirping back and forth but there is zero animation for it during the fight.

Thank you so much for this video. I can't even begin to put into words how much the Sly Cooper games meant to my childhood. I remember playing the first one over and over and being SO excited for 2 and then 3. I too have a special relationship with the first 2 games. I did get 3 when it came out but it didn't feel the same and took me awhile to really love it like the other 2. I got a PS3 just for Sly 4 and then didn't actually finish it for like 6 years because it felt too different. It's ok, but definitely has a different feeling to it. Just didn't feel as special. But the original trilogy just holds a huge place in my heart. They were games me and my mom would play together, she even beat all the games on her own and still goes back to them sometimes. Last time was back in 2020. Not sure what happened to my original copy of 1 but I still have my original 2, 3, 4 and Collection games. Just everything about the games scream charm. The characters, the style, the music, the voice acting. Nothing compares. I hope I live long enough to see a proper Sly 5 someday.

Please make a retrospective on the cartoon The Batman and The Spectacular Spider-Man!

Fuck I’m old. When he’s said “I was only two when the 1st came out” I died 😂😂

this dude went through his own story arc just to review Sly 4. peak content

I'll have to second the Neyla twist. As a kid at 14, I was genuinely shocked when Neyla showed her true colors and I'm pretty sure that was also my first plot twist. And as pointed out, there is some subtle foreshadowing going on that upon repeat playthroughs just makes it clear how well-crafted the story was!

Thank you for this great video on our favorite series.

One of fav games of all fucking time.

I don't hate Sly 4. But I feel it wouldn't get a big backlash if it didn't end on a cliffhanger

Sly was one of those games my friends and all that played bossman

Great work bro!

Sly Cooper was a really cool game even though i haven't played it but it looks so good

and just gonna say it, "its for kids" is NOT a good defence for writing, ive seen plenty of games, shows and so on that are made for kids and can still have good and even smart writing

i just started replaying sly 2 :O DAMN

Having been more into ratchet & clank instead of sly and Jak. The only sly game I've played was slide 4 when I got it on my Vita. I definitely need to go back and replay the entire series in one sitting.

I will forever be heartbroken by what happened to this franchise.. I’m so sad the movie got cancelled I was so excited when I was younger :(

While I have issues with Sly 4 (being the game, I replayed maybe 3 times where I've replayed the trilogy countless times. Hell, I'm replaying Sly 1 and 2 right now.) I can say that Sly 4 feels very hollow compared to Sly 3 all I can think seeing cutscenes of Sly 4 compared to Sly 3 is "You wouldn't do that. You'd do this." This game series is my all time favorite and I have nothing but good memories with it.

Sly 4 was the biggest joke.. i felt like i was playing in one of my oldest fanfictions. The focus wasn't the ancestors, you barely get to know them. The focus is on the drama between Sly and Carmelita.. Thanks goodness, there's no a 5th game made by Sanzaru, but we never had a movie, as the Ratchet & Clank movie failed.. even MORE from the European sidem

This is my childhood game too. Sad that they don’t do games like these. 😢

I remember being pissed when sly 4 came out. The game itself was fine (not great or even good, just fine), but all those levels with the motion controller that no one cared about (the controller not the levels). I had bought a second hand ps3 and it didn't come with a controller that had that feature as almost all 3rd party controllers appeared to think that was useless. Took six months and an extra $40+ after buying the game brand new just to play the darn thing. 😢

Boy, oh-boy, here we go again! Lemme just get my popcorn real quick

This is amazing. I love ur video

Happy New Year man!

Loved the Sly cooper series.

Man, I miss these games. Sony, just remaster them, please!

I wrote up a plot for a Sly 5 game. So, my sly 5 idea involves a weakened Sly being trapped in the past, and being found by an old enemy: Clockwerk, who initially mistakes him for an ancestor and attacks, him, injuring him greatly, even mauling him. Upon defeating him, though, Clockwerk realizes that *this* Cooper is from the future--and furthermore, based on some of Sly's comments he let slip up at the beginning--namely, shock that Clockwerk was alive, and rage at seeing the cyborg Owl, Clockwerk figures that something must have happened to him in the future. Deciding to capture him, and using a device he's created, he manages to rip Sly's memories from him and gets the highlights of his life, including the defeat of Clockwerk. Rather than be enraged and kill him out of frustration, Clockwerk decides he must find a way to become immortal, beyond the cybernetic replacements of his body he's already done. Consulting his research, he smiles upon finding mentions of a crystal that could grant one unending life--only catch is, it's guarded deep in the depths of Atlantis, the shining city. Only catch is, he's too big and not powerful enough at the current moment to get it. Luckily for him, he has a Cooper from the future, with skills learned from ancestors that aren't even born yet--and Clockwerk offers the captured Sly Cooper a deal--He'll share a portion of the power of immortality with Sly, and build him a machine to send him home, but Sly has to get the crystal for him first. And just to make sure Sly plays along, Clockwerk makes some...cybernetic modifications to Sly to patch sly up in order to let him move again, but Clockwerk has the control switch for them, and if Sly tries to backstab him, Clockwerk will turn off the cybernetics, leaving Sly crippled and helpless. Left with no other choice, Sly agrees, but also noticed something when Clockwerk was flipping through his memories--a newspaper from the day when Thieves in Time started, mentioning a clue on a tablet found in Egypt leading to Atlantis. While going through a hastily constructed training course set up by Clockwerk for him to get used to his cybernetics, thinking quickly, Sly finds a blank tablet and etches out a rough map on it and inscribes the word "Atlantis" on it, along with a small Cooper symbol and Clockwerk's wings disguised as hieroglyphics, and then buries it, hoping that it was the clue that was mentioned, before Clockwerk begins to take them to Atlantis after the training is concluded. Flashing back to the Present Day, Bentley is going through news and comes across an article with a picture of the tablet, and is gobsmacked when he cues in on the symbol. Calling up the gang and Carmelita, they decide to steal the tablet and follow it to Atlantis, surmising that Sly is sending them a message from the past. The rest of the game follows two parallel plots: Sly in the past being ordered around by Clockwerk, but leaving clues and hidden items for his future crew, while in the present day his Crew has to manage without Sly as their Thief in order to solve the clues he's leaving behind throughout the exapansive city of Atlantis, and try and piece together what's happening, and maybe even save him. At the climax of the game, Sly manages to get the crystal, but his crew has managed to lock on to where he is. As removing the crystal causes the city to begin to sink, Sly has to escape to the top of the city, where he faces off against Clockwerk. Clockwerk disables Sly's cybernetics, but by this point Sly has managed to heal a good bit, and is able to try and fight him. When Bentley's portal opens up, Sly attempts to escape with the Crystal, but Clockwerk intercepts him. Unwilling to let Clockwerk have it, Sly attempts to destroy it, and as they grapple over it, it shatters. The shock of losing his chance at Immortality gives Sly the opportunity to escape, and Clockwerk is left seething--before noticing that there are two shards left behind. In the post credits he's shown designing the Hate Chip*s* This leads into a potential DLC where Penelope finds the second hate chip in a buried lab of Clockwerk's and ends up using it as part of a means to create a mechanical army...aaaaand brings Clockwerk back ultron-style when she does so, with a shot at a redemption arc when all of her machinations ends up with her losing her hands to the evil owl.

Criminally underrated view count. Great job

At least Sly Cooper got 4 mainline games, Banjo Kazooie only got the first 2, Nuts and Bolts and spinoffs on GameBoy Advance

I wish sucker punch would continue this series again, they did so well with ghost of tsushima, they could totally redeem the series.

This came out in the perfect time

The roller coaster segments of Rocket: Robot on Wheels made me and my big brother feel sick to our stomachs.

It still surprises me that Sly wasn’t that popular. It felt like a good chunk of kids my age played it

Great video brotha

Sly reminds me of Lupin the 3rd.

Excellent video.

Love the passion and enthusiasm you have for these games! The way you feel about this game is how I feel about the Jak and Daxter series (not frontiers lol). Just bought a ps5 about 4 months ago and running through retro/exclusive titles. Just played the jak trilogy. Moving on to the sly trilogy. Figured I'd watch a video like this to hype myself up. Thank you for your content! 🙏🤙

Ok Sucker punch, you got your 10/10 nitty gritty main stream game with Tsushima. Now give us, your og fans and supporters, a conclusion to your original franchise. Give us the happy ending we want for Sly and the gang.

I really hope we get sly 5, a trilogy remake or at least a PC port.

Bane-“ I was molded by the darkness” Jsreview- I was molded by sly cooper

A Remake of the original trilogy by Sucker Punch would be awesome

wonder when he’ll mention sly cooper in this one

GREASY SWEET!

Of course It's not a New Year with J if he doesn't start with the Ol Thievius Raccoonus

Greatest game ever! Thanks so much.

Hey could you share what that comic or strategy guide was for sly 2? It looked so cool and I'd love to be able to find the whole thing online Edit: found out it was the original strategy guide NOT the ps3 strategy guide collection. Its crazy how the artistry is lost in the ps3 strategy guide. Very happy i found a copy of the original strategy guide :)

Me and two other guys used to pretend to be the gang during elementary school recess. Noah, Nathan, and Nick!

1:24:08 Not using the stealth slide was a big mistake! Probably my most used powerup! Can be faster than running downhill and doesnt alert guards!

I subbed finally. You got me

Honestly I don’t think I can forgive the HD collection for messing up the Ruby Rhythm game.

I love sly cooper it’s a great game and Like you said, needs dialogue for the conclusion. I even wrote down how sly 5 and sly 6 could be made and be fun to wrap up the characters but you know they will still do what they do best but more evolved with Carmelita The only things I hope are put in both the games are the clue bottles and treasures, new characters and villains but also returning characters and villains, Penelope will return and redeem herself and at least be friends and an ally to the cooper gang, and the playable characters movements and controls are just like in sly 2 and 3

I love these games, especially sly 3 cus it was my first one. Sly 2 is great too

I WANT TO PLAY SLY 5!

I just flipped this Sly collection for 10x, it can’t be that bad! I vaguely remember this game, I think I only played the first one.

Honestly, I feel like you should make videos about the whole game mission by mission and explain everything narrative. Id watch it.

Common misconception getting a PS2 Greatest Hits disc does not indicate good sales. Greatest hits was determined by copies PRINTED.

1:37:34 general tsao is one of the most entertaining & best villians. I always must smirk when he says that line. And even when he talks much sh-, he DELIVERS behind all that sh talk with combat Experience & dark arts + he was cunning. Not only that, he sticked to his promise and gave back the laptop when he lost the fight (a CERTAIN sense of honor, what sticks to his Character) & he gets a + Point because he was able to find the cooper gangs hideout and stole the Laptop in the first place, what was a total off-guard for the cooper gang. Easily in TOP 3 Sly Villians with Clcokwerk & Dr. M, in my humble Opinion.

you should make a retrospective on young justice

And now currently sly is stuck in Egypt I sure hope Sony lets bluepoint make sly cooper 5

Thank you! I couldnt stand you back in the day. My friends showed me your sonic and sly cooper vids and i thought you were a straight troll. Glad you grew up. Many youtubers are kind of looking at some of their old stuff and im glad they're finally seeing how cringe that era was.

You've grown so much as a creator

Loved sly 2 forever a favorite

Wooow I am pleasantly surprised

What I like about Bently is he's NOT a genius just has a very high near genius IQ and that's why he's always getting outsmarted by the actual criminal geniuses like Penelope

Still some of my favorites games

Remember when Sucker Punch said they would be interested in making another Sly Cooper on PS5 then just changed their minds and lost interest? Good times.

i enjoyed playing sly 3 the most as a kid but i appreciate sly 2 the most as an adult

I started playing sly cooper for the first time back in summer of 2022, im 21 now, but i felt the nostalgia from the game ^^

This 100% needs a modern remaster

I'm so disappointed that SuckerPunch/Sanzaru Games didn't take the opportunity to name one ancestor "D.B. Cooper" Y'know Like the THIEF C'mon

Instead of a sequel to Thieves in Time, I’d first do a remastered trilogy like Crash & Spyro, then reboot the series, start fresh with a new story & new arcs for the characters to go through, I’d be all for a reboot as long as it’s good