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Oh hecc yeah! Sly Cooper retrospective! Anyone talking about Sly in depth gets an A+ in my book!

I love this games so much. And btw that soundtrack in the third world, the swamp’s dark center track… Jesus CHRIST it gave me the chills when I was a kid and still does. Just amazing.

I love how you went in depth about the music. Obviously Sly 2 and 3 get more attention when it comes to their soundtracks and rightfully so but I always loved the first game's sound track due to just how unique some of the pieces are. Appreciate you for making that a point of emphasis!

If only the new generation of gamers new how awesome the old games were. Sly especially. The Sly trilogy is an unforgettable masterpiece (excluding Thieves In Time)

Man another in depth Sly review, if this keeps up I might not have much new to contribute whenever I get to this series lol. But I am glad these game are getting attention like this, they definitely deserve it. This is one of my favorite series, Sly 2 is in my top 3 favorite games. This is a pretty good review, you bring an interesting perspective and I'm interested in what you have to say about the next 2 games. Keep it up!

This is so good dude

I've never played a Sly game and this review has gotten me interested. Hopefully I can check it out one day myself. But about the review, I think you did a good job explaining your points as even without having the knowledge of the game I had a very good idea of what you were trying to say and the use of examples, especially with music, was well done.

Loved your analysis overall and especially the music part!! The swamp’s dark center is an incredible track and so insanely atmospheric. This and ratchet and clank have underrated soundtracks IMO. The tracks bring forth so much nostalgia for me as well

Excellent review! You weren't lying when you said "in depth", cus this video is juicy and full of information I never knew before. Great video!

It's kinda funny that to me, Sly Cooper's quality in terms of the trilogy as a whole reminds me a lot of the OG Star Wars. First Part: A simple yet effective start to a great story with lots of room to expand. Second Part: The magnum opus, and the darkest part of the story. Third Part: Maybe not as good as part two, but has a very satisfying ending and closes the story in the best way possible.

Almost no other youtuber can make a 8 and half hour long series and get me to watch your a god

The video essay space is very congested, I just want to say that the bit you did about the music really made this video stand out against the pack and I could hear your passion for music coming in through your writing. Awesome video man

For those curious about Gavin's new channel icon, it's because him and I were fighting shapeshifting alien invaders from Mars and while making our escape the fleshy blast door closed behind me and in front of him with the pursuing invaders blasting him 107 times. It wasn't until after our team activated the wave device where the aliens disintegrated and we found Gavin on the ground decaying and then regenerated into this new form we see here. No longer does he have the long flowing blond hair or Ritzy taste in fashion. He is the Third Gavin ;)

Your music theory analysis was a pleasant surprise sknce I'm making a Sly 5 fan OST

The game clearly knows how Mugshot and Panda King are both better than the other 2 members of the Fiendish Five, because they make a reappearance in Sly 3, Mugshot being an antagonist, and Panda King joining the gang.

I can personally attest that the Mz Ruby boss battle desync bug was present on PS2. Possibly because there were a hundred dancing chickens in her arena.

I fucking love the sound of clue bottles breaking. It sounds like childhood

Great analysis!

Excellent review!

The funny thing about Mugshot that he Goes out and Watch The Godfather and he's pulling off The Casino Movie for some reason.

This was a great take on the game. I hope you plan to do the rest of the series.

As a Sly fan great to see him getting all these channels reviewing his games really great job man hope u review the other ones !

Sly 2 was my first game but I’ll never forget playing sly 1 for the first time as a kid. Life changing

One of the things that contributes to the somewhat strange instrumentation and composition of the soundtrack is that it's actually using a dynamic music system similiar to games like Monkey Island 2 and the first 2 Jak games. Basically, all the notes are being played in real-time, which let's the soundtrack change on the fly depending on player actions. The caveat to this during the time, was that you had to fit all your instrument samples into roughly a couple of MEGABYTES! If you have any experience with sampler instruments, you know how absolutely insane of a feat that is. This led to some really unconventional but insanely well made compositions, sort of innovation through limitations, and it's not something you see often anymore.

Great vid

Will always be one of the best! Love the new avatar btw!

I'd like to know what if this Sly was voiced by Kevin Monroo from Sly 4...

So I recently emulated the ps3 to play the Sly trilogy on my computer (I own the copies physically so it’s not piracy), and wow I had totally forgotten how difficult Sly1 was compared to the other 2. Like wow, Sly having a lives system was brutal since he died in one hit (not including charms)

IKG Productions These are my thoughts on all the sly games. Sly 1: A solid if a little basic start, Sly 2: An major improvement from a story stand point (even if I found the story over hyped) and in most aspects a gameplay stand point , Sly 3: A perfect ending to the series with the best story and theming even though it kinda stumbles in the gameplay from time to time and kinda suffers from an identity crisis in that it kinda ditches some of its stealth elements and becomes more of a jack of all trades from a gameplay stand point, Sly 4: A flawed but overall fun game with some questionable choices from a writing and story stand point along with some hit or miss dialogue and theming that is also hit or miss. But also some good gameplay, good replay value, some enjoyable interactions with the characters, dialogue that when it hits is really enjoyable, good level and boss design (for the most part), bringing back and improving on some elements of sly 2 and 3, and finally has a sense of heart and love to it. It's flawed but in my opinion also has enough good stuff to it to balance out the bad. That's basically how I feel about the Sly series as a whole.

Great stuff all around! 👏👏👏

What a nice reciew! perfectly made!!!

an hour, whoaaaaa well done

Nice rebranding, makes your content look much more open which always helps growth!

Cool video man.

I like your new sprites

Good job

hey man this video is real good

you really missed out buddy you know that? the nostalgia is so real to me! lol

Ms ruby is supposed to be a cajan style character, so that's why she talks the way she does

You need more subs I'm serious!!!!

8:40 never knew 50 year olds were a younger audience

I’m so late.....R.I.P. those 6 months XD

Anyone else here excited about the recent sly news?

Dang, Murray being gay makes so much sense lol, especially with the later games. This was awesome and I can't agree more, the music and atmosphere is the best! I'm glad nostalgia isn't completely painting my view of the game

Come to think of it, you actually sound like Sly Cooper yourself.

It's not that fiendish five don't care about each other in fact if you notice they don't rat out each other as they are on the file anyways but the members are confident that while Sly beat them they won't be able to beat the next member

It’s been 4 years and the 4th game was never reviewed)8

Considering you mentioned them, I was wondering if your thoughts on the third game lined up more with J's Reviews or TGX Game Reviews. My favorite game is the third one, and I hate seeing it undersold so often.

Jeez, just say murdered, kids can handle death. Kids aren't dumb, we have murdered, death scenes in kid story all the time you got to teach them about bad people and death at some point.

Imo too high summary:analysis ratio. You have 2 audiences: prospective players and series veterans. Excessive summary spoils the prospective players and bores the vets. My 2 cents.

IKG Productions sly 1 is a good game but I personally don't think it's that deep of a game from a storytelling standpoint.

Actually, Murray was supposed to be bisexual, not gay.

Murray was meant to be gay… 🤯❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💜💦🍆🍾🍑🔥🔥🔥💄👘👙👗👛🦛 this explains everything 😍

u done a good job of explain the game but u speaking in circles and not staying in order and on topic a lot of time. if you gonna tell the story do it in order and review about each world in order instead of going ahead of yourself ok.