Time to bust out the old PS2 (or your emulator, BIOS images, and the game's ISO image file) and play some Sly Cooper 3: Honor Among Thieves.
This was the game every kid returned to when they booted up their PS2. It had everything you could want for a wholesome gaming experience; character development, integrated minigames, comical story telling, a hot latina fox to start you on your sexual journey to fury-ism, intuitive and fun game mechanics, sizable open world stages, pickpocketing unaware suckers, and of course the suave voice acting of Kevin Miller as none other than Sony's [at the time] poster child, Sly Cooper.
If you want to relive the glory days of stealth-platforming, this is the way to go, and here is why.
Motherfucking Double Jumping
Most games have double jumping, but they usually don't let you double-jump off of a flying buttress onto an electrical wire, slide down said wire, then pirouette onto a ledge so you can then curb stomp some unsuspecting mongoloid guard. They also don't let you pick-pocket anything that moves until everything in a 20 miles radius has to sell their homes and suck dick on street corners for food stamps just so they can put cold cabbage-soup on the table for their ungrateful children, but by God this game does.
Double-Jumps [Even Quadruple-Jumps with Bentley and his pimped-out wheelchair], Smoke bombs, Mind Control, Sleeping Darts, Scuba Diving With Sharks, Laser-Avoidance, Punching-Things-So-Hard-Words-Spontaneously-Appear-In-The-Air and more await you in this fantastical world where a Racoon, Turtle, and Hippo run complicated and destructive heists against people they deem more tragically villainous than they.
Storytelling and Drama
This game was known for having a romance between Sly Cooper and the borderline-renegade cop that is always nipping at his heels. But there is even more romance in the air when Bentley lays eyes on the equally genius Penelope, and of course it complicates matters.
But the real drama comes with each passing villain you target on your way around the world.
Don Octavio, a Venecian Opera singer gone mafia who's career went south as music taste began to prefer rock-and-roll, determined to use any means necessary to take control of the city that almost made him a famous entertainer.
The Mask of Dark Earth, a piece of possessed facial-wear that has been spreading its bad juju around the aboriginal lands of Australia.
Black Baron, a rich man from Holland who hosts sketchy dog-fighting (the airplane kind) matches between rival gangs, who turns out to be Bentley's online girlfriend Penelope, a skilled pilot trying to avoid age-limits on such competitions.
General Tsao, a village leader in China who is attempting to use forced marriage to integrate a power family's daughter into his lineage, making his family's name that much stronger.
Captain LeFwee, a pirate captain, enough said.
And last but not least, Dr. M. a former member of the original
cooper gang, transformed into a mad scientist. He's set up on Kaine Island, trying to break into Sly Cooper's family vault, where generations of treasures had been stashed.
All of these interesting villains lend a hand to the twists and turns of the overall story, allowing no time for rest as each and every mission opens up a new avenue of new story-related information and thought. That, and introducing new and interesting characters allows for a player to become integrated into the story, as well as fall in love with whoever they like the most as they get to watch them develop through out the game.
It's Sly Cooper
Really, it's the name that sold the game, but luckily it wasn't all a market scheme and the games were actually really good. The franchise has remained as a classic platformer game with stealth elements, and everyone with a PS2 has fond memories of drinking contests and car races and razor-thin getaways that still hold up as fun in today's gaming market.
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