Well I just completed the Sly Trilogy on the PS2 just last morning and I gotta say that was a great trilogy! Even though, I got pissed a lot during those games, especially during those darn MINI-GAMES!! I still managed to beat most of my friend's scores on the games and heck I can't believe he got stuck in a level in Sly 3 when he was just a COUPLE levels short to beat the game. The final boss was retarded because I don't even think you can beat him without taking any damage whatsoever. The final boss in Sly 2 was VERY dissappointing, but the final boss in the first Sly game was just great I loved the final bout with Clockwerk when you had to use your jetpack to shoot his @ss off and when you had to go through those series of traps at the end, fortunately I did it quickly enough not to see his third attack animation in one try, it was INTENSE! In my opinion this is a list I've created to pick which Sly game is the most difficult and the least difficult in the series: 1.Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - This offered up quite a challenge to me especially in those Murray racing levels, the pirahna lake level, the chicken hunting level,and those dumb shooting levels with the turrets. Fortunately they get easier once you know what to do,, but in a first time playthrough you're sure to run into some frustration and NO do not listen to people who thought this game was "ridiculously easy", it is not! Don't let these guys fool you! You are not an amazing gamer when you have beaten one Call of Duty game on Veteran but let's forget about that. After all, Sly Cooper is a WAY better series than the Call of Doody series. 2. Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves - This is the game that really tested my reaction time especially when you have to "take care" of the enemies on two seperate monitors with 4 traps that take a bit to reloadand that one level where you had to sword battle Black-Spot Pete with Penelope (GOD, I HATE her! She sounds like a little white nerdy boy instead of a chick at times! Bentley is less annoying than her!) Well, in the final part of the sword battle you have to have quick reactions to Pete's moves but I think the combonations are random soyou have to be up on your toes to dodge them at the right time.I really ahted most of the characters especially Dimitri, THE FRAKKIN' GURU, and I don't know that's pretty much it, but I kind of liked Panda King though in the later boss fights. 3. Sly 2: Band of Thieves - This was the easiest installment in the series and I could think this is the worst since I didn't get much enjoyment in it until Episode 6 which saved it a LOT. The hacking missions were a bit difficult at first but get easier and easier once you have the strategy to it and this game has WAY TOO MANY ON-RAIL SHOOTING! I hate it when a platformer game has racing levels, mini-games, and on=rail shooting when it is really UNPOLISHED and makes it more difficult than it really is! (Jak 2 anybody? jkjk I still haven't gotten to the most difficult parts yet in it.) The enemies are easy to defeat with Murray, but I really didn't like Bentley, but Sly is still the champion.I don't know if it was just me but am I the only few that actually appreciated Sly 3 over Sly 2 much more? Oh, well great games though. In my honest opinion, here are the serie's best to worst in the series: 1. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - The atmosphere and level design was brilliant. Sly Cooper, the character, is one of the only few characters in videogames I've actually liked to play as and like as a character in any videogame. The other characters, not so much, but heck they were original. It offered up a good challenge to platform players and it had some pretty good boss fights like Mz.Ruby which was pretty darn cool and Clockwerk, he was bad@ss. This game brought something new to the genre and man, it did it right! 2. Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves - It was a bigger world than Sly 1 and 2 and it was REALLY FUN during episodes 1 ,3 and 4! What almost ruined me about the game was the playable characters! I hated The Guru parts, the dimitri swimming and diving levels, and the RC Chopper and car missions with that hoe Penelope! I also hated the aiming system in the sirplane shooting levels but I guess they were a bit cool to play, when you're not frustrated though. Fortunately, with all the fun at hand in the later episodes, this makes it an edgy and hardcore addition to the series, which almost surpassed the original if it wasn't for the playable characters. I don't get what you're guys's problem is with the cutscenes are. Are you out of your damn MIND?!!? They were great! They were fantastic! I loved seeing these cartoony cutscenes when you get to hear what the story is heading to! 3. Sly 2: Band of Thieves - I really didn't see what people liked about this game. It was the easiest in the series and the soryline and the boss fights were a bit disappointing except for some tricks and surprises here and there but overall this wasn't a very "fun" game to play as much as Sly 1 and 3.Don't get me wrong, thhis wasn't a bad game, it would've been an average game if not for Episode 6 which really saved it. Dimitri was a pretty cool character and sometimes they force you to buy upgrades when you don't have enough money and you have to start searching for loot. Sly 3 made it a bit easier during Episode 5 to get thousands of coins!! :D Oh well, Episode 6 was the highlight of the game and it was pretty hard to travel in this game the first time around. (Also, why did they have to change Carmelita's voice actress in every single game that came out?) So, that's my opinion and reviews on the series! Hope you enjoyed it but I don't think anybody else is reading my blogs or profile, but oh well, it's fun to TYPE my thoughts out! So next is the Jak and Daxter Trilogy, so I'll let you guys know on that once I'm finished with them! Check this trilogy out, I highly recommend it! Get "The Sly Collection" since it's a great deal and it has HD for every one of these games plus a few mini-games which I hope don't cause you much trouble as the one's in the game! So, that's it and I hope Sly 4: Thieves in time is going tobe good but Sunsaru games is developing it and I sure as hell hope they don't screw it up like the Crash and Spyro series have! Peace! :)
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