Characters - including the dastardly yet pleasantly non-threatening villains - manage to be familiar and likable without tipping into cliche. The dialogue, though at times forced and trite, consistently delivers clever quips and winning puns. If you’ve ever needed a warm “Saturday morning cartoon” blanket to shut out the cold, unfeeling embrace of reality, Sly is an ideal escape. More importantly, Sly’s humor always eschewed snark and cynicism in favor of goofy, light-hearted charm. The gameplay’s focus shifted a bit as the series progressed and more characters became playable beyond Sly himself, but those sneaky underpinnings were still enough to distinguish our slippery hero from his contemporaries Jak, Daxter, Ratchet, and Clank. In addition to the usual mix of platform hopping, item collecting, and puzzle solving, Sly always emphasized stealth and cunning over button-mashy combat. For those who missed the halcyon era of mascot platformers that defined the PlayStation 2, roguish thief Sly Cooper and his buddies Bentley and Murray travel the world robbing criminals, reclaiming Sly’s family legacy, and flirting with a particularly foxy police inspector.
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