Game Review: Final Impression: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

Even though almost halfway through, I lost the data of this game and had to start over, I finally finished it today. I must say, I did like this game! It does challenge you, but not so much that you get frustrated. Though, it could have been harder. I do look forward to playing the second game-coughideaforauntaralcough! Hm...and the doctor said that the cough should be gone by now...anyway, according to saur_kid’s post about Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves, it sounds like it’ll be better than the first. The earning of skills aspect of the game was interesting, and followed the plot well, but got annoying because if you missed one of the clues to open the vault that contained a page with a new skill or something on it at the beginning, I would have to trek up back to the beginning and get it, or if it wasn’t possible, I would have to start the level over again. Also, I believe it would have been cooler if there was more then one spot where you could have been Bently. Oh! Okay, so here’s the plot:


Okay, so when It’s Sly Cooper’s time to inherit the Thievius Raccoonus, a book that contains the Cooper family’s thieving secrets (he comes from a long line of thieves that steal from other thieves, thus calling themselves “Master Thieves”), the Fiendish Five steal the book, each taking a section of the book for themselves. So, Sly goes around to their hideouts, defeats them, and takes back the pages of the book. The leader, Clockwerk, apparently has been trying to disgrace the Cooper line for a long time (he’s hundreds of years old), and this time he stole it in order to prove that the Coopers are nothing without the book, but in the end he’s defeated (though at the end of the credits, it’s not definite, and if you read saur_kid’s post about Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves, well...you’ll see.