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Max_Seven's Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2)
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Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus
Description
Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus uses plat forming techniques in a 3-D world, along with moderate stealth elements that make game focus on the indirect approach, then direct conflict.
The story
Sly Cooper is thief whose family heritage is built upon master thieves. The legacy of Sly’s family of thievery is written within the Thievious Raccoonus. A book that is consisting of the all Sly’s family master thieves techniques that can make anyone into a master thief that was stolen. When Sly was just pup, a group of evil criminals known as the Fiendish Five ransacked the house, murdering his father, and splitting up pages of the book among themselves. With nowhere else to go, Sly is forced to live in an orphanage where he met his two best friends Bentley, a technical genius and Murray lovable friend that had a knack in getting trouble. Once, Sly was old enough to left orphanage, Sly and his crew left to find the lost page of the Thievious Raccoonus, and restored Sly’s family legacy.
Presentation
Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus use a drawn cartoon cut-scenes for opening and ending the level as well. The animated cut-scene in the game is nicely done and looks like it fit well with the game. Sly Cooper parodies Solid Snake Codec conversation Otacon using dual monitor screens, transmission lines, and text readouts. Whenever Bentley give update to Sly about the situation at hand.
Gameplay
The player controls Sly through the many levels of the game relying most on stealth to avoid encounters and alarms in each unique lair of the Fiendish Five and sub section as well. The game tries to go for the one-hit-kill mechanic, in order to take an extra hit collect 100 coins to gain a Lucky Charm. The limit of Lucky Charms is two in total any more than that Sly gain an extra life. To use the stealth elements, the environment contain color areas called auras that allow Sly to perform a stealth move, such as shimmying on a pipe or along a wall, landing on pointing objects such as street lights, or spikes, climbing on ladders or rope, or using Sly’s cane to grapple on hooks to advance in the level. The game uses dynamic music mechanic that changes volume and pace of the music when Sly attacks, sneaks about, or is detected. In each sub section of a lair contains treasure keys which are used to allow other such sections such as obstacle to the boss’s lair and boss itself, and clue bottles, when all are collected Sly can access the vault of the sub-section that either contains the blueprints of the entire level to help find breakables for more coins and clue bottles in entire level or pages of the Thievious Raccoonus.
Abilities
Sly gain more abilities and can also advance recent abilities in the game by finding all lost page of Thievious Raccoonus, along with defeating each member of the Fiendish Five. The new abilities allow Sly to perform various moves and useful techniques, such as a dive attack, a defensive roll, slowing down or speeding up time, and my personal favorite the Shadow Power power-up perhaps the safest power-up in the game. It allows Sly to become invisible and to move undetected through alarms, laser, and guards.
Game Session
For my first play through, the controls were natural and simply to me, since I play a lot plat forming games similar to Sly Cooper. Just like the Jak and Daxter series, Ratchet and Clank series, I fondly enjoy playing as Sly Cooper. Sly Cooper is great game, but one-hit-kill can be somewhat annoying, but a challenge to keep the Lucky Charms.
Overall
Overall, Sly Cooper and Thievious Raccoonus is solid game with very interesting and developing characters. I kind of wish I play Sly Cooper when I was playing Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank back in the day. I always knew about the Sly Cooper but I never really play anyone of the games until now. I can honestly say that Sly Cooper is one the best plat forming heroes that can be found on the Play Station.
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Max_Seven's Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 29 March, 2011
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