sly pooper
For me it's Sly 2. What a game, it's great, a classic that holds up to this day (I have yet to play a character like Sly who controls and feels as agile and smooth) but its replay value is greatly hampered by unskippable cutscenes and mission briefings.
Prague 1 is the peak of the series, because you get to pretty much play only as Sly as well as because aside from the Sly 3 ending sequence it's the dramatic peak of the franchise, the point in which the gang came closest to its destruction, you can sense the tension, how the fate of your friends is hanging by a thread, threatened by guards all around, plus the setting overall is very gloomy and gothic, love that shit.
Sly 3 was alright, nice story but not so much with the gameplay, it overdid it with gimmicky minigames that weren't all that fun and took away from the whole thieving theme. Murray bouncy ball was gay, the fucking Straya dump trucks, the Penelope RC sections, Panda's fireworks, Dimitri's underwear missions... Just not fun.
Hated the pirate level, historical 700s pirates I just find so fucking lame and uninteresting, now if they took the modern take on them what with the Africa Horn marauders that'd already be much more interesting, Far Cry 3 had modern pirates and they felt threatening, I look at some swashbuckling yankee doodle shite yarr harr pirate and immidiately think of some children's theme party, I just can't take them seriously and therefore not feel threatened by them. End of the pirate-hating tangent.
Tsao fight was cool, Cooper Vault too of course.
Prague 1 is the peak of the series, because you get to pretty much play only as Sly as well as because aside from the Sly 3 ending sequence it's the dramatic peak of the franchise, the point in which the gang came closest to its destruction, you can sense the tension, how the fate of your friends is hanging by a thread, threatened by guards all around, plus the setting overall is very gloomy and gothic, love that shit.
Sly 3 was alright, nice story but not so much with the gameplay, it overdid it with gimmicky minigames that weren't all that fun and took away from the whole thieving theme. Murray bouncy ball was gay, the fucking Straya dump trucks, the Penelope RC sections, Panda's fireworks, Dimitri's underwear missions... Just not fun.
Hated the pirate level, historical 700s pirates I just find so fucking lame and uninteresting, now if they took the modern take on them what with the Africa Horn marauders that'd already be much more interesting, Far Cry 3 had modern pirates and they felt threatening, I look at some swashbuckling yankee doodle shite yarr harr pirate and immidiately think of some children's theme party, I just can't take them seriously and therefore not feel threatened by them. End of the pirate-hating tangent.
Tsao fight was cool, Cooper Vault too of course.