They don`t make games like Sly Cooper anymore. While there have been 3D platformer revivals in the past few years, like Snake Pass and Yooka-Laylee, most harken back to the Nintendo 64 era where the genre was in its infancy. All too often, nostalgia forgets the golden era of PlayStation 2`s platformers, with the likes of Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and of course, Sly Cooper.
Sly Cooper was the most unique among themthe Jak sequels grabbed onto a Grand Theft Auto inspiration to mixed results, while the Ratchet and Clank series was always polished, but barely evolving. Sly Cooper iterated in a more subtle way in its leap from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus to its immediate sequel, Sly 2: Band of Thieves. It never went edgy like Jak, nor did it stay in its comfort zone too long. On September 14, the landmark sequel turns 15.
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