The Next Sly Cooper Game Should Reboot the Timeline

gamerant.com:

Platformers went through an interesting evolutionary cycle since video games started dominating entertainment scenes. Originally the medium’s dominant genre, to the point where even games that focused more on action had platforming elements, it turned into a way for a fad to express itself after Sonic the Hedgehog proved to be successful enough to attract imitators. The genre arguably peaked during its transition to 3D, when the PlayStation started getting icons such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, and Rare developed its own identity with its “collect-a-thon” platformers. Gaming culture changed in the 2000s and platformers, 2D and 3D, were overshadowed by the booming sandbox and first-person shooter genres. It seems that only the PlayStation 2’s platforming trio, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper, stood the test of time and entered the collective psyche of players.

While Jak and Daxter got a few supplementary works and Ratchet and Clank is still going strong, Sly Cooper was left alone once the trilogy concluded in 2005. Aside from crossovers, 2013’s Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was the only major release the franchise has gotten since Honor Among Thieves, While Sly did not go through a downfall as infamous as Crash, Spyro, or even Sonic, Thieves in Time was controversial enough among the fanbase for everyone responsible for the series’ future to ignore it even today. If Sly were to come back, it should reboot the timeline.

Leaker Claims Sly Cooper is Coming Back

On the surface, Thieves in Time is the perfect way to bring back a dormant series into a new generation of systems. The characters’ looks were updated while remaining familiar, the core elements of the gameplay remain, and the premise