Sly Cooper
You will not get me to write about older PlayStation gems without me writing about Sly Cooper. Sucker Punch’s heist platformers are still some of the breeziest, most innovative mascot platformers to grace a PlayStation console, and yet Sony cannot be bothered to greenlight a fifth one and resolve Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time’s cliffhanger. The original game is available as a PS2 classic, but the rest of the games are only playable through streaming and a PlayStation Plus subscription. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus game is still a lot of fun, but the sequels are where Sucker Punch got into the groove. Sly 2 and 3 added new playable characters with different skill sets that really made you feel like you were setting up a big heist. God, I miss the Cooper Gang every day. You, too, can be filled with the endless torment of knowing a fifth game isn’t in development right now.
