Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
The game's been out for about a month now and I was playing it a bit slowly, but finished it at last. I occasionally see people list Sly games in the haul threads but official threads or conversations about them never really creep up. So to start things, here's the best review you'll find of Sly 3 on the net: mine.
The games are generally targeted towards a younger audience, and some of the writing in them reflects that, but anyone who's been avoiding the series is doing them a disservice (especially Sly 2 and 3). It's witty, charming stuff, and though the story has been getting more serious since Sly 2, it never loses its sense of fun, which a lot of the heavier, more adult fare seem to be victim of. And the characterizations are among the strongest I've ever seen:
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Nearly all the voice actors reprise their roles, slipping back into character without missing a step. Even if the reintroduction of characters may have been a business decision as I suspect, Sucker Punch still mines it, reaching depths unseen in the series. The icy armistice forged between Panda King (one of the Sly's parents' killers) and Sly (who has agreed to rescue his daughter) is especially poignant. Or such as the striking relationship between the new techie recruit, Penelope, and Bentley, the Milhouse of the group who casts aspersions at Sly's facility to attract the fairer sex and laments over his own regressing physicality. Astonishing sophistication, especially for a game that's pretty much some furry's dream come true.
Just think of the best Saturday morning cartoons you've seen, and turn it into an interactive game with kick ass level design and a lot of variety.