{"id":4834,"date":"2007-07-19T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2010-04-27T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T01:15:57","slug":"sly-cooper-2-isnt-as-exciting-as-its-predecessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2007\/07\/19\/sly-cooper-2-isnt-as-exciting-as-its-predecessor\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Sly Cooper 2<\/i> isn&#8217;t as exciting as its predecessor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sly2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4835\" title=\"sly2\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sly2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Right now the PS3 just doesn&#8217;t have any compelling games to justify its price tag and I keep reading\/hearing rumors over compatibility issues with PS2 games, namely my Guitar Hero not working. I&#8217;m confident there will be a GTA equivalent for PS3 that will make it a\u00a0<em>must have<\/em> console, the bigger question will be when. Until then, I&#8217;m putting more mileage on the PS2 with the catalog of games I haven&#8217;t finished as a surrogate for the Dish TV ending recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several days ago, I finally defeated the first sequel to the Sly Cooper franchise. I wish I knew how many hours it took. Either the game doesn&#8217;t track it as Ratchet &amp; Clank does or I completely forgot how to find it on the memory card. It would&#8217;ve been still nice to know since I noticed the completion times getting lower in the R&amp;C games for me. This meant they grew progressively easier or my skills improved, probably the former.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I can&#8217;t remember the specifics of the first Sly game&#8217;s patterns or style of play but <em>SC2<\/em> fell into a rather dull, repetitive string of tasks in all eight stages: take recon photos, pickpocket guards for keys, bug the boss&#8217;s office and hack the computer systems. The only changes made are the settings and it doesn&#8217;t ease the annoyance of how redundant this is. The final boss battles are expected in all video games so I have no complaint there. I did enjoy the more frequent use of Sly&#8217;s companions Bentley and Murray on completing particular mission elements and each is used at least once to fight in a boss battle. Sly dancing in a tux with his nemesis Carmelita was pretty amusing. However, I seriously hated several frustrating stages involving a chase or collecting; their start-over points were practically starting all over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, I enjoyed it and felt that sense of accomplishment when Clockwerk&#8217;s successor was defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now the PS3 just doesn&#8217;t have any compelling games to justify its price tag and I keep reading\/hearing rumors over compatibility issues with PS2 games, namely my Guitar Hero not working. I&#8217;m confident there will be a GTA equivalent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2007\/07\/19\/sly-cooper-2-isnt-as-exciting-as-its-predecessor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}