Sly Cooper - Why Did Penelope Replace The Mole?

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  • čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
  • Why did Penelope replaced the mole? Penelope's portrayal in Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time is one big can of worms. Her betraying the gang came off very unusual considering her reasoning.
    Originally, a mole was planned as being the boss for episode Mice and Mechs. For some reason, Sanzaru decided to scrap that character in favor of Penelope betraying the gang. Let's discuss.
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  • @zackarymario1335
    @zackarymario1335 Před 3 lety +54

    i miss sly so much

  • @saltbaker8683
    @saltbaker8683 Před 3 lety +72

    I rather have the mole Instead of Penelope being a betraying villainess.

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +17

      They should've gone with that!

    • @saltbaker8683
      @saltbaker8683 Před 3 lety +8

      ​@@VtnVivi Maybe something closer to Crash 4 acting as a true successor or alternative timeline were she never left Bentley's side to begin with but still get kidnap and breaks free to warn Bentley and the others.
      If this guy Ia making his own biazzaro sequel to Sly 4 I don't see why not.
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    • @GamerSlyRatchet1
      @GamerSlyRatchet1 Před 3 lety +4

      @@saltbaker8683 My issue with that "sequel" is that it still repeats the same mistake of making an ally into a villain out of nowhere. It's just switched from Penelope to McSweeney.

  • @raven3067
    @raven3067 Před 3 lety +36

    The Mole would have been a much better pick instead of Penelope's villain role

  • @arthuralam1000
    @arthuralam1000 Před 3 lety +34

    I think she need a redemption arc. She didn't explained why she betrayed the gang. She tried to explain but nobody understood. Bad writing is the real villain in this Penelope stuff. Bentley being obsessed with the Thievius Racconus is not a good reason to give a time machine that could destroy the time and space to jealous skunk.

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +10

      Either redemption if written well or side villain again.....but better reasoning.

    • @azurengamer9392
      @azurengamer9392 Před 3 lety +6

      I could see a redemption moment but that would require her to have another time machine and go to the Connor timeline, though I. Honestly don't get why paradox didn't go after Connor given his backstory.

  • @EntertainmentMan132
    @EntertainmentMan132 Před 3 lety +11

    One idea I've had is that instead of Penelope being a villain, they could have revealed that Paradox was her mentor when she first started out. Maybe, before the start of the game, he reaches out and tricks her into building him a time machine (for "finding rare artifacts").
    Once Penelope learns the truth, there's a struggle and she ends up getting sent back to Medieval times. Then one of two things could happen: 1) she builds a make shift suit and ends up aiding Sly and the gang when they show up, or 2) she has to create a problem for the Cooper timeline so that the gang will notice and bring a time machine to her.
    So we can still have a Penelope plot twist, Bentley could fear that she betrayed him, and finding Penelope could still be part of the mission. All without making her a villain in a way that makes no sense.

  • @babbabiamesser
    @babbabiamesser Před 3 lety +20

    I guess the mole was just a way to avoid spoiling Penelope as a villain... By selling Bentley's time travel studies to LeParadox she became the mole in the group after all

  • @blazlock7285
    @blazlock7285 Před 3 lety +22

    I guess to make an interesting twist... and time travelling, breaking the timeline then to then break Penelope and Bently's romance...
    The motive is a bit of a mixed bag.

    • @micayahritchie7158
      @micayahritchie7158 Před 3 lety +2

      I mean it could've been a good twist. We don't know anything about her past before the black baron era so if it they made some effort to like her past to it it could've worked but it just felt shallow

  • @SandWich1777073
    @SandWich1777073 Před 3 lety +6

    I always thought it would've been a cool twist if the black knight turned out to be Raleigh instead of Penelope, plus the chapter would fit Raleigh's background and motives with little change to its setting. For example:
    Raleigh is a skilled machinist so it's possible he could make robotic guards and a mechanical suit of armor to ride in.
    He could have created the black knight disguise for protection, given how small and frail he normally is.
    He might still have a grudge against Sly, so he could have teamed up with Le Paradox to satisfy that grudge.
    I always thought it was strange why Raleigh and Mz Ruby are (presumably) still in jail, but Muggshot and Panda King are both out of jail during the events of Sly 3.

  • @TylerTheShepherd
    @TylerTheShepherd Před 3 lety +4

    They might also have gone with Penelope to not only to boost her popularity but also to show how terrifying LeParadox’s manipulation is. If know the right words to say to your target, you can even get them to turn on their loved one and tempt them to take a darker path. He was a master of persuading other criminals to do his dirty work, usually by taking advantage of them. For Toothpick it was his Wild West dream. For the Grizz, it was his vendetta against the art world. For Penelope, I would say it was her relationship with Bentley.
    I also wouldn’t be surprised if Penelope originally went to work for LeParadox in order to get era items for Bentley’s time machine since he is a collector of many things, but ended up getting corrupted by LeParadox in the process.

  • @Golagawolgrag
    @Golagawolgrag Před 3 lety +27

    Penelope was a good Girlfriend for Bentley in The third game.

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety +4

      Yup

    • @TylerTheShepherd
      @TylerTheShepherd Před 2 lety +3

      So she made a mistake in the fourth game. Maybe they’ll reconcile in the fifth game.

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 Před 3 lety +17

    If there ever is a 5th and final Sly Cooper game, this Mole needs to be in it (on top of the gang finding a way to bring Sly back to the future).

  • @ben8698
    @ben8698 Před 3 lety +4

    If u didn’t know. The Egypt area that Sly ends up in was supposed to be an episode in the game. There was supposed to be 6 total as Egypt was the first episode but it got cut. The mole could have been the villain for the Egypt episode

  • @TheCardboardClaymore
    @TheCardboardClaymore Před 3 lety +5

    I like the idea of Penelope questioning the Cooper code and how she's been shown to be competitive and would likely want to prove her intelligence to the world but yeah, the execution was messy and things like her bad mouthing Bentley behind his back was uncharacteristic of her.

  • @TylerTheShepherd
    @TylerTheShepherd Před 2 lety +6

    Don’t you guys find it weird that around the same time they replaced the mole character with Penelope they also created the hypnotist Miss Decibel. A traitor and a hypnotist in the same game that both went through last minute alterations. It’s like sanzaru is trying to tell us why Penelope really became a bad guy.

  • @SuperWorldJumper
    @SuperWorldJumper Před 3 lety +11

    “We could have made billions selling weapon designs.” That was the line that Penelope said that made absolutely no sense.
    Was money ever an issue? They had access to the Cooper fortune. And weapons? Does she want to take over the world all of the sudden? Again, made no sense.
    Now Penelope wanting to take on another challenge, seeing as how she has always been ambitious, could have been an angle.
    Sly holding Bently back? How? Is it his morals? Again makes little sense.
    I for one can’t think of a valid reason why Penelope would betray Bently. How could it be well executed?

    • @reichtangleanschluss509
      @reichtangleanschluss509 Před 3 lety

      They didn't get Cooper fortune, because vault (and Dr. M's fortress) collapsed.

    • @SuperWorldJumper
      @SuperWorldJumper Před 3 lety +2

      reichtangle anschluss Watch the last cutscene again. After the cave collapsed they discovered another entrance.

    • @reichtangleanschluss509
      @reichtangleanschluss509 Před 3 lety +2

      @@SuperWorldJumper Oh, I always thought Bentley's "It was worth of millions" was just idiom and the Cooper fortune behind the cane was "showing" the worth of Cooper cane (thanks 10 year old me). But I checked it from Sly wiki, and you're right.

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety +2

      @@SuperWorldJumper Again, like you said, her Ambitious could play a role, sometimes when people become tired of doing the same thing, that happens.
      Plenty of people have risked losing love over self-ambition, especially when they convince themselves, that their goals are right.

    • @TylerTheShepherd
      @TylerTheShepherd Před 2 lety +2

      She was a dogfighting champion and equipped a turret onto rc cars. So weapon designing would some what make sense if it’s to describe her talents.

  • @SmirkyTrick
    @SmirkyTrick Před 3 lety +5

    You know, when Bently discovered Paradox got his time machine through her, I'm surprised they didn't just go back in time to stop Bently from making the time machine in the first place.

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +6

      Penelope's time machine was built off Bentley's design.....Even if they were to go back in time, Penelope would've maybe designed one all on her own. I do see what you mean though, time travel :P

  • @emporcs5546
    @emporcs5546 Před 3 lety +5

    Hey Vivi, you know what I noticed recently, the rooftops in the level “Off-Beat” from Crash 4 are eerily similar to the rooftops in Sly Cooper 😬(Idk, I know it’s random, maybe it’s just me, but I figured I’d point it out and mention it, lol 😂) I think it’s so cool, not gonna lie!😄 Imagine if this is a hint towards a Sly Cooper game coming, and they know about it 😮 It’s interesting..

  • @jonwolf137
    @jonwolf137 Před 3 lety +6

    This will sound hilarious but I will find it more believable of Penelope being brainwashed to betray the Cooper Gang instead of willingly betray them.
    Heck, I think the level would have been more fun if we have to go in to free her from her imprisonment.
    Plus, the details between Bentley and Penelope's relationship could have easily been solved if players have access to the gang's personal diaries or logs too.

  • @blitzburn2871
    @blitzburn2871 Před 3 lety +6

    Personally, I think the devs just wanted Penelope out of the picture. Making her Bentleys girlfriend was a neat thing in Sly 3, but moving forward she would have been quite redundant and would have struggled to organically intergrate into the core team because her skillset is just a more specialised variant of Bentleys. Carmelita does not really have this problem and has always been a irregular ally of the gang rather than a permanent addition. She would have been best used as a pilot or driver, which would have enabled an even grater mission variety, but the time travel theme really does not allow for that. So I think the betrayal happened because the Devs had no other use for her.
    Personally, I think the best use of Penelope would have been as an ally in the present time. That way she could employ her own skills to oppose the villain. Maybe have a few missions where she uses her vehicles to steal an item the gang can use to travel to the next era they need to be in?

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah if anything Penelope would've remained a background character. Reading what you wrote, Dimitri was porbably considered as such.

  • @VongolaXZax
    @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety +3

    If the original mole boss had stayed, would Penelope still had been in the game, like for help?
    Or would she end up getting rescued, if the plot had been about "the Mole" was the one that kidnapped Penelope?
    To better explain her absence.

  • @NotOrdinaryInGames
    @NotOrdinaryInGames Před 3 lety +3

    I think if some random new character was responsible for a time machine, this would have raised ANOTHER can of worms.
    - Can ANYONE just make a time machine?
    - If anyone can make a time machine, does this mean your whole reality could be rewritten at any point? Paranoia maybe?

  • @blankblankness2971
    @blankblankness2971 Před 2 lety +2

    This one is tough to piece together. I get the character development stuff and all that, but it has so many flaws, I always lose track of which ones I've patched and which ones I haven't. I wonder whether or not the mole would have actually worked.
    Also, I'd like to agree with what Bentley said in Sly 4 during the Black Knight boss fight.

  • @viiikalendasjulii4649
    @viiikalendasjulii4649 Před 3 lety +2

    Like the little detail about how after Penelope betrayed Bentley, he drew a moustache and some other stuff on a photo of Penelope on his binoclulars.

  • @TylerTheShepherd
    @TylerTheShepherd Před 2 lety +1

    There’s probably a somewhat good reason why Penelope is a boss villain in thieves in time instead of the mole. You see apart from the guru, each of the new cooper gang members were former boss villain from each sly game. Panda King from the first, Dimitri from the second, and Penelope from the third. Basically SuckerPunch made each of these former villains are a tribute to each sly game.
    When sanzaru decided to make Thieves in Time, they must have realized that eventually one of their villains is going to end up being a member of the cooper gang. So they probably made Penelope a villain in Sly 4, and be the only LeParadox member to escape custody and sending her boyfriend postcards, so that they don’t need to add any new members from the new villains in sly 4, just have Penelope be a tribute to both sly 3 and 4.

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 2 lety

      I've actually never looked at it that way, interesting!

  • @kelvingoh8405
    @kelvingoh8405 Před 3 lety +4

    But I really hope she returned in the next game, probably taking the role like Catwoman, she was a thief, but really love Batman. Credits had shown that she had escaped from prison.

  • @mightyraccoon7155
    @mightyraccoon7155 Před 3 lety +2

    I hope they were withholding information on purpose for the potential sequel. I think they have the potential to pull it off.

  • @samuraigaming3042
    @samuraigaming3042 Před 3 lety

    Please never lose your passion for making videos I love your content its one of a kind.

  • @slycooper4506
    @slycooper4506 Před 3 lety +2

    That is something about Penelope's history I knew nothing about nor wanted to know.

  • @peridotentertainment8287
    @peridotentertainment8287 Před 3 lety +2

    If I were to rewrite the entire story of Thieves In Time, I would have kept the Mole. And maybe call him Morris (that's the closest clever name I could think of). The Mole (Morris) would probably use the Black Knight persona and have a secret base that had an underground mine where he can collect either gold, crystals, or some sort of material Le Paradox (quote on quote) "NEEDS" for his plans.
    As for the other villains in time periods, I thinks Decibel would be in the musical era of time (like Mozart and probably Beethoven). And the Grizz would be in an era where gangsters were a thing (not sure about specific time period).
    And as for Penelope, don't have her betray the Cooper Gang at all and have her be a genuine ally.

  • @Wolf_Mama
    @Wolf_Mama Před 3 lety +2

    I don't like Penelope but I don't hate her. She's always been just kind of there to me, but even then her betrayal confused me. I hope whomever picks up the series for the next installment fixes that issue. The mole and the lizard would've been cool bosses to battle.

  • @Rdmistral
    @Rdmistral Před 3 lety +2

    We still have no news about a future Sly Cooper 5 but I keep hope, I remember you posted an image on Twitter with the Mascots of Crash, Ratchet, Sly Cooper we had a new Crash Bandicoot , on June 11 Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart will be released and for Sly Cooper to celebrate its future 20 to Sly Raccoon which was released on September 23, 2002 in 2022 there maybe chances that Sony will give the GREEN Fire for a new Sly Cooper after that this is only a theory for me, but they say that it is the Fans of this SAGA who must manifest themselves to Sony yet it has been 8 years that the Suite has been waiting.

  • @TylerTheShepherd
    @TylerTheShepherd Před rokem +1

    There’s also something odd about the later modified boss lineup for sly 4 (The colored one with Penelope’s giant overlords arm behind the rest). On the far left of the boss lineup, sly cooper was also featured in that lineup as well. You don’t suppose sanzaru was going to make sly cooper go bad along with Penelope, or at the very least have to battle him in a boss fight?

  •  Před 3 lety +2

    I was literally thinking about this after finishing Thieves in Time's story now. I wonder how it would have been if the Mole was kept as the villain for Of Mice and Mechs

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety +2

      Then Penelope being captured, would had made more sense, to explain her absence during half of the game.

  • @Starcat5
    @Starcat5 Před 3 lety +4

    Seriously, if the sequel doesn't explain this away with mind control via implanted secondary personality, and just enough body horror to make this whole farce worth while, I will be quite sad.

  • @kelleninouye4815
    @kelleninouye4815 Před 3 lety +2

    vtnvivi I feel bad and sorry for Bently as he was sadly nothing more than a pawn/tool for Penelope as she wanted bently all to herself in sly 4 that she didn't think that la paradox was using her, or that Bently would chose sly and marry over her.More so because like nebula they trusted her and sadly like Neyla she thought she was doing the right thing for bently it was a unexpected twist that we sly sly fans and the Cooper gang, and even carmalita didn't see coming, but again the build up to it could have also been in some ways better developed.iI also feel these lover's betrayal quotes work on gently 's loyalty to the Cooper gang as they are family and these two quotes sum it up I feel at least for Penelope also
    A mind that is pure will never think of betraying someone in life.

  • @BrennySpain
    @BrennySpain Před 3 lety +2

    this is certainly a very interesting topic. I wish the mole was still a villain in that game, and maybe he kidnapped Penelope or something like that?

  • @92JazzQueen
    @92JazzQueen Před 3 lety +1

    I think it should have been she was blackmailed into being the black knight and forced to work of Paradox.

  • @blazlock7285
    @blazlock7285 Před 3 lety +2

    The Mole can still fit in the midevial times as he hides his Drill as a Lance...

  • @SuperWorldJumper
    @SuperWorldJumper Před 3 lety +2

    At one point the ancestor wasn’t going to be Sir Galleth, but actually Robin Hood. So maybe the mole would be a villain for him?

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety +4

      I suppose, but I would rather it be Sir Galleth still, fighting against him, and if Penelope was captured and brainwashed by the Mole to be his pretend medieval wife,( had the plot gone that way) then the main mission would have been about stopping the Mole and freeing Penelope.
      The Mole could have had a personality similar to Toothpick, to having a liking for being a Knight,( but not making them too alike) and he spots Penelope and decided to make her his pretend wife.
      The side story with her could had been about, Penelope got captured by La Paradox and was forcefully brainwashed(after she kept refusing to betray Bentley and the gang) by Miss Decibel in order to create the Time Blimp, then after Paradox got what he wanted, he let's the Mole do what he pleases with a now brainwashed Penelope.
      What do you think?
      I'd say that Fixes everyone's problem with that part of the story, so in the end,( though I do not mind it being Carmelite, Murray and Bentley trying to find Sly) it wouldn't 3 but the 4 of them trying to find Sly.
      Though if Penelope is deemed redeemable by the next Dev team, she can still end up playing a role in finding Sly, like if Carmelite uses her connections in interpol to find her, if she wants Bentley to find her. anyways.

  • @lexusdriver1963
    @lexusdriver1963 Před 3 lety +2

    I’m gonna be honest with you here all the villains of Sly Cooper 4: El Jefe, Toothpick, The Grizz, Penelope, Miss Decibel and Le Paradox are absolute monsters.
    Now that Penelope escaped from Europe’s high security penitentiary she’s now on the run and is a fugitive and if Carmelita is assigned to the case to recapture Penelope then I don’t know what to say. If Penelope escaped from the penitentiary and goes to Bentley’s lab where she finds Bentley then she’d tearfully run to him, hug him and give a deeply passionate loving kiss at the same time crying her eyes out confessing her love to Bentley. Bentley tries to push her away because he can’t forgive her yet but Penelope’s hug was so tight and her kiss was so deep that Bentley can’t fight back he let’s go and you know how it goes.
    Of the rest of the Cooper gang Sly, Murray and Dimitri still express disgust towards Penelope for what she did but Bentley would try to convince them to give Penelope a second chance. After Penelope is given a second chance Sly, Murray and Dimitri accept but they all give Penelope a warning and the consequences if she shows signs of treachery again and Bentley would do the same. I’d say that Bentley will say “I don’t know if we’ll ever get back together but I can forgive you but if you show any signs of treachery or even a good reason to hurt or kill my friend then you know what’s going to happen”. Now that Penelope is on the run there’s a good chance Sly and his gang will run into Carmelita. If that happens then Sly will have to have good convincible reasons what he’s doing to convince his girlfriend Carmelita and after that Carmelita’s career is on the line.
    You know if I was in Sanzaru Games I would fix this mess by giving out some good ideas for how the story of Sly Cooper 5 will go and I would certainly join the project because I loved the series like I love cars like Lexus.

  • @gamerheart8148
    @gamerheart8148 Před 3 lety +2

    I'm honestly not that bothered with Penelope's betrayal. But maybe she will become an ally again in the next game.

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +2

      Just hope they write it good :)

    • @TylerTheShepherd
      @TylerTheShepherd Před 3 lety

      I will be honest, I loved playing as the panda king in sly 3 more than Penelope. If Penelope does come as a playable ally in sly 5 along with her black knight suit, I would definitely want to play as her. The betrayal in sly 4 is probably just to give the story and Penelope more interest.

  • @morganclarke9284
    @morganclarke9284 Před 2 lety +1

    I think that the mole was replaced by toothpick? Cause he isn't in those concept pictures?

  • @nathanthompson7549
    @nathanthompson7549 Před 2 lety

    Well I might have to correct you on this remember when grizz said he wanted to be an ice skater so that kinda makes his character fit the ice world

  • @nicksphatt5829
    @nicksphatt5829 Před 3 lety

    Penelope has been a fantastic friend

  • @ryandrover1807
    @ryandrover1807 Před 3 lety

    I love the 3 remastered spyro games and can't wait for the 4th one

  • @RAED1986
    @RAED1986 Před 3 lety +2

    New sly Cooper reboot developer pixelopus

  • @rwskillerman
    @rwskillerman Před 3 lety

    Sir, I wanted to take the time to thank you for the content you bring with this and having one of your Sly copper videos being the first thing I saw I loved it all and still going through them but if I may borrow some time from you I wanted to asks, you had said in one of the Sly videos that there were writing issues with sly Thieves In Time, I wanted to know any points you would give for a series like this moving forward with pros and cons from all 4 games. If you haven't heard there is a fan trailer up that is titled cooper which is as you guess taking place after Sly Thieves In Time and is following from what loosely can be gathered about his son and him trying to find his dad. What points could you give in a direction that from a fan side be this is where the series should go as to reclaim that uniqueness it themselves had once had through fixing the errors that the last sly game had left. I thank you for the time as I continue to watch your work on what amounts to the entirety of my childhood.

  • @hunterhowey5393
    @hunterhowey5393 Před 3 lety +1

    I hope they redeemer her in future games. I used to like her.

  • @archive6094
    @archive6094 Před 2 lety

    Nice video bud. : )

  • @yedffgd
    @yedffgd Před 2 lety +1

    While the Penelope twist is easily one of the worst things I've ever seen (as someone who actually likes Sly 4 a lot overall), I think I actually might have an idea of what they were thinking when they wrote it.
    Basically, they were thinking of Dr. M.
    Specifically, they thought it would be interesting to give Sly his own "Dr. M", a member of the Cooper Gang who grew bitter and jealous towards Sly, like M had done with Connor, and ends up turning on the Gang as a result. Since the obvious Dr. M parallel of the Gang, Bentley, had already firmly eliminated the possibility of himself ending up like M in Sly 3, and since Bentley turning on the Gant would be even worse than what we got, Sanazaru turned their attention to the OTHER tech genius in the Cooper Gang, and ran with it from there.
    Penelope's motives in Sly 4 do nicely parallel M's own motives, not just in the jealousy towards Sly, but also in her excessive greed, much like how M was so consumed by greed for the contents of the Cooper Vault that he literally chose to die instead of leaving it behind.
    Again, the twist is awful and completely fails to line up with Penelope's characterization from Sly 3, but this is what I think they were going for.

  • @MazoDragon
    @MazoDragon Před 3 lety +2

    If there is going to be a Sly 5, and continuing the time travel gimmick, Penelope might return while masquerading as Black Beard (if only to continue the theme).

    • @lexusdriver1963
      @lexusdriver1963 Před 3 lety +2

      I wish there was a Sly 5. If I was in Sanzaru Games I would join the project because I love the series like I love cars like Lexus plus fix the problem that has been plaguing fans who've been playing Sly Cooper 4 for years and years.
      A video game is a video game regardless if the developers are subsidiary or independent.

    • @TylerTheShepherd
      @TylerTheShepherd Před 2 lety

      Black Baron and Black Knight were both titles of mystery fighters. Black Beard was a nickname for a well known criminal. It wouldn’t work. Except maybe as one of sly’s jokes.

    • @MazoDragon
      @MazoDragon Před 2 lety

      @@TylerTheShepherd I did say masquerading as Black Beard. As in, she is taking his identity and pretending to be him. She's a clever woman. I'm certain she can pull off a convincing disguise. Or, as you said, it could be a joke, and the gang will have to fight the real (in-universe) Black Beard. Rule of three, and what not.

  • @bananabike279
    @bananabike279 Před 3 lety +1

    Glad to see more people we're not a fan of Penelope's betrayal. After they set up such a lovely couple in Sly 3, Penelope switching sides AGAIN felt so out of place...
    The Mole would've been a way more interesting choice and him wearing armor would've still made sense. It probably would've been more funnier too! Imagine Sly and the gang facing of against this HUGE knight, only to find out there was a tiny mole inside of it!

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah they could've avoided all this really.

    • @TylerTheShepherd
      @TylerTheShepherd Před 2 lety +1

      Not a fan of the betrayal myself but I do see one good aspect of Penelope being black knight instead of mole. There’s the strong possibility of black knight returning as a playable character in future games. As you said they were a lovely couple in sly 3 and the fact that she’s sending him postcards at the end of sly 4 does show she still has interest in him.

  • @VongolaXZax
    @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety

    Yeah, I agree with you Vi, though I didn't mind the plot twist, I agree that there could had been a better way of explaining Penelope's betrayal.
    Either the brainwashed thing or a reasonable explanation that the next Dev team will have to explain to us.
    The more you think about it, they're gonna have a lot of stuff to work out.

  • @curtisdavis8261
    @curtisdavis8261 Před rokem

    Mindblowing Theory!

  • @blueraccoon1088
    @blueraccoon1088 Před 3 lety

    I can agree. I mean if I was in concept of sly Cooper show I'd release false character bios. Sly thief as a drunk father who lost his son, Murray a ex military and Bentley a hard core hacker. Just to release no no spoilers and when the teaser trailer drops fans ask why the change I'll say "you seen the gang in your childhood I want to curveball new fans as I seen a show similar but more mature Called leverage so I hope you enjoy the series "

  • @joeosnato7200
    @joeosnato7200 Před 3 lety

    Have you noticed any filming of Sonic 2 in Canada yet, Garen?

  • @davidosclay852
    @davidosclay852 Před 3 lety +2

    Two concept unused villian the mole and snake lady or iguana have a names?
    I will choose the mole name for Moliere. And the snake lady Iguana will be Ms. Basilisk or Madame Iguana? What you will choose the name of two unused villian?

  • @didimatjila7463
    @didimatjila7463 Před 3 lety

    I miss sly too

  • @jstarwars360
    @jstarwars360 Před 3 lety

    Maybe the mole was part of the cut Egypt level.

  • @ReasonableTim
    @ReasonableTim Před rokem

    Penelope's betrayal has a parallel to Batman Beyond's April Moon, though I don't really like what they did.

  • @renamon5658
    @renamon5658 Před 3 lety +2

    I think the mole and toothpick levels would of been too similar so i guess they made Penelope a mole instead

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, but there could had been a way to solve that.

  • @nathanthompson7549
    @nathanthompson7549 Před 2 lety

    Maybe the mole will be in sly Cooper 5 as a villian

  • @puffythedestroyer8878
    @puffythedestroyer8878 Před 3 lety

    allot of critics conveniently forget some of peneolpe's character flaws from sly 3, she's definitely a flawed person, but i agree: the execution is where it slipped, it was built up to throughout the game, yet comes & goes so abrubptly.
    But in the grand scheme: It does give potential for the "loyalty test" in a future redemption plot. In a way, it seems her old underhanded glory-seeking habits from her "Black Baron" days have started to resurface. If ya think about it in hindsight, it's not really hard to believe. Out of all members of the gang, Penelopy has probably spent the least amount of time with them. She only really got close to Bentley. She doesn't have years of familiarity like the rest (the guru spent a long year or 2 mentoring Murray, so he counts).
    While she may have strong feelings for Bentley, & want's (what she thinks is) good for him, she hasn't really been able to connect with the rest of them & really Get what they're about. a side plot in Sly 5 could be the true "test of friendship" (as corny as it sounds,) for her throughout the game.
    This time, don't have her just appear in 1 level exclusively, have her be involved in some way every now and then till her big character moment. Where she's gotta make the big choice weather to join back with em and burry the hatchet for good.. or at least make up and go separate ways an anti-hero of sorts.. Maybe that's too much for Sly Cooper, but at least it's something.
    ~ sorry for the clunky & awkward wall of text, but i thought i'd put something out there.
    I’d also her playable just as an excuse to bring back The Grapple Cam(TM) (or, big brain here: Chopper/Drone Cam).
    Let My Metal Boy Live Again Damnit
    #FreeTheGrappleCam

  • @reichtangleanschluss509

    5:04 I would say year or two.

  • @Sevent77
    @Sevent77 Před 3 lety

    Im in the well ok group, it was sad to see this happen to Bentley especially after what happened in Sly 2 everyone wanted a win for the nerdy cripple and break of the stereotype of hot guy gets hot chick at the end.
    But what everyone forgets is that Penelope originally was a villian that was not above lying, cheating using henchmen and attempt to kill Sly and his gang.
    But I do agree to wish that this was better written with more details thrown into the mix.

  • @Batman.97
    @Batman.97 Před 3 lety +2

    Yeaah i agree that penelope has a lot of pontential of being a villain but i think the execution was very poor and badly planned :/ i would have loved to see a better written story of her

  • @oakularoregon6623
    @oakularoregon6623 Před 3 lety +2

    You are right, it was poorly executed and poorly planed out. If they we're to take their time in developing this, it would've turned out better, Thieves in Time was a mistake the whole series should've ended with Sly 3, If I we're them I would've made a comic book in after the events of Honor among Thieves telling of what Sly and the rest of his friends did after the game itself. Good video BTW.

  • @izzy1356
    @izzy1356 Před 3 lety

    Admittedly, I don't mind her as a villian.
    If anything she's a decent foil to Bentley: Intelligent, independent, but to the point that she lacks loyalty to others and works "better" alone.
    But even I can't justify the Black Knight arc. Before Sly 4, she never gave a crap about money or power. Hell she only became the BB because she was too young to join a dog-fighting league, and the disguise just stuck. 😭
    Would've understood it if she just simply missed following *her own* code, rather than someone else's. But alas... Thieves in Time exists. 😔

  • @Chulip.
    @Chulip. Před 3 lety

    Any sly 5 news or movie news

  • @user-jf4lt4uk7u
    @user-jf4lt4uk7u Před 3 lety

    If Bentley were to use the Thievius Raccoonus to travel through time, would it work? would it take him to the right era/location to save Sly? before a Certain psychopathic owl gets to him first. .. because honestly wouldn’t want the series to end with clockwerk killing sly.

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety

      They would have to decide to jump at random, in order to find Sly, Bentley could make calculations based on which timeline Sly would be in.

  • @ratchetxlegosi7649
    @ratchetxlegosi7649 Před 3 lety

    can you do a theory on if the female lombax could possibly be ratchets sister or daughter?

  • @gonk2804
    @gonk2804 Před 3 lety

    I really hope sly comes back and to the ps5

  • @joeosnato7200
    @joeosnato7200 Před 3 lety

    Did you play some Mario games yesterday before Mario 35 ended, VIVI?

  • @JBLightning.
    @JBLightning. Před 3 lety

    The mole could have been a thief who finds potential places to steal from finds Bentley’s place uses his drill to get inside finds time travel plans obviously you would take those and either already knows or works for le paradox or has a place to sell the plans to someone and le paradox buys them and just like that the rest of the game would happen and makes sence too

  • @ganumon1984
    @ganumon1984 Před 3 lety

    We should get a director's cut of Sly 4 and maybe the content would be better and when I played Sly 4 for the first time, I was shocked that Penelope was the Black Knight. Hopefully when we get Sly 5, Penelope should redeem herself.

  • @milanmary8958
    @milanmary8958 Před 3 lety

    I think it's a bad attempt to make her the new Neyla but here is the hic. It doesn't work because she is just too cute (based on Sly3)
    And the mole, according to his outfit and the bombs he has, would have been in charge of the mice (more logic for the name of the level) , maybe he would have been the one who stole Bentley's blueprint of the time machine. And the revenge thingy would still be a thing.

  • @isaiahvilla6691
    @isaiahvilla6691 Před 3 lety

    Do you think if Sony is gonna do sly 5 should bring this deleted character back

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety +2

      That'd be an interesting idea!

  • @justinkillgore9016
    @justinkillgore9016 Před 3 lety +2

    Well I may have something to suggest remember the timeline for slide Cooper’s family bloodline I mean the video you made for this topic you did point out a simple fact slide Cooper matches up a certain time of year his date of birth along with the others along with the entire information of his family bloodline one of your CZcams videos your earliest ones was exploring that even mention more in the description to that video and so forth for the example that one Cooper who was a brilliant actor in computers right at the time they were invented you would knowledge this Cooper could be sly is granddad with that and Somewhere in sly Cooper 3 Penelope stated that she was roughly 12 or 13 years old and she was too young to enter the pilot tournaments so she took the means of a black Baron And then The Baron became famous So she was wearing it more and more maybe if we get slayed Cooper three remix or remake me could perhaps see her adult teenager parents well because he if her information is true and how Her age when he became the black baron Things might clear up through remix also inside Cooper four thieves in time I don’t know if she’s a teenager or a young adult but as I just remembered when she joined the team she explains what age was she when she became a black Baron so I find this really questionable Could she be a young adult I am sorry if I don’t know about female hormones nor The anthropomorphic kind but when people actually sold her early on in the cut scenes and thieves in time I’m over that I’m not the only one who was surprised to see wow puberty catch up with her even in thieves in time sly did said I’m getting a bit too old for that something like that Bentley said what was that Sly responded with oh amm nothing with that maybe check with the sly Cooper Wikipedia again and also re-check with your video one of your early ones were more resources about slide Cooper’s family bloodline that might need to get updated if not it’s OK because it might be a relevant regardless sometimes it is good to update Some old videos anyway just saying

  • @Skip2105
    @Skip2105 Před 3 lety

    Why is Dimitri so short in the fourth game?

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety

      Same goes for Muggshot in the animated short, why is he taller?

  • @Shockwerk
    @Shockwerk Před 3 lety

    Anyone wants to create that mole's backstory?

  • @ChaosHero
    @ChaosHero Před 3 lety

    man back at 2013 hunt back i would weather if we got the mole instoad of Penelope i felt force come out of no were i was't a fan of the idea but that just me

  • @MovieMadness23
    @MovieMadness23 Před 3 lety

    I think she was just salty about Sly ditching her when she got captured by Lefwee, that’s always been my theory anyway. Also part of me does have to wonder if she had a point when she talked about her reasons for joining up with LeParadox.

    • @VtnVivi
      @VtnVivi  Před 3 lety

      Perhaps she did....but the writing didn't exactly justify it.

    • @Cpt.Masami
      @Cpt.Masami Před 3 lety

      I had to address this, but Sly never ditched penelope to Lefwee. They couldn't fight him right away due to being outnumbered & outmatched, which is why they spent time out at sea trying to upgrade their ship to stand a chance.

    • @MovieMadness23
      @MovieMadness23 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Cpt.Masami you know I was joking right?

    • @VongolaXZax
      @VongolaXZax Před 3 lety

      Lol

  • @WolfmanArt
    @WolfmanArt Před 3 lety

    Yeah, I believe the ally-turn-enemy trope would have worked if the writing was better...

  • @wesleyvl8572
    @wesleyvl8572 Před 3 lety +2

    They needt to makke a other sly cooper 4 games but a holl other story

  • @stefanloncar6868
    @stefanloncar6868 Před 3 lety

    Mole would have been better choice

  • @Cpt.Masami
    @Cpt.Masami Před 3 lety

    I'm fine with her redesign but at the same time what was the point? Her original design was already ok, plus the betrayal wasn't necessary either..... As much as I personally liked this game it's hard to defend it when the devs put in problems like this.

  • @limakeke1846
    @limakeke1846 Před rokem +1

    I just played this chapter today. I saw the logo on black knights chest and drew conclusions about the symbol representing her and hoped she was being mind controlled or something but no... this game has been only a let down from start to finish. They have changed so many things to the worse and so many characters made different just because? I hope if sly5 ever comes out they fix their mistakes. Gameplay is great but story and characters have become a shell of themselfs and i hate it...
    Im sorry for my negative feelings if you like the game thats good for you but i cant bring my self to enjoy this as much as i want to. I think the penelope chapter was the last straw and i might not finish the game at all

  • @josueaburto984
    @josueaburto984 Před 3 lety

    Hi

  • @octoligsarecute4640
    @octoligsarecute4640 Před 3 lety +2

    ???

  • @peaceunreal4051
    @peaceunreal4051 Před 3 lety

    One thing I don’t like about sly 4 is the ice age chapter i didn’t like bob cooper his gimmick about stealing eggs was kinda dumb I would’ve preferred slaigh mcooper who wield a giant cane.

  • @Rama-hf5cc
    @Rama-hf5cc Před 3 lety

    HEY VIVI IF YOU SEARCH IS THERE GOING TO BE A SLY COOPER 5 IT SAYS IT WILL BE RELEASED 25 SEPTEMBER 2022 DONT KNOW IF ITS REAL OR NOT

  • @rahulgoshal4564
    @rahulgoshal4564 Před 3 lety

    Yeah the mole might have been better the whole Penelope thing was pretty forced in my opinion.

  • @loiiysailor1177
    @loiiysailor1177 Před 3 lety

    I don't mind they want add the twist but the problem they never build it up or foreshadowed her betray , this is almost bad with Disney trying with their own twists villains while is so easy to write open villains , it never work it felt cheap
    now I bet everyones hates Pealaphe because of this betary out of nowhere , they are going to explain this in a flashback of pealape why she betray team Cooper , if the writers learn from their mistake.

  • @joeosnato7200
    @joeosnato7200 Před 3 lety

    VIVI, if you said "very very bad", then why does the second reaction say "Who wrote this?"

  • @mayhem4life127
    @mayhem4life127 Před 3 lety

    Love this video. Who the fuck went oh we should change dimitris role in this game to penelope like not that they did but when you think about it like the one trailer showed dimitri disguised as sly like he was running around stealing posing as him I mean it would have hurt me a bit but it would have been waaay cooler to see him do that and pull that off and also be like you guys left me with your book and hideout I'm on the inside then turn later and do that whole schtick but ya know that's my 2¢

  • @sonic23233
    @sonic23233 Před 3 lety

    This why you don't change developers

    • @Cpt.Masami
      @Cpt.Masami Před 3 lety

      It's not a matter a different devs that was the problem. The problem was bad story writing which clearly sansaru didn't take this game seriously

    • @sonic23233
      @sonic23233 Před 3 lety

      @@Cpt.Masami nope they didn't

  • @99Ukkeli
    @99Ukkeli Před 3 lety

    Penelope is just a case of "fanservice gone horribly wrong" lol

  • @ShadeMeadows
    @ShadeMeadows Před 3 lety +1

    'Cause she's Hot!

  • @platformingames2967
    @platformingames2967 Před 3 lety

    You will probably want to tell your fans that the ps3/psp/vita psn are shutting down in 3 months

  • @mr.thomaswaffles6700
    @mr.thomaswaffles6700 Před 3 lety

    Still don't understand how Did Sony trusted sanzarymu for a full game after the lame ps3 ports