#sly collection

[rjjameshiii]

RJ's Platinum Collection #13: Sly Cooper & The Thievius Raccoonus

Achieved on 10/8/2022 at 12:55 PM

Sly Cooper was one of my favorite games as a kid. I just thought Sly was so damn cool. So when I noticed that the Sly Collection, the PS3 edition of the first three Sly Cooper games all bundled into one, was available for free on PS Plus, I decided to replay this childhood classic.

Unfortunately, Sly Cooper's first game does not have the most interesting trophy list. Almost all of the trophies are earned by collecting all the clue bottles in the levels and then unlocking all of the vaults. Vaults either contain blueprints that will help you find clue bottles in other levels, or new moves learned from pages of the Thievius Raccoonus. As long as you get all the vaults opened, you'll get the Platinum.

Weirdly enough, you literally get your first trophy the MOMENT that you press Start on the game for the first time.

1/36: Sucker Punched! - Enter the world of Sly Cooper!

Then you have the Tutorial level in Paris, breaking into Carmelita Fox's office to steal files on the Fiendish Five, where I got two more trophies.

2/36: Coin Collector - Collect a single coin.

3/36: Foxy Lady - Collect a police file from Carmelita.

Next up is the real first level, a stormy water and boat-themed area run by Sir Raleigh the Frog. Each level has a hub world where you can complete seven other levels to earn treasure keys to make your way to the boss. Playing through the first world, I got 10 more trophies.

4/36: Learn The Ropes - Start out on your Cooper adventure.

5/36: Coin Recycler - Collect 60 coins.

6/36: Bottle Hoarder - Collect all clue bottles in any level.

7/36: Dive Bomb - Learn Drake Cooper's Fast Attack Dive.

8/36: Coins, Coins Everywhere! - Collect 99 coins.

9/36: Programmers Could Do Anything - Collect some watery blueprints.

10/36: Take It Slow - Learn Dev Cooperinda's Slow Motion Jump.

11/36: Nimble Like A Thief - Find all of the dive moves.

12/36: Coin Sucker - Learn Karen Cooper's Coin Magnet Technique.

13/36: Frog Legs - Defeat Sir Raleigh the Frog.

Next up was Mesa City, a Las Vegas ripoff in the middle of the desert run by gangster dog Muggshot. Completing this world earned me seven more trophies.

14/36: Pug Gambling - Enter Muggshot's territory.

15/36: Top Of The Morning - Learn Rob McCooper's Explosive Hat Technique.

16/36: Freeze, You're It - Learn B.F. Cooper's Speed Up The Clock Technique.

17/36: French Bulldog Style - Collect a blueprint from Muggshot.

18/36: Waterlogged - Learn Suzanne Cooper's Water Safety Technique.

19/36: Now Ya See Me - Learn Sir Andrew Cooper's Thief Replica Technique.

20/36: Giving The Dog A Bone - Defeat Muggshot.

World #3 is a haunted swamp where voodoo priestess crocodile Mz. Ruby is lurking around. This world had a lot less trophies than the first two worlds, offering only five more trophies from the list.

21/36: Bayou Lily - Enter the Voodoo Swamp.

22/36: Singing Gator - Collect a voodoo blueprint.

23/36: Slow Stacker - Upgrade your Slow Motion Technique.

24/36: Time Stopper - Max out all Slow Motion Techniques.

25/36: Dance, Dance, Ruby - Defeat Mz. Ruby.

World 4 is a snowy temple in China run by the Panda King. This is where you discover that you won't get the final vault, no matter what level it is in, until you beat the final boss. But completing as much of this world as I could earned me 7 more trophies.

26/36: Run Like An Egyptian - Learn Slytunkhamen's secret move.

27/36: Slytunkhamen Approves - Upgrade your Shadow.

28/36: Complete Darkness - Max out all Shadow Techniques.

29/36: Spikes Suck - Learn Sir Augustine of Cooper's Briefly Defy Gravity Technique.

30/36: Snowy Blueprints - Collect some snowy blueprints.

31/36: Meeting The Ancestors - Find all of the blueprints.

32/36: Pandas Aren't Always Cute - Defeat Panda King.

And then the final level was a volcanic lair for the leader of the Fiendish Five, the giant robotic owl Clockwerk. Unlike the other levels, this level is completely linear, and has only two trophies that you get simultaneously for defeating the final boss.

33/36: Clash Of The Clockwerk - Track down Clockwerk.

34/36: Oh No He Didn't! - Defeat Clockwerk.

With Clockwerk beaten, I could return to the Panda King's level and grab the final vault.

35/36: Greedy Raccoon - Open all the vaults.

Which got me the Platinum!

36/36: True Thievius Raccoonus - Unlock all the trophies in Sly Cooper's first outing.

I think Sly Cooper 1 is a very fun game and a classic platformer. I could see myself replaying it again in the future.

However, this is a very uninspired and boring trophy list, which does take some of the fun of getting the Platinum out.

Rating: 8/10

[savstan1]

also sqh lovers i happened across @cn-alastair-lite ’s sqh/airplane nd he’s just soooo cutie-pie i had to draw him?? please look at the orig post i dont do him justice i fear! regardless, safe holidays!!

[beanbagbuddies4life]

Brown and white belly Sly!

[arpeggio-the-parrot]

Contessa killed Sly and is posing with his skull 😔

[extraneousdominomask]

What do you think of Thieves in Time’s powered costumes? I think it’s a cool idea but (like a lot of things in that game) has poor execution. Mainly the fact that there’s collectable treasures that you need the costumes from later episodes to get. Kinda goes against the structure of most Sly Cooper levels in my opinion.

Yeah, I'd agree. I remember finding them kinda fun at the time, since I'm one of those people who enjoys collecting stuff in games. You're absolutely right, though; aside from a little barrier to space out the "standard" and "complete" endings of Sly 1, the trilogy never requires backtracking. You can get everything a level has to offer before leaving it, and when I replay the games, that's what I do.

As for the costumes themselves, they fit TiT's usual range of "that makes sense I guess" to "who okayed this decision? Who? Who?! Who?"

Sly gets a fireproof shield. Alright.

Sly can shoot arrows. Yeah, okay.

Sly can slow time. This is something he can normally unlock, you don't gotta do a whole Orientalist Hallowe'en costume about it, but yeah.

Sly can roll on a ball. That's... gameplay. If you must.

Sly can do Big Jumps by drawing on the catlike powers of a... dead sabretooth... whose corpse he is wearing... and just to make crystal clear that is not one of the series' many and frequent non-anthropomorphic animals, they make it the exact same as the guards and have some of his colleagues explicitly comment on his death...

...who okayed that decision? Who? Who?! Who?

[ebonysquib]

The reason Sly's mom is never mentioned is because his dad gave birth to Sly himself.

[wtfjd95]

Holy hell I need more space to store video games.....

Some discs are damaged and don't work right, hence why I have doubles btw. Really need to move those outta that selection

[captain-lonagan]

Behold The Family

Good Dog

Cool Dog

Silly Dog

Sly Dog

[wolfiestars]

weird urge to play through thieves in time again even tho i know it will just make me angry >:(

[newvegascowboy]

obsessed with sly & all the stories abt the campaign he's in i think he's neat!!!!

THANK YOUUUUUUU HES MY BABY BOYYYYYY

I was always pretty shy and hesitant to talk about it but fuck it sly is one of my favorite ocs and I love how fucking awful he is. Going to be posting about this idiot until the end of time

[beanbagbuddies4life]

Sly the Fox

via x x

Born September 12, 1996

Sly is a fox and tricky is he Please don’t chase him, let him be If you want him, just say when He’ll peek out from his den!

Sly also has a "rare" variant with a brown belly instead of white.

I put "rare" in quotes because Sly is one of the least valuable Beanies out there. At the peak of the Beanie boom, people were snapping up handfuls of Sly at a time to lock in display cases, only to sell them in mint condition for less than a brand new Beanie. (Right now they go for around $5.)

Anyway! Check out these trading cards lol. White- and brown-belly Sly each has their own card!

[g4zdtechtv]

Cinematech Reborn: Nocturnal Emissions #5 - The Episode With No Name

"Give me a new Cinematech Reborn, bartender." …is what ya'll have been saying all Summer. And now, we're finally giving it to you!

Just make sure not to step on any girls' bakeries, especially if they WORK there, okay?

(watch on 4GTV!)

[sprouts-on-a-log]

Friday 6/28/24

played:

William and Sly 1: Completed the main game (I'd only started yesterday but it's really short). Felt very very comforting since I haven't played this in years. Absolutely adore the soundtrack.

William and Sly 2: Did a good portion of it, unlocked flight, but other than the other journal pages...I think I'm done replaying. I don't feel the need to completionist it. Maybe if I'm in the mood one rainy day? Again, a bopping soundtrack and this one has more adorable lore of how they met each other. Makes my heart so happy. <3

Everloom: Only did a little of this because it was included in the William and Sly classic collection. It's interesting! I like the dream vibes and it still has that kind of explore and traverse familiar areas over and over that I love in the other games. But....there was one segment with teleportation pads that....mmmmmm made me angy. Not invested enough to finish it, but it was fun to try.

watched:

Aquaman(2018): ⭐⭐

That was....well that was something. I only really watched it because it was on TV. Barely kept up with the general plot because I was on my phone and any time I did look up, the acting was questionable. Jason Mamoa did ok with what he was given, but story was predictable over all.

listened:

This makes me cry, it's nailing the nostalgia of playing this on the family computer back in the day. *sob*

[viridianvisions]

Absolutely, I had the same thoughts! I have long been convinced that his design team snuck in every conceivably handsome feature they could; besides the not-so-subtle choice of his perfect hair, you cannot tell me that beautiful jawline, those gorgeous eyes, the silver-flecked scruff, his gleaming smile, his shirt collar buttoned down enough to reveal those prominent collar bones and the long slope of his neck, and yes, his hands, weren't highly deliberate decisions. And then they bothered attempting to "dull it down" by passing him as an insomnia-riddled fifty year old with familial trauma, lest he's all we blubbered about for the rest of the movie? Little did they know, that's exactly what we did anyway. Despite their posturing, we completely fell for him, most of all when these little moments of extreme capability and sacrificial strength showed through.

We may never really get over him. 😩✋

Bruno: “You might wanna hang on.” Encanto ( 2021 )

I haven’t seen this little part made into a gif yet and I thought that was an absolute tragedy.

[missdynamighttt]

using your boyfriend! katsuki bakugo's face to test out if your lipsticks are kiss-proof.

katsuki leaned back against the couch, a mix of annoyance and amusement flickering in his eyes as you're perched on his lap, armed with an array of lipsticks on the coffee table.

the array of tubes came in various shades of red, pink, beige and even orange gleamed under the light, and your grin was way too mischievous for his liking.

“this is stupid,” he grumbled, though he didn’t make any effort to push you away.

“no, this is science,” you teased with a grin, twisting open a tube of lipstick. “i need to test if these are actually kissproof, and who better to test on than my loving boyfriend?”

“remind me again why i agreed to this?” he asked dryly, though the faintest smirk tugged at the corner of his lips.

“because you love me. now sit still, and don’t wipe your face, no matter what.”

katsuki instinctively tensed, but before he could say anything, your lips pressed against his, leaving a bold red kiss mark.

you pulled back to inspect your work, tapping your chin thoughtfully. "hmm, not bad, but let’s see if it smudges.”

you lightly rubbed his lips off the kiss mark with your thumb, then grinned triumphantly when it smudged slightly.

“guess this one isn’t kissproof. let’s try another.”

“you’re just usin' this as an excuse to kiss me.”

“maybe,” you admitted, a sly smile tugging at your lips as you reached for another lipstick. “but you’re not complaining, are you?”

he opened his mouth to retort, but you cut him off with another kiss, this time on his forehead. katsuki grumbled under his breath, but the way his lips twitched betrayed his amusement.

one by one, you tested out each and every one of your lipsticks. you made sure to leave vibrant marks across his cheeks, his forehead, his jawline, and even the tip of his nose. each kiss mark was a different shade, creating a chaotic warm hue of affection on his face.

its only half way, and katsuki’s face was plastered in smudged kiss marks, and his patience was starting to run out.

“are you done yet?” he grumbled, watching you in the corner of his eye as you leaned in close, his tone exasperated but not entirely serious.

“shush,” you grinned, leaning forward to press a kiss against his cheek. you pulled back, studying the growing collection of kiss marks.

“okay, definitely not kissproof,” you said with a satisfied nod before reapplying another shade. he didn’t move as you kissed his jaw this time, leaving another bold lip mark. you pulled back, inspecting your work. “nope, not this one either. next!”

katsuki sighed, his patience wearing thin, but he stayed put, his hands resting on his thighs. “sweets... how many of these fuckin' things do you actually have?”

you ignored him, happily swiping on a soft pink shade next. you leaned in again, pressing your lips to the other side of his face. you pulled back, feigning disappointment. “ooh, not kissproof either. guess we keep going!”

“what a shame,” katsuki deadpanned, his voice dripping with sarcasm with the squeez of your hips, looking at you so affectionately.

but you weren't done yet.

you were intentionally avoided the tubes you knew were kissproof, prolonging the excuse to pepper his face with kisses. each time you left a print, you grinned, giggling as his face slowly became a canvas of lip marks in every imaginable shade—reds, pinks, beiges, and even a daring orange.

by the time you finally went through them all, katsuki’s face was an absolute mess of lipstick smudges. you dabbed on your first long-lasting formula lipstick, making sure it was a bright, bold red.

“this one’s supposed to be smudge-proof,” you said, leaning in close and planting a firm kiss above his neck. you pulled back, studying his skin. not a single smudge. there was nothing there—just the clean outline of his breath-takingly sharp jaw.

“huh. guess this one’s actually it."

but before you could grab a makeup wipe to start cleaning up, katsuki’s patience finally snapped. he grabbed your wrist, pulling you closer into his lap.

“oh, it’s kissproof, huh?” he muttered, his eyes narrowing with playful intensity.

you blinked, your cheeks heating up. “y-yeah, it is.”

“good. because you’re about to find out how kissproof it really is.”

but before you could protest, katsuki leaned in and kissed you deeply, his hands firm on your waist as he poured all his pent-up energy into the kiss.

he didn’t stop at one, either—he kissed your lips, your cheeks, your forehead, and down your jawline, his lips brushing against every inch of your skin he could reach.

you squeaked in surprise, trying and failing to squirm away as you dissolved into laughter. “k-katsuki, stop it!"

“you've been attackin' me all day,” he teased, nipping at your jaw lightly. “now it’s my turn.”

“katsuki, wait—” you started, but your words were cut off again as he kissed you firmly, his lips moving against yours with an intensity that made your head spin.

when he finally decided to pull back, your lips were slightly swollen, and your cheeks were flushed. your lipstick was still perfectly intact—proving it really was kissproof—but your face was flushed, and your laughter had turned into soft giggles.

“looks like it’s kissproof, alright,” he said, kissing down your cheek, then your jaw, then to your neck. again.

“katsuki!” you squealed, laughing as he peppered your face with kisses.

“fair’s fair. you got to mark me up, i'm just returnin' the favor.”

"uh-huh. you’re just looking for excuses to keep kissing me.”

“am not.” he argued, though his grin gave him away. “like you said. this is serious science, sweets.”

“fine. you win,” you said breathlessly, wrapping your arms around his neck. “but admit it—you secretly loved being my test dummy.”

katsuki smirked, brushing his nose against yours. “maybe. but only because it’s you.”

you smiled, leaning in to kiss him one last time. “you’re the best canvas ever.”

“and you’re the most annoyin' artist,” he shot back, pulling you close again. "but i love you anyway."

‎‧₊˚✧[ it's me, kia ! ]✧˚₊‧ ｡ﾟ•┈꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱┈• ｡ﾟ ‎‧₊˚✧[ more of katsuki ! ]✧˚₊‧

⋆˚࿔ kia's note ˚⋆ saw this on twt and KNEW i needed to act on it.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Archaic Words: Hate

for your next poem/story

Bydryven - to commit evil

Deule - the devil

Deviltry - anything unlucky, offensive, hurtful, or hateful

Exheridate - to disinherit; to hate or detest

Eye bite - to bewitch an animal with the evil eye

Hain - malice; hatred

Hateredyne - hatred

Hatien - to hate

Hatous - hateful

Hatrex - hatred

Hazeney - to foretell evil

Hellhound - a wicked fellow

Hiessen - to forebode evil

Ivele - evil; injury; sickness

Lathe - hateful; also: injury, harm

Lether - vile; hateful

Limbo - hell; properly, the limbus or place where the righteous were supposed to have been confined before the coming of Christ

Lothe - perverse; hateful

Mysbreyde - evil birth

Onde - zeal; envy; malice; hatred

Pelsey - mischievous; evil; wicked

Quad - bad; evil

Quede - harm; evil

Quince - the king's evil

Slier - to look sly upon, but with some evil design

Spurn - an evil spirit

Toady - hateful; beastly

Tutivillus - an old name for a celebrated demon, who is said to have collected all the fragments of words which the priests had skipped over or mutilated in the performance of the service, and carried them to hell

Ungode - bad; evil

Yeffell - evil

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