Sly 4 Review: Adam Sessler (rated 2/5!!)

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SvennoJ said:

Eurogamer gave it a 6, main complaint is it hasn't moved on from 2002.
Sounds perfect to me, was all I was looking for.

Sony may have stopped making PlayStation 2 hardware at the end of 2012, but if Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is anything to go by, then the spirit of PS2 software is alive and well. Pinwheeling through history with Sly and his other anthropomorphic animal buddies on the tail of an arch criminal is like taking yourself back in time to a more innocent and carefree world of gaming - and initially at least, it's a pleasant diversion from all the grit of the present day.

I'll buy that any day over Dead space 3, that has moved on in all the wrong directions.

I don't get reviewers anyway, they gave Ni No Kuni a 9. It fully deserves that, but to be honest the gameplay has not moved on one bit from 2002 either.

It is apeculiar aspect to the medium that there is notion of genres or the industry in general pregoressing rather than gameplay triats simply distinguishing them from other titles.  Ex: Is regenerating health inheritingly superior to health packs?  As you touch on, can easily say something is out dated as it is a tribute or return.  How one feels about that feels entirely subjective.