Trivia / Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

• Accidental Downer Ending: One that affects the series as a whole. Sanzaru intended to follow up on the game's infamous Cliffhanger with a DLC chapter, but for various reasons, they couldn't. Then in 2020, any hope of seeing a resolution from them was quashed by Facebook buying them out, meaning that the answer to the question of "Did Sly ever find a way out of Ancient Egypt?" is likely to elude us for a long time coming.
• Approval of God: Sucker Punch on Twitter expressed praise for the game, stating that they had no issue with "handing over the Sly reigns to Sanzaru". Likewise, this GameInformer video had Brian Fleming, the head of Sucker Punch, refer to Sanzaru's work as "spectacular."
• B-Team Sequel: Thieves in Time was developed by Sanzaru Games, an up-and-coming studio whose only notable work prior was The Sly Collection.
• Franchise Killer: The financial failure of Thieves in Time, along with its very polarising reception from fans and gamers, would go on to throw the series right back into a state of dormancy. A planned DLC episode set in Egypt, which would have very likely resolved or at least continued from the situation Sly found himself by the game's end, was promptly cancelled. A movie would be announced not long afterwards, but following years of silence and fellow Sony franchise Ratchet & Clank having its movie turned out to be a critical and financial disaster, it too was silently cancelled. The last anyone has heard regarding any sort of new project was a TV series announced in the movie's place, but even that seems to have been cancelled as well. And if all that wasn't enough, any hopes of Sanzaru continuing where they left off were quashed after they were bought out by Facebook in 2020 to work as an Oculus first-party studio. While it's unlikely the Cooper Gang will never ride again, it is likely to be a long time before that happens.
• The Other Darrin: Carmelita yet again got recast for this game, being played by Grey DeLisle-Griffin as opposed to Ruth Livier.
• Promoted Fanboy: Sanzaru Games, going from porting the original trilogy to the PS3 to actually making a sequel to the series they love with the creators' blessing.
• What Could Have Been: Shares a page
• Working Title: "Cane of Destiny."

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