brendala

Very few male Sly fans seem to understand why this game bothers me. This comic was my attempt to illustrate it in a way they might understand:

Here's the DA link.

I swear, it felt like this game was TRYING to make female players uncomfortable. The original Sly trilogy treated the two female leads very well. But this game...

--featured multiple scenes where Carmelita is sexually degraded against her will to provide fan-service for the player (and in one of those instances, HER "FRIENDS" ARE THE ONES DOING IT TO HER)! Also, there's one scene where the villain taunts Sly by tying her up and groping her in front of him while she lies on the floor begging Sly to save her.
...and keep in mind, Carmelita was a BADASS, respected cop in the original trilogy who was clearly a more competent fighter than her male love interest. Now she's just a piece of spank material who exists to get kidnapped and shake her ass for coins (no seriously, there's a mini-game in Sly 4 where you have to make her shake her ass for coins via PS3 motion controls!!! >_< ).

--featured a boss battle that had one of the "heroes" beat his diminutive girlfriend unconscious while laughing about how much she sucks at evading his punches. And this is justified by the narrative because "the bitch had it coming"

--it characterized Penelope as being incapable of doing ANYTHING without a man helping her. FYI, in the third Sly Cooper game, she managed to amass a fortune, purchase a small town, and master piloting and RC devices all alone when she was still a TEENAGER!
Also, while the third Sly game presented her as being her boyfriend's intellectual equal (the only difference between them being that she's a specialist and he's a jack-of-all-trades), the forth game makes it clear that she's WAY dumber than him!

--It kept the male character designs pretty much the same. But it did THIS to the two leading females: