We’re proud of the first Sly game-it’s still fun to play, 15 years later-but sometimes we succeeded despite ourselves. We crossed our fingers-and managed to not trigger a tweener crime wave. Eventually we decided that Sly was such a skillful thief that he only steals from other thieves, and explained this rule in the first five minutes of the game. Working on the Sly games was tons of fun, but if you make a game for kids about a master thief and his friends pulling off crazy heists, you can’t help worrying that the message you’re sending to the youth of the world is “Hey Kids! Stealing Is Cool!” Which would be the worst public service announcement ever. Those of you behind the awesome Sly Cooper and Infamous web sites have our eternal gratitude-we’ve relied on you countless times over the years! Just so you know, whenever we want to remember some detail about one of our old games (like how to spell “Thievious”) we search the internet.
Every time I start to type “Thievieus,” I have to look up how we spelled it. By the way, I still can’t believe we put fake Latin words in the title of our first big game. After two years of hard work, a smattering of critical success, and a somewhat tepid response from the game-buying public, we took one important thing away from the project: “criminally-minded raccoon”.Īnd that led us to the first game in our long partnership with Team Sony: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. We’ve been on Team Sony for a long time, but our first game was actually for the Nintendo 64-Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a light-hearted physics-based platformer starring a plucky maintenance robot who has to rescue a theme park from the dastardly clutches of a criminally-minded raccoon. Long ago, in October of 1997, five friends and I left cushy jobs at Microsoft, sublet some crappy office space down the street, and got to work on our first game. All of us at Sucker Punch are looking forward to a big anniversary-we’re about to turn 20 years old! Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough room to invite all of you to our anniversary party, so we did the next best thing-we added Infamous: Second Son to your Instant Game Collection this month! Have fun!
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