Penelope!

The Armory: Bentley’s Wheelchair

Bentley’s Wheelchair is a rolling weapons platform that made its first appearance in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. Due to an accident that occurred in Sly 2, Bentley found himself paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Rather than let the fact that he can’t walk any more get him down, Bentley put together a specialized wheelchair that would allow him to do everything he was able to do on his feet and then some. For our purposes today we will be looking at how Bentley uses it….I mean…we don’t have a choice, he’s the only one who uses it.

Strengths

Bentley’s chair is equipped with all kinds of neat gizmos and gadgets. The thing is tricked out with spring loaded wheels and rockets that allow it to jump to a similar degree as Sly & Murray. Extra rockets can even be fired to allow Bentley to reach even greater heights. The chair is also equipped with telescopic arms that allow Bentley to do things such as pickpocketing and deploying bombs hands free. An important feature as the chair is not self powered, requiring Bentley to turn the wheels to make it move. And of course, the chair has a sleep dart launcher. To put it bluntly, everything Bentley was able to do before his accident can be done in this chair.

Weaknesses

Though the chair is equipped with all the gizmos Bentley could ever need in the field, I’m not exactly sure as to why he doesn’t have a motor to drive this thing. I mean, Bentley isn’t in terrible shape but he had only been handicapped for about a year so it must have been tiring having to roll this thing around by hand. Especially with all the tech packed into this thing. It must be heavy. It’s also important to note that Bentley isn’t a bloodthirsty character so apart from the bombs, there isn’t much on this chair that is going to take someone’s life.

Bentley's use of the Weapon

Given that Bentley crafted the chair for his own personal use, it has basically become an extension of his body. Like I said, he was able to do everything he could in Sly 2 in Sly 3 despite the lack of working legs. Yeah it did keep him from taking on any bosses as all they had to do was knock the chair over to take him out but Bentley but I’d still refer to this old turtle as handicapable rather than handicaped.

Conclusion

Bentaly’s chair is pretty impressive though I have to say, I’d only really recommend this thing to people who would really need. In otherwords, someone who is paralyzed. Though I’m sure anyone could use the chair, it would simply be more efficient to use your own legs. There is a reason Bentley didn’t develop something like this back when he could walk. Still, if you find yourself in the kinds of situations Bentley does on a regular basis, then this is a must have weapon. I’m certainly going to keep it handy in case my career as a Fire Fighter takes a dark turn.

Join me tomorrow as we revisit Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.

new sticker design(?)

I haven’t used pencil crayons in so long. Drew Penelope, just cuz her redesign was really cute, even with all the shit that happened.

I will never not have immense feels for this ship, even if I don’t necessarily know what they are.

How 'Sly Cooper 5' should start....

This scenario is the ONLY thing that could persuade me to purchase Sly Cooper 5 if Sanzaru ever makes it. Because it is pretty much the only way to salvage that mess of plot holes and character assassinations that made up Thieves in Time.

P.S. For those of you who are too young to get the “Dallas” reference, here’s the scene that my comic is stealing from spoofing.

betrayal and trust prompts

“i never thought you’d be the one to betray me.”

“after everything we’ve been through, this is how it ends?”

“i told you my deepest secrets, and this is how you repay me?”

“you’ve broken my trust, and I don’t know if I can ever forgive you.”

“i thought you were different, but you’re just like the rest.”

“i wish i could turn back time and see the truth sooner.”

“i don’t know if I can ever look at you the same way again.”

“you’ve shattered everything we built together.”

“was any of it real, or was it all a lie?”

“you were the last person I expected to hurt me.”

“i trusted you more than anyone else, and you broke that trust.”

“how long were you planning this? how long have you been lying to me?”

“you’ve left me with nothing but questions and a broken heart.”

Sanzaru looked at the silly one-off joke in Sly 3 where Penelope badly photoshops herself into a sexy femme fatale, and were like….‘what if we did that but For Real’

About Thieves In Time Redux's final boss fight...

I wanted to talk about the gameplay end of the fight scene. Remember how the vanilla boss fight was mostly QTEs? We'll only be seeing QTEs in the first and final phases.

The first phase, of course, has Penelope fighting Le Paradox, in an attempt to redeem herself.

As the fight progresses, the button commands increase in difficulty until they eventually become impossible for a human to complete. When that happens, Sly will join the fight and begin Phase 2.

You'll take control of Sly, Bentley, Murray, and Carmelita one after the other (in that order) as they enter the fight. No, you won't get to control the ancestors when they join in.

The final phase has you controlling Penelope again as she restarts her duel with Le Paradox. More QTEs follow, but now they're easier as our heroine gives her speech on what she learned about friendship.

Man, Sanzaru really saw my man Bentley get some bitches and said "absolutely not".

Medium Support for Cooper

Penelope wasn't informed that Carmelita went to this gym. Alternative of Carmelita because her chest fur is inconsistent.

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