The Sly Cooper Iceberg EXPLAINED 

UPDATE: During the last tier I mention a lost room tour video, the video was taken sometime in 2012 or 2013 and the video has been lost since. UNTIL January 2024, the video has been found and reuploaded. Here is a link! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xlJTrSlKig4.html

I wanna point out that the hair glitch is a result of Sly having an idle animation where he takes his hat off and that, for some reason, translates to his binocucom portrait as well

The name “Conner” was actually confirmed in the Sly Collection Official Straregy Guide when the game (and book) first released in 2010.

Sly Fan Theory: Sly Cooper is actually Slytunkhamen or Slytunkhamen II. At the end of Sly 4, Sly gets abandoned in Egypt. Without being rescued, it is theorized that Sly becomes Slytunkhamen or Slytunkhamen II, setting forth the events of the creation of the Thievious Racoonus & the Cooper Vault. And it'd make sense about Sly knowing how to use the Shadow Power Thief Technique to go invisible, because he learned how to do that in Sly 1. They also look strikingly similar. Sly was already a master thief by the end of Sly 4, and it'd make sense that Sly would've created the Thievious Racoonus to maintain his family's legacy. It also makes sense that Sly could've created The Cooper Vault to preserve the legacy of every Cooper's Fortune.

The Sly games were such a big part of my child hood. Growing up on Sony I played all the mascot games, and the Sly games always stuck out to me. The cast of characters are amazing, the music is sexy and suave, and not to mention the gameplay was simple yet fun. What a great series man. Im so mad we never got a Sly 5 or at least a new gen remaster of the trilogy

*points to **48:35* THAT'S ME WHAAAT. My friend messaged me to tell me I was mentioned in this and I'm SHOOK. I'm glad you thought my goofy lil fanfic was neat! It was a pretty fun passion project!

What do you mean the gambling scene was cut?! It's a game that revolves around stealing, and they draw the line at GAMBLING?!

Anybody wanna hear a sneaky little theory-that's-most-likely-a-fact? I have a very strong suspicion that the reason Carmelita's belly dance sequence exists is because the writer(s) most likely stumbled upon Sly 4: Cane of Destiny -- a fanfic outline written way back in 2009 in gamefaq. The fan fic in question covered what a Sly 4 might look like, and was EXTREMELY DETAILED, down to dialogue, job descriptions, and heist sequences. It was damn near like reading a novelization of a Sly game. The first level had a previously unknown Cooper Ancestor who was a magician, and could turn invisible using his cloak. It also introduced a gunslinging motorcycle-riding wolf character that acted as Carmelita's partner / superior, and had a resurrected Neyla (who used ice powers), Panda King and Jing King join the gang. Where the fanfic ended was in the second chapter, in the middle of the Arabian episode, where the VERY LAST THING written was about how in order to infiltrate a palace, Carmelita, Jing, and Neyla had to don belly dancer outfits (described almost exactly as shown during the slideshow prior to the heist in Thieves in Time). I am convinced that someone in Sanzaru stumbled upon that forum and took that scene and added it into Thieves in Time. The forum thread is still up as of me writing. Google "Sly 4 Cane of Destiny" and it'll be among the top 3

While it's kind of a bummer a lot of interesting entries don't have footage, it surprised me that something was actually new to me. I'm a long time fan of the Cooper Gang, and I seriously thought I knew almost everything about it! Great iceberg!

Here are some things you didn’t talk about that could be worth mentioning in an iceberg video: - The Cooper ancestors are named after Sucker Punch employees - The password is: Chetkido - Sly 3 advertisement on Xmas bus - The Diamond of Tuxmal - Sly Cooper: To Catch a Thief - Sly Cooper manga - Sly 4 has no Japanese release - Moo Goo

This is currently my favorite video. As a fan of the franchise since 2005 (when I got the first game for Christmas as a 4 year old and became OBSESSED; don't even get me started on how I reacted when I finally learned how to read and found that little thevius raccoonus game manual with hints at the 2nd game), I genuinely thought I knew most all there was to know. And yet now as I watch this, I'm not only surprised but absolutely ECSTATIC to find that there's even more to know about the franchise I grew up with. This video freaking rocks. It's so rare to find any iceberg videos with as much obscure information as this one, this is seriously awesome work

ALMOST 2 HOURS OF NEESTERHERE!?!? 😍 He sounds so professional 😭 if i had a biography this man needs to be the narrator.

15:31 actually the objective isn't to last as long as you can, the hacking game actually has a boss fight in the end Edit: I also wanna share that in the Finnish dub of Sly 3 Tsao says "she's a woman, she doesn't get to have opinions" as his sexist line💀

Great video, love sly cooper and love iceberg videos, very well produced, I just wish there was video footage of all of the entries. Keep up the great work!

Honestly your best video to date Its interesting, well edited, everything a good video needs

So, here I am at 3:10 AM, just watched an hour and a half Iceberg video of my favorite video game franchise in the world, and I don't regret one second of it. Sly Cooper is one of the most important video game franchises of all time for me, and even if I don't own all the games or merch (or anything like what slycooperrocks101 had 😅), I still loved this Iceberg and am so happy to see that Sly got justice with a Iceberg video of his own. Thank you so much for making this, you definitely earned a sub! BTW, I discovered this shark at 1:38:52 in around 2017 and was absolutely amazed and surprised that no one had posted about it on RU-vid but one guy. I hoped to make a video of my own someday and show this shark and get lots of attention, but I'm happier that it got mentioned on this Iceberg.

i love iceberg videos totally happy you did one! thank you for asking me to do some art for you >:3

Can't believe the amount of work and research that went into making this video! The result is absolutely amazing!

1:34:18 I got curious and did some digging, and I'm fairly sure I found the video in question. It's uploaded on my channel.

*Horseshoe subject* "Kinda like a totem in Minecraft!" *Eye twitches from everyone who ever played Crash Bandicoot...*

Very well made video and really good iceberg. Awesome stuff 🔥🔥

This is probly one of the longest Neester Videos i watched, worth every fucking second. This man has been a legend ever since i watched His First Video and im very glad i Stuck around ❤

I'm so glad you added the fruitcake thing omg. I remember pointing that out to my dad just to confirm that was messed up (he agreed) and I was waiting for you to mention it the whole time

A movie length of neesterhere😩👌

41:46 "Bentley, you've created a time paradox.... Fantastic work, the wheelchair hasn't slowed ya down one bit!"

I also found out that in the second part of the general tsao fight, I accidentally knocked him up instantly killed him, like the attack that kills the guards from behind (using triangle then square). Idk if this was pointed out yet or not, but very interesting! And i might’ve recorded it when I was playing the trilogy version of 3. EDIT: I killed him at half of his hp with the knockup attack, i can provide footage for you if this is intersting enough.

neester:THIS IS THE SICKEST SHIT EVER serious neester:welcome to my iceberg

This is by far one of the best Iceberg videos ever made

I think the Transylvania level with the bat (whose name was Dr. Mortimor, by the way) is actually from a scrapped game called Network of Thieves originally in development in 2008. I’ve been told it got shelved when Sanzaru started working on what eventually became Sly 4, and it never got recalled.

40:30 Because even in 2005 a VILLAIN saying a sexist line was controversial...

6:08 I have never seen Clockwork in episode 3, I always thought they didn't put an Easter egg there because he just didn't exist yet

15:06 I remember pressing random buttons and finding this as a kid, i was so excited to show my brother and that is how we found the series. It's a bit sad that newer generations likely won't experience finding something few people know about, considering the all info is on the internet. The plus side now obviously is you're less likley to miss out on something these days.

I miss my boy sly cooper bro where'd he go 😭 (Murray is the best character)

The canonically calling a guard a bitch section had me laughing so hard lol

As a kid born in 2002 and grew up with games, Sly being my fave franchise. Im more surprised at how much I already knew about this stuff due to me constantly playing the series over and over. Like how I would use the bouncy cheese as Carmalita in the Mugshot bossfight because it made the fight tediously easy too discover that little cutscene glitch. To remembering the old youtube videos of the guy doing edits for their own Sly 4 thieves in time. I could never forget that and if I recall correctly it included Bently jumping constantly to "If you wanna be my lover"? No clue but thanks for this retour down memory lane. I enjoyed the re-ride.

Bro your so fucking quick with this shit man great work also i would love to see more iceberg videos

3:09 uhhh hearing this theme made my heart jump!

Bentley without the com voice makes it sound like he is right in the same room as you when you are near that specific vault

Respect to Neester for making this, I ain’t watching alla dat but I’m proud he made

One thing I never noticed anybody bring up is why in Sly 2, the Clockwerk parts just keep changing size throughout the game. In the animated cutscenes, the tail feathers, which in game were pretty massive next to Sly, were so tiny that Sly was able to hold them in his hand. Same with the eyes. Clockwerk's fully built body also changed size a couple times throughout the last episode as well. His body became MUCH larger when you landed on Clock-La during the last mission.

1:32:00 - It's not just the Loud House. One of the episodes of the first season of Jeff Goldblum's Disney+ show has two tracks from Thieves in Time: the aforementioned rooftop theme and the main theme. Looking further into it, it seemed these respective tracks were, intentionally or otherwise, bundled into what appears to be a royalty-free music pack that sound engineers and music mixers use for tv. I have yet to find the actual music pack but this is no coincidence.

Btw the reason Sly's hat is misplaced during some of the binocucom cutscenes is because he has an idle animation where he leans on his cane and pushes his hat up.

Yessss sly content. This game franchise was my childhood.

More entries I'd like to add: In Sly 3 you can glitch into most werehouses using Bently's remote camera bomb and spamming the graple. This can sometimes pass some narrow gaps, even the treasure room in the skull fort in episode 5. In the same episode while sailing and fighting other captains, it is possible to one-shot a captain with the triangle triangle X or 3triple triangle X with sly. this happened to me only once. something that maybe belong to the upper layers but Murry's triangle square move is almost an insta kill to anything, a stun and a kick. Panda King has only two playable missions, he too got a binocucom. Bently's sucking vortex bomb can be detonated mid air. this will cause the target to tuble as it shrink. (had lots of fun doing this on the plane's ramp in episode 3). In the presentation of bently for operation Moonfall, one slide will show Bently from Sly 2 using the mojo collector. Sly cant hit a flashligh guard with a triangle X move that has more than one triangle (guess they are too heavy.) and lastly a well known theory is circulating that the Clockwerck is a time guardian trying to destroy the Sly paradox which came to be since Sly ends in Egypt and become the first ancestor. (there is a video showing that the egyptian Sly in Sly 3 And in sly 1 are two different racoons as one is the 1st and the other is 3rd or 2nd or something like that) the Clockwerk got corrupted since each ancestor dies solves nothing because the only family memeber that should have died is Sly himself. one last thing that I cannot prove since my PS3 and PS2 arent working as intended- while playing as Dimitri and going to the surface if possible (like in episode 5) his bionocucum/ scuba diving goggles change a bit.

there’s a lot to unpack with that PSP Carmelita concept art… what are those sound effects for her spinning her gun?

Just want to point out for the “Believe you me” dialogue, that is a real English phrase, so Muggshott’s voice actor just ad libbed that part of the line and the subtitles weren’t updated to match.

This is an amazing video, thank you. I miss Sly Cooper it’s my childhood

imo the reason sly didnt save his parents is due to the fact that he knows about the causation paradox (going back in time to fix a thing and then not needing to fix it so it doesnt get fixed then it loops) and that if he did save his parents the cooper gang wouldnt of been founded

I may have somewhat of a theory regarding Dimitri's special intro mentioned at 47:20 So, I once played this demo of Sly 2 (possibly coupled with one of the Ratched & Clank games) and I remember it including the beginning heist from the game as well as this particular trailing mission, nothing else. After the beginning heist the game simply throws you straight into the trailing mission and all the context the demo provides is what Bentley says at the beginning of the mission. We don't get to see the chapter intro introducing Dimitri, so the first time he is shown is when he comes out of the boat. I think there are two (potentially overlapping) possibilities why Dimitri in particular has a special intro: 1) It was merely made with this demo in mind. Given how the player is just dropped into the mission without any other context, this was a way to showcase one of the game's villains for a demo player. And given how the main trio were introduced in a similar manner, it doesn't really look out of place since he _is_ pretty much as important character as them. 2) At the time of making the demo, the devs did intend to have a special intro for each of the bosses as well and they structured the trailing mission's cutscenes with that idea in mind. But for whatever reason, the idea was scrapped for the rest of them. Yet since the special intro was already made for Dimitri _and_ showcased in the demo, they decided to just keep it. Ever since I played the game and the demo, I had theorized 1) to be the reason for this oddly singular villain intro. But this video made me realize that this demo is probably not that well-known _or_ played for most other people to reach the same conclusion. I hope this gave some additional perspective for this.

my favorite episode has to be the Canada stage, not only Jean has such a charisma that hits the spot just right, the music settings when outside hits the spot considering the area, and it's in my country 😻😻😻

-i dont know who the hell sly cooper is- but OVER ONE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEESTER GAWD DAYUM and it appears the reason why i didnt know who sly cooper was is stated in the video. neat.

Ive never heard of this game and now im interesed im going to go try it all out. Wish me like

In regards to Bentley (Matt Olsen) saying ‘That’s a nice one.’ It was an older line but was overlooked when they were replacing with new audio. Matt wasn’t available to to record a new line due to attending a family members funeral which was in a different country. They were going to mix something out of what they already had but Matt wouldn’t sign to say he would allow them to do so (it wasn’t part of his original contract for them to remix his personal dialogue) Matt insisted he wasn’t trying to be difficult but wasn’t in the right mind frame to be signing anything that would allow them to use his voice recordings not as originally intended in the future.

The Neyla mission (Midnight Rendezvous) didn’t outright *replace* Ride the Chopper; it still existed in the demos, but it had a different purpose, so it was altered to have the same function as the chopper mission.

1:31:09 Oh my god FINALLY someone mentions this!!! It has always bothered me since the second game that Sly NEVER mentions his mom!! Its always his dad which makes sense and he even mentions BOTH his parents died that night But WHY does he never bring her up otherwise?

My nephew found the "Murray picking up the dynamite" thing out of nowhere, I been playing Sly Cooper for YEARS and never ever knew you could do that! Dude's a guru😄😄

Tennessee dying from hanging is only in that alternate time. In the original timeline he dies from clockwork.

43:28 Knowing its actually canon that Murray was drugged by the Contessa with hallucinogenic "spices" makes this even funnier. Murray has been chasing that purple dragon ever since. Yet another child actor ruined by drugs and alcohol. I hear Bentley staged an intervention 😔😔😔💔💔

I still play the trilogy on PS2 after 2 decades as Sly Cooper is my favorite video game franchise aside from Grand Theft Auto.

1:34:00 i remember that slycooperrocks101 video. i used to watch her videos when i was younger. also being a mega sly fan myself. and i remember recently remembering she existed and all the videos are gone. didn't think anybody else would care so i found it as a lost cause. but i remember her having a tutorial video of "how to be a thief" where she parodied sly cooper with her friend. and both of her room tour videos, and her piano videos playing sly ost. i wonder where she is now? i remember she made a video that she wouldn't be uploading as much because of college, now its just all gone.

In terms of glitches, I can never really think of anything that could ever top what happened in SGB's playthrough of Sly 2 where his hat kept disappearing in the final act until Sly literally lost his head and was running around like a decapitated chicken until the game crashed. My theory--those damn propeller blades, man. Bad ending.

I applaud you for this iceberg dude😭❤️❤️❤️

okay im kind of suprised this didnt make it into the video but... the ending of sly 4 is supposed to imply a time loop where sly becomes slytenkahmen after being stuck in ancient egypt and then with his knowledge from the future creating the cooper vault and everything. it also lines up with how slytenkahmen is the only one of the ancestors that has sly in the name, like he made it up on the spot and then rolled with it. as far as i know, the only move from the thievius raccoonus that you have to purchase as a gadget in the later games is shadow power also how sly's cane was modified to split in two by Bentley in sly 2 matches the double canes that slytenkahmen is shown to have. there is a LOT of stuff with the story of sly 4 and sly 4 in general that i dont like, but the ending is actually a kind of clever way to tie it together i thought

Personally, I'm of the opinion that Penelope in Sly 3 and Penelope in Sly 4 are actually twins - with the one in Sly 3 being the *mostly* good twin (she was engaged in certain criminal activities, as it were), and the one in Sly 4 is the more evil one. My idea is that the Evil twin found out about the Good one's success, got jealous, encountered La Paradox, and they abducted the Good one, and made her make the various gadgets and such, with the Good one being stuck back in the Medieval days.

its amazing to finally get confirmation that the fanmade sly 4 video was actually real and not something i imagined 😂

Incredible video!

Solid proof that views number and quality are not necessarily correlated because this is one of the best icebergs and only got 10k views which is a shame It deserves 100k+ like a lot of other

Great video, only disappointed with how many of these were glitches. It felt like filler, if you ever do another game iceberg I'd definitely love to see more facts, lore, theories, easter eggs, and cut content.

what about the soundeffect that plays when doing a master thief sprint in sly 1 , it always reminded me of the mk toastie soundeffect ...

Helo. I love that you make the content you like :D

34:00 actually, the loot you see in the overworlds were originally supposed to be in interiors and this was one of the locations for them

Found the slycooperrocks101 person on deviant art btw last post was from 2015 tho

34:09 it’s cut content from the E3 demo (I believe, the one with the keycards) that would’ve contained a treasure within the actual mission to bring back to the safe house

Sly Cooper legit gets me so emotional hearing others talk about it. I cant believe they just dropped everything It deserves a reboot!

This getting uploaded while I’m replaying them through PS Plus is an insane coincidence… maybe I should buy lotto tickets more often

Dope iceberg vid 🤙

Lots of good info here, I do however have one correction. 1:38:50 We do have something of an idea. Because her look for the TV series got leaked, and since they were following a more simplified movie design, we can guess just how much more detailed it would've been.

27:51 I always thought of it as a evolution of his character

You should do a Ratchet & Clank and Jak and Daxter Iceberg

I played sly coopter 2 a lot, Sadly i lost my game thingy, Pretty neat actually hearing someone talk about this tho

Good video but the take about "how can a video game run out of budget" is such an L take that I seriously rolled my eyes 💀 Whenever working on a large-scale production, not just video games, running out of budget is extremely common. Almost every video game has stuff cut out due to budget.

Another thing about Panda King being first: Sly was originally going to learn the “climb” move from Panda King’s vault, but Sucker Punch made it to where he could climb things from the start and changed Panda King’s Thievius Raccoonus pages to contain a turret and a battering ram added to the Cooper Van.

I played the Sly games for the first time recently and I noticed too how a couple of Bentley’s plans involve outright murder in the 3rd game. 😆

In Sly 3, you can push General Tso into the wall and then Knockout Dive him and then juggle him and use Silent Obliteration to kill him instantly.

Imagine a heist movie with Sly Cooper, Bentley, Murray, and probably Dimitri among others. He's the most stand out and you would probably want at least 5 characters. Carmelita would definitely show up but wouldn't be a part of the heist. The question becomes would the movie be about something that has happened in the games or something original.

Why on earth is your iceberg getting progressively bloodier

i uhhhm, have to watch this at .75 speed sometimes rn. i might be too tired, you're speaking so fast aaaaaaah !!

i miss this game so much but all my old console are broken, im left the emulatores i wish i could play the original one last time and a new sly cooper game

1:17:53 bro Are ya trying to expose me bro, like I know who the artist is 😵

Worth mentioning for the Sly 1 anime part it was ACTUALLY the Japanese version’s intro & ending cutscenes that use that artstyle. The other cutscenes are the same

Something about Tennessee's death that I wanted to point out: The reason why he was in jail and awaiting execution in the first place was because of Le Paradox interfering with the timeline, so the possibility of him being taken out by Clockwerk still holds weight

OMG!! You mentioned slycooperrocks101!! I used to watch them all the time! I thought they were so cool. I dreamed of having their room 😂 Their videos forever live in my memories 🖤

About the human theory... What if inFamous 2 Bad ending was the reason why Sly cooper's world exist? In the game, millions died and just a thousand survived because they're conduits, and after a hypotetical war for many differences, the human conduits died while the animal conduits survived and had their evolution to be anthros while others are still non anthro animals. PD: Carmelita's 2nd voice is the best and the last one really makes me say "Okay, she's a latina"

THIS SERIES WILL FOREVER BE IN MY HEART!!!! THIEF NET WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY

I believe that if they picked the movie up again, they NEED to do a spider-verse esqe style. It would be perfect.

I'm a bit late to the party here, but just in case the creator of the video still reads these comments, I actually have a little nugget of information regarding the Carmelita voice actresses switching out each game. In B-mask's videos on the three games, he includes several snippets of interviews with the main 3 voice cast of Sly. Kevin Miller himself said that he vaguely remembers that the reason was that no one on staff was fully satisfied with one voice performance over another. Some actress' accents would come and go, people would find their accents incomprehensible at times - to hear Kevin tell it, none of the three voices were good enough in Sucker Punch's eyes to keep around. I've also heard rumor that changing her VA was some sort of internal running joke at Sucker Punch - but take that with a grain of salt cuz I don't even remember where I heard that.

I always thought those weird black shadows on Murray’s mask were oil stains.

With all the bits added into other games and various other Easter eggs, i gotta wonder how many other publishers may want to see a new Sly game.

50:10 I always just kinda assumed as a kid that Sly was just asking random male guards to pose like theyre a married couple and the joke is "haha hes saying theyre a couple but theyre actually not" I realized pretty quickly after my more recent playthroughs. But I never put together that how sly said "happy" photos meant/implied "gay" I just kinda thought that was a joke about the general being a dictator and the guards are forced to look happy in photos so they arent killed by him

I actually like this, too bad it's not getting any recognition 😢