Thieves In Time Redux Meme #9

For context, we see this happen midway through the El Jefe boss fight.

Before the boss fight, Penelope ran off towards the blimp without anyone seeing her. She has a decision to make when she sees Sly and El Jefe having their duel...

Yes, she does end up doing the right thing. She provides aerial support for Sly.

The others are fully aware she's gone missing. Yes, she does get scolded for running off when she comes back... primarily by Bentley. Though she is partially let off the hook for helping Sly.

The fact that she's being targeted by kidnappers doesn't help her case in the slightest.

At least she's only scolded for running off. That definitely beats getting reamed for the act of betrayal... That secret is still safe, BTW.

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.

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jenna12381

10 months ago

Here’s your intermittent reminder that Penelope the mouse

is introduced as explicitly a better RC specialist than Bentley

a top-tier engineer and mechanic

so good at dogfighting than when she became a combat pilot “at a young age” she was instantly elevated to celebrity status

very convincing at pretending to be a different age and gender???

apparently wasn’t lying about being a trained boxer

can hack pretty good

easily matches and contends with Bentley’s intellect and could, therefore, plan heists pretty good

just fuckin picked up a sword and used it to murder a guy who had dedicated his life to being an old-timey pirate captain, and, by extension, swordfighting.

Penelope could kick the ass of the collective Cooper Gang at any point and the only reason she doesn’t is to be polite