Captain LeFwee, this so-called “smartest man on the seven seas”, may have gotten the better of us this day, but we’re nothing if not tenacious. We’ll bite back, and harder.
Let’s give him a show he won’t soon forget.
This particular segment just so happens to have many of my favorite missions in the entire game one after the other. The Kraken fight in particular is a great set piece, where both the Panda King and Sly get to shine. And then to pay it off by letting us play as that same sea monster, turning it against the scurvy dogs that we’ve been fighting this whole time… chef’s kiss.
Speaking of payoffs, Penelope’s duel against LeFwee himself is another, both for her and Bentley’s character arc and the time-honored tradition in pirate fiction of hypercompetent female leads who are roughly twenty times as capable as their male counterparts. There’s no better way to send off a pirate episode than such a daring duel on board a ship out to sea.
With that taken care of, and our final member on the team, we’re ready to finish this game next week.
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