#but now anytime im replaying it im like right away: oh so Dimitri is selling cocaine bought from the Indian black market in his club okay

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Yeah no upon reflection it's a little bonkers how people will see something mildly weird in media and go 'lol was the creator high' or 'this is just a metaphor for drugs' and it's reductive as hell but with Sly it's literally and unironically about a g-rated cocaine cocaine ring that just happens to involve the corpse of a giant robot bird

the effects of the "spices" in Sly 2 are explicitly: 1. Makes someone more vulnerable so suggestion, and 2. More prone to violence. That is literally just a combo of cocaine and rohypnol. The plot of Sly 2 is actually kinda nuts, something you might hear in either a crime drama or a high stakes action movie:

"A gang of criminals, all of whom work openly in the public eye, all work towards causing a mass riot in Paris fueled by drug enabled hypnosis. They also use the body parts of an ancient robotic criminal of legend, that killed our protagonist's parents and was blasted apart last time, to operate their crimes, but unbeknownst to them their leader is planning on backstabbing them all by use of one of two (TWO!) plants he has within Interpol to gather all those body parts so he could inject his soul into the newly reformed body."

Like that is wild for an early 2000's platformer about a racoon dude who steals stuff with the help of his two best friends, hippo wrestler and turtle hacker.