Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

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With Jak and Daxter, Naughty Dog basically retreads over the successes of their past, stopping to make a few necessary tweaks that had been sorely lacking in previous efforts along the way. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. At a glance, the game presents nothing all that noteworthy: a gratingly bubbly cartoonish cast, a story pulled right out of a coloring book, bright and shiny graphics to match, the existence of an occasional power-up and a large cluster of bottomless pits.

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[Aaron Robinson]

Quite a good review. You really went into a fair amount of detail. I'm curious though about what you thouhgt about the two sequals DRQ, since the series took a very dark turn from the next game onwards. Giving the title character a goatee, making the use of guns a major part of the gameplay as well as having alot more driving. I'll admit I'm not a fan of the series myself but my brother is quite fond of it, and from what I've seen and played the next two installments are pretty big improvements.

[Missy]

A review of Jal II, by drq, will hit the site on Thursday.

Hopefully he'll review Jak III shortly thereafter.

[Pablo Molinero]

Yikes, harsh. Easily the worst game in the Jak trilogy and I agree on most accounts: despite the forgettable story, gameplay was still quite solid. I doubt the graphics and sound have stood the test of time, but then it was released in the first year of the PS2, right? Still, I don't think it was that bad as to bring down the game that much.

The article itself was a great, in-depth analysis. Good breakdown of the game and picking each piece of the platformer apart.