I know Naughty Dog made the Crash trilogy, and those games will always be super important to me as they got me into gaming. But I really do think Precursor Legacy is their masterpiece. So incredible for the time and it still holds up insanely well.
Thank god i had an older brother who could do these levels for me, i remember on the final boss in jak 2 he did the jet board jump glitch to get up the cliff, thought he was a god
I must say I quite enjoyed the older review episodes of Jak and Daxter but this really was a level up. You paid some great respect and detail to each of the titles. Great work awesome production yet again. :)
I was just replaying the trilogy a little while back. Even after all of these years, I can never get enough of them. I find the characters endearing, the world so interesting, and the games are just fun. I make it a point to marathon them every summer because, as you mentioned, they're replayable. The other half of the series are merely supplemental, though I did enjoy Jak X and found Daxter and The Lost Frontier all right. As for the Precursor twist in Jak 3, it was actually foreshadowed a couple of times by Seem with lines like "You [Daxter] may carry the color of our creators..." and mentioning seeing the face of the creators one last time... in front of Daxter. I don't know what that Precursor spirit from the Stone in Jak II was all about, but outside of that, it's a nice subversion on what people might usually view gods or deities as.
Dude, this is one of my freaking favorite video game series EVER. I fucking pray that we get a good sequel someday lol I hope to make videos on these games some day :)
Square Eyed Jak Dude, I knowww! I feel like there’s finally hope, but I’m afraid to be let down xD For a split second, I thought the end of the new Ratchet and Clank trailer was Haven City too, and I almost shit my pants lol
Square Eyed Jak Seriously! It’s unlikely, but I’m always gonna have that little bit of hope that it’s possible xD it’s so sad that the only legit PS crossovers we’ve gotten are Move Heroes and AllStars Battle Royale -____- not that they were terrible, but God damn, the potential is insane lol
Good lord I remember the days when I first got my PS2! My mum brought me GTA Sanandreas, Jak 2, Spiderman 2 and Spyro Enter The Dragonfly... My mum wanted to play Spyro with me, we turned it on and her first words were "What is this sh't? This isn't PS1 Spyro, sorry for swearing honey do you want to play GTA?"😂😂I will always remember that, Great video Jak you're awesome
You really are the king of logo's dude, it adds such a level of professionalism to your videos. This was the thing that drew me to your channel. Keep it up!
I don't need to use the FM on my PS3 but it goes through for PS1 games sake, so I slightly tweaked some settings for it. But nothing major. I'm also using HDMI, that helps majorly.
A touch I love is how Eco has gone from this mystical energy into something traced; converted to ammo for your Morph Gun it makes the world feel like it’s evolved a lot over the years. I also love the twists of Young Jak and Kor. They are foreshadowed enough to where you can catch on but it’s not in your face about it, and it’s easier to catch these details on a second play through. It’s honestly really interesting going back to this game years later because you could see this as an origin for Naughty Dog’s storytelling style that we’ve seen in Uncharted and The Last of Us. A change of the times which is what they were going for.
On 17:15 The ambush in the water sums as I remember correctly it was painful back in my nostalgic childhood and now as a young adult I finally got though the F*KING mission by the first lucky try.
Super happy for your success, Jak! I already enjoyed your reviews as they were in your old place, but since you've moved out I have noticed a huge increase in quality overall. This review being a great example. Keep at it, man, and look forward to more content from ya!
Not the best place for this, but can we just appreciate the fact that there are 101 power cells in Jak 1, allowing you to KEEP the muse for yourself without any penalty?
For me it's become so much easier. I played the Precursor Legacy first though so I was pretty used to the controls and move sets again, maybe that's why it seemed harder for ya
For the longest time, I've owned a PS2 demo disk with the Jak 3 demo, which I played a TON since I was young. Those levels are permanently burned into my mind. Having just had the chance to play and finish the trilogy, I've got to say these games have easily become some of my all-time favorites. I absolutely loved them! Oh, and Jak X. Absolutely fucking awesome. That's all I have to say about that. Great review, Jak! Now onto the Ratchet & Clank trilogy...
To this day, the original Jak and Daxter is arguably my favorite game of all time. A gorgeous world to explore, beautiful soundtrack, intriguing lore/worldbuilding and loveable characters. Not to mention Jak's brilliant moveset, which makes for some absolutely top-tier platforming gameplay. The amount of crazy bullshit you can do to overcome self-imposed challenges (e.g. No Orb run) is awesome. Yes, the bosses are rather weak and the cutscenes are unskippable, but the pros massively outweigh the cons for me.
Perfect or not, this series has and always will continue to have a big, and i mean big influence and impact on me. Even since the early days. Jak truly was naughty dog's best effort, and my opinion: more than worthy of it's legacy, inspite of any nitpicks and occasional bs they may throw at the player. It's always a pleasure to return to this iconic gem of a series. - And the slums ambush is to Jak 2 what "Set to Kill" is to Simpsons: Hit and Run, and i'd equally put them on the top-prize pedestal in the hall of gaming infamy.
This is such a gem and throwback! The original reviews of the series is how I found you and you also re-convinced me to source a PS3 and play the HD remasters of them!!! Been watching as a fellow aussie every since!
It took me 15 minutes to realize that thing on your t-shirt isn't sweat or some water stain. Anyways, fanatstic video as always! I started watching your videos because of your Jake & Daxter reviews. Can't believe it already has been 5 years since it! Your evolution as a content creator is evident!
28:46 Actually, I liked this revelation about the Precursors; it's both funny (something that is in line with the tone of the first game and I always enjoy) and totally unexpected
About the whole "Precursors are ottsels" reveal, I noticed that it was foreshadowed not only in the third game, but even the first game! In Samos' opening narration asking himself who the Precursors were, the answers rested on the shoulders of a young boy (Jak). Daxter rests on his shoulders whenever they're out on an adventure. As well as in Jak 3 with Seem saying things like "You may carry the colours of our creators, animal" and thanking him for the future.
There was definitely forward planning but I still don't like it. It lands more like a cheap and easy joke which should NEVER be the core of your entire narrative. Even if it was suggested that precursors take on many forms (which would also explain the Dark Makers also being precursors) I'd be ok with it. Cause it's still a joke for laughs but it's not blatant fact that ferrets created the entire universe etc.
@@SquareEyedJak I see what you mean, 2 years later I still laugh. But when you build up this lore through 3 games just for a throw away joke. It kinda breaks the emersion a bit. But hey I still would like to know the precursor history between them and it's enemies I can still feel emersed if jak 4 pushed a more bigger narrative with the precursor lore and even with it's connections with jak and mar. But for now it's still disappointing.
I think this trilogy is a masterpiece. The "best" one is actually the first one because of it's open world, music and platforming and the way the world comes together. Jak 2 and Jak 3 are both amazing. Jak 2 has the best story. Jak 3 is my favorite power fantasy because you're so stacked that you can literally almost just play how you want. :)
17:15 I found out just last week you can kill the thing in the water with a dark jak bomb... and now I want to go back and see if it's true.... cause fuck that level
I liked this. The synchronicity is pretty cool cuz I just watched all your old Jak and Daxter reviews and then ordered the same HD 3 game collection for myself to play I've only played Jack to so this will be a good chance to experience them all again.
While I still really enjoy your older Jak & Daxter reviews despite their aged presentation and humour, it’s pretty crazy just how much you’ve improved your production values and general video quality from then.
Oh man jak and daxter really need a remade. They aged like fine wine, but a new engine and lighting could make them feel like a modern series. Jak II is my favorite but it needs a difficulty select that gives more check points on easier settings. Also jak II needs more effects to live up the city. Having the city slowly change with how many missions like the pedestrians going against the crimson guards, to opening new hidden paths that lead to goodies would really be a nice bonus. Great review my man. Keep it up.
Square Eyed Jak finally enough I never knew what the games was like before this channel I thought just another PlayStation exclusive but I never knew it was this type of game
Jak & Daxter will never get old for me, always glad to replay them from time to time. I remember watching the original reviews like it was yesterday, hard to believe it's been five years. BTW the easiest way to beat that slums ambush is to mash the square button to spam Jak's punch, makes it a hell of a lot easier.
Was fun seeing your take a look back at one of the older series you reviewed. Still remember putting off watching your reviews because I was playing through Jak and Daxter myself :)
you are correct, the Design Bible for Jak and Daxter TPL, lays out the level design for the game, and there was suppose to be an additional hub area for the yellow sage
Aw 2015 , the year where you constantly teased fans on a possible Ratchet and clank retrospective (and we fans didnt shut up about it) , now that brings me back .😁
Compared to the original videos, the polish in this video (and other recent ones) shines brilliantly. As for the games, I find it way too hard to pick a personal favourite from the trilogy. Each entry has its merits that help them stand out from each other and that's something I can greatly appreciate.
Nice to see a new Jak and Dacter review. And it's nice to see you as well. You and Daddy Caddy are my favorite reviewers on the internet. :) hope you have a great fuckin day.
This trilogy will always be one of if not my favorite trilogy in gaming. God I love it. I could play jak and Daxter every day of my life. Jak 2 pisses me off, but I love it. Jak 3 is probably my favorite though. It's so huge, and so fun
I can't believe these games are over 20 years old now... Times were simpler, then. When video stores were still around, when portable media was still in its formative years, and when the world wasn't so uncertain. I'm confident that we'll never get a remake of this trilogy, but that's alright because we have an unofficial PC port known as OpenGOAL. Jak 3 support is still in development, but I was able to play Jak 1 and 2 from start to finish with minimal bugs and glitches.
I missed out on a good trilogy of games when I was a kid I played jak 2 & 3 it for the very first time yesterday and I've had a ps2 since 2005 i also loved hearing the rugrats theme at 15:23
Man, it hurts to see my favorite out of the Trilogy get the lowest score like that XD But it was really freaking awesome to see these three classics back on the channel regardless, really goes to show how much you've grown as a reviewer too! Great work as usual, man.
Excellent analysis on the series, Jak! Your style and review process have definitely matured during these years! I always find myself agreeing to your final scores, they're well-reasoned and accurate of the game's positives and negatives. Too many times reviewers slap a 10/10 when they like a game and a 4/10 when they don't like it and that just misses the point of reviewing entirely. Keep up the amazing work man :)
God this took me back, I’ve just downloaded the trilogy for PS4 and I cannot wait to live through all like I did when I was a kid!! Also how do you get those fonts?? I’ve been wanting to do that for ages but never found out how
Might I add that the character appearances improved throughout the games. Jak in particular. First game he was just a shy awkward kid? Second game he became this short tempered rebel with his hair weirdly combed back. And in the third game he became a literal badass with arguably one of the best character designs imho.
I unfortunately don't have fond memories of Jak & Daxter as I only got to experience it the first time just a few years ago, and didn't own a PS2 until 2005. But to those who have many fond and/or frustrating memories of the trilogy, cheers. Also, I need to watch the original reviews of these games sometime.
I got each one the Xmas they released as a kid, it was almost a tradition during the ps2 gen to play a new jak game on Xmas. The first one blew me away so much at the time haha.
I used to have them but don't remember them very well. I later got the trilogy digitally in 2012 I think and there was fine, even Sly I've tried, 1 was alright for what I got to and 2 I don't care for and get about a far way through the 2nd area I think, not played 3 yet. I find the characters cool, the stories alright, the gameplay to be fine but the mission structure of going back and forth and open world like is so boring to me. It can feel like padding and sticking to a level for hours instead of moving on the rest of the story, moves, locations, etc. I get what Naughty Dog was going for but while I suck at Precursor Legacy I do prefer it, while 2 & 3 I've beaten (3 up to the Final Boss but 2 I beat) I didn't enjoy them that much. I'm not into open world in general though. The missions were fine and what they were going for being GTA like made sense for the time but I don't care for these sorts of games. Even for getting to GTA late I own Liberty City stories on PSP and while I know it's not that comparable to SA or otherwise I don't care for it, the only thing I find impressive is the city recreation, the rest is uninteresting (yes even modern entries I don't enjoy either. Sunset Overdrive and Gravity Rush maybe but otherwise I get too bored due to how they don't make the moves interesting. Gravity or Grinding I can get behind, running/slashing stuff or doing things that are helping someone besides doing a minigame I can find very boring. Sure Jak 2 & 3 have minigames but some are quest like things you just don't care about doing like modern games I find and even then the minigames can be boring and overdone in linear games so the scale only kind of helps if it is or isn't crowded with walls or people to bump into and kind of makes it worse to reach the goals if they are too large or just annoying stretches of land with a bunch of hills or tight corners that sure work but are still uninteresting if you re-use a vehicle/do a similar challenge a few minutes or hours later you have already experienced). But I'm not into realistic games, I'm more into fantasy/sci-fi or fictional worlds, the closest I get to caring for realistic is alternate history stuff like Resistance or Wolfenstein but that's about it. I'm for larger worlds so we don't have too thin corridors, but I find large rooms work not large worlds, I find it impressive for showing off the engine/scale, not 'recreating a country' levels of scale like we might expect in the future or getting a recreated virtual holidays or otherwise big of sizes as they aren't always that interesting and the Point A to B taking too long is just like a long car ride, its boring! And swing/running or whatever to a destination isn't fun no matter who the skin/method of getting there is changed. It might be for 5 minutes but not the whole game when you'd want to teleport there to get through it quicker to play it properly over say glitches/speedrunning techniques.
A pleasant surprise Jak. You’ve really come a long way in terms of overall quality in your videos :) While I love the original reviews for their charm, this is most certainly a worthy successor. Also, in regards to the Mole things in Precursor Basin. The trick is not to go full speed at them, as the fear of being torn to ribbons by that big F off propeller makes them run about erratically. Easing up on the throttle makes them a lot easier to herd around. That said, that particular mission is really annoying.
i spend SO LONG trying to get thise animals in the holes.. I found out they do take specific laps and you dont necessarily chase them into their holes, but chase them until they are near the hole in their lap path; then cut them off towards the hole
I do agree 100% with your Jak 3 weapon criticism. Last time I played through Jak 3 I forced myself to ONLY use the Jak 2 weapons and I did not purchase any upgrades. This actually made the game significantly more challenging and sort of forces you to utilize your dark and light powers once the difficulty increases.
On my latest playthrough of the series I really appreciated the most difficult missions of Jak 2, as I noticed that a lot of tactical knowledge I've gathered around came to use. A lot coming down to utilizing cover and managing sight-lines. And in some missions like the ambus and Haven Forest invisible metalhead hunt where I'd turn down or the music to listen to where enemies are coming from. Actually having to revise strategies. Hence why I think that Jak2 probably has the best replay value in the series.
@@sebastiankulche Now that the Jak 3 openGOAL PC port is in the works I wonder if we're gonna see some fan make a mod that tweaks the difficulty to make more use of the upgrades. Like a couple of things I'd change from the get go would be making the healing not stop time and upping the beam reflectors ammo consumption by like 5x. Another idea I've had would making the beam reflectors ricochet's do damage to Jak as well and making the super nova damage Jak too without using the shield.
I was really hoping you would say something about the ambush in the water slums area... when I was a kid it took me MONTHS to get past it.. I started making new save files to replay from the start.
I can tell you the water slums challenge isn't even the hardest challenge of Jak II, if you ever unlock hero mode, good luck doing the "destroy ship at drill platform" mission, it is without question in my mind the hardest mission in the whole Jak series.
I got stuck in that ambush level for so long, but I realized the best way is not to fight, so I speedrunned through the cops in the hoverboard, plus I had a lot of fun trying to stay over the bridges while dodging the cops in high speed
Love jak and daxter. I always wanted a ps2 version of the daxter solo game for psp. But I guess they would have just done a ps2 remaster for it like they did with ratchet and clank size matters for ps2 which was originally a psp game
I know Naughty Dog made the Crash trilogy, and those games will always be super important to me as they got me into gaming. But I really do think Precursor Legacy is their masterpiece. So incredible for the time and it still holds up insanely well.
couldnt agree more
Naughty dog never dissapoints
Except with tlou 2 but that doesnt matter
@@gergopiroska5749I loved TLOU 2 but I like Jak 2 better
So not only nostalgia for jak and daxter but now i start feel nostalgic about ur jak reviews, keep it up
“Get torn on the line, we’re in trouble!”
“Shoot em all now, sort em out later!”
“We need more men!”
“I miss the old baron”
You read my mind. Same here lol
I *just* finished my playthrough of Jak 3, so those lines are still very fresh in my memory...
“I bagged me ten metal heads this week”
"I miss the old Baron"
"The city's lost"
AAAAAAAAAGH
Honestly can't believe it's been 5 years since you talked about the Jak and Daxter trilogy , it kind of feels pretty nostalgic.
I agree
Yes
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Thank god i had an older brother who could do these levels for me, i remember on the final boss in jak 2 he did the jet board jump glitch to get up the cliff, thought he was a god
Call him up and thank him🤝🏽 never had a brother so just had to do it myself lol
Holy crap, I wasn’t expecting seeing this series again and didn’t expect me to live it
LoweredTech 92 I know right
Jak & Daxter was the first game I ever purchased with my own employment money at age 16. Holds a special place in my heart
I must say I quite enjoyed the older review episodes of Jak and Daxter but this really was a level up. You paid some great respect and detail to each of the titles. Great work awesome production yet again. :)
I was just replaying the trilogy a little while back. Even after all of these years, I can never get enough of them. I find the characters endearing, the world so interesting, and the games are just fun. I make it a point to marathon them every summer because, as you mentioned, they're replayable. The other half of the series are merely supplemental, though I did enjoy Jak X and found Daxter and The Lost Frontier all right.
As for the Precursor twist in Jak 3, it was actually foreshadowed a couple of times by Seem with lines like "You [Daxter] may carry the color of our creators..." and mentioning seeing the face of the creators one last time... in front of Daxter. I don't know what that Precursor spirit from the Stone in Jak II was all about, but outside of that, it's a nice subversion on what people might usually view gods or deities as.
Dude, this is one of my freaking favorite video game series EVER. I fucking pray that we get a good sequel someday lol I hope to make videos on these games some day :)
Well... we did get that example of the Haven City map in the early discussion of PS5 load times... 👀
Square Eyed Jak Dude, I knowww! I feel like there’s finally hope, but I’m afraid to be let down xD For a split second, I thought the end of the new Ratchet and Clank trailer was Haven City too, and I almost shit my pants lol
WOAH that'd actually be so cool and a great way to do a crossover... better than PS Move Heroes ever could be.
Square Eyed Jak Seriously! It’s unlikely, but I’m always gonna have that little bit of hope that it’s possible xD it’s so sad that the only legit PS crossovers we’ve gotten are Move Heroes and AllStars Battle Royale -____- not that they were terrible, but God damn, the potential is insane lol
One day.. one day 😌
It's incredible how much you got better with time, starting with terrible reviews and now here you are making awesome videos
I love these games so much. played them lots when i was a kid
I still like the "Hey, look, I found the light!" joke in the original reviews. Sure, it was corny, but even so...
Good lord I remember the days when I first got my PS2! My mum brought me GTA Sanandreas, Jak 2, Spiderman 2 and Spyro Enter The Dragonfly...
My mum wanted to play Spyro with me, we turned it on and her first words were "What is this sh't? This isn't PS1 Spyro, sorry for swearing honey do you want to play GTA?"😂😂I will always remember that,
Great video Jak you're awesome
You really are the king of logo's dude, it adds such a level of professionalism to your videos. This was the thing that drew me to your channel.
Keep it up!
Thank you, I actually had help with this one though.
Gotta give credit to Petronious: th-cam.com/channels/EyQqVIR62iNPE81xvycnIg.html
@@SquareEyedJak How do you get your ps3 footage so clear? You still using that Framemeister? Mine looks really blurry..
I don't need to use the FM on my PS3 but it goes through for PS1 games sake, so I slightly tweaked some settings for it. But nothing major. I'm also using HDMI, that helps majorly.
A touch I love is how Eco has gone from this mystical energy into something traced; converted to ammo for your Morph Gun it makes the world feel like it’s evolved a lot over the years.
I also love the twists of Young Jak and Kor. They are foreshadowed enough to where you can catch on but it’s not in your face about it, and it’s easier to catch these details on a second play through. It’s honestly really interesting going back to this game years later because you could see this as an origin for Naughty Dog’s storytelling style that we’ve seen in Uncharted and The Last of Us. A change of the times which is what they were going for.
On 17:15 The ambush in the water sums as I remember correctly it was painful back in my nostalgic childhood and now as a young adult I finally got though the F*KING mission by the first lucky try.
Isaac Rodriguez is it as painful as it looks sorry I haven’t play these games
@@n1njahawkssecondchannel84 Whatever do you mean I could care less what you think! So try to roast me I dare you!
Super happy for your success, Jak! I already enjoyed your reviews as they were in your old place, but since you've moved out I have noticed a huge increase in quality overall. This review being a great example. Keep at it, man, and look forward to more content from ya!
Cheers dude!
Not the best place for this, but can we just appreciate the fact that there are 101 power cells in Jak 1, allowing you to KEEP the muse for yourself without any penalty?
Good to see a revisit on this amazing series
Loved this AND the intro! Very nice. Love seeing your channel grow.
Thanks!
I literally just replayed Jak 2 I swear it gets harder the older I get lol, still tho these game remain to be my favorite series of all time.
Gets harder? Fam it gets easier lol.
For me it got easier to, but its cause of my gaming experience (little whisper: Thank you Dark Souls, I got better in any game because of you ;) )
For me it's become so much easier. I played the Precursor Legacy first though so I was pretty used to the controls and move sets again, maybe that's why it seemed harder for ya
@@buster3041 dog shit forced racing missions
Yes I've been waiting for this bro thanks for a great video Square eyed Jak I love you brother!
For the longest time, I've owned a PS2 demo disk with the Jak 3 demo, which I played a TON since I was young. Those levels are permanently burned into my mind. Having just had the chance to play and finish the trilogy, I've got to say these games have easily become some of my all-time favorites. I absolutely loved them!
Oh, and Jak X. Absolutely fucking awesome. That's all I have to say about that.
Great review, Jak! Now onto the Ratchet & Clank trilogy...
this is probably my favorite game series of all time, despite the iffy parts of certain games, but i have so much nostalgia for it.
I only found your channel recently because of the Jak series. Glad my childhood favorites could introduce me to such a funny lad
Great video!! I love whenever someone makes a video on the Jak games! They hold such a special place in my heart playing them on the PS2 as a kid!
To this day, the original Jak and Daxter is arguably my favorite game of all time. A gorgeous world to explore, beautiful soundtrack, intriguing lore/worldbuilding and loveable characters. Not to mention Jak's brilliant moveset, which makes for some absolutely top-tier platforming gameplay. The amount of crazy bullshit you can do to overcome self-imposed challenges (e.g. No Orb run) is awesome. Yes, the bosses are rather weak and the cutscenes are unskippable, but the pros massively outweigh the cons for me.
Absolutely. Just a shame it's so short. Double the length or at least add that 4th area and it would've been a 9/10 EASY!
Glad to see you have put commercials Jak, you deserve any money you can get from how awesome your content is over these few years!
The only time I ever use the light shield is to do the infinite flight glitch with the wings
Perfect or not, this series has and always will continue to have a big, and i mean big influence and impact on me. Even since the early days.
Jak truly was naughty dog's best effort, and my opinion: more than worthy of it's legacy, inspite of any nitpicks and occasional bs they may throw at the player.
It's always a pleasure to return to this iconic gem of a series.
- And the slums ambush is to Jak 2 what "Set to Kill" is to Simpsons: Hit and Run, and i'd equally put them on the top-prize pedestal in the hall of gaming infamy.
This is such a gem and throwback! The original reviews of the series is how I found you and you also re-convinced me to source a PS3 and play the HD remasters of them!!! Been watching as a fellow aussie every since!
That right there is nostalgic and I remember Jak 3. I gotta buy Jak 1 and 2 to play those awesome games and I want you to keep up the amazing work.
It took me 15 minutes to realize that thing on your t-shirt isn't sweat or some water stain.
Anyways, fanatstic video as always! I started watching your videos because of your Jake & Daxter reviews. Can't believe it already has been 5 years since it! Your evolution as a content creator is evident!
28:46 Actually, I liked this revelation about the Precursors; it's both funny (something that is in line with the tone of the first game and I always enjoy) and totally unexpected
I just wish we got Mar on ps4 and saw how Jak built Haven City
This guy has his head up his ass, he doesn't know much of anything. He'd probably get rid of Daxter if he were someone working on the first game.
@@JamesPeach What was the point of Daxter in the first game though?
I haven't played it, FYI.
@@k-leb4671
Comic relief and is basically the voice of Jak. Surprisingly he is a fundamental part for the games enjoyment.
Nah I agree with him, it was played off in too much of a lame joke sort of way. It kinda killed the intrigue.
With Ratchet and Clank with their grand comeback, might as well look back to the series and hopefully give these guys another chance In the spotlight.
Too bad Naughty dog doesn't really care about the franchise anymore
@@BugsyFoga And that's there lost and let some other company take care of that unlike the ones responsible for The Lost Frontier.
The 20th anniversary is next year.
@Ruthless Attitude Entertainment
that's what happens when companies grow and get older sadly
Grand comeback? Their last game was only 4 years ago.
About the whole "Precursors are ottsels" reveal, I noticed that it was foreshadowed not only in the third game, but even the first game! In Samos' opening narration asking himself who the Precursors were, the answers rested on the shoulders of a young boy (Jak). Daxter rests on his shoulders whenever they're out on an adventure.
As well as in Jak 3 with Seem saying things like "You may carry the colours of our creators, animal" and thanking him for the future.
There was definitely forward planning but I still don't like it. It lands more like a cheap and easy joke which should NEVER be the core of your entire narrative.
Even if it was suggested that precursors take on many forms (which would also explain the Dark Makers also being precursors) I'd be ok with it. Cause it's still a joke for laughs but it's not blatant fact that ferrets created the entire universe etc.
@@SquareEyedJak I see what you mean, 2 years later I still laugh. But when you build up this lore through 3 games just for a throw away joke. It kinda breaks the emersion a bit. But hey I still would like to know the precursor history between them and it's enemies I can still feel emersed if jak 4 pushed a more bigger narrative with the precursor lore and even with it's connections with jak and mar. But for now it's still disappointing.
I think this trilogy is a masterpiece. The "best" one is actually the first one because of it's open world, music and platforming and the way the world comes together. Jak 2 and Jak 3 are both amazing. Jak 2 has the best story. Jak 3 is my favorite power fantasy because you're so stacked that you can literally almost just play how you want. :)
For me:
Jak and daxter- 9/10
Jak 2 10/10
Jak 3 8.5/10
Love these games so much. I love how dark it becomes from the transition from the first to second game
17:11 There it is lmao, was waiting for that one to be brought up
Good one that was funny
holy shit the editing and production value in this vid is top notch! great job.
I love that the wall TV looks like those preview screens in shows on TV and Reviews I think I'm gonna like the new setup!
Really like some of the stuff you touched on in this review, it addressed a lot of the gripes I have found revisiting the series as an adult
17:15 I found out just last week you can kill the thing in the water with a dark jak bomb... and now I want to go back and see if it's true.... cause fuck that level
Already so excited about the content coming from your new living space, great job
I only played Jak 2 & 3 and those were my favorite playable games. The Jak series need to come back!
Does this mean that the Ratchet & Clank reviews will be coming soon?
Yes please, I would like that
Yes please!! Ratchet&Clank are the only one left from my PS2 childhood missing here!
I liked this. The synchronicity is pretty cool cuz I just watched all your old Jak and Daxter reviews and then ordered the same HD 3 game collection for myself to play I've only played Jack to so this will be a good chance to experience them all again.
Jak and Daxter was the first video game i ever played when i was 6. really great to see it again so thank you for that blast of nostalgia :)
While I still really enjoy your older Jak & Daxter reviews despite their aged presentation and humour, it’s pretty crazy just how much you’ve improved your production values and general video quality from then.
"And... nobody likes to finish early."
- Square Eyed Jak (2020)
It's been five years? Holy shit. I'm pretty sure your Jak reviews were the first reviews I ever watched on this channel
Oh man jak and daxter really need a remade. They aged like fine wine, but a new engine and lighting could make them feel like a modern series. Jak II is my favorite but it needs a difficulty select that gives more check points on easier settings. Also jak II needs more effects to live up the city. Having the city slowly change with how many missions like the pedestrians going against the crimson guards, to opening new hidden paths that lead to goodies would really be a nice bonus. Great review my man. Keep it up.
Fun facts your jak and Daxter videos was how I discovered your channel
Surprised you stuck around because they were trash, thank you though! 😁
Square Eyed Jak finally enough I never knew what the games was like before this channel I thought just another PlayStation exclusive but I never knew it was this type of game
@@SquareEyedJak no problem man
When i think of my childhood this gane always comes to mind
Great ganes
Jak & Daxter will never get old for me, always glad to replay them from time to time. I remember watching the original reviews like it was yesterday, hard to believe it's been five years. BTW the easiest way to beat that slums ambush is to mash the square button to spam Jak's punch, makes it a hell of a lot easier.
Extremely underrated bro
Was fun seeing your take a look back at one of the older series you reviewed. Still remember putting off watching your reviews because I was playing through Jak and Daxter myself :)
Oh shit! Can't believe you're actually revisiting them!
Excellent video man , keep up the good work !
you are correct, the Design Bible for Jak and Daxter TPL, lays out the level design for the game, and there was suppose to be an additional hub area for the yellow sage
Your commentary is stellar
Aw 2015 , the year where you constantly teased fans on a possible Ratchet and clank retrospective (and we fans didnt shut up about it) , now that brings me back .😁
Well it started in 2015 but 2016 is when the requests became a daily thing.
@@SquareEyedJak So, Ratchet and Clank review when?
(just kidding :P, it would be the death of a glorious meme)
Square Eyed Jak oh god not the rich and clank madness don’t think I’m one of those guys but I just laugh when I see that comment😅
Amazing video man! Your voice is just so calming. When you're calm. :D 💚
Compared to the original videos, the polish in this video (and other recent ones) shines brilliantly.
As for the games, I find it way too hard to pick a personal favourite from the trilogy. Each entry has its merits that help them stand out from each other and that's something I can greatly appreciate.
The precursor twist one of of the best set up, funniest, and executed surprised EVER! You can't change my mind
I really honestly wish I could feel the same way. But just can’t. That was some whack shit
Each game deserves a minimum of 8.5 you sir are BUGGIN. These games are CLASSICS 💯
This is the video I didn't expect and didn't know I wanted!
Nice to see a new Jak and Dacter review. And it's nice to see you as well. You and Daddy Caddy are my favorite reviewers on the internet. :) hope you have a great fuckin day.
This trilogy will always be one of if not my favorite trilogy in gaming. God I love it. I could play jak and Daxter every day of my life. Jak 2 pisses me off, but I love it. Jak 3 is probably my favorite though. It's so huge, and so fun
Im glad you rereviewed these i really love the jak games. Im excited to see what you have to say again.
I can't believe these games are over 20 years old now...
Times were simpler, then. When video stores were still around, when portable media was still in its formative years, and when the world wasn't so uncertain.
I'm confident that we'll never get a remake of this trilogy, but that's alright because we have an unofficial PC port known as OpenGOAL. Jak 3 support is still in development, but I was able to play Jak 1 and 2 from start to finish with minimal bugs and glitches.
I missed out on a good trilogy of games when I was a kid I played jak 2 & 3 it for the very first time yesterday and I've had a ps2 since 2005 i also loved hearing the rugrats theme at 15:23
Man, it hurts to see my favorite out of the Trilogy get the lowest score like that XD
But it was really freaking awesome to see these three classics back on the channel regardless, really goes to show how much you've grown as a reviewer too! Great work as usual, man.
I cannot tell a lie. I subscribed just for the intro alone. it was awesome.
I felt the water slums part on a whole other level😂
28:27 Thank you Square Eyed Jak , this is exactly how i felt about this twisted joke!
I remember quitting jak 2 after failing the race against Erol so many times.
Excellent analysis on the series, Jak! Your style and review process have definitely matured during these years! I always find myself agreeing to your final scores, they're well-reasoned and accurate of the game's positives and negatives. Too many times reviewers slap a 10/10 when they like a game and a 4/10 when they don't like it and that just misses the point of reviewing entirely.
Keep up the amazing work man :)
Your like the Cinemassacre of our generation :) Great channel and great reviews, especially the Tony Hawk games!
God this took me back, I’ve just downloaded the trilogy for PS4 and I cannot wait to live through all like I did when I was a kid!! Also how do you get those fonts?? I’ve been wanting to do that for ages but never found out how
I honestly thought your old review on the Jak games we’re pretty good but the quality jump now is really good.
Might I add that the character appearances improved throughout the games. Jak in particular. First game he was just a shy awkward kid? Second game he became this short tempered rebel with his hair weirdly combed back. And in the third game he became a literal badass with arguably one of the best character designs imho.
Advice for the water slum mission, use your jet board, blow past the gaurds
I unfortunately don't have fond memories of Jak & Daxter as I only got to experience it the first time just a few years ago, and didn't own a PS2 until 2005.
But to those who have many fond and/or frustrating memories of the trilogy, cheers.
Also, I need to watch the original reviews of these games sometime.
I got each one the Xmas they released as a kid, it was almost a tradition during the ps2 gen to play a new jak game on Xmas. The first one blew me away so much at the time haha.
I used to have them but don't remember them very well.
I later got the trilogy digitally in 2012 I think and there was fine, even Sly I've tried, 1 was alright for what I got to and 2 I don't care for and get about a far way through the 2nd area I think, not played 3 yet. I find the characters cool, the stories alright, the gameplay to be fine but the mission structure of going back and forth and open world like is so boring to me. It can feel like padding and sticking to a level for hours instead of moving on the rest of the story, moves, locations, etc.
I get what Naughty Dog was going for but while I suck at Precursor Legacy I do prefer it, while 2 & 3 I've beaten (3 up to the Final Boss but 2 I beat) I didn't enjoy them that much. I'm not into open world in general though. The missions were fine and what they were going for being GTA like made sense for the time but I don't care for these sorts of games. Even for getting to GTA late I own Liberty City stories on PSP and while I know it's not that comparable to SA or otherwise I don't care for it, the only thing I find impressive is the city recreation, the rest is uninteresting (yes even modern entries I don't enjoy either. Sunset Overdrive and Gravity Rush maybe but otherwise I get too bored due to how they don't make the moves interesting. Gravity or Grinding I can get behind, running/slashing stuff or doing things that are helping someone besides doing a minigame I can find very boring. Sure Jak 2 & 3 have minigames but some are quest like things you just don't care about doing like modern games I find and even then the minigames can be boring and overdone in linear games so the scale only kind of helps if it is or isn't crowded with walls or people to bump into and kind of makes it worse to reach the goals if they are too large or just annoying stretches of land with a bunch of hills or tight corners that sure work but are still uninteresting if you re-use a vehicle/do a similar challenge a few minutes or hours later you have already experienced). But I'm not into realistic games, I'm more into fantasy/sci-fi or fictional worlds, the closest I get to caring for realistic is alternate history stuff like Resistance or Wolfenstein but that's about it.
I'm for larger worlds so we don't have too thin corridors, but I find large rooms work not large worlds, I find it impressive for showing off the engine/scale, not 'recreating a country' levels of scale like we might expect in the future or getting a recreated virtual holidays or otherwise big of sizes as they aren't always that interesting and the Point A to B taking too long is just like a long car ride, its boring! And swing/running or whatever to a destination isn't fun no matter who the skin/method of getting there is changed. It might be for 5 minutes but not the whole game when you'd want to teleport there to get through it quicker to play it properly over say glitches/speedrunning techniques.
So you admit that you don’t like Open world games but enjoy minecraft....
A pleasant surprise Jak. You’ve really come a long way in terms of overall quality in your videos :) While I love the original reviews for their charm, this is most certainly a worthy successor.
Also, in regards to the Mole things in Precursor Basin. The trick is not to go full speed at them, as the fear of being torn to ribbons by that big F off propeller makes them run about erratically. Easing up on the throttle makes them a lot easier to herd around. That said, that particular mission is really annoying.
I’ll have to go back and take a trip down memory lane to revisit those old episodes you made originally…
i spend SO LONG trying to get thise animals in the holes.. I found out they do take specific laps and you dont necessarily chase them into their holes, but chase them until they are near the hole in their lap path; then cut them off towards the hole
I do agree 100% with your Jak 3 weapon criticism. Last time I played through Jak 3 I forced myself to ONLY use the Jak 2 weapons and I did not purchase any upgrades. This actually made the game significantly more challenging and sort of forces you to utilize your dark and light powers once the difficulty increases.
Jak and Daxter is one of my all time favorites
Revisiting your namesake is a blessing.
Can't remember the last time I clicked a video so fast! 🧡
On my latest playthrough of the series I really appreciated the most difficult missions of Jak 2, as I noticed that a lot of tactical knowledge I've gathered around came to use.
A lot coming down to utilizing cover and managing sight-lines. And in some missions like the ambus and Haven Forest invisible metalhead hunt where I'd turn down or the music to listen to where enemies are coming from. Actually having to revise strategies.
Hence why I think that Jak2 probably has the best replay value in the series.
Jak 3 had much more replay value thanks to all of the unlockable secrets and the secondary orb missions are way more interesting imo.
@@sebastiankulche Now that the Jak 3 openGOAL PC port is in the works I wonder if we're gonna see some fan make a mod that tweaks the difficulty to make more use of the upgrades.
Like a couple of things I'd change from the get go would be making the healing not stop time and upping the beam reflectors ammo consumption by like 5x.
Another idea I've had would making the beam reflectors ricochet's do damage to Jak as well and making the super nova damage Jak too without using the shield.
The day Jak reviews all of the Uncharted games. I will be so hyped!
I was really hoping you would say something about the ambush in the water slums area... when I was a kid it took me MONTHS to get past it.. I started making new save files to replay from the start.
I can tell you the water slums challenge isn't even the hardest challenge of Jak II, if you ever unlock hero mode, good luck doing the "destroy ship at drill platform" mission, it is without question in my mind the hardest mission in the whole Jak series.
Thanks for this video, just recently started playing these classics again
I got stuck in that ambush level for so long, but I realized the best way is not to fight, so I speedrunned through the cops in the hoverboard, plus I had a lot of fun trying to stay over the bridges while dodging the cops in high speed
Oh my god i've been waiting for this day.
Love jak and daxter. I always wanted a ps2 version of the daxter solo game for psp. But I guess they would have just done a ps2 remaster for it like they did with ratchet and clank size matters for ps2 which was originally a psp game