![]() Also done in Jak X, as beating Hero Mode gets you green turbo online. Bragging Rights Reward: Getting enough skull gems to get the Dark Giant power before beating Metal Kor is very rare, and getting all 286 Precursor Orbs in Jak 2 is also a challenge for it's own sake.Boring but Practical: The Scatter Gun and the Blaster.Border Patrol: The instant death Lurker Shark in TPL, a Krimzon Guard robot in Jak II, and a giant tentacle in Jak 3.In Jak II, this is how the duo escape the destruction of the Ammo Dump early in the game.Big Damn Fire Exit: The conspicuously giant warpgate located in the the Terraformer storage part of the Dark Maker ship is the way Jak and Dax survive the subsequent destruction of it.Can't say anything about the vents in TPL, but as for the Light and Dark Eco vents in the Haven City ruins in Jak 3, it could have been Mar.Benevolent Architecture: Who exactly puts all those Eco vents and Green Eco crystal formations just where Jak needs them?.Bag of Holding: Not quite as a gameplay mechanic, but implied in TPL, as Daxter stuffs the Sculptor's Muse in Jak's backpack she's quite a bit larger than the thing.Light Jak's time slowdown and healing ability is also very useful, but these moves drain the Light Eco meter so quickly that it's best to use them as a last resort outside of their situational uses. Dark Jak is very powerful, but it takes so much Dark Eco to trigger it in Jak 2, and lasts such a short time, that it's usually easier just to shoot people-fortunately, Jak 3 allows you to trigger it any time as long as you have just a little bit of Dark Eco in your meter-but you'll still need a big meter full of it to use Dark Jak's stronger abilities. Same with the Mass Inverter and Supernova, the Peace Maker's upgrades in Jak 3. The Peace Maker in Jak 2 delivers the most damage out of all the weapons, has the longest range of fire, a homing ability, and a very fast firing rate-but is marred by it's pathetically limited ammo. It's upgrades in Jak 3, the Arc Wielder and the Needle Lazer are cool to watch, but the AW is surprisingly weak in damage output for the most part (the exception is against robots when upgraded) and while the Needle Lazer uses very strong homing needles, it and it's counterpart chew up ammo just as fast as the Vulcan Fury. ![]() Awesome but Impractical: The Vulcan Fury from Jak 2 has a very fast firing rate, long range and great damage, but has no auto-aim and it chews up ammo very fast.Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Precursor Robot from the first game, and the Dark Maker robots and the Terraformer from Jak 3.Attack Its Weak Point: If you can't find one in any of the bosses, you're not looking hard enough.Arbitrary Gun Power: Justified in most examples, since what you're shooting usually has super-strong armor.A Day in the Limelight: Keira's role in TLF rivaled (or maybe even exceeded) Daxter's in terms of importance.Absolutely nothing, aside from showing Aeropan underground facilities and what they have been working on.Aborted Arc: Daxter gets his own Dark form in TLF.and it has absolutely no effect on the story.Tropes that explain the series on a technical level. The Lost Frontier added a significant dose of Crimson Skies. X Meets Y - Jak and Daxter met Grand Theft Auto in Jak II.There is now a HD, 3D rerelease of all three main games ( trailer). Taking it to the next level, SCEA released Playstation Move Heroes, a three-way crossover between Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper! Watch the trailer here. Games in both series will liberally borrow some concepts from the other, and will commonly feature cameos and even sometimes playable appearances of the other heroes. On a side note, the Ratchet and Clank series seems to have a very friendly rivalry ( Sound familiar?) with this one. ![]() Tropes related to those specific games can be found on their pages. Jak and Daxter Collection (HD): A collection of the first 3 Jak and Daxter games remastered for the Play Station 3.Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier: The most recent game in the series, developed by High Impact Studios.Daxter: A Midquel centered on the events of Daxter's adventures in Haven prior to saving Jak in Jak II, developed by Ready At Dawn. ![]()
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