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Fridge Brilliance
- Though the scene still bothers me, I can take better comfort with the reveal of the Precursors in Jak 3: Wastelander as Ottsels now. Their justification: it was foreshadowed few times throughout the game, explains why Daxter is the way he is, is an entirely funny scene, and importantly, remained unpredictable and surprising. I'll never fully accept it, but I can appreciate the creators wanting to do something different and succeeding admirably. - Neo Yi
- There's also the line in the first game which says that the answer to who the Precursors were "rests on the shoulders of a young boy". - R Taco
- In the first game Samos says "And if the whole hero thing doesn't work out, Daxter could always get a job controlling the village rat problem." What's his job during his game? Exterminator.
- In the first explorable area of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, upon visiting an ancient Precursor Oracle statue the human-turned ottsel Daxter verbally wonders if the precursors were as "UUUUUUUUUGGGGLYYYY, in person." Two games later, we find that the precursors are all ottsels and look nothing like their robots or statues; the form Daxter had taken was in fact a precursor!
- A bit of a more scientific example, at the near end of Jak 2 where Praxis gives Jak the precursor stone, he says that "the first rule in making a bomb, is to always make two". Now, how are particular bombs (especially A-bombs) created? By splitting the atom into two!
- At the end of 3, Jak chooses to stay behind with Daxter instead of going off to save the universe. What's not to say that he did all that and then went back in time to look like he stayed behind?
- That would imply that after Jak's universe trawling adventure he would return looking exactly the same, in the same clothes and with no appreciable age difference. Seems unlikely.
- No, I always thought Jak did visit the universe and came back, using precursor technology to change his appearance at the end or even keep it in stasis throughout the journey as none of the ottsels in 3 look aged at all and they've been stuck in that statue for god knows how long.
- Most of the things the Oracle says in the first game seem to refer to Daxter when you first play it. After Jak II: Renegade, I realized it's actually about Jak.Oracle: "Beware the dark light, for it has twisted the fate of one of you."
- Ahh, but that's not even the half of it! When you think about it, each of the 3 Oracles tell Jak and Daxter about games 1 through 3. The first one in Sandover goes along the lines of "The darkness has touched one of you", referring to Daxter's transformation. The second one says "Beware the dark light, for it has twisted the fate of one of you", referring to Jak II's Dark Eco experimentation, resulting in his Superpowered Evil Side. The third and last one says something along the lines of "The future of one of you is bathed in glorious light", referring to one of 3 things: Jak getting his Light form, Daxter turning out to be a Precursor and/or Jak finding out he's Mar.
- At first, one might questions how zoomers become so common place in the second game, considering Keira was working on one of the few in existence in the first game. Then, when it is revealed the city is actually in the future, it may be possible that Keira's work with the zoomer may have paved the way to them becoming more readily available, and even may have been the inspiration to make different variations, such as the car model. She wouldn't have invented them, but her work could have been the ground from which the others came from.
- So, ottsels are half-otter, half-weasel, right? But both those animals have short ears, so why does Daxter have (comparatively) long ears? (Hint: Look at the humans' ears). Those humans have longer ears than Earth humans, so ottsels would have longer ears than Earth otters/weasels too!
- More of a Fridge Funny moment regarding the true nature of ottsels. After Jak and Daxter save Seem from Erol and the Dark Makers he hints that he's aware of the fact that Daxter, and other ottsels, are in fact Precursors. Seeing as he was allied with Veger who was not aware of this either suggests a few things - Seem only found out before he was rescued, he always knew and refused to reveal this information... or he actually told Veger who didn't believe him.
- In Daxter's solo game, one of the Ottsel's misadventures results in him unintentionally blowing up a very large supply of Dark Eco. Lo and behold, chronologically later in Jak 2, we find out that Baron Praxis is under pressure from the Metal Head Leader over a missed shipment. Huh. For an additional horror, given the short time that this takes place between this and Jak's rescue, its possible that this may have caused the Baron to increase Jak's torture in hopes of having his weapon...
- A bit of an obvious one, but look at Dark Jak's appearance, pale blue skin, white hair, etc. Then remember the appearance of some other characters from the first game that were also "touched by dark eco."
- In the first game, Jak is 15, and he does look to be a young teenager. Cut to him as a 17-year-old in II, where he now looks about 25. Stress and the Dark Eco project accelerated his ageing.
- The separation of the quartet at the beginning of II only shows Jak and Daxter landing, at two years before Praxis' fall. It is implied that Samos and Keira were sent to different time periods in Haven City.
- Keira could've been sent four years before the fall, making her being Samos' biological child more believable if she was 12 in the first game, and the time portal made her one year younger instead of three.
- Samos mentioned adding six rings to his log while waiting for Jak, implying he also entered Haven in a different time than his daughter and foster son.
- All those times where Daxter brags about his encounters with the Metal Heads and stating how he defeated them are actually true. In the interquel, his quest to save Jak involves taking a job as an exterminator to hunt the variant known as Metal Bugs.
- Keira doesn't recognize Jak by his voice as he talks to her through the curtain in Jak II, but recognizes Daxter's voice immediately. This is because Jak was a Heroic Mime in the first game, with Daxter being his mouthpiece.
- Something that always bugged me is Dark Jak missing his signature horns in 3. But, if one thinks about all the Light Eco Jak had been exposed to balancing out the affects of the Dark Eco, then it makes perfect sense that he would physically be less "monstrous" as well!
- Why are the Metal Heads less independent in Jak 3 than in Jak 2? While the Dark Makers are even worse than them, there is another reason. In the second game, their fabled leader dies, so they need new guidance, even at the cost of their autonomy.
- For someone who doesn’t seem to care much about eco (not to mention the fact that he wouldn’t have listened to any of Samos’ lectures), Daxter is curiously knowledgeable about its effects in the first game. Given the third game revealed he effectively became a Precursor, he must have gained that knowledge when he transformed.
- By the time Jak 2 rolls around, the colorful world which was seen within the first game has been turned into a post-apocalyptic hellhole where Humans and Metal Heads are in perpetual war with each other, with no end in sight. Just how bad did opening the rift gate fuck things up?
- Also, the Metal Heads in general. They aren't just a threat to humans. They are to the Lurkers and even the Precursors as well, and their leader praises the killing and devouring they do.
- Errol is implied to be a commander in his mid 20s, where he attempts to sway Kiera, who is canonically 14-16 by the time of Jak 2. Make of that what you will...
- More Fridge Tragedy if anything, but Jak himself. He's never really had much of a choice in how he lives his life - he's basically a tool for other people, being ordered to do things, some of which involves risking his life (one of the people being Keira, his main love interest). Jak II reveals that a) he is royalty and b) he was only sent to the past in order to prepare to defeat Kor, and it also sees him being tortured for two years with Dark Eco which creates this monster inside of him. Erol - the very man who tortured him - seems to also have something going on with Keira, who refuses to listen to anything Jak says. Jak 3 is even WORSE, starting off with him being kicked out of the city due to circumstances that were always beyond his control, Erol comes back to attempt to destroy him, finding out that his best friend is a god and having to accept that these three other ottsels are the all-powerful Precursors, thereby kicking his religion entirely in the face. Jak is also reunited with his father, Damas, who dies without ever knowing that his son is not only alive, but holding him in his arms as he dies, and Jak also figures out that Damas is his father mere seconds after he dies. All his friends are spies or withholding information from him, which probably does nothing for his trust issues. Also, the Dark Eco in his veins is basically a ticking time bomb - it could kill him any second, or at the very least, drive him insane, with potentially disastrous consequences. On the bright side, he FINALLY gets a kiss! ...only it's with the daughter of the man who not only gave the order to torture Jak, but essentially demolished his family in the first place. This tropette would be surprised if Jak lived to see much of his twenties.
- Actually, the end of the second game states that Jak has learned to control the Dark Eco within him, and is no longer at risk of him dying or being driven insane from it (indicating he's immune to Dark Eco, similar to Riku). He gets Light Eco in the third game, and Jak states that the Dark Eco is now "out of reach", and he feels a lot better. But in the end, I can see that things will be bright after all: Yes, Jak loses his father and the throne, but he still got himself a happy ending; the world is saved, Haven will soon be rebuilt, he and Keira eventually become official, and the worst that can happen now are attacks from freelance criminals such as Rayn. The theme of the trilogy is "hope", after all.
- Kor spends a lot of time at The Power Station in Jak II, at the end of the game it's revealed by Vin that the shield wall is down and Metal Heads are invading The City. Then you realize that Kor was there figuring out how to destroy the shield wall so that his army could now attack...
- The Precursor Stone is the last Precursor Egg. If Kor had beaten Jak, he could render the Precursors extinct.
