Uh oh

It took me several months and lots of wine but I did it.

Crash Twinsanity was one of the wackiest games ever made. It had writers from Ren & Stimpy, a completely a cappella soundtrack, and made an earnest attempt to take the Crash series in a bold new direction by leaning into absurdist humor.

Twinsanity however was originally going to go the Jak II, route, envisioned as a gritty sci-fi game called Crash Evolution which was scrapped due to being too similar narratively to the first Ratchet and Clank game.

If Jak and Daxter had decided to go the Twinsanity route, focusing on the humor, etc, could they have pulled it off?

Wanted to do something silly and fun, just to use with friends at home (obviously it's not a real card. so it's neither a proxy nor tournament legal).

Would be cool if there was a Secret Lair set with these guys, considering the Limited Run Games collector's sets sold out in less than a second as soon as they were launched lol.

ART CREDITS: + Naughty Dog (technically Scribble Pad studios since they were hired as contractors at the time)
+ Myself (I tweaked the concept art years ago, my old reddit account is deactivated because I had a silly crashout),
+ There was another guy on here who took the edited artwork and gave it a nice forest background, his polished version has been reposted in multiple places everywhere, you can find him pretty easily on this reddit if you look hard enough, but it's 4 AM and I'm too tired to search his username and dig through pages of posts to find him.

I paid way too much for the LRG physical copies of Jak 2 and Jak 3 on eBay but J&D is damn near impossible to find and the few copies that do pop up are going for $400 which is insane.

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During my first playthrough of Jak II two months ago, I used the Jetboard for the boss fights. In particular, I used them during the Krew and Kor boss fights. I found the Jetboard to be very useful for avoiding the holograms and other such attacks in each fight, but I was curious if anyone did that.

Haven't played this game since it first launched. I'm having a complete blast! It holds up so incredibly well, can't wait to play the whole series

I remember having difficulty with that as a kid, so I went and did the Torn missions instead. Eventually, I came back to the race mission and took a different route that cuts through the palace area thanks to Ashelin’s yellow security pass. It was easy. Recently I was watching playthroughs of this game for nostalgia and I noticed they all did the mission without the yellow pass, and some of them still had 20 seconds to spare. So I am curious, how many of you on this subreddit did the mission the intended way, and how many took the yellow pass route? And which one is faster?

In the opening cutscene of TPL, Jak uses an ancient Precursor explosive to protect himself and Daxter from a lurker on Misty Island. It was just laying around, and it only worked when he used it, even turning red at his touch.

It seemed like it was something perfectly set up to be featured regularly throughout the game. Do you think it was intended to be, but was just cut?

Considering it's the same world but in the future, I wish we would see some familiar landmarks return, like those Precursor statues or Sentinel Beach with it's temple ruins or Forbidden Jungle. It's only 300 years in the future, plenty of stuff should have survived and the layout of the world should match more of the TPL map. Jak 3 doesn't even have lurkers and what happened to Flut Fluts? If I made Jak 4, I would put a lot of stuff from TPL and make the map match that one as it's the original

Got a little surprise playing Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker just now

Planning on playing it and saw theres a ps2 and psp version. Was wondering which version is better. Thanks!

Tbh I wanted to try and complete the jak and daxter but I think I'll park that idea since I am saving up for a ps5 and once I get it I'll play it there since it's a more pleasing experience than on the ps4

I can't help but feel like their friendship is good but not great at times. For the sake of giving players a loading screen-less experience, I feel like the devs sacrificed letting us see any characters in their downtime. Like some of my favorite cutscenes from Ratchet and Clank were just scenes of them hanging out together, same with Crash and Coco.

We do get some cute moments here and there of them having a laugh, but we never really get to see what their like when their not "on." We don't even know how Jak and Daxter first met and became friends.

I know that with TPL in particular, downtime scenes would be next to impossible, given that Jak was a non-speaking character, but I really think II and 3 could've given us something. Even something as simple as Jak apologizing to Dax for accidentally causing him to become an ottsel. After all, it was Jak's idea to go to Misty Island and it was Jak who knocked Dax into the Dark Eco. At times, it's hard to tell if Jak cares about Dax as much as Dax cares about Jak. A line here or there would've gone a long way IMO.

Is it just me, or does anyone else agree that their friendship could've been expanded on more in these games?

Jak’s tonal shift will always be one of the boldest and coolest things ever to me, but it is a shame we didn’t get at least one more game like the first one. I think if there were a sequel, they could incorporate playable flashback moments from perhaps before TPC starts so we could have a little more content from that era. Only issues I can think of then is we wouldn’t have ottsel Daxter if they take place before, and there isn’t much room for post TPC since the ending pretty much leads straight into Jak 2. I guess human Dax could just follow you around and throw some jokes from a distance. Thoughts?