Solid collectathon. Fairly easy to 100%. Not nearly as visually impressive as the sequels, but the art direction is strong and the animation in particular holds up really well. Music is pleasant enough, but not particularly memorable for me. The PS3 version is not 100% accurate. For instance, the specular effects on some precursor structures are missing. It's relatively minor stuff, though, and there are also improvements over the PS2 version, such as increased LoD and texture filtering. Also, the performance is basically flawless. If you're willing to switch to SD resolution from the system menu you can play in the original 4:3 aspect ratio, which has a higher field of view. Had a good time, would recommend.

This one is a strange one. I initially kind of loved the first few levels but as the game went on I found myself constantly frustrated. If you wanted to 100% this game it is way more of a pain than I thought. Having to collect a number of those eggs each level gets incredibly cumbersome. I really wish they had an item in the later sections of the game that would tell you where the eggs are as I don't want to have to scour every tiny section of the level to find that last little egg I need to 100% the level.

In the end I genuinely just shelved this one. I just found it way too frustrating.

As a kid I always wanted to play Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, but I never had a PS2 to play it on. Now as an adult, with my own control over what I spend my money on, I got myself a console and the game to play! Years later, it's funny to feel a nostalgia for a game that I never grew up on. But thats what I felt. The writing feels very 90's/2000's with smart ass remarks from Daxter and attitude from the Sages. The Precursor Legacy plays like many other 3D platformers of the time, but with its own individuality that today feels distinctly Naughty Dog. The controls were a bit janky at times, specifically the camera, and I wasn't always the clearest on hit boxes. But the game was fantastic and I'm glad I finally got the chance to hang with Jak and Daxter after all these years. Absolutely one of the classics and a must play.

One of my favorite games of all time. To this day it's really the closest thing we've got to a proper Banjo-Kazooie styled game made after Rare stopped. What's great is they managed to not feel derivative despite the obvious influences. They put a lot of effort into making the game world feel like it had a lot of history, and was a land that was currently being lived in. Every level is perfectly sized. Feels big in scope but densely packed. And everything is truly physically connected. Huge mission variety unique to this game as well as genre staples done masterfully. Nailing variety without becoming sloppy and unfocused. The graphics and animation work are top notch and have held up extremely well. What they were able to pull off on the PS2 while also featuring NO loading screens is technical wizardry. Movement has an extremely high skill ceiling, as do level routes in speedrunning. A game that effortlessly grows with the player.

Never gets old, I've 100% this game on all 4 save files an obnoxious number of times. This game blew my mind as a kid and it's honestly no less impressive today. And the lore elements that got doubled down on in the sequel retroactively make this game's simple plot even cooler.

I wanna just babble on about how cool it all is but that's pretty much it, it's all amazing. 'Boutta drop a couple hundred on a PSVita just to play a version of this game with bad framerate and get all achievements in it for the 4th time.

100% for the third time baby!

this will be another nostalgic review so if you're here for absolute straight gaymer facts you may scroll past.

i have so many great memories with this game back in the ps2 era. i had so much fun falling in love with the characters, the different areas and all of its charme combined. i remember playing this game tons and tons when i was a child and always coming back to it, discovering new things, new hidden powercells i didnt know of and even gameplay mechanics i didnt know of.
this was my personal introduction to naughty dog, being born in the early 2000s, this probably was the best way to step into naughty dogs territory.
while this is indeed your regular "hero saves world"- collectathon, it has such an amazing feel to it no other game could ever deliver to me. characters arent being bland despite having their regular roles of these games given to them. a lot of the dialogue is a reason for that. its funny, its quirky - its the most early 2000s it can get. gameplay is pretty easy from the start yet has a, lets say rather surprising difficulty spike at the end where they really want you to set these jumps at the right time.
collecting everything in this world even rewards you with the true ending of jak 1, leading straight into its sequel, jak 2.

while the good aspects of this game scream early 2000s, the controlling does too. the double jump can be absolutely janky and a pain in the ass. the camera at times also does whatever it wants - the ps3/vita version of the trilogy even having several music bugs as i found out in my recent playthrough. kinda sad but nothing too much for me. the checkpoints are fairly well placed so i do think they were aware of some of this.

im happy this game is staying untouched to this degree tho. the charme and good qualities it delivers wouldnt hit as good as it did back then. the ps2 version is still the best way to play this so i cant recommend getting that one enough.

so yeah. not much of a ratchet and clank fan but rather staying on the jak and daxter side here. :D