As a person who hasn't played the Jak & Daxter games yet (outside of a very brief sample I had with the 1st game), but has heard about them many times, I was and still am curious in trying out the series.
Since this game was pretty cheap, and I already knew of some of the plotlines of the other games, I decided "why not play this one first?"
Daxter is a simple 3D platformer, where you hop from mission to mission in order to exterminate bugs and take care of problems that are happening around Haven City, and maybe also find Jak, since this game takes place a bit before the Jak's inital rescue in Jak II.
Even though it's a small handheld game that really doesn't have much berring on other titles, it was pretty fun to play!
Outside of fighting enemies, you're pretty much constantly platforming through various levels, and from what I've seen, it sort of brings back the visual variety that the 1st game had, that the 2nd game lacked.
There are also the dream sequences you can play that are optional, outside of the 1st one, where they simply involve Daxter playing some role that normally is parodying a movie of some sort, like The Matrix and Braveheart, and you simply press buttonsin in timing with what's happening on screen.
They're fine little additions, but I really like that you gain more moves and health upgrades with them, so I'd say it's always a good thing to check them out.
I didn't find this game really that difficult, but I did die at various points, but the checkpoint system is pretty good, so you'll always make some progress.
The story itself is pretty vanilla. I do like the characters that Daxter interacts with, but they don't really get much development, and never come back in any other future, as far as I'm aware, so they're just there to bounce off of Daxter, who is pretty funny in of himself, so at least the game's writing is good enough.
For a PSP title, I'd say the game looks pretty good, but I did run into some lag while travelling in Haven City, which goes to show their ambition in bringing that city over to the handheld, and even then, you don't travel through the whole thing, as far as I'm aware.
Overall, Daxter is a nice little platformer to play on your PSP and I had fun experiencing it, and I hope to get to the main Jak & Daxter games sometime in the future, when I'm able to.
Since this game was pretty cheap, and I already knew of some of the plotlines of the other games, I decided "why not play this one first?"
Daxter is a simple 3D platformer, where you hop from mission to mission in order to exterminate bugs and take care of problems that are happening around Haven City, and maybe also find Jak, since this game takes place a bit before the Jak's inital rescue in Jak II.
Even though it's a small handheld game that really doesn't have much berring on other titles, it was pretty fun to play!
Outside of fighting enemies, you're pretty much constantly platforming through various levels, and from what I've seen, it sort of brings back the visual variety that the 1st game had, that the 2nd game lacked.
There are also the dream sequences you can play that are optional, outside of the 1st one, where they simply involve Daxter playing some role that normally is parodying a movie of some sort, like The Matrix and Braveheart, and you simply press buttonsin in timing with what's happening on screen.
They're fine little additions, but I really like that you gain more moves and health upgrades with them, so I'd say it's always a good thing to check them out.
I didn't find this game really that difficult, but I did die at various points, but the checkpoint system is pretty good, so you'll always make some progress.
The story itself is pretty vanilla. I do like the characters that Daxter interacts with, but they don't really get much development, and never come back in any other future, as far as I'm aware, so they're just there to bounce off of Daxter, who is pretty funny in of himself, so at least the game's writing is good enough.
For a PSP title, I'd say the game looks pretty good, but I did run into some lag while travelling in Haven City, which goes to show their ambition in bringing that city over to the handheld, and even then, you don't travel through the whole thing, as far as I'm aware.
Overall, Daxter is a nice little platformer to play on your PSP and I had fun experiencing it, and I hope to get to the main Jak & Daxter games sometime in the future, when I'm able to.