Jak II's story, on the other hand, was masterfully crafted, concluded holistically and with incredible precision, and had significant relevance to the universe as a whole. By the end of the game, only a part of the plot felt concluded with everything else falling where it may or being forgotten altogether. Jak 3's story felt like it was being made up as it went along, with no real common thread pulling it all together. Jak II's story was also simply way better. It's hard to even enjoy playing Jak 3 because it's impossible not to just go ham with the Beam Reflexor and melt through the missions without putting any thought into it, and the level layouts are either far too linear or just too random, unbalanced, and ill-conceived. Light Jak was fantastic, the JET-Board improvements were great, the buggies were a lot of fun, and the endless navigation between Haven City locations was fixed in Jak 3, which Jak II caught a lot of criticism for.īut once again, where Jak 3 excels it also equally screws up, with the Morph Gun upgrades either being incredibly OP (Beam Reflexor, Plasmite RPG) or totally useless (Wave Concussor, Arc Wielder) considerably sub-par level design (by which I do not mean environment design) and Light Jak's healing power being totally OP and readily available at nearly every point you would want it.
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The gameplay was for the most part pretty good, even an improvement over Jak II in some ways. But by the same token, Jak 3 also screwed up a lot with other characters such as Keira (barely even counted as appearing in the game) or Errol (probably the stupidest antagonist in J&D history, and the most stilted, pointless villain comeback in video game history).
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In the way of plot, Jak 3 does admittedly deserve praise for the character development concerning Jak, Damas, Veger, Ashelin (except for her romance with Jak), Torn, Sig, and Pecker, as well as the overall story. Jak 3 also introduced a lot of canon/lore elements and retcons that were either at worst contradictory, and at best just stupid (Precursors being ottsels, Dark Makers being a thing, Jak being "the Mar", etc.) I'm still bitter to this day about the ottsel Precursor thing, and the Jak=Mar nonsense was both unnecessary and a major plot hole with respect to the continuity and flow of previously established canon/lore. In fact, I can only thing of one, maybe two plot holes in Jak II, which were minor. Jak 3 is the only game in the trilogy to have major plot holes. The developers admitted this, and it's evident if you compare it to Jak II which was highly polished and had very slick execution. Not necessarily "more fun" since that's subjective, but definitely higher quality. Jak II is, by far in away and in nearly every category, better than Jak 3.
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