Do you remember Jinx? He was one of the guys we escorted back in Jak 2 down to the sewers so that Krew could get the Ruby Key he needed to sell the city out to the Metal Heads.
Apparently, he’s with the Freedom League now, and he’s changed his hair color to boot. And this time, his assignment won’t put the entire city in jeopardy.
No better way to start a stream than endlessly failing a very fast and simple escort mission several times at the very end of it. Funny as it is, it’s also a reminder of just how different game design is today in comparison to what it used to be back in the early-to-mid 2000s. These days, escort missions have fallen out of vogue, and we rarely see them anymore.
That said, I have to appreciate how much variety we’ve found in the missions here today. Though all of them still use the fundamental gameplay systems of Jak 3, each one of them presented those systems in a different context that made them feel fundamentally different, even if we were effectively taking the same core actions.
It can be hard to pull something like that off, so give credit where credit is due.
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