Turns out that Sig wasn’t exactly what he said he was, but that’s nothing new for the world of Jak and Daxter. Nor is a badly mishandled attempt to be brooding and edgy.
But here we are.
To be clear, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for Jak to have hard feelings about being banished from a city he saved. Nor do I think it’s a problem for him to be reluctant to return. And going further, I think it’s fair for him to be reluctant to step up again after his last attempt at heroism ended near death after being dumped in the desert.
I do think it’s a problem that Ashlin is the one who bears the brunt of his anger when she’s the one who gave him a fighting chance in the first place with the beacon. It comes off as little more than lashing out like a teenage brat who didn’t get his way. There should be more nuance to this interaction than we’re seeing in the scene, but it doesn’t quite capture that nuance.
The other thing that bothers me about it is that we have this big fight over not wanting to return to Haven City, but our immediate next objective is to sneak back in any way. There’s nothing depicting how, when, or why Jak changes his mind here. He just does. I never noticed it as a child playing Jak 3, but replaying and rewatching the footage again here brought it into sharp relief.
This section feels incomplete, and I’m only just not noticing it.
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