Daxter kinda reminds me of Rayman 3. It has the same colorful setting, the overall presentation is similar to each other and it is a nice platform game. Playing Daxter really makes me wanna go back and play Rayman 3 again. Hopefully I can find a copy of that game somewhere since its pretty old already.

Seeing that I’m not really familiar with Jak and Daxter universe, I went to Wikipedia to pick up some information about it. It seems like this game fills in the gap between Jak and Jak II, a few months before the events of the later game. Here, Jak is captured by Krimzon Guards and it’s up to Daxter to save the day.

During the start, most of the mission involves “bug extermination” where you go from one client to another and destroy bugs for them. Although it doesn’t seem to be related to the main story (saving Jak), it does provide lots of fun. So far I only went through three missions, so I can’t really comment on how the story will unfold. Thankfully from what I read, towards the end, the game will be back on track on its main course.

The mini games in Daxter are pretty interesting from what I can see base on the first one I tried. When Daxter takes a nap, you can choose different types of mini games to play. The first one involves Daxter being Neo from The Matrix and the scene is set in The Matrix 2 where Neo is whacking tons of Agent Smiths. Here you get to whack bunny looking like “Smiths” and you have to press the correspond keys that appears on screen in order to attack (ala Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents type). It would be interesting to see what other types of mini games are there in the game.

Overall I feel that Daxter is a great game. The personality and voice acting for Daxter really brings out the atmosphere. It’s pretty sad that not many games nowadays offer such quality for their characters. Half the time I either hear dull voice acting or voices that doesn’t suit the characters. If you like playing Rayman or you like platforming, you seriously can’t go wrong with Daxter.

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