Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: December 20, 2001 Released in US: December 3, 2001 Released in EU: December 7, 2001 Released in AU: December 7, 2001 This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is the first game in the Jak and Daxter series. One of the first platformers for the PlayStation 2, it was revolutionary for its time. You play as a mute teenage boy teamed up with his loudmouth best friend who was accidentally turned into an otter/weasel hybrid.

Unused Missions

Text strings in the file 0COMMON.TXT show a number of missions that were never implemented.

BLAST BOULDERS IN TAR
DEFEAT THE CAVE BATS
FIND THE RED VENT SWITCH
GET TO THE CENTER OF THE SWAMP
PROTECT THE MINERS' GEMS IN THE STUMP 
REACH THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN
STOP THE DRILLING LURKERS
STOP THE LURKER ATTACK TROOP
SWING ON THE POLES TO CROSS THE TAR

Unused Sounds

To do: There's more.

Daxter

Daxter was going to make a lot more comments than he does in the final game.

These clips would have been used in the fishing game:

These clips would have been used in the final boss battle to give advice to the player:

These clips would have been used if the player had selected "Quit Game" in the pause menu:

A clip that would have been used in the start screen:

Other characters

A line said by Gol intended to be used for the final boss battle. The line was instead said by Maia: