YMMV / Daxter

• Complete Monster: Kaeden appears to just be a slimy Obstructive Bureaucrat running all of Haven City's extermination shops out of business, taking a gross pleasure in trying to do the same to the harmless Osmo and his Kridder Ridder shop. This is actually a front for a much more malevolent scheme; Kaeden is a Metal Bug and The Dragon to Kor, systematically disabling the city's defenses from within to leave it and its population totally unguarded against the murderous onslaught Kor intends to launch against it. After he's exposed, Kaeden switches gears from trying to run Osmo out of business to simply trying to murder him, blowing up his Kridder Ridder shop with a bomb. Kaeden even kills Daxter's friendly, borderline sapient cockroach companion, Tik.
• So Okay, It's Average: Seems to be the case with Daxter (mostly story-wise, core platforming and level design are quite solid); it's neither as well-loved as the original trilogy, nor as hated as The Lost Frontier. It does fill some Plot Holes in the original trilogy, but it's nothing special beyond that.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The game takes place during the 2 years Jak was captured... except it really doesn't. Even the game itself states "Almost 2 years later" near the beginning and the game seems to take place during the last few days Jak is imprisoned. While the PSP limitations are obviously an issue, what Daxter was doing during the 2 years before the game takes place would have been an interesting premise.