History Headscratchers / JakAndDaxter

* Forget all of the migraine-inducing time travel issues. This is what's really bothering me: aside from the dramatic StabTheSky gesture, why the heck did Praxis [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight bring a]] ''[[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight sword]]'' to confront the Metal Head Leader? Yes, it was very nice and glowy (which doesn't make sense, either) but... ''why''? The guards all had guns ([[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy and a fat lot of good that did them]]), and they meant to [[spoiler: set off a ''bomb'']]. There was absolutely ''no'' reason for Praxis to have a melee weapon with him. And here's the kicker-- you only see it for ''one'' scene. Not an entire cutscene. Just part of one. The Baron doesn't have it when [[spoiler: he dies]].

** Near the end, just before TheReveal, The Precursors are about to give Jak the right to become "one of them", but what is the point of that in a time of extreme emergency, when a giant alien spaceship is about to destroy the planet ? If Veger hadn't been there and if Jak had been transformed into an Ottsel, he probably wouldn't have been physically able to get to Errol and save the world.

* So, at the beginning of the first game, Jak and Daxter set off on a quest to find Gol and ask him to turn Daxter back into a human... because Samos told them that he's the only person who can change him back. But in the second game, the past version of Samos sees Daxter still in his Ottsel form, and therefore knows that Daxter doesn't get changed back before they return to the future... so why did he send them off to find Gol if he knows that he won't change Daxter back? Does he figure out that there must be a reason that Gol never turned Daxter back and send them off just to check up on him? Did his future self tell him that he has to make sure they go and see Gol? Or has he just completely forgotten about meeting Daxter in his past/their future or doesn't realise what it means?

**** {{Jossed}} by the commentary, I'm afraid. This was probably [[AbortedArc a plot point they intended to address in later games]], [[MissedMomentOfAwesome but never got around to doing]].

* How about Jak's non-reaction to Daxter's SuperpoweredEvilSide? Especially considering how pissed he was when he found out that Skyheed was doing to the Aeropans what Praxis did to him, his calm acceptance just threw me for a loop.

*** Hold on, didn't Kor say it contained "the '''last''' Precursor life force"? How does that fit in with Jak 3? At least '''three''' Precursors were found to be still alive then, fighting a war against the Dark Makers (on their own, you have to ask? Ha, at least that explains why the Leader "needs heroes" like Jak, Kor probably reduced their numbers with his Metal Head armies). That egg can't really be an egg, it's probably just a jewel the Precursors inhabited where they could lie dormant or otherwise hidden from Kor, "egg" being a metaphorical rather than a literal name. And what's with the spirit - is it a holographic projection, living Light Eco or a form the Precursors can transform into? At least Kor didn't live long enough to point out that it looked nothing like an Ottsel. Besides, it went through the rift gate back to the past, so it probably inhabited those statues Jak encountered in the first and second games, and probably even the third which those three Precur...[[FridgeBrilliance oh.]]

*** Hold on, didn't Kor say it contained "the '''last''' Precursor life force"? How does that fit in with Jak 3? At least '''three''' Precursors were found to be still alive then, fighting a war against the Dark Makers (on their own, you have to ask? Ha, at least that explains why the Leader "needs heroes" like Jak, Kor probably reduced their numbers with his Metal Head armies). That egg can't really be an egg, it's probably just a jewel the Precursors inhabited where they could lie dormant or otherwise hidden from Kor, "egg" being a metaphorical rather than a literal name. And what's with the spirit - is it a holographic projection, living Light Eco or a form the Precursors can transform into? At least Kor didn't live long enough to point out that it looked nothing like an Ottsel. Besides, it went through the rift gate back to the past, so it probably inhabited those statues Jak encountered in the first and second games, and probably even the thir...[[FridgeBrilliance oh. ''Those three Ottsels were in the Precursor egg?'']]

*** Hold on, didn't Kor say it contained "the last Precursor life force"? How does that fit in with Jak 3? At least three Precursors were found to be still alive then, fighting a war against the Dark Makers (on their own, you have to ask? Ha, at least that explains why the Leader "needs heroes" like Jak, Kor probably reduced their numbers with his Metal Head armies). And what's with the spirit - is it a holographic projection, living Light Eco or a form the Precursors can transform into? At least Kor didn't live long enough to point out that it looked nothing like an Ottsel. Besides, it went through the rift gate back to the past, so it probably inhabited those statues Jak encountered in the first and second games, and probably even the thir...[[FridgeBrilliance oh]].

** GreenRocks: They do what the plot wants them to do. As for in-universe justification, well, maybe Daxter was special and one of the lucky few who could escape the Dark Eco alive? Doesn't explain why he vanishes along with Jak in-game, but of course that never really happened. See AnthropicPrinciple, specifically the fourth bullet point.

** The rift gate isn't just a time machine. Assuming this is the case, it's fair to say Kor simply emerged from an alternative dimension where the Metal Heads had been contained - SealedEvilInACan, essentially - and then [[TheSlowPath began their long assault on humanity for the next few centuries, Kor included]]. This is one way of interpreting Kor's "We've met before, remember?" just before his Reveal in Act Three. Unfortunately, this is all WildMassGuessing until WordOfGod clears it up, because I have no idea how the Metal Heads would have been 'contained' in the first place if they destroyed the Precursor civilisation.

** Maybe there are different allotropes for Eco, like some RealLife substances can be different in their properties yet come from identical elements, like diamond and graphite from carbon. This would account for all the different types of Eco, especially Dark Eco (blobs, vents, vats, electric arcs, ammo etc.), but of course this is all speculation.

** Maybe there are different allotropes for Eco, like some RealLife substances can be different in their properties yet come from identical elements? This would account for all the different types of Eco, especially Dark Eco (blobs, vents, vats, electric arcs, ammo etc.), but of course this is all speculation.

** GreenRocks: They do what the plot wants them to do. As for in-universe justification, well, maybe Daxter was special and one of the lucky few who could escape the Dark Eco alive? Doesn't explain why he vanishes along with Jak in-game, but of course that never really happened. See AnthropicPrinciple.

** Can't justify it in-universe, but as for the genre shift, Naughty Dog did the same thing for the CrashBandicoot series with CrashTeamRacing. Maybe they're starting up a tradition? Uncharted could be next...

** Probably because so many people (compare populations betweeen the first and all other games) use so much Eco for fuel (and ammo?) that there's never really enough left for over-exposure. Plus, Daxter fell into ''Dark'' Eco, and that supply seems to be limited to genetic experimentation after the first game. Sure, there are occasional pools of it out in the wild, but how often do you think anyone leaves Haven City or Spartus if they don't ''absolutely'' have to?

** The rift gate isn't just a time machine. Assuming this is the case, it's fair to say Kor simply emerged from an alternative dimension where the Metal Heads had been contained - SealedEvilInACan, essentially - and then [[TheSlowPath began their long assault on humanity for the next few centuries, Kor included]]. This is one way of interpreting Kor's "We've met before, remember?" just before his Reveal in Act Three. Unfortunately, this is all WildMassGuessing until WordOfGod clears it up, because I have no idea how the Metal Heads would have been 'contained' in the first place if they destroyed the Precursor civilisation.