Trivia / Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

• Celebrity Voice Actor: Gol is voiced by Dee Snider from the band Twisted Sister.
• Creator Backlash: Andy Gavin has also gone on to admit that he is slightly disappointed in the game and was the result of a multi-cultural market and would have been better off with more of a clear single vision. This, along with Grand Theft Auto III's success, is why the sequels are vastly different from this game. He also regrets making Jak a mute which is why he speaks in the sequels onward.
• Deleted Scene: One Dummied Out Misty Island scene would have shown Gol and Maia observing the duo from afar while discussing to unleash Klaww at Rock Village to halt their progress.
• Development Gag: Daxter's species is known as an Ottsel. This was one of the early names and species for Crash Bandicoot that Universal Interactive wanted at the time of the first game's development.
• God Never Said That: It was thought that there was going to be a third main character but this was later dismissed by Andy Gavin in a later interview.
• Saved from Development Hell: Naughty Dog wanted to make a fully 3D game platformer after seeing Super Mario 64 realizing that it could be done but not on the Original Playstation, which is why they kept things simple on the Crash games.
• Troubled Production: When the game started development, the developers were so prioritized with the game's technology (working on it for 20 months), they didn't get to the gameplay coding until fairly late in development. They had to design settings and enemies for the game not knowing if they would work properly leading to a lot of last-minute improvising, but according to programmer Steven White:
  Steven White: Hadn't the designers been so good at their jobs, the project could have been a disaster.
• What Could Have Been: Has its own page.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Animations on features such as eye movements and blinking for most characters was put in a month before the game shipped out.
• Working Title: The game was codenamed Project Y.

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