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City: Glasgow
Country: Scotland (UK)
PSN: JohnM66
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Consoles I own: PS4, PS3, Wii, 3DS, PSP
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Jak 2 is my entire childhood
The "air punch" victory pose is actually Zell from Final Fantasy 8. Tidus' is that he throws his sword in the air, catches it, then slices the air.
Sparo jak sly ratchet they have the same thing in common hidden ps2 games and by the way they were f amazing days
Trust me. I'm VERY familiar with Donald's victory poses
I'm looking at this and I know he screwed up with the whole thing
He sure did. What an absolute clown.
10:10 yes get his hat!
There will be birth by sleep volume 2
Actually passages fragments was vol 2
That how mickey mouse aqua met destiny 🏝 getting ready kh4
Came back to rewatch this after ff7 Rebirth. It just makes you feel something y'know
I love this song simple and clean
Square Enix this comicon
Daxter was so right when he said the more you think about it the more it hurts the head!
For me personally the game was missing a good beginning and middle. 1,2,COM,BBS, and days had much better pacing and story IMO
awesome video, thank you! like the way you talk and comment, great voice, too.
I love that The Last Frontier is so much of a forbidden piece of knowledge I didn't even know of it's existence until over a decade. It was really that bad, huh?
As far as _"bad installments that the fanbase doesn't talk about"_ go, it's honestly far from the worst. But still, the fanbase is definitely not in a hurry to talk about it.
@Xackadee did a lil research, 3rd party PSP port explains a lot for a start
I started with Jak II and fucking loved it. Then i went for Jak 3 and fucking loved it. Then I went for the precursor legacy and... Eh, finished it only once. Found it a bit clunky if compared to the other two. Didn't really capture me as a kid. Lost frontier... Well... I only remember the Dark Daxter sections and the sky battles, kinda enjoyable I think? Don't even remember the plot of that game or anything else lol.
It's funny how I often see comments having the inverse take on the trilogy. The games really took a different turn after the first one. I don't have an issue with it, I love them all, but in hindsight I wouldn't call it the perfect trilogy when it could have used a bit more consistency. I'm hard on Lost Frontier but maybe a better version of it that takes the series to a fresh new story and setting might have been something the series could have used. I miss these games.
@@Xackadee Eh, lost frontier just feels less "jak and daxter" and in general is underwhelming, for characters, missions, graphics etc. Still has some interesting ideas, for sure. I love 2 and 3, and I would replay them 100 times. But Legacy... I just cannot bring myself to fully appreciate it. I also found it incredibly short.
As the other comments stated, this is the first video that made me understand Kingdom Hearts a bit more and better, really loved your style as a kid ! :D Thank you for keeping this up !
Hahaha, thanks! I'm glad I was able to give that to you and others and I'll happily keep it around for as long as I'm here!
bro completely glossed over the events that happened in daxter
My bad, yo
I cannot get the background music out my head now lmao
The best collection ever, had them on the ps2, then buyed it again on the ps3, and here I am once again, downloaded on the ps5. I just really love it, especially jak 2 renegade. Thanks for the video ❤
New guy sounds like a nerd
Got that classic nerd accent going for him
I came at this game as someone who did not play the original. I didn't like Zack's voice at first but it grew on me in a big way. Hearing the original, I don't like it as much. I think we just get used to what we know
Thanks g.
OMG I JUST FOUND THIS. Ive been trying to explain to everyone I've introduced to KH that THAT line isn't about the ice cream specifically, its the association of friendship and ice cream that Axel told him earlier on. Its just the delivery that muddles the meaning.
I don't know why, but Sig reminds me of Moses from Liberty's Kids for some reason.
5:45 "I'M GONNA KILL PRAXIS!"
Plot twists are different from retcons. Sticking up for them for how you interpret them is fine and all, but how will you perceive them when all of the justifications you make are retconned to make no sense? There is no consistency, the information DID change what was known and established. Making the story up as you go and forgetting the previously established information never works well, look to Bendy as an example of this. There's no point in saying it's convoluted anymore as there always seems to be a retort. I personally feel that fans should be expecting more cohesiveness and respect rather than just putting up with whatever is thrown at them and defending it by creating their own head cannon as to why it works
You're absolutely not wrong, though I do think this is a case-by-case issue. While retcons can be necessary, I'd still encourage avoiding them as much as possible. Some series are built that way and others really aren't but regardless of where on the scale it falls, it's always better to have consistency and thought go into the blueprints as much as possible than to throw caution to the wind. This sometimes just isn't possible, which is why I say that retcons can be necessary and should be forgivable, but it all comes down to how it's handled, as you say. A creator who takes great care to consider all the information they've fed their audience and break from that consistency only as a last resort is going to be more respected than one who doesn't even remember the original canon in the first place, for good reason. And of course, how fans receive those different treatments will also vary from person to person. We all have different tolerances and some of us are just here for the drinks.
I don’t really care whether or not the all things “grow hearts” reveal is a retcon or not. I don’t like it. For this main reason. The moment Xemnas revealed this in Dream Drop Distance. I was left with this awful feeling. That nothing mattered anymore. The Heartless are not a threat, there’s no true loss, because everything just grows a heart back. So, why fight on? That’s why I don’t like it, because it ruins the sense of high stakes the Heartless once presented in the games. The Nobodies look idiotic rather than sympathetic, and it takes away their core motivation for existing at all. Ruining the drama that KH2 set up and the themes in it too. It all just deflated like a balloon for me sadly. 😢 I don’t want it to be that way, but I just can’t help but it feel that’s what that concept did. It harmed rather than helped and I think writing wise, there were more interesting ways they could have gone. In explaining the emotional states of nobodies. Without compromising the rest of the world building because it’s a too easy fix, for something that should have had more thought out into it.
Here's why I disagree with that: *Xemnas:* _You accept darkness yet choose to live in the light. So why is that you loathe us who teeter on the edge of nothing? We who were turned away by both light and dark - never given a choice?_ *Riku:* _That's simple. It's because you mess up our worlds._ Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you think that we fight the Nobodies because they're Nobodies. We fight them because of what they do, not what they are. Hearts or no hearts, it doesn't change that these antagonists are causing harm to people for selfish gain. That matters. Why would Nobodies being capable of growing hearts change that? For that matter, why are the "heartless not a threat"? They are. What does any of this even have to do with the heartless? This twist isn't about them. And why is the there "no true loss"? There is. People can still be killed and many nearly do throughout Kingdom Hearts III. Furthermore, Nobodies do still lack hearts, so that's still a core part of their motivation. What came before is actually largely unchanged, which ties into my next point. Following that, Xemnas says this: *Xemnas:* _That may be... However, what other choice might we have had?_ *Sora:* _Just give it a rest! You're Nobodies! You don't even exist! You're not sad about anything!_ *Xemnas:* _Ha ha ha ha... Very good. You don't miss a thing. I can not feel sorrow..._ This exchange pre-twist makes the Nobodies a weak set of antagonists who are arbitrarily carrying out villainous actions as though they're bound to do it, like a river has no choice but to flow downstream. Sora even buys into this and dismisses them out of hand. The thing is, that doesn't add up when characters like Namine, Axel and Roxas proved that the Nobodies _do_ have a choice. They're capable of free will or leaving the organisation and make some emotional choices. I feel like now's a good time to remind you that the fact that Nobodies can regrow hearts is not public knowledge in-universe. Only a small handful of people are shown to know that from earlier than the reveal, namely Xemnas, Xigbar and DiZ, none of whom had the Nobodies best interests at heart. That's why this works. This reveal is the missing piece that fixes the issues with Xemnas' story and explains the actions of the outliers. Nobodies still need help to grow hearts and they themselves are unaware that this is the case and above all, _Xemnas is trying to prevent that._ The entire point of the Organization becomes so much more sinister when you learn that Xemnas was actively trying to _take away_ the power of choice that the other Nobodies had. He was using them and trying to supress the natural power of life itself - something that ensures that anyone who can form connections to other people can feel for those people. And because of that, it adds a layer of manipulation and dramatic irony to scenes like the one above as his lies extend to fooling Sora and he plays into that. He lets the heroes think of his victims as the villains. On behalf of the other members, that's as sympathetic as it gets. The core motivation of the Nobodies is not only still there, it's something that was _actively exploited._ That matters. Why wouldn't it? Call it an easy fix if you want, but that's a good thing. It's not something that's a stretch to believe or takes extra steps of complicated understanding (something KH lore already suffers from in abundance) to follow along with. It's a natural conclusion to the stakes that were set up for us prior to it, makes greater sense of the former conflicts of the story and adds to the drama rather than diminishes it. I can't change the way you feel about it and if you don't like it then I'm sorry to hear that but to say that it harmed rather than helped is way off the mark. Don't fixate on alternate explanations. There will always be, for every twist in every story, other ways that things could have played out and with an infinite number of possible new directions, there's always a better path. As such, it's a pointless question. Focus on what we have. The story as it exists may not live up to your own personal ideals, but it was never trying to. When you actually analyse what this twist did for the universe and the world-building, it's a very rational result.
@@Xackadee I didn’t say what I did, as an explanation as to why it ruins my reason to fight Nobodies. Because the fighting isn’t the entire core aspect. In all honesty, I wish as characters that we didn’t need to fight them. Because it’s very sad to imagine an existence like that, with them being exploited and used by Xemnas. They all have my full sympathy. What I mean is, is that if they just grow Hearts. Are they truly Nobodies anymore? Because the point of their existence is that they have no hearts and they are trying to re-find their original selves to become complete. That gives them motivation. But just by having them grow hearts. That motivation is taken away and they’re not really Nobodies anymore. They’re just Somebodies with black coats on. Which then makes them pointless to exist as a fictional race if you just give it to them like that. I’m not trying to make this into an argument and I do respect your feelings and of course, I never expected the story to follow my own logic. That’s not what it’s supposed to, I do understand. But again I do see this aspect as a problem that I can’t help but comment about. I will always love Kingdom Hearts, but I won’t stay quiet if I feel something has gone wrong. But that’s what’s fun about having a discussion about these things isn’t it? 🙂
@@lauraroberts3520 No, it's fine! I just want to understand what you're saying and make it clear why I feel differently. And if I can help you come around to it in any way, that'd be an excellent bonus, but if you continue to disagree, that's no issue! I get the sense that I view these things from a more thematic perspective - analysing the point of the story - if that helps. To that I'll say that it's easy to forget that most Nobodies don't get that kind of opportunity. Just because they can regrow hearts doesn't mean that they will and not all of them did. The reveal doesn't sweep away the struggle of the Nobodies, especially since those who did grow hearts were still beholden to an opperessive dogmatic Organization that drove a wedge in their relationships, used them and put them through a great deal of suffering. And that being a massive point of the story kind of shows an irony that what they were looking for was never that far off the whole time, but that very search and need to "be complete" misled them to cause some of their own friction and doubt. All of that would never have happened if they weren't Nobodies who definitively started with no hearts, were constantly surrounded by people with no hearts and were regularly reminded by those people and themselves that they have no hearts. It's also even easier to forget that not all Nobodies are human form. A vast majority of them are Dusks, Dancers, Gamblers, Samurai, Creepers, etc. The lesser Nobodies as a species are vast in number and far more easily led by the stronger Nobodies, so their heartless selves are stil very much their staple. And as one minor tidbit that gets mentioned once or twice in the games and I believe was confirmed in an interview but hasn't been actually shown, Nobodies do exist on a time limit. I do think they should have made a bigger deal of it, but Nobodies are doomed to one day fade back into nothing. Even if they grow hearts, they wouldn't be able to just go on existing like before with no end because their existence is still tied to nothingness.
@@d.saunders2506 I can get people being mixed about the heartless and nobody reforming the whole person, a concept that I'm not against but ought to have been handled well. However, I'm a very strong and firm disagree on the "theme ruining" comment regarding Nobodies growing hearts. This is the series that defended Pinocchio as being more than a mere puppet who is capable of both possessing and having the right to a heart from its very first installment. The plot twist that the bonds of love between Nobodies were so real that they gave rise to true and honest emotions (and by proxy, the heart that contains them) is *the most* on-brand KH theming there is. As I said to someone else earlier in this comment chain, I can't change your feelings and I'm sorry if you don't feel the same way, but arguing that it's not consistent and/or even ruins KH's theme is just not accurate.
More people need to see this
This was beautiful.
If they can bring back DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 4 after 16+ years, they can bring back Jak 4 after 20+ years
16:35 Oh, but it IS a big deal. There is no correct and convenient way of calling KH1 Ansem anymore. You can't call him "Xehanort's Heartless" because, well, 5 and a half syllables. Calling him Ansem is no longer correct and will just make things confusing if he interacts with the real Ansem (which he did, by the way). Calling him Xehanort also does not work because if there are multiple Xehanorts (which there WERE in KH3), well, you know why. I mean shit, even they realized that this retcon was stupid and called him Ansem, anyway, in KH3.
I understand that, but what you are describing is a minor nuisance regarding one character's naming. A minor nuisance is not a big deal.
@@Xackadee It might be a minor nuisance, alone. However, it adds up with other confusion making it so unnecessary. They could've just made DiZ be a different person instead of this Ansem bullcrap. What is the point of it? Nothing. Its existence is solely to be confusing. Just like Heartless and Nobody naming. "Heartless" turns out to 100% be a heart that's fallen to darkness and 0% body. "Nobody" turns out to be 100% a body with no heart. You know what else does exactly this? Greenland and Iceland. And do you know why the Vikings named them that way? Nothing but to confuse enemies. Yes, its sole reason is to be confusing and nothing else.
@@ShadowbannedAccount Well you seem to have all this figured out so I'll leave you to it.
I'll tell you why "Ansem isn't Ansem" IS a retcon: In Chain of Memories: Reverse Rebirth, Riku asked Vexen "Are you with Ansem?". Vexen responded "You are half correct". We know what Vexen meant. He was with Ansem's Nobody, but not really Ansem. Vexen knows who the real Ansem is supposed to be, since he was a direct apprentice of Ansem. No apprentice disrespects his master by referring to someone else as Ansem. Had it not been a retcon, Vexen should've said "I used to be" or something like that.
I would think no apprentice would disrespect their master by betraying them, usurping them and casting them out into a realm of nothingness, but Ansem's apprentices clearly have different limits towards what apprentices should and shouldn't do. But if you're sure that makes sense then I guess there's no alternative.
@@Xackadee No you don't get it. Xehanort and Vexen are not comparable. Xehanort betrayed his master, while Vexen stayed loyal in KH3. That's why I said it's out of character for Vexen to disrespect his master.
@@ShadowbannedAccount I guess Vexen has no reason to "atone" then, since he's a flat character who never changes, alters or does anything that he would later go on to regret, as you say.
Plot twists 😮👏👏👏
How is samos the sage younger and has no idea who jak and daxter are😮😅😅
Because that was the first time he met them. Then he went back in time and grew up into the old Samos that Jak knew in the first game.
Confusing plot twist
@@tasneema2602 Yep, that's time travel for you!
Man, this game was a must want back in 2010!
Awesome game and incredible writing. Fun story with twists and turns through the years. Lots of questions left unanswered and up to the players imagination . Would have liked one more game but think writing team found a good place to at least tie it up
At the end. Those are not at all tips to the creators to make more jack an Daxter games.... Please creators we need more games of them. Please make them. please? XD
Can't believe this is still the best video out there on the lore!
With how voice actors have been quiting gigs and starting unions as they are not getting paid enough and what not, here is the deal. I think that Caleb Pierce is the perfect voice for Zack in Kingdom Hearts. Zack is much younger in Birth by Sleep than in the finale of Crisis Core as a such would be a good stand in for Rick Gomez in spin off material as that is much more better practice for him. Not all voice actors get this ASMR vocality the first few roles they get for characters they are not familiar with yet.
Great video. I grew up with this series and I'm sad there hasn't been a true sequel to Jak III, or prequel to Jak and daxter.
I actually really liked the lost frontier haha my least fave of the series but still enjoyed it
TBH I had to see this video to notice the change in VA, since I havent watched his old voice for awhile, indeed the older one was better, but I m still satisfied with what we got, if they had to recast, could have been worst.
Jak 4 needs to be a platformer collactathon like Jak 1 bringing it back full circle
Tbh I'm not a big fan of either voices.
Best masterpiece of a trilogy ever Even while jak 3 was a bit disappointing... to think they made this masterpieces in the early 2000's is unbelievable.
If Caleb Pierce can capture Zack 'The Puppy' evolving into Zack 'The Hero', then everything will be okay. It's only a trailer after all.
We need a new KH game where the ending is when they all celebrate Christmas and have Sora and his friends sing along too
Another paradox is jaks uncle in sandover village, what's up with that?
He's certainly not Jak's actual biological uncle, so the two leading theories are that he's like an adoptive uncle, a friendly old man who helped Samos out with raising Jak and stepped into the role of his uncle, or that he's just a bit crazy and _thinks_ that he's Jak's uncle, even though he isn't, and everyone just rolls with this.
@@Xackadee well I mean that's what we can say now that the games are out and the story is told but in reality he at one point was jaks actual uncle before they went crazy with the story and his involvement was just an oversight by the developers that they either forgot to address or purposely forgot about
@@joshgaynor7695 This is very true. And when you remember things like the Precursor egg or Brutter (or even lurkers in general), you realise that there's a lot of that in the series.
@@Xackadee exactly great series none the less ask anyone who had or still has the ps2 from anywhere even where I am in ireland and it'll be a staple in their minds
the lost frontier > every other jak and daxter game
New voice actor for Zack sounds like he reading from a paper and not really performing. Rick was better… who fricken decided to change it 🤦🏻♂️
I guess I'll play the new CC in original Voice over japanese since its not the same nostalgia anymore
You don't want to give the new voice actors a chance?
7 years later dAmn still haven’t made a new game.