Could Naughty Dog (or rather Sony) create a 3rd team that was Jak focussed? Aand looked to just keep the style from PS2 and see what sort of simpler story could come from not trying to adultify this franchise. The concept art in the OP looks terrible as new Jak art. The need to not look to further humanise him, go back to the character design concepts. take a leaf from Ratchet and Clank. Insomniac didn;t keep updating the character model to make Ratchet ever more human and dark and edgy. Hell why not go all the way back to the beginning, have Jak travel through some dark energy portal and he goes back to having no voice, and he's back in a pre-industrial reality where his weapon is just stones and a sling. Sometimes going back is the way forward. Hell do a whole Star Trek reboot.
Who in the Sony stable IS keen to make another proper Jak game? If there is a core of enthusiastic people, who have a history with the franchise then let them try.
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