the-pi-guy said:
I'm not sure what I'll see differently the ~8th time for me playing the game. There are plenty of games that I liked when I was little, that coming back to them were bad. Jak II wasn't one of those games for me. Still found it an enjoyable, albeit imperfect experience.
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My second playthrough felt slightly better than the first in a sort of I hate myself masochistic kind of way - it helps that I'm fairly certain my game glitched out most of the health drops in my first playthrough, but it's still a badly designed game. It's one of few games I can say is outright bad simply because of how poorly designed it is in pretty much every way. It's sort of like Mega Man classic series in that regard, where objectively the games have bad design but they're enjoyable to some (myself included on MM).
I've gone on record in the past saying I'd take Sonic 06 before Jak II and I still stand by that. I can take some enjoyment out of Sonic 06 because of how bad it is and because it's easy to speedrun because it's so broken. With Jak it's just a slog through missions I hate sprinkled in between missions I don't mind every now and then because of poor enemy placement or bad mechanics or some other problem. It gets worse near the end of the game for sure though. 06 is clearly the worse game but it's not dreadfully boring in its poor quality like Jak II is.
We all have guilty pleasure games though, so more power to you if you enjoy it. I don't pull punches on bad game design though, even on games I enjoy.
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