Daxter

Jak's wisecracking ottsel sidekick

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Daxter is Jak's sidekick and closest friend. He is turned into an ottsel (half otter, half weasel) during Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy after falling into a pool of dark eco.

Quick Facts

Genre

Platform
Beat 'em up
Action-adventure
Third-person shooter
Racing

Developer

Naughty Dog (2001–2005)
Ready at Dawn (2006)
High Impact Games (2009)
Mass Media Games (2012–2013)

Publisher

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Creator

Andy Gavin; Jason Rubin

Platforms

PlayStation 2
PlayStation Portable
PlayStation 3
PlayStation Vita

First release version

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

First release date

December 4, 2001

Latest release version

Jak and Daxter Collection

Lore & Background

Daxter's accident would lead the story's plot as he seeks help from Gol to turn him back to normal. Before Daxter's transformation, he was a coward who seemed to be the opposite to Jak's courageous and trouble-making personality. Daxter often tries to persuade women using vulgar or lousy pick-up lines, much to Jak's dismay. Although Daxter is most often a coward, he exaggerates his stories to make himself seem heroic.

Daxter has alternatively shown courage, even rescuing Jak in his own game, Daxter, which directly precedes the events of Jak II. Daxter gets a love interest of his own in Jak II, Tess, a spy working for the Underground. It is revealed in Jak 3 that his transformation had been into a Precursor, a group of ancient ottsels. In The Lost Frontier, Daxter is further changed by dark eco and has a transformation known as Dark Daxter, similar to Dark Jak.

While as Dark Daxter, Daxter grows above Jak's height, can shoot dark eco blasts, and can spin around like a tornado. His personality also changes while in this form as he has the desire to smash and break things.