After Crash Bandicoot on the original PlayStation, Naughty Dog developed the Jak and Daxter series for the PS2. Despite its undeniable merits, the platformer franchise hasn’t seen a single new installment since 2009’s Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier.
Back in 2012, the original trilogy returned to the PS3 via a remaster, and the PS2 version of the first game was ported to the PS4 in 2017. However, Sony could have offered players a complete overhaul…
Travis Howe, who worked at Sanzaru Games from February 2018 until its closure by Meta last January, revealed on LinkedIn that the studio had pitched a “long while back” a remake/remaster of Jak and Daxter to PlayStation. Howe even created a frame-by-frame cutscene to show what the project might have looked like.
He notes that this remake had not been commissioned by Sony and that Sanzaru had simply tried to obtain permission to do it. Of course, the remake never saw the light of day.
Sanzaru Games was known for developing titles such as Secret Agent Clank, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Sonic Boom on 3DS, and Asgard’s Wrath.
