During the PS2 era, Naughty Dog made a name for itself via the Jak and Daxter series. Having helped to make the original PlayStation a household name with its Crash Bandicoot games, the series Ximon is a character in Daxter, with a cameo in Jak X: Combat Racing. He is the son of Osmo, who owned the Kridder Ridder extermination company and hired Daxter in the beginning of the game. The owner of the scooter, which Daxter frequently used, Ximon assigned missions or relayed messages to Daxter from Osmo. He was ultimately instrumental in Daxter's rescue of Jak towards the end of the game Jak and Daxter are the main protagonists of the Jak and Daxter series. Created by Naughty Dog, the characters have made many cameos in the Ratchet & Clank series due to the close relationship between developers Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games. Ratchet and Clank have similarly made cameos in Jak and Daxter games, and the two have appeared in many other PlayStation games alongside them, often The flut flut is a species of bird in The Precursor Legacy. Large and colorful, they were sometimes ridden as mounts by humans. One particular infant flut flut was rescued by Jak and Daxter, then nursed to health by the Birdwatcher and Samos Hagai in Sandover Village. It was later tacked up by Keira for the duo to use on their journey north. Adults of the species are known to be deadly The tentacle is an invisible wall mechanism in Jak 3. Belonging to an unknown sea creature (most likely an octopus) off the coast of the Wasteland and Spargus, it will prevent Jak from swimming out too far by grasping him from the depths below and pulling him down, acting similarly to Lurker sharks. There is little warning of the enemy's appearance, aside from a few surfacing bubbles. In The following is a list of missions in Jak 3. Missions are prompted by either icons on the mini-map representing a character, or they will be told to you via a communicator. When received from a character, you will have to travel to where that character is located (e.g. the Arena of Death for Damas), as a cutscene will begin, explaining the premise of the mission. After this, the location in Samos' hut (later called the Sacred Site) is a location featured in The Precursor Legacy and Jak II. It originally served as the home to Samos Hagai and his daughter Keira in Sandover Village, though after the start of the Metal Head Wars it became a valuable and mysterious location to protect. In The Precursor Legacy, Samos' hut housed the Green Sage and his daughter in southern Sandover IGN mentioned that they liked Jak's character better in Jak 3 than in Jak II, because in Jak II he was a "whiny, brooding emo figure". In a poll conducted by Game Informer, Jak was voted as the 28th best character of the decade. IGN also listed Daxter and him the fifth best duo in gaming. BxeH.