Naughty Dog’s next game should be Jak And Daxter 4 – Reader’s Feature

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A reader suggests that Naughty Dog take a rest from super serious games and try to make something more family friendly.

In my opinion Naughty Dog are one of the best developers in the world, but I’m beginning to worry about them. It seems to me they’re getting bogged down with their legacy, wasting their time with remakes and multiplayer spin-offs of The Last Of Us and getting dragged into making a new Uncharted game simply because the movie did well and they can’t seem to bear anyone else making those games. But they need a rest from these games and a chance to make something more fun, and they don’t even have to invent a new IP to do it.

The tone might be different, but Uncharted and The Last Of Us both look and play very similarly. We don’t know for a fact that they’re doing another Uncharted themselves but one thing about Naughty Dog is that they do always seem very protective of their franchises and don’t really like other people messing with them, so I don’t think they’ll be able to stop themselves.

My dream project for them would just be something brand new, that’s light and funny and family friendly. Something to stretch their range and show people that not everything they make has to be grimdark and serious. Uncharted 4 was already a lot darker than the others, with no supernatural stuff, and I really don’t like that they seem to think that’s necessary in order for it to seem ‘adult’.

Since it’s difficult to advocate for something that doesn’t exist my next best suggestion would be a new Crash Bandicoot (it’s often forgotten they invented the franchise) but since Microsoft will shortly own this that’s a no go, which brings us to choice number three: Jak And Daxter.

The first Jak And Daxter was a Rare style open world