Jak & Daxter The Precursor Legacy - All Unreleased Music! (Cutscene, Demos, Unused)

[@keithealy]

Track List: 0:00 Alternate End Credits (don't know if this one is damaged or not, sounds really weird to me) 2:04 Opening Cutscene 1 (Samos Monologue Underscore) 3:29 Opening Cutscene 2 (Misty Island Underscore) # 4:16 Opening Cutscene 3 (Daxter gets turned into an Ottsel Underscore) 5:47 Opening Cutscene 4 (Samos' Hut Underscore) 6:57 Opening Cutscene 5 (Everyone has a boner for Keira Underscore) 8:18 Ending Cutscene 10:00 Unused Rock Village Theme 12:18 Unsnowy Mountain (Unused Snowy Mountain Theme) 14:31 Unused Forbidden Jungle theme 16:49 Jungle Rothereno (Unused Boggy Swamp Theme) 19:10 Jungle Raver (Might be Unused Precursor Basin, not sure) 21:22 Jungle Sunshine (Unused Volcanic Crater, I think) 23:43 Jungle Moonlight (Another Forbidden Jungle Theme?) 26:14 Jungle Life (No idea, let me know if you can figure it out!) 28:28 Jungle Synthetic (Again, no idea!) Let's get a discussion going in the comments on your thoughts on these and try to figure out where some of the tracks belong!

[@DaxterMaster]

lmao spot on title for cutscene underscore 5

[@AvonNabors]

Absolutely unreal thx

[@RatchetAndClank14]

10:00 Early Rock Village Theme 12:18 Theme for a cut level called Yosemite/Sierra,it was located in Volcanic Crater Hub 14:31 Early Forbidden Jungle Zone Theme 16:49 Early Boggy Swamp Theme 19:10 Early Precursor Basin Theme? Maybe 21:22 Maybe Cave Under Falls Theme? 23:43 Early Forbidden Temple Theme? 26:14 In Design Bible there is an early world map, and there is a level called Savannah,maybe this music was composed for Savannah 28:28 Underground Forest Theme?

[@MartianBlobfish]

I kind got carried away here so the message got REAL big... The unused Rock Village track is great but would've fit the level at all, it seems too aquatic and there's a sense of buoyancy in the song and the rushing sound makes me think of coral. The kind of location I'm thinking of is a beach cave with sea water rushing in and out with a wall caked in barnacles, with the cave leading to a small forest of tree coral. Is the snowy mountain *really* snowy mountain? It sounds WAY too much like a jungle environment with what sounds like birds and instruments often used alongside temples/marshes. Makes me think of a boggy swamp area, with an old forgotten temple buried in the trees and bogged in the mud, also populated by frogs and/or monkeys? Really it kind of just reminds me of the Beast Makers Home world in Spyro 1... The Forest is definitely a forest theme, though I'm getting an Asian vibe with the horn and light clangy instruments, sounds like night too. I'm thinking a tall mountainous area but it's an early area where the height is more of aesthetic then obstacle, lots of round terrain and instead of slopes most drops in elevation are steps curving around the area. the area is split down the middle with the mountain and there are paths carved through it so you can get to the other side. Boggy is by far the most atmospheric and seems to be portraying a great sense of space, definitely my favorite and almost feels strangely profound, for a lack of a better word. It makes me think Jak sitting at the edge of a swamp, like the length of a massive beach, looking out past a seemingly never ending still bog, Billy at your side with Farthy sitting there staring off in the distance. that's it, doesn't need to be more complicated. Basin Seems energetic and kind of robotic, with the tapping instruments seeming like nature forcing it's way through the still active technology already there. I'm imagining that everything's overgrown, there's a lower round area with spiraling tubes coming up from the edges, they have blue gloving lines in the center, bits of glass cracked with an occasional leak where blue eco can be obtained, multiple paths from inside a structure connect and weave together almost like there's a high speed track inside the temple where you'll be doing the coloured ring games. the tubes will lead above the round area where you can either drop down or continue driving the track. Well the echo definitely makes it seem cavernous and sort of cold and dank? If this is VC then either they had a different idea of the location or the song just doesn't fit. The location it makes me think of is reminiscent of VC though, just without the magma. Shallow waters, some hot springs, seems very relaxing and like a nice tune to relax to while preparing to go to the citadel. However it might be a better fit for Mountain Pass after you've finished racing the lurkers, the lush forest with dank fungal ridden caverns would fit well with this tune. My only other idea would be the supposed crystal area they canned, I've got no proof but I remember hearing somewhere the area with Willard and Gordy was supposed to be an entire level onto it's own, this song could fit that local too, now that I think of it the songs chimes and reverb give me strong crystal vibes... Moonlight seems like a night track but the repetition and eerie vibe kind of feels off, like it's trying to get us to rush and maybe something's going to coming after Jak. So like a fairly linear area, Jak managed to get stuck or fall down into an area alongside Forbidden Jungle, and the goal is to get out and the tense is slowly raised until a fight breaks out right before the escape. Well that or it's an old version of inside the temple. Second last one's a bit glitchy and from what I can hear does not fit Jak in the slightest, why is it so funky? Not bad but I'm glad it's cut. The song really doesn't make me think of a location, all I can think is Jungle? Last one fits better then the one before, but still not sure. Seems like a night Swamp, I can even hear bugs chirping. And the chiming sounds like electric horror. Could be like the swamp's infested by old long dead precursor bots and you need to traverse to and through a destroyed temple, battered large chunks of precursor metal sticking out of the ground, either in the dark past the thick of the trees or embedded in the main path so you can platform on them. So possibly an early idea for boggy, but was cut for not fitting the games vision enough? So yeah for the most part the music was really good and despite none making it into the game it's great to have experienced there tracks.

[@keithealy]

Incredible insight! I read this a few times just to take in everything. I think you were spot on with most of your descriptions, and the visuals in your writing were amazing! Thanks for this comment, very enjoyable read!

[@MartianBlobfish]

Thanks, I live for this sort of thing, imagining locals and such. most people say I go overboard :/

[@UndertakerU2ber]

12:18 I think that song was written for the unused level Yosemite/Sierra. I thought I heard that a composer for the first Jak entry confirmed that this was what the song was intended for, but I can’t remember the source off the top of my head atm

[@matinazadeh6870]

Boggy swamp is relaxing

[@fatherlucid4995]

Jungle Raver is amazing. This music would obviously go well with a J&D fan game which is an alternate sequel to TPL I’m working on.

[@Kakerate2]

any updates?

[@fatherlucid4995]

@@Kakerate2 I saw the guy who's making a remake for the game as well I would check that out too it's awesome. What I can give you on my sequel project is that I've moved it to unreal engine and I'm designing Jak on Blender as we speak with some changes to the design and some new gear for the next adventure.

[@beta_unknow3050]

You do sequel ?

[@fatherlucid4995]

@@beta_unknow3050 Yes. An alternate sequel.

[@beta_unknow3050]

@@fatherlucid4995 Oh cool ! Show me ?

[@JadedDarkness]

Jungle Rothereno is sick

[@TheApacheKing]

Awesome! 👍

[@RatchetAndClank14]

12:19 This song was confirmed by the composer that it was made for Yosemite/Sierra

[@finniganroverfield1753]

The unused rock village track reminds me of a marine iguana.

[@WAFFENFABRIK]

Jungle Rothereno (Demo) my beloved...

[@akeem4772]

Some of these unused tracks would fit in with Klonoa

[@Nathan55411]

Jungle Sunshine and Jungle Moonlight having such similar names makes me wonder if both tracks were meant to be in the Forbidden Jungle and which song played depended on the time of day. I will however agree that Jungle Sunshine kind of fits a bit more for Volcanic Crater. Plus it doesn't entirely explain why so many of these other tracks have the word Jungle in them. Maybe Jungle Synthetic was meant for the temple and Jungle Life was for the fisherman? But then there are the other ones that are definitely for different areas... I don't know it's very interesting

[@montanajackson3713]

The jungle river theme could’ve been used for a zoomer section there, and the jungle sunshine theme could’ve been used for a treetop village.

[@RatchetAndClank14]

There is no such thing as Treetop Village,there is Underground Village and Stilt Village

[@zurimoore2545]

Jungle life was okay and positive 😃🌄🌆

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

Jungle Moonlight is my waifu.

[@zachvegoe2202]

Everyone has what now for Kiera?🤨