Been playing Jak II for a while now, and in all honesty, if this was the first game, I would have dropped the Collection by now. I'm just not enjoying it, despite really liking the first game.
I hate the checkpoint system. There pretty much isn't one. You can go through a whole area and messing up once means you've got to start over. And it's so easy to accidentally fall off so that means doing the entire level again and/or you're counter being reset. It makes it worse since I just got playing Sly which was really helpful about stuff like that.
Combat isn't very good either. If you could aim your guns it would be fine, but since you can't it can come down to luck at times. Same thing with the challenges if there's a good vehicle nearby. The camera controls feel wrong as well. The whole game seems like it hasn't aged well. I just find the game really frustrating. Especially that dock level. I don't mind the open world traversal though. I actually like it.
It's disappointing because the first game was so relaxing and fun to play. Had a charm Jak II just completely lacks. Still gonna play Jak 3 though since I've invested myself in the series now. Hopefully it refines the gameplay a bit more.
Makes me a bit worried about Ratchet since the little I've seen about it resembles this game too much. I'll see how true that is soon though