The game takes place in the final months of the two-year gap presented in the opening of Jak II , between the moment when Jak is taken prisoner by the Krimzon Guard and the time in which Daxter finally rescues him . The introduction shows Jak being captured , while Daxter manages to escape . Daxter first appears in Jak and Daxter : The Precursor Legacy , where he and Jak take a boat to Misty Island , a place Samos the Sage warned them against visiting .