Jak II/Third Seal

The missions on this page cover the third piece of Mar's Seal, revealing and opening Mar's Tomb, and discovering the Precursor Stone within.

Mission: Beat Onin Game

 * Location: Haven City (bazaar)

Follow the tent icon to the Onin's tent and go inside.


 * Cutscene: "Onin's Challenge"
 * You walk in on Kor trying to convince Onin that the Kid is too young to fight the Metal Heads. Leaving that aside, now that you have proven your strength and courage by finding the first two pieces of Mar's Seal, according to Onin you must now prove you're smart as well to the get third piece.

Now there's a minigame you have to beat. Whatever Onin said about it, there's no puzzle component to it all, but a matter of pure reflexes. All you have to do is watch the symbols on the screen and press four buttons psx: C, psx: S, psx: T or psx: X to match them. If one of the symbols falls off the edge of the screen or if you press a button for a symbol that's not there then it counts as a miss and if you get 20 misses the game is over. You get one point for each correct symbol pressed, but runs of the same symbol count more. So, press the same button multiple times in a row if you can do it without a miss. You need a score of 400 to win.

The game starts out slow and easy but rapidly get more difficult and if you're one of those people who still has to look at the controller to see which button has the circle on it then you're probably not going to do it. There is, however, a simple cheat to get through this in that if you pause the game using psx: Select you can still see the symbols. So when things start to get hairy just pause, figure out which button you're going to press, unpause and press them, and pause again.


 * Cutscene: "Mar's Seal is Complete"
 * You get the final piece and Mar's Seal and it's now complete. Now Onin fills you in on what to do next. You must take the three artifacts you collected way back in the first part of the game, and bring them to Mar's gate. This will shine a light revealing the location of Mar's Tomb.

Mission: Use items in No Man’s Canyon

 * Location: Mountain Temple

Follow the mountain icon to the Mountain Temple gate and go through. Start to the explore the temple as before, but this time you may notice a golden beam of light covering the mysterious door on the right of the passage near the start. Approach and there is a very short cutscene ("The Seal Opens the Door") where the Mar's Seal opens the door. Go through, then down a grindable rail to a canyon (apparently named No Man's Canyon). Go north until you spot some statues. There is a short cutscene ("The Light Tower Rises") where you place the artifacts in place to complete the Light Tower and it shines a beam of light. You may have noticed a huge statue in a square south of the palace. Well it won't be there now because as soon as the light hits it it collapses into a pile of rubble.

Turn around and follow the canyon south to a ledge near the start of the area. Roll jump to get to the gate.