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Conker's Bad Fur Day is a platform video game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. It was released on March 5, 2001, in North America, April 6, 2001, in Europe, and May 25, 2001 in Australia, as part of the Conker video game series. Although visually similar to Rare's family-oriented Nintendo 64 platform games, the content of Conker's Bad Fur Day is designed for mature audiences. In 2005, the game received a remake titled Conker: Live and Reloaded released for the Xbox by Microsoft Game Studios.
Plot
The story of Conker the Squirrel, a greedy, heavy-drinking red squirrel who attempts to return home to his girlfriend Berri. The gameplay is composed of various challenges involving platform, solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and gathering objects.
These challenges are split across multiple chapters, each with a different theme. The game also features a multiplayer mode where a maximum of four players can compete in seven different game types.
Why It's Fan-F(bleep)king-Tastic
Overall
- Instead of being kid-friendly like Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo-Kazooie, Chris Seavor took the innovative decision to have lots of adult topics, graphic violence, sexual content, heavy swearing, and dark humor.
- Beautiful, very dark tone and fantastic music (it is also one of the couple N64 games to use MP3 music), such as The Great Mighty Poo song.
- Many pop-culture references from movies and television from R and TV-MA-rated (ex. A Clockwork Orange, Alien, The Terminator, Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix, etc.) with their humor well placed.
- This is one of the first games that led to a depressing ending that felt real and heartbreaking to the point of making players feel sympathy for Conker only.
- The humor is hilarious with lots of dark and adult humor, making this game Nintendo and Banjo-Kazooie meets South Park.
- Really good voice acting.
- All the characters are very likable, especially Conker who is the most of all.
- Cool bosses with ingenious fights or simply to pull off a good laugh. You fight things like a caveman, a giant furnace, and even a giant lump of poo.
- The game is pretty lengthy for an N64 and Xbox game as it's 11 hours long.
- Banjo from Banjo-Kazooie makes a cameo in this video game as a head on the wall.
Original
- It was the last Nintendo 64 game by Rare and mentions it as a fourth wall break in the end.
- The N64 was often criticized for most of its games being aimed at kids, so instead of being kid-friendly, Rare took the innovative decision to have lots of graphic violence, sexual content, heavy swearing, etc.
- Awesome graphics, especially for 2001 standards. The color palette is amazing and looks very similar to the graphics for Banjo-Kazooie (which was also developed by Rare) and Super Mario 64.
- The game also has a multiplayer option as well, featuring seven different minigames and eight different levels: Total War, Colors, Temple, The Vault, Bunker the beach, a lava racecourse, and a Tank warzone, all except the last three worlds playable in Deathmatch mode. The Bunker level is a Deathmatch exclusive.
- Beach: The player controls either the Frenchies or the Tediz. As the Frenchies, the player must guide a French refugee up through the beach and into a waiting escape vehicle without getting killed by the Tediz. The Tediz fire down on the Frenchies from three different fixed positions located above the escape vehicles, utilizing either a Sniper Rifle, a Rocket Launcher, or a mounted Chain Gun to prevent the refugee's evacuation. The Frenchies are unarmed but can retaliate by setting off a detonator switch, known as the Plunger, which blows up the Tediz who are preventing their escape, and gives them a window of time to make the beach run uncontested. In any case, as the Sergeant, who has gotten the Frenchies to the beach, warns in the intro cut-scene, within several seconds, if one of the Frenchies does not get killed by the Tediz or escape, they will be instantly killed by an off-map laser weapon, thus forcing Frenchies to move quickly and not wait too long.
- Raptor: Involves up to two players playing as remote-controlled Fangys who are trying to feed a Dino Baby, while the other team to play as are a group of Uga-Bugas that want to steal the Dino Eggs for breakfast.
- Heist: Involves a parody of Reservoir Dogs in the intro. Four teams (either two per team or one player each, depending on how the game is set up)--Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow— all take place in the robbing of the Feral Reserve Bank. The objective is to retrieve the Cash Bag from the center of the level and run with it back to their corresponding vault without being damaged (in which case they lose the bag and it attempts to return to the center).
- War: Can either be a large-team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag with all of the game's weapons scattered between each level. Each level has two bases, a large field between them, each with multiple access points and places for different tactics. For example, there are sewers where a gas Canister can be planted to kill all unprotected soldiers at the Total War level.
- Tank: Players all spawn in their bunker and go around a large canyon with optional, pick-up upgrades and battle to the death. Players have the option of also grabbing a gas canister, much like in Total War, and returning to their bunker where they are protected.
- Race: is simply the multiplayer version of a mini-game within Single Player. Here, players must go around a volcano with their hoverboards. They can attack other players and, if not careful, crash into walls and die. The first one to make a certain amount of laps, determined before the start of the game, or the last man standing wins.
- Deathmatch: In this mode, basically characters simply try to kill any other characters on the field.
Live and Reloaded
- The Xbox remake released 4 years later gave several improvements that fixed the problems beyond the original N64 port.
- The graphics and visuals are a huge step up as they’re enhanced to meet the original Xbox’s hardware standards as well as some changes to the character models which have more detail.
- The new third-person shooting multiplayer is very fun and even has a side story to the plot about a fictional war between the SHC and Tediz.
- Improved shooting and combat controls that now allow you to attack properly and run-n-gun using the thumbsticks rather than the N64 single analog stick which was terrible.
- Arranged soundtrack along with improved audio dialogue. The Great Mighty Poo’s singing voice has been re-recorded to match his speaking voice.
- Added additional content including extra enemies and more outfit appearances.
- Removed most difficult puzzles to ease up the difficulty.
- Completing the single-player story can give the player the option to uncensor swearing in the multiplayer campaign.
- There are some funny self-aware moments where Conker notices that the remake is a little different.
Bad Qualities
Overall
- Some of the toilet humor is unfunny.
- Berri can be annoying sometimes when it comes to her Irish accent.
- Conker can be cruel at times.
- The zombies in the game can be an absolute pain to deal with.
Original
- The framerate is inconsistent due to the limitations of the Nintendo 64.
- Even with the Expansion Pack, the N64 was pushed to the extreme limits, leaving the console really hot after playing the game which would overheat the console to the point that it could turn off or not work anymore due to its processor being fried.
- Sometimes the controls are extremely sensitive.
- The camera is known for getting in awkward places making the navigation confusing.
- The difficulty could get very frustrating at times.
- While the voice acting is great, the audio files for them seem to be compressed for the N64. As you can hear the beeps from the microphone in the audio while it is playing, either the audio was compressed to fit onto the N64, or the developers Rare didn't edit the beeping from the audio out. This game was released a year later after Audacity (a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software) was released for Windows, and it does have a noise removal tool. The audio quality was improved on the Xbox remake, however.
- There are no unlockables or collectibles other than cash.
- There was a deleted scene in “It’s War” where two Tedi surgeons are vivisecting a live squirrel. It was so scary that it was replaced in the final game with the surgeons talking about the development of the game in British accents with cigarette holders.
Live and Reloaded
- The Xbox remake suffers from unnecessary censorship, despite being an M-rated game in the first place and despite being on a console with a focus on hardcore gamers.
- Depending on who you ask however, this could be funnier.
- There are some technical issues when played on the Xbox 360 via backward compatibility.
- Loading screens do not appear.
- Occasional system hangs during gameplay and local multiplayer.
- Effects such as dust and smoke will not render correctly.
- The game crashes when entering the Dung Beetle dungeon.
- Some frame drops in the multiplayer mode.
- The Xbox Live servers have been shut down ever since but can still be played through X-Link Kai.
- The multiplayer's shooting controls can be terrible at times but luckily can be changed in the menu.
Reception
Conker's Bad Fur Day received critical acclaim, with an aggregate review score of 92 out of 100 at Metacritic based on reviews from 19 critics. Despite its poor sales initially, the game has since enjoyed a cult following due to its unique styling and has been called one of the best video games of all time, one of the greatest Nintendo games, and one of the best Nintendo 64 titles.
After the release of Conker's Bad Fur Day, Rare began development of a direct sequel referred to as Conker's Other Bad Day. Seavor revealed that the game would deal with "Conker's somewhat unsuccessful tenure as King. He spends all the treasured money on beer, parties and hookers. Thrown into prison, Conker is faced with the prospect of execution and the game starts with his escape, ball and chain attached, from the Castle's highest tower". In 2002, however, Rare was purchased by Microsoft, who told them they were not interested in such a project.
Trivia
- The game was originally going to be titled Conker's Quest in 1997, and Twelve Tales: Conker 64 in 1998. The game would've been a cutesy 3D platformer similar to Banjo-Kazooie, making it aimed at kids, but was reworked into Bad Fur Day after being criticized for its kid-friendliness.
- While the original project was canceled and shelved, Rare still made use of some assets from the canceled project and incorporated them into the final M-rated game. You can learn more about the development in the extras of Rare Replay.
- The game only has three voice actors. These are Chris Seavor (a great part of the male characters and some female characters), Louise Ridgeway (the rest of the female characters), and Chris Marlow (The Great Mighty Poo).
- Count Batula's theme is taken from an unused vampire theme for Killer Instinct 2.
- If left idle, Conker will pull out his Game Boy and an 8-bit rendition of the Killer Instinct theme can be heard (though this was removed in the Rare Replay version).
- Both the original and the remake of the game can be played on the Xbox One through either Rare Replay or backward compatibility.
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