History VideoGame / ConkersBadFurDay

** Actually, the windmill was intended to be a building you could go into when the game was still the kid friendly Conker's Quest/Twelve Tales Conker 64; you could open it and go inside, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUipfgCOKg as seen in this video]]. As for what purpose going in there served, it's pretty much a mystery by now. It was most likely going to be like the DonkeyKongCountry and VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 treehouse as well as Banjo's house in BanjoKazooie and Banjo-Tooie in which it was a building that was in the starting area where you could go back inside anytime after the game began.

A few years later, after Rare was bought out by Microsoft, an [[VideoGameRemake "enhanced" remake]] of the game, ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', came out.

Thankfully, what could have been a shockingly bad gimmick of a game gained rave reviews from critics over its graphics, adult sense of humour, and entertaining gameplay, not to mention being considered [[GeniusProgramming a technical marvel at its time for squeezing hundreds of lines of spoken dialogue into a single game cartridge]]. Due to a combination of the {{Nintendo 64}} (which was nearing the end of its run by the time of the game's release) [[ConsoleWars being smashed down by the]] PlayStation and Nintendo's refusal to advertise the game much at all, ''Bad Fur Day'' ended up a as a largely commercial failure.

A few years later, after Rare was bought out by Microsoft, an [[VideoGameRemake "enhanced" remake]] of the game, ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', came out. This game was an even larger commercial failure, thanks to Microsoft's odd marketing plan and [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks changes to the original game.]] And censorship. While ''Bad Fur Day'' has a cult following, ''Live and Reloaded'' has some fans and a {{Hatedom}}.

* {{Genius Cripple}}: The Professor.

* HandCannon: Not only is it as big as your arm and one shot kill anywhere, it also has a zooming scope and laser sight. Perfect for {{scrubs}} of all ages! If you see that laser sight, you have one second before your [[{{YourHeadAsplode}} head disappears.]]
* {{Have A Nice Death}}: There are a few different Game Over sequences depending how Conker died on his last life. From being captured, gagged, and used as a replacement table leg as intended, to being listed as missing on a milk carton, to being delivered to the Panther King as a bag full of splattered squirrel bits...

* {{How We Got Here}}:...showing how Conker came to become the new king of this bizarre world.

* {{Only Sane Man}}: Conker himself.

* AlwaysNight: The second half of the game, starting with the Spooky chapters.
** Justified since the entire game is supposed to take place over a single day.

Thankfully, what could have been a shockingly bad gimmick of a game gained rave reviews from critics over its graphics, adult sense of humour, and entertaining gameplay, not to mention being considered [[GeniusProgramming a technical marvel at its time for squeezing hundreds of lines of spoken dialogue into a single game cartridge]]. Due to a combination of the {{Nintendo 64}} (which was nearing the end of its run by the time of the game's release) [[ConsoleWars being smashed down by the]] {{PlayStation}} and Nintendo's refusal to advertise the game much at all, ''Bad Fur Day'' ended up a as a largely commercial failure.

A few years later, after Rare was bought out by Microsoft, an [[VideoGameRemake "enhanced" remake]] of the game, ''ConkerLiveAndReloaded'', came out. This game was an even larger commercial failure, thanks to Microsoft's odd marketing plan and [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks changes to the original game.]] And censorship. While ''Bad Fur Day'' has a cult following, ''Live and Reloaded'' has some fans and a Hatedom.

Inspired by ''SouthPark'', the then newly renamed ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' promised to use scatological humour, sexual innuendo (some more subtle than others), cartoon violence, and excessive swearing. Originally thought to be an April Fools joke, the announcement turned out to be completely true.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: AND HOW?!?!?

* FauxSymbolism: When the game begins and Conker gets drunk, he exits the bar and walks to the right (where his adventure will begin); in the stinger when he drinks away his depression and gets drunk once again, he exits the bar and walks to the ''left''.

* GagPenis: Buga the Knut's less than impressive tackle.
** After his boisterous claims of having the biggest bone. But he probably meant this literally, considering his weapon is a literal bone.

A few years later, after Rare was bought out by Microsoft, an [[VideoGameRemake "enhanced" remake]] of the game, ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', came out. This game was an even larger commercial failure, thanks to Microsoft's odd marketing plan and [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks changes to the original game.]] And censorship. While ''Bad Fur Day'' has a cult following, ''Live and Reloaded'' has some fans and a Hatedom.

* MatureAnimalStory: While the game is a comedy with talking animals, none of it is kid-friendly.

* RatedMForMoney

Thankfully, what could have been a shockingly bad gimmick of a game gained rave reviews from critics over its graphics, adult sense of humour, and entertaining gameplay, not to mention being considered [[GeniusProgramming a technical marvel at its time for squeezing hundreds of lines of spoken dialogue into a single game cartridge]]. Due to a combination of the {{Nintendo 64}} (which was nearing the end of its run by the time of the game's release)) [[ConsoleWars being smashed down by the]] {{PlayStation}} and Nintendo's refusal to advertise the game much at all, ''Bad Fur Day'' ended up a as a largely commercial failure.

--> "I am the Great Mighty Poo, and I'm going to throw my shit at you..." Does that count as CallingYourAttacks?

* CampGay: Mr. Big Cog.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Inverted. The game basically takes a ginormous shit on every radar in sight. Then that shit breaks into the most awesome song.

* TheJimmyHartVersion: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zONVjkn3tAA Haybot Wars]] features more than a passing resemblance to the theme of '''{{Terminator}} 2'''... At least in the N64 game. '''Live & Reloaded''' remixed the tune to make the reference a bit less obvious.

A few years later, after Rare was bought out by Microsoft, an [[VideoGameRemake "enhanced" remake]] of the game, ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'' came out. This game was an even larger commercial failure, thanks to Microsoft's odd marketing plan and [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks changes to the original game.]] And censorship. While ''Bad Fur Day'' has a cult following, ''Live and Reloaded'' has some fans and a Hatedom.

* AlwaysNight: The second half of the game, starting with the Spooky chapters

* AntiHero: Conker
* AwfulTruth: The game begins with the given impression that it's a ridiculous tale of how Conker became king and met a bunch of strange people. Which is true, [[spoiler: but at the end of the story its revealed that the tale is just one big sob story of how Conker was used by a bunch of rude, obnoxious jerks, got involved in wars and heists, risked his life in more than multiple occasions and witnessed his girlfriend get killed right before his eyes when up to that point, no one took Conker and Berri as being a serious couple with a solid and sound relationship. The worst part of all was that he had a chance to save her shortly thereafter but botched it. All he wanted to do is go home after a bad hangover and forget it had ever happened but in the end his life was ruined, and there was nothing he could do to get out of it.]]

* BigBad: The Panther King, well supposedly. He actually seems rather nonthreatening despite his intimidating way of speaking.

* BulletTime: During the Matrix level and when you enter a code to get Matrix-like 360's in multi-player when you kill someone with a katana or a chainsaw.
* BullSeeingRed: One of the boss battles is against a bull that hates the color red. And as Conker just so happens to be a red squirrel. I don't think you need a flowchart here.

** Also one of Conker's Idle animations is of him drinking a soda can, sometimes when Conker kicks it to get rid of the soda can after he's finished it will hit the screen and make the camera shake slightly off screen while making the sound of the impact, also Live & Reloaded added the effects of water, blood, and poo staining the screen during certain chapters.

** WordOfGod has it that it is simply an adventure Conker and Berri had back when they were kids. Sure, its quite a stretch, but if you think about it for a while it actually makes some (minor) sense. His appearance at ''Diddy Kong Racing'' is another story, though.

*** Hell even more so if you consider the original Conker's Quest/Twelve Tales Conker 64 game it started out as and it's prequel Pocket Tales.
* DeadBabyComedy: [[spoiler: quite literally, at one point.]]

* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Berri, to a somewhat ludicrous level. She gets mowed down for 20 seconds with a tommy gun, then sucked out into deep space. The Panther King also counts to this, first getting killed by the Xenomorph hatching, then getting sucked out as well.]]

** Could have been worse, they could have gone with the original ending and [[spoiler: have Conker commit suicide.]]

** [[spoiler: The original ending was going to have Conker shoot himself during the bar scene after the credits, but the creators decided they wanted to eventually do a sequel.]]
** [[spoiler: Ironically, Word of God says that Conker would have been killed in the opening of the sequel, and the main game focusing on the Tediz and Army Squirrel War instead.]]

* ElectricTorture: Conker finds a squirrel strapped to an electric chair when he invades the Tediz base. He tries to free him by pulling a switch, but inevitably, that only turns the chair on, zapping the squirrel nearly to death. Though terribly charred he's "not quite dead." [[spoiler: Also, there's two switches...but they both electrocute the squirrel. Anyway, after one of them is used, the other will open the door to leave the area, no matter which you picked.]]

** Actually the windmill was intended to be a building you could go in when the game was still the kid friendly Conker's Quest/Twelve Tales Conker 64, you could open it and go inside [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUipfgCOKg as seen in this video]] as for what purpose going in there served it's pretty much a mystery by now, it was most likely going to be like the DonkeyKongCountry and VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 treehouse as well as Banjo's house in BanjoKazooie and Banjo-Tooie in which it was a building that was in the starting area where you could go back inside anytime after the game began.
** Another one is the slightly destroyed stone and brick building structure near where you rescue Rodent in the War Chapter, it serves no real purpose in the game and theres nothing in the area inside it, it might have served a purpose while the game was still the kid-freindly Conker's Quest/Twelve Tales Conker 64 game but it certainly doesn't in the final M rated Bad Fur Day product.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The Tediz
* ExecutiveMeddling: To elaborate on what was stated above, the main reason why Conker's Bad Fur Day was created was because the Executives at Rare began to fear that their original idea for a Conker platformer, Twelve Tales: Conker 64/Conker's Quest, was going to be looked down upon due to being yet another cutesy platformer, and an extremely negative critique/mockery made during it's test showing ended up being the last straw, ultimately resulting in this.

* FauxSymbolism: When the game begins and Conker gets drunk, he exits the bar and walks to the right (were his adventure will begin); in the stinger when he drinks away his depression and gets drunk once again, he exits the bar and walks to the ''left''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: While the music that plays in the introduction has been associated with ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', it was [[spoiler: originally written for a funeral procession for Britain's Queen Mary II. Considering that Berri would have likely been Conker's queen at the end had she lived, the context in which the music was used suddenly takes on an appropriately grim tone.]]

* FryingPanOfDoom Conker's standard weapon for most of the game.
** Subverted in ''Live & Reloaded'', where [[spoiler: you use the frying pan only in the tutorial level, but Conker switches it immediately after the encounter with the Gargoyle for a [[BatterUp baseball bat]].]]

* GagPenis: Buga the Knut's less than impressive tackle

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Apparently squirrels get a new life with every tail they collect, and seemingly start off with 3 - but not if you're one of the countless Squirrel soldiers.
** Actually, Gregg said that it only applies to Red Squirrels which, conveniently, only Conker is lucky enough to be. But apparently Red Squirrels have more than one use in this world...

* GrassIsGreener: [[spoiler: Conker realizes only after becoming rich and powerful like he always wanted to be that he had everything he wanted all along. Only by then, [[DownerEnding it was too late]].]]

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Conker himself, who doesn't wear pants. Averted in the X-Box remake though.

* {{Have A Nice Death}}: There are a few different Game Over sequences depending how Conker died on his last life. From being captured, gagged and used as a replacement table leg as intended, to being listed as missing on a milk carton, to being delivered to the Panther King as a bag full of splattered squirrel bits...

** The look of horror on Conkers face.....

* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: Berri

** Or more likely, since Conker's the king now, he probably used his resources to hunt [[spoiler:Don Weaso down and slaughter him for what he did to Berri]]
*** Except for the fact that WordOfGod says [[spoiler: He would have used up all said resources in the next game blowing all the treasury on booze, parties, and hookers, and then be thrown in the castle's highest dungeon tower for doing that and face the prospect of execution for doing that as well, so this troper really doesn't see how he would use the resources to hunt down Weaso since Conker would have used them all up for such things and was dethroned for it so he wouldn't even have stayed king of all the land for very long in the sequel]].

* LaserSight: The sniper rifle, the hand cannon and the crossbow.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Subverted. There ''are'' many ways you can die that may not mean much (besides different animations Conker has), but depending on how you die on your last life you'll trigger different cutscenes as far as what happens between the guard weasels delivering Conker and the Panther King, including [[FaceOnAMilkCarton Conker being missing and advertised on a milk carton]] (common), being tied up (alive) as a replacement desk (if Conker runs out of energy), [[LudicrousGibs being delivered in pieces in a sack]] (if Conker was chopped, exploded or otherwise in pieces), delivered in a smoking sack (if burned to death), or being delivered in a wet sack (if he died on the surface of the water or in it, regardless of ''how'' he died)

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Count Conkula, who not only has the power to turn into a bat but turns Conker into one as well. And instead of being killed by a stake or sunlight, he's killed by drinking too much blood, growing fat and falling into his own grinder.

* SoundEffectBleep: In the remake The Great Mighty Poo's song is bleeped with farts. Apparently the word "twat" is far too naughty for a rated-M game on the X-Box.

* SunglassesAtNight: Conker wears them in the Heist chapter. (and they look pretty freakin' awesome!)

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler: Again, poor, poor Berri.]]

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: The Panther King and to a lesser extent Don Weaso.]]

** To put in perspective: In the original, MP included Lava Boarding, 2 War levels (1 of which was an Assault map with a giant microwave sudden death), tank fighting (co-op if you wanted, 1 gunner 1 driver), and Dinosaurs vs Humans (every bit as awesome as it sounds, essentially 1 team captures the eggs and returns them to the frying pan at base, whereas the 1-3 dinosaurs on defence have to eat the humans, and the humans just have crossbows). The remake? Just some shooter levels, whilst good at the time for having an unlock system, where nowhere near the original's quality, almost becoming Quake with squirrels+Teddiez (which had very good AI but lacked online).
* VillainSong, [[http://sloprano.ytmnd.com The best one ever]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: U-Bend Blues is among the hardest [[NintendoHard and deadliest]] levels in the game where if a player didn't die up to this point, they will now. At the same time the level also features numerous bits and pieces of other red squirrels who died trying to get past the spinning blades.

** Note that they will revert back to normal if you grab the flag. However in an Arena mission this can mean that you get to take free potshots at the enemy without getting return fire.

* WickedWeasel: The weasels in the game are either members of the mob or bank security guards, both have connections to the Panther King, who rules over the weasels after he overthrew their old monarch. Weasel characters include Professor Von Kripplespac, Don Weaso and the Panther King's two minions.
** Except of course for the musicians at the local bar!

** Weaso also first seen beating one of his own men to death with a baseball bat in a parody of ''TheUntouchables''.

* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: Conker's health meter is measured in six pieces of a chocolate bar, and he regains health by eating anti-gravity chocolate. [[FridgeHorror Which becomes rather gross]] [[IAteWhat in the poo-themed levels]].

* AwfulTruth: The game begins with the given impression that it's a ridiculous tale of how Conker became king and met a bunch of strange people. Which is true, [[spoiler: but at the end of the story its revealed that the tale is just one big sob story of how Conker was used by a bunch of rude, obnoxious people, got involved in wars and heists, risked his life in more than multiple occasions and witnessed his girlfriend get killed right before his eyes when up to that point, no one took Conker and Berri as being a serious couple with a solid and sound relationship. The worst part of all was that he had a chance to save her shortly thereafter but botched it. All he wanted to do is go home after a bad hangover and forget it had ever happened but in the end his life was ruined, and there was nothing he could do to get out of it.]]

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-->"''It all started.... yesterday. What a day that was! It's what I call... a [[TitleDrop bad fur day]].''"
-->- Conker, opening cutscene

Conker's Bad Fur Day is a 2001 video game. Originally developed as a kiddy game under the name of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuFNl4s9yI ''Conker's Quest'']] and later ''Twelve Tales: Conker 64'', Rare's next game in the ''Conker'' series was heading to become another run-of-the-mill platform game. Apparently, Rare changed their mind during production, and instead set out to create a "controversial" game aimed at adults and older teens.

** Weaso also first seen beating one of his own men to death with a baseball bat in a parody of TheUntouchables.
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