History VideoGame / ConkersBadFurDay

* FakeDifficulty: A lot of the game's challenge comes from either cheap difficulty tricks (like the [[CameraScrew camera being locked at the most inconvenient times]] and the fact that Conker will take damage from falling anywhere remotely high) or TrialAndErrorGameplay and bits where the game gives [[GuideDangIt no indication how to solve a certain situation]] (the Sunny Days chapter is egregious in this regard). Selecting a chapter individually instead of playing a save file adds another nasty bit of this--you only get three lives, and all other squirrel tails are gone.

''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' is one of ten UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} games released in March 2001. A sequel to the little-known ''VideoGame/ConkersPocketTales'', a kid-friendly UsefulNotes/GameBoy platformer, this game was likewise intended to be a children's game; first under the name ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuFNl4s9yI Conker's Quest]]'', and later ''VideoGame/TwelveTalesConker64''. However, after too many comments about them making yet another cutesy platformer, Creator/{{Rare}} had enough, and they decided to change course. Going in the opposite direction, instead of yet another colorful all-ages romp in the vein of [[VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing their]] [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie other]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 N64 titles]], they were going to make a "controversial" game aimed at adults and older teens.

->"''It all started.... yesterday. What a day that was! It's what I call... a bad fur day.''"

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} A hangover's never pretty. But a squirrel with a hangover...that's just obscene.]]'']]

->"''A hangover's never pretty. But a squirrel with a hangover...that's just obscene.''"
-->-- '''Tagline'''

!!Bad Fur Day's tropes include:

* TransformationDiscretionShot: Count Batula himself turns himself and Conker into a bat when he drinks his blood. However, it cuts to the villagers bursting through the door.

* NoNameGiven: Von Kripelspac was only known as "Ze Professor" in the original game.

* DeceptiveDisciple: [[spoiler:Professor Von Kripelspac]] when he betrays the [[spoiler:Panther King by hatching an alien in his stomach]] to defeat Conker.

** You cannot access the Bats Tower until you solve the Switch puzzle. The imps will ''always'' move fast enough to keep you from swimming to its entrance in time, knocking you far away from it or killing you. Even if you manage to bypass the guard protecting the switch that kills the other imps without dropping a dung ball on him, the Context Sensitive action wont work.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Almost every chapter in the game except Hungover, Windy and Heist has Conker boxed into at least one situation like these, [[AntiHero not that he's conflicted about doing them anyway]]:

** In "Sloprano", you have to kill the cows with the bull in order to make progress, and also feed a bomb to a giant dung beetle to kill it and move on. Later on, you have to feed innocent Sweet Corn to the Great Mighty Poo to trigger his boss fight.

friends who try to save them.

* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: During the Uga Buga chapter, Conker is caught freeing her girlfriend Berri and trying to leave the Rock Solid nightclub with the money she gathered while strip-teasing. The mafia leader Don Weaso decides to spare him in exchange for a favor: To carry a CartoonBomb and drop it onto a volcano's core to make the lava's level rise and eradicate the surrounding Uga Bugas (Weaso holds beliefs based on FantasticRacism against them), and Conker has to hurry because the fuse is already lit. The squirrel has to go through a small passageway, a prolonged descending slope, the mucous interior of a dinosaur with moving uvulas, and finally the corridor leading to the destination. All while also dodging the club swings from wandering Uga Bugas. Being hit by any attack or hazard, or taking too long, will lead to [[BoomInTheHand the bomb exploding, killing Conker in the process]].

* GagBoobs: Conker actually uses the large breasts of [[NonMammalMammaries a sunflower]] as a springboard. Jugga also has rather sizeable mammaries.

* GameplayRoulette: The game starts off as a regular platformer, but as you progress you'll be racing across lava, flying around picking up villagers for a Dracula pastiche, third-person shooting at Teddy-like Nazis, and tearing cavemen apart while riding on a dinosaur. The final boss pits you in a robot suit fighting a Xenomorph. The player almost needs to learn a new control scheme for every level (fortunately, the instruction manual does offer a list of control settings for each situation). In a way, the constant gameplay shifts are entirely thematic; just as the story has Conker endure a baffling RandomEventsPlot with unexpected twists and turns all over the place, so does the player have to contend with entirely new gameplay mechanics being constantly thrust on them.

* UnusualEuphemism: The sunflower's breasts are referred to as "stamens". Which makes sense, considering she's a sunflower, but on the other hand she's an anthropomorphic sunflower, with very definitely humanoid breasts.

* GameplayRoulette: The game starts off as a regular platformer, but as you progress you'll be racing across lava, flying around picking up villagers for a Dracula pastiche, third-person shooting at Teddy-like Nazis, and tearing cavemen apart while riding on a dinosaur. The final boss pits you in a robot suit fighting a Xenomorph. The player almost needs to learn a new control scheme for every level (fortunately, the instruction manual does offer a list of control settings for each situation).

* StealthPun: After defeating the Great Mighty Poo, Conker quips, "now that's what I call a bowel movement!" "Bowel movement" is, of course, another word for feces, but "movement" is also a musical term for a self-contained part of a composition, most commonly used in chamber music, the kind of music that the Great Mighty Poo sings (which itself is a pun on "chamber pots").
** Also the beetles, who have scouse accents - like ''Music/TheBeatles''.

* TimedMission: The escape from the Tediz island. Once the little girl activates the SelfDestruct sequence, you have 4 minutes and 30 seconds to escape. Luckily, if you die before getting outside (and still have lives in hand), the clock resets to full time. Once you're outside, if you die, you respawn at the entrance to the compound, but you only get 2 minutes. Timing out means instant death as the island blows up. The good news? It only costs one life, which means that you can try again (unless you get a GameOver, of course).

* ThemeAndVariationsSoundtrack: The game remixes the Windy area theme to make the Barn Boys, Bats' Tower and Uga Buga themes.