YMMV / Conker: Live & Reloaded

• Awesome Music:
  • Beach Dead has a range of heavy horns that capture the feeling of war.
  • The Ditch sounds futuristic for all the right reasons.
• Common Knowledge: When comparing it to the original, for some reason people seem to say that this one "cuts content" from the original as one inferior point, alongside the replacing of the multiplayer mode and censoring the swearing. However, it actually only suffers two small cuts in the entire campaign — the beginning of the "It's War" chapter originally had a very short minigame with an electric eel you had to play to turn on the electricity before you could continue, and there was a Tediz on a turret later in the chapter that you had to blow up with the bazooka before you could get in it. In this remake, you simply flip a switch for the former, and the latter is replaced with some regular Tediz. Otherwise, this remake retains everything that the original game had, and in fact adds more than it removes, even though most people would have you believe otherwise. ^note Some parts were shortened such as only having to throw in three corn kernels to the Great Mighty Poo instead of six, but no content is missed as a result of this
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Conker and Destroy All Humans! are two games remade with original sound files but with much better graphics and have some quotes censored. Funnier enough, the remake for Conker was released the same year as the original Destroy All Humans game came out.
• It's Easy, So It Sucks!: The hardcore fans' reaction to the Bad Fur Day campaign.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The main story had no new content added beyond its updated visuals (and certain select things changed in the beginning Hangover chapter, slightly more enemies in certain chapters like more spike imps in most chapters and added possessed dolls in the Barn Boys and Spooky Chapters). Lampshaded by the Gargoyle who says that the designers changed some stuff in the tutorial to trick players into thinking the rest of the game would be different.
• Polished Port: The game beefs up the graphics considerably, rescores all of the music into a higher quality format, and includes almost all the voice samples from the original game without compression. Unfortunately, the tradeoff is that most of the swearing was censored (in the original game, only the harshest swears like "Fuck" and some "Shits" were censored) and is impossible to turn off, and it threw out the original multiplayer modes for a new one that isn't considered nearly as fun.
• Porting Disaster: When played on the Xbox 360, there are some glitches including no loading times. Averted with the Xbox One, where everything about the game is intact.
• Rooting for the Empire: Playing as the Tediz for the multiplayer can be considered this since they have more layered backstories.
• Special Effect Failure: The facial animations in the remake are a little off.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A large amount of fans were unhappy about Live and Reloaded being heavily censored despite being Mature rated, and replacing its much loved multiplayer with a new one.
• Vindicated by History: When the game originally came out it was widely criticized for censoring some of the harsher swear words from the original release (despite being on the Xbox, which is a more adult-oriented console compared to the Nintendo 64), and changing the multiplayer of the game dramatically. These two factors largely overshadowed everything else about the remake, and led to many dimissing it out of hand. As the years have gone by and the original game has started to show its age more and more, many have begun appreciating the strengths Live and Reloaded brought to the table, with its far superior visuals, improved controls, smoother framerate, and higher quality audio. While the censorship is still a point of criticism which (among other aspects such as the art direction) leads some to preferring the original N64 game, it's much more common to see people holding Live and Reloaded as a worthwhile version of the game in its own right, to the point some prefer it.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The game had greatly evolved from the limits of the Nintendo 64 and upgraded its visuals to Xbox standards with maximum effort.

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