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An Instant Classic!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 27
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Whenever there's a whirlwind of hype around something I get really nervous that it won't be able to live up to it. Thankfully, Conker BFD not only lives up to the hype, but goes further by forging new ground in videogaming. By now you've no doubt been unable to escape all the talk of the crass, potty mouthed humor through out the game and have no fear, it's all true. I won't go into all the gory details, but suffice it to say that you don't want to play this when little Billy or anyone with a weak stomach is in the room. The game is laugh out loud funny and more than once I found myself playing with a huge grin plastered on my face. But what I find even more incredible are the game mechanics.

Graphically and sonically the game surpasses anything seen on the N64 before. Colors are bright, edges are sharp and defined and Rare's work on lip synching is incredible. All the characters have expressive faces and fluid movements. Conker will even make a grimace as he passes characters he's angry at! I was also impressed with the amount of cut scenes in the game. Upon entering each new area you'll see a comical scene to explain the objective. In addition, while playing you'll hit some points and a scene starts, but there's no break or cut away, it's just like playing a movie. The jazz-like music through out the game is crystal clear and presented in surround sound to boot! It's hard to belive it's all coming off a cartridge. This is one game soundtrack that I'll be playing loud. If it's ever relesed on CD I'm sure it will be playing on many many CD players across the country.

As impressive as these things are, it wouldn't matter much if gmeplay wasn't there to pull you in to experience it all. Thankfully this isn't a problem for BFD. This isn't a typical platformer where all you do is collect items and bash baddies. Rare has desigend the game to be more puzzle based. When you do find yourself hunting for items it's to assist another character and finding it generates an advance in the games plot. Every quest is expertly linked to a the next, so eventhough you need to achieve somehting in one place to further in another you're free to go off and try something else if you get stumped. And that's another thing, progress in the game really flows. Nothing was sooo hard to figure out that I was pulling out my hair. With a little thought and pateince, this is a game can beat without a cheat book. How's that for a change of pace? Without a doubt the best innovation are the context sensitive buttons scattered about the game. when you step onto one or enter a context sensitive area a lightbulb appears above Conkers head and a you hear ping. This is your cue that something special will happen here if you hit the "B" button. Doing this allows Conker to weild flamethrowers, chainsaws, take pills and even turn into an anvil! It's a great idea that gives Conker many items to use and become that you'd otherwise have to hut for in a standard game.

Last word, if you are over 17 and have an N64 you must own this game! It's one of the best games available on any system and is sure to set new standards in game design and humor. This is a MUST buy guys!

A Raunchy Good Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: March 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After all the hype surrounding this game, I was expecting nothing more than vulgar British jokes with so-so gameplay. To my surprise, this is one of the best looking, best sounding, best playing, and funny games on the N64. Although it has a mature rating, I found the material to be nothing more than PG-13 stuff. However, for those of us above the 15-17 year age group, Rare has included some subtle, hilarious jokes that I'm sure younger kids would miss. This game looks very very good. Although the frame rate takes a hit in open areas, the true stars are the characters. Their animations, voices, and originality are what makes this game for me. The sound is probably the best I have ever heard from an N64 game. The tunes are reminscent of the old Warner Bros. cartoons, and the sound effects are in surround sound! From a gameplay point of view, you won't find anything new from the 3-d platform genre, but the context-sensitive pads do add a bit of a twist. In addition to the character animations, I must say that the references to movies are outstanding! I don't want to spoil any of it, but I'm sure you'll find one of your favorite movies spoofed in here. I have never gotten bored with this game, and I think this is the last good N64 game that everyone should play.

The best grown-up game for the N64!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you happen to notice the box, there's a disclaimer saying that it isn't suitable for children under the age of 17. That's there for a reason. This has to be the most crude, vulgar, sexually explicit, and unpleasant-looking game in the world. And I loved it!! Video gamers complain that the playstation games are better because Nintendo 64 games are often credited to make cute, little child-games. Well, now playstation games can stick this in their pipe and smoke it. Nintendo fans had to argue back, as the only good adult game on the N64 was Perfect Dark. With Conker's Bad Fur Day, it goes beyond that, and more. The ironic thing, being that a cute smiling little red squirrel, is on a day-long journey full of cussing cogs wheels, dismemberment and gore of killed enemies, swimming through poo-water, and the like. What also makes this game fun is the way it parodies our favorite movies, like the D-day scene from Saving Private Ryan, the opening credits from A Clockwork Orange, the little girl from the Exorcist, the lobby shootout scene from the Matrix (my favorite), and many more. Again, just because this a N64 with a cute little squirrel and a child-like atmosphere, does not mean it's a game for the little ones. Avoid playing this game where little eyes and ears are present, at all costs. If you have a younger brother/sister? Wait until they take their nap. Otherwise, for the mature adults, who find greatness in swearing, drinking, urinating-in-public, money-grabbing, sex-oriented little mammals who are just having a bad day, then do yourself a favor: either go out and buy this game, or get it off here. This is a game of the new age of maturity of the once ridiculed Nintendo. The N64 can now shove this in Sony's face, and show that they're ready to play with the big boys now. Thank you, Nintendo, for making such a great game, and redeeming yourself! Now, how about a sequel?

oh... my... GOD!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is shocking and appalling and completely defunct of any socially redeeming content.. Never before have I seen such a gratuitous display of violence and profanity. The characters are crude and offensive, and the situations are disgusting and sophomoric. In one word.... BRILLIANT!!

I am absolutely loving this game. You can't help but be charmed as the adorable Conker foul-mouths his way through oddball situation after oddball situation. There's a techno club for rock trolls, a safe guarded by a vicious bulldog-fish, a cute baby dino that eats little cavemen (accompanied by tremendous crunching, screaming, and blood dripping from the mouth), and a mountain made entirely of poo (I know the Great Mighty Poo character has been hyped to death, but let me tell you firsthand that NOTHING can prepare you for the real thing). I was playing with my friend once, who kept repeating "Oh... my... GOD! Can they actually DO this?" over and over.

Until I bought this game I was firmly convinced that the two Zeldas were the only games worth playing on ANY system. I was wrong. Technically, the game is a marvel. The colors are bright, the controls are fluid, and the sound is perfect. The camera is ALMOST, but not quite, on par with Zelda though. I have yet to find a game with a tighter camera control than Zelda, although Conker comes fairly close. The only major complaint I have about the camera control is the 1st person view. The camera pops right behind Conker's head, which usually blocks whatever it is you're trying to look at. But that's a minor quibble in an otherwise fantastic game.

This is one sadistic little game. There is a ton of violence - characters die in the most gut-wrenching, teeth-clenching, bone-crunching ways - but the humor is always presented with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Like I said, you can't help but be charmed. Even when I'm stuck I still have a grin plastered on my face.

In all of its vulgar, brash, poo-covered glory...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: March 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Conker's Bad Fur Day is simply a masterpiece. With its strick 17+ Mature rating, Rare's latest will draw considerable attention, both positive and negative. But, when one looks beyound the bawdy, leud exterior, a beautiful game lies beneath. Let's explore.

Conker excels graphically. It boasts incredible 3-D, real time cut scenes, lavish landscapes, and maticulously-designed characters. Sound is top notch, with every profane swear and witty wisecrack audibly and realistically produced. All conversations are both in sound and text, and every step in a pile of poo is, well, satisfying to the ears.

While the game is based off one relatively small central world, there are a considerable number of branch off quests that lead from prehistoric temples, poo windmills, sewage pipes, dance clubs, and barns. Each of these mini worlds has several tasks to be done; although the game progresses in a linear fasion, I found 70% of the tasks to be challenging. And, 95% are highly enjoyable, such as Matrix and Saving Private Ryan spoofs. Usually, platform games consist of monotonous collecting, but not here. Fun and addictave gameplay reign supreme.

Finally, multiplayer is brilliant. There are a variety of games available, all of which or spin-offs of the main quest. Beach, Raptor, and War are among the best. They are all completely different, too; one multiplayer game is even called Race. I recommend this game without hesitation to most people. The swearing and innuendo, while vulgar at times, are tolerable and even minimal throughout most of the game. There are some instances though, like the Uga king and his "Big Bone..." Such is Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Great Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At last a game for the adult market. Conkers Bad Fur Day, is an excellent game from the opening sequence to an hour into the game. The cursing is not at all necessary but it makes the game hillarious. There are plenty of levels in this game and the appeal is everlasting, all i will say is make sure that no children are around unless you want them to play this game. Its a must have.

Rare's done it again with its best game since Perfect Dark!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Back in 1997, people saw previews of "Twelve Tales: Conker 64," and they saw a happy, chipper squirrel in a blue vest parading around a world so sugar coated and sappy, it would have made Yoshi vomit. And then it simply disappeared. About a year ago, though, the news broke: "Conker" was to be a new, adult-themed game like no other. And so I waited. And waited. And finally, I have gotten and beaten Conker's Bad Fur Day. And oh yes, it was well worth the wait. Conker's BFD is simply a fantastic game. Combining amazing visuals, a soundtrack that's impossible to beat, and more humor seen this side of Monty Python, Conker is the N64's last hurrah; and what an ironic hurrah it is, that an adult game of this caliber would bring to a close what many consider a "kiddie" system. Every word in this game is spoken -- no easy feat on a cartridge system -- with character's mouths lip-synched perfectly to the dialog. The realtime lighting is great; Conker's shadow is forever on the move as multiple light sources swing to and fro. The game offers a variety of gameplay modes, from tank driving to corridor shooting to classic platforming. The multiplayer mode is also great; plenty of options (including the ingenious neo-classic "Beach" mode), and bots, as well. There's even a code that lets the camera zoom around particularly nasty deaths, Matrix-style. Simply put, buy this game! It's so funny, so beautiful, and so brilliant; in sheer polish, it's far beyond anything seen on Sony's latest DVD pla ... er, console ;-) While this game is short compared to other Rare offerings, it's short in the way good movies are short, the way your favorite songs aren't twelve minute Meatloaf rock operas. Conker is an amazing ride, and with plenty of challenge, no pointless collecting, and a Chapters mode that let's you play your favorite areas over and over, this is indeed a magnificent, irreverent swan song for Nintendo's 64-bit machine.

One of the greatest games for the Nintendo 64!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: April 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Nintendo's reaction towards Conker's Bad Fur Day is a bit ambiguous. Conker's Bad Fur Day made headlines among the gaming industry when advertisements for this game appeared in Playboy and Maxim. I mean, this is a Nintendo 64 game! However, Nintendo had completely denied the game's existence in anything where people 17 or younger could access. Is it really that much worse than, say, Shadow Man or South Park 64, both of which received ample coverage from Nintendo Power and yet both of which had foul language and violence up the wazoo? It is hard to say (especially considering that I have barely played Shadow Man or South Park 64). Still, everybody I know that hates this game hates it not for its gameplay, but just the fact that the mad scientists in Twycross turned Conker from a cuddly, high-pitched squirrel with bland textures to a gruff squirrel with a penchant for beer, breasts, and 'bacco. (Accusations have been made that Conker had become rather foul-mouthed himself, but with only two swear words I know of, Conker's language is much tamer than those around him.) Still, CBFD is a welcome respite from the Rare platforming formula of collection and cute characters (you've got some darned ugly things in Conker's Bad Fur Day)...and when only one word that would have been censored from NSider was spoken.

Conker's Bad Fur Day is a linear adventure game, where the completion of tasks in one area allows you to progress further into an adventure. You know...kind of like Ocarina of Time! Except in CBFD, A is your jump button, and B is the context sensitive button. With Ocarina of Time, the purpose of the context sensitive A button changes depending on the context, B in CBFD usually access the frying pan. The context only changes in the presence of a B-button pad or when a light bulb appears. This does kind of make the game feel forced, as if Rare is saying, "Roar! This is what you have do at this time! There's nothing you can do to change it!" Still, the levels and the situations have enough variety where you do not feel bogged down. The single-player mode is pretty short, but it is fun, funny, and full of strange situations that feel more like different episodes instead of a coherent, linear plot. It is strange to go from fighting a boss battle against a mound of anthropomorphic feces to a prehistoric world. But alas, such is the situation poor Conker must go through. Gameplay is also as varied as the storyline. While most of the game is platforming, there are times when the game switches to a Jet-Force-Geminiesque 3rd person shooter or a twisted racing game. Independent of the single-player adventure is the game's multiplayer mode. The multiplayer mode is as fun and incoherent as the single-player mode. You can race on hoverboards, escape the wrath of the Tediz as unarmed civilians, or go at it in several types of free-for-all deathmatches. Some modes are stale, but others are delicious and can provide hours of entertainment.

Even without the Expansion Pak, Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of the best games for the Nintendo 64 visually and aurally. By 2001, Rare had already established themselves as being very ambitious with graphics (so much as to cause severe slowdown, but that doesn't appear very often in CBFD), and Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of their best efforts. Everything has such wonderful textures, and even though some of the flowers and stuff are obviously sprites, they aren't as bad as in some other games. Rare has gone on to give Conker lip synching even more accurate than those found in Dreamcast's Shenmue, although everybody else move their lips in a way that resemble the animal characters in Mononoke Hime. Voice acting in Conker's Bad Fur Day tops Perfect Dark and Star Fox 64 to become the best on the Nintendo 64. This is perhaps aided by some of the best writing ever to appear in a N64 game. Virtually every line is quotable, especially the Great Mighty Poo song. Sound effects are truly awesome, but it definitely does not hold a candle to the game's music. Conker's Bad Fur Day has some of the best music of all time. The songs are amazingly catchy, and well-done. And when was the last time a piece of music had farts as part of the melody? If games were ranked on a technical scale, then Conker's Bad Fur Day would definitely be near the top.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: October 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

ADVISORY: THIS GAME CONTAINS STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT, VULGAR HUMOR, NUDITY, STRONG LAUNGUAGE, EXTREME ADULT CONTENT INVOLVING ANIMALS, VIOLENT CONTENT, GORE, ACTION SEQUENCES.

Truly entertaining

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It seems that the only thing people talk about for Conker is it's never-before-seen "Super-M" rating.

Even if you take all of that away, back down to the "E"-rated game at it's heart, it's still one of the best platformers around. Very easy to pick up, very intuitive. A lot of it is standard platforming fare, but the levels are well-designed and fairly straightforward, but not too easy. The context-sensitive "action" buttons add a neat twist. The graphics are second-to-none for the N64. The voice-acting is supurb, and the characters actually lip-sync to the spoken words. The range of expression that Conker himself is capable of is simply amazing. If he's tired, angry, worried.. all of this comes across with flying colors.

On to what everybody is talking about: Conker's "M" rating. Is it as bad as people say it is? No. Does it make this an "adults" game? Yes, actually, it does. While the worst curses are still censored, there's still quite a few that are blatantly hollered out (and displayed on-screen in "talk bubbles"). The great thing about this is that it's not put in the game just for the sake of putting it in the game. The cursing is not as wide-spread as you'd think. It fits perfectly into whatever situation is going on, and it's not over-the-top.

Basically, the game says and does what we all wish games would say and do. Remember those game scenes in other games where it was kinda cheesy because they censored when they should have cussed? Well, now they cuss. And let me tell you, it's hilarious coming from such a cute little squirrel.

All in all, you can't go wrong with this game. Gameplay-5, Graphics-5, Fun-5.

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