Despite the poor sales, heavily compressed low-quality voiced dialogue and laggy framerate under Nintendo 64's outdated-since-2000 hardware, Conker's Bad Fur Day was more than an kid-unfriendly platform game with cartoonish aesthetics.
This game is an deconstruction of 1990s platform game mascot craze, with known examples being Epic Games' Jazz Jackrabbit, Accolade's Bubsy the Lynx, Sega's Alex Kidd, etc. MANY of them have failed to dethrone Mario the gentle Italian plumber and Sonic the cocky blue blur with attitude. Conker the red squirrel is a different story. He is an super cocky, foul-mouthed, greedy, perverted and selfish alcoholic. These traits are believed to be an end of this trend of such failed attempts at being relevant as Mario and his rival Sonic. Remember that already-dead video game character trend?