This is definitely one of those games where I don't think I have anything too insightful to say that hasn't already been commented on a million times before, nor do I feel too strongly about it in general. I think it's interesting from the perspective of being a game almost entirely built around giving the guys at Rare a platformer to express their very unique sense of humor without a filter. Some of the parody set pieces that emerge out of this are a lot of fun, if incredibly dated, and the very last thing you could ever say about Conker's Bad Fur Day is that it takes itself seriously.

I think it's a lot less interesting mechanically, however. The platforming in the early game feels solid enough, but a lot of the more gimmicky segments (which feel more plentiful in Conker's back half) really drag and feel a bit shoddy. It's Rare, so of course experimentation results in as many failures as successes. Big shock, there's a few gimmicks that control like total dogshit in a Rare game. Nothing new there!

I'm sure there's people out there with very insightful things to say about this one, about how much nostalgia for the media it lampoons plays a factor in being able to enjoy it today, or what it meant to have a game like this release on a Nintendo console (especially in 2001) from a company that was so closely tied to their image at the time. There's a lot to be said about how the media we consume as children influences our perception of media as adults, but that won't be me because I'm tired of talking about Rare and I want to go to bed.