We actually discussed alot about Twelve Tails in page 7!
I like to think that the Diddy Kong Racing/Pocket Tales/Twelve Tails events happened during Conker's childhood and Bad Fur Day occured during Conker's early adult days (if i'm not mistaken, it was stated that he is 21 years old)! It could also be somewhat like the Legend of Zelda timeline where BFD Conker is a reeincarnation of TT Conker, that would explain Berri's redesign (but that's probably not the case tho)!
Yeah, even many years later and I still feel betrayed by that ending! I still can't believe how twisted they initially thought of doing it!
And I still can't help but wonder if the cancelled sequel was going to have a happier ending!
Conker and Banjo are undoubtedly must haves for Smash Brothers Ultimate, only then it will be safe to say that Everyone is Here! And I thought that the argument that "Conker is too mature" died by the moment we got Snake in Brawl, guess not apparently.
The main villain of Twelve Tales was going to be some sort of evil wizard called Hoodlums! Kind of wonder why they didn't just put the Evil Acorn.
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Wow that's really hard to believe considering all the amount of detailed aspects of Twelve Tales' gameplay footage! But hey if Chris Seavor said so, then it must be true I guess.
I'm pretty sure that Diddy Kong Racing is officially cannon, the events of that game are referenced in both Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts and DK 64 (I think).
Well that's something i haven't put much thought into.
I'd basically start by trying to make the Bad Fur Day ending a cliffhanger!
Some of the ideas that they had for the sequel seemed really appealing and interesting! Like having Conker getting arrested for wasting all the loyal money on parties and hookers, and start the game by having him escape the castle's highest tower, I would had put him escaping through the sewers, where he would then be facing with new types of enemies such as the great mighty poo's minions or antropomorphic toilets, idk!
Once you get out of the sewers you would get into the game's hub, not Windy but similiar enough! Many new nonsensical worlds to explore, (one of them could be hell, and you'd find new types of Fire Imps), and many new wacky but creative bosses and enemies to fight, the memorable ones like the Uga Bugas, Clang Goblings, and the Tediz would have to make a return, for sure! And I would also add some enemies from Twelve Tales such as the evil acorns, the cactusmen and of course K.O. the Cat! The main antagonist could be Professor Von Kriplespac, who it turns out to have survived being sucked into space and formed new plans to bring back the Tediz to make them more powerfull than ever, he would be allied with Don Weaso and Honker the Skunk!
Not sure what you would have to collect in order to progress the game, since the money is kind of pointless for that role!
One of the original ideas that they had and that I liked was make Berri return as a Terminator-like being called Berrinator and have her trying to hunt down Conker. I would have Kriplespac finding the remains of her body and turning her into a terminator in order to stop Conker from ruining his world domination plans again. And at the ending, I would have Berri getting her memories back and resisting her commands of killing Conker (which would make an epic Terminator 3 reference), and then Conker would had gone home with her this time (sounds too happy, well I don't care, I'm not a fan of sad endings anyway)!
Oh and as for movie references, I prefer to go more into the classics, and not to the obvious and cliched ones like "Here's Johnny" from the Shining or "We're gonna need a bigger boat"! Ones that were pretty memorable in iconic movies but haven't been too referenced in pop culture media!
One that comes to my mind, and that's from one of my favourite movies of all times is this one:
and I think you will immediately get why I say that this would make a perfect movie reference in a Conker game
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It could be from a similar level to the surf punks from Bad Fur Day, but instead of chasing someone, this time Conker is the one getting chased by a bunch of Tediz, and the only way to get rid of them is to make them crash into a manure truck!
I really liked your ideas for movie references too, especially the Nightmare on Elm Street one. I think that could be a great spooky chapter for Other Bad Day!
And by the way, I always that this scene was a reference to Star Wars the Empire strikes back, mostly because of the background, but I could be wrong.