Here we have a (initially) Nintendo-published game that actually earns its M rating. And for certain sequences, it shows.
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- During the first part of Windy, if one tries to enter the Wasps' hive they will be greeted by a Jump Scare in the form of a ferocious, giant wasp larvae that snaps at Conker.
- The bull's drowned corpse floating around in the "water" after being dumped through the grate. Drowning is already a horrible way to go, but drowning in diarrhea makes it even more unsettling and gross. As an added plus, you have to swim through it.
- The zombies. The f**king zombies. One: well, duh, they are putrified reanimated squirrel corpses. With the left eye hanging out the socket. For all of them. And now here you have 'em in all their glory. Two: while they're usually slow, they'll pick up the pace upon noticing you, either by being close enough or by missing a shot, which may sometimes not give you enough time to properly take aim before they come for your brains (and the shotgun's controls aren't that great either). Three: speaking of shooting, they only go if you split their heads open with your boomstick. Shooting anywhere else causes gradual dismembering, and you may blow a kinda head-sized hole through their torsos, and the bastards still keep huddling towards you. Add to that the setting they're placed on, and there you have it. They're arguably scarier when they show up after Batula's death. They do not make any noise when charging at you unlike when they first appear in the graveyard, which can cause the player to get eaten without warning. And to further amplify the horror, if a zombie successfully chews on you, A Scare Chord abruptly blares for a few seconds just in case you're not shitting your pants already.
- This beta version of the "Well this is a bit different..." cutscene from the It's War chapter. It involves the Tediz performing an autopsy on a helpless squirrel while he's still alive. Watch and you'll probably be thankful it was replaced with a funny moment in the finished game.
Squirrel Soldier: Please help.... Let me go.... - Heinrich, the Xenomorph. His introduction, where he tears his way out of the Panther King's chest, says it all.
- The scene before you meet the Great Mighty Poo. You hear the dung beetle scream about a horrifying monster that ate his best friend, and then you throw screaming, pleading-for-their-lives pieces of corn into the poo, while the GMP occasionally reaches his hand up to grab you and the corn. No music plays in this part either.
- If you fall off the arena where you fight the Great Mighty Poo, Conker will sink under the creek of poo, and his muffled screams can be heard as he drowns.
- The moment in the Spooky chapter when Batula snaps at Conker, roaring in anger when his ancestors get insulted. It just goes to show that it's not nice to disrespect elders, ESPECIALLY when they ARE vampires.
- The whole chapter is kind of disturbing, with the aforementioned zombies, and Batula turning Conker into a bat and forcing him to grab villagers and juice them in a grinder so Batula can feed on them. Thankfully, the bastard got what was coming to him when he gets so fat he falls off his perch and into the grinder directly below him... which itself is pretty disturbing.
- The It's War chapter, which the game goes into full Cerebus Syndrome; aside from being a reference to Saving Private Ryan, it portrays the horrors of war pretty straight, with the squirrels getting bloodily shot down instantly, with the unlucky survivors drowning due to their wounds or being set on fire. Even Conker treats this moment somberly.
- The Experiment. Oh for the love of God, the Experiment! Where do we begin with the unholy abomination that is the Experiment?! First off, Conker finds this seemingly sweet little squirrel girl in the deepest depths of the enemy bunker who has a surprising knowledge of military ordnance and is standing in the center of what looks like the hatch to a missile silo with her legs obscured. Clearly something isn't right here! She makes her real introduction proper by acting sweet and innocent but her true colors are revealed right quick by doing an homage to a certain famous horror movie. And yes, her head makes every sickening crunch you can imagine when it spins. Her eyes turn green, she starts talking in a demonic, raspy voice, and the hatch around her opens up revealing a giant, cyborg Tedi with its eyes and mouth stitch shut wearing the little girl like a hand puppet! It turns out the little girl is "The brains and the eyes, and he's the brawn." Either this means she is the brains or she is simply a mouthpiece for the experiment. Both of which are pretty disturbing! And the cherry on top of the deadly cake? It's revealed in an interview that the little girl is a reanimated corpse! So just to recap, Professor Von Kriplespac and his Tediz kidnapped, mutilated, and experimented on an innocent little girl, somehow resurrected her corpse, which leads to her getting her new psychotic personality, and turning her into a sentient hand puppet for their top-secret cyborg experiment!
- Marvin's death. After eating too much cheese, he swells up, screaming in terror until he ''explodes'', showering everything around him with blood and pieces of his body. His head even lands at Conker's feet! And then there's the final shot of his ribcage, tail still attached... before it farts one last time. He appears alive, well, and sewn back together in the ending, but imagine how painful that must've been...
- Conker's definitely not a nice guy, but for most of the game, he's not really ''bad''... and then you get to the "Sacrifice" sub-chapter. He hatches an adorable baby dinosaur who imprints on him and calls him "Mama". Not long after that, he guides it onto an altar and hits a few switches, dropping a rock on it and crushing it to death. And he doesn't react at all other than commenting, "This is gonna be interesting", before the rock falls.
- Exclusively with the Live and Reloaded port. In the Barn Boys chapter, if the player explores a bit, they can find a passageway with several dolls slowly walking around with a hole in the head. It definitely doesn't help that they don't fit in with the level or the rest of the game. If you get close to them, they respond in a creepy, little demented girl fashion; "We're gonna get you!". Fittingly enough, they also appear in the Spooky chapter, where there is a group that actively chase and try to attack you if they notice you.
- The creepy unsettling music that is heard in Count Batula's mansion once the zombies start to appear. What makes it even more unsettling and eerie is the fact that there are giggling children in the background.
- Conker accidentally getting the captured soldier electrocuted in Live and Reloaded. The original version teetered towards Black Comedy as it's fairly brief and the soldier's skin was blackened by it, making it look more like Ash Face, but the remake drags out his electric torture and ends with some major Eye Scream by the end. Chances are you'll be wanting to look away just as much as Conker.
- Rare was infamous for their brutal Game Over sequences back in the day. Conker is no different. They run the gamut of Conker's possible fates, from getting burnt and drowned, to a bloody mess. If he loses and he's in one piece, the Panther King gets his table "fixed", leaving Conker stuck to the damn thing for the rest of his life. What gets you, however, is his expression. On the Nintendo 64, he is tied up and looks bummed and rather worried. The Xbox remake, however, zooms in to show him gagged with duck tape on his mouth and in tears.
- The Game Over music is also pretty scary, especially in the Xbox remake, where it's a bit lower-pitched and slower and the strings in the final part are audible for a good ten seconds.
