Conker's Bad Fur Day started out as a much tamer game called Twelve Tales: Conker 64. Around the time of its announcement, Rare had already made two similar games, Banjo-Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing. They feared criticism for making another innocent platformer starring "cutesy" animals, prompting them to completely redesign the game for older audiences in 1999. Rare kept it under wraps after this announcement, but assured it was still in development until the revamp was formally revealed in 2000.