Fur Fighters
Fur Fighters, a Cult Classic of a videogame developed for the Dreamcast in 2000 and then later ported to the PlayStation 2 in 2001. We say cult classic because nobody bought the game despite it receiving very good reviews and being very funny. Think Conker's Bad Fur Day and you'll understand the general vibe of the game but with less "adult" humor.
The game saw the player take control over 6 characters, five of who have retired from a special military squad and one who is the child of a member, as they attempt to save the kidnapped babies from the Big Bad General Viggo. As if kidnapping the 100's of babies wasn't bad enough Viggo also kidnapped their spouses and have transformed them into mutant monstrosities and is using them to conquer the world in true super-villain fashion.
The game is a third-person-shooter but it is also a massive platformer, each character having their own abilities which enables the player to explore the massive worlds and save their lost babies in.
Not to be confused with Foo Fighters.
- Affectionate Parody: The last level is basically one big homage to James Bond.
- Animal Stereotypes: The main characters themselves (really noticeable in the PlayStation 2 port) and General Viggo.
- Attack Its Weak Point
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Viggo doesn't serve as the game's final encounter for nothing.
- Badass: Every single character in this game.
- Bait and Switch Boss: In the Space Station Meer you bump into a large Alien, only for it to be removed by a lawyer fox from 21st Century Films who insists it is breaking copyright. He then serves as the true boss.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animals
- Big Damn Heroes: The arrival of every single Fur Fighter, partner and baby at the end to save Roofus.
- Bloodless Carnage: Instead, fluff serves as the "blood" of the game. Which begs the question of whether or not the animals are real.
- Body Armor as Hit Points
- Butt Monkey: Viggo's Peacock Sergeants. Also Bungalow.
- Canis Major
- Cats Are Mean - General Viggo, the main antagonist. Averted with Juliette and Claude.
- Check Point
- Disappeared Dad: Tweek's father.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: The Grim Beaver is actually quite personable.
- Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): Bungalow and Esmeralda's relationship to a T.
- Dumb Muscle: Bungalow the Kangaroo.
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The hidden underground dinosaur civilization.
- Kangaroos Represent Australia: Bungalow
- Everything's Better with Penguins: Rico
- Everything's Worse with Bears: They are the Mooks of the game, after all. Robinson Bear is the single exception.
- Every Bullet Is a Tracer
- Evil Brit: General Viggo.
- Evilly Affable: General Viggo balances the line between this and Affably Evil.
- Follow the Money: The golden Tokens, which a) provide much-needed health, b) unlock later levels and c) are often placed to indicate which way you should head next (a much-needed feature, given the size of the levels).
- Funny Foreigner: All of the animals hail from different parts of the world, but naturally they come with their own sense of humor.
- Game Breaking Bug: When trying to enter The Bad Place for the second time in the Dreamcast version, the game would allow you to walk anywhere just fine in Hell but as soon as you try to enter the nightmare door, the game would take control of your character and slowly move him/her to the right until they fell off and died.
- Heroic Dog: Our main hero of the game, Roofus.
- Insert Grenade Here
- Island Base: Viggo's headquarters, which is just off the coast of Furfighter's village!
- Mega Corp
- Mooks
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivered to Roofus at the end.
- Our Dragons Are Different: In fact, they have a human-like society.
- Old Soldier: Roofus. By extension, the other Fur Fighters are also this. More noticeably, General Bristol.
- Respawning Enemies
- Right-Hand-Cat - Actually, it's the cat who has a rather creepy Right Hand Human named Fifi.
- Solve the Soup Cans - Oh-so very many of them...
- Speaking Simlish: The characters did this in the original Dreamcast version. This is averted in the PlayStation 2 port.
- Spinning Paper: done in the opening of Beaver Power.
- Spirit Advisor: General Bristol.
- Two-Keyed Lock
- Updated Rerelease: The PlayStation 2 port gives the characters actual voices, gives the graphics a cel-shaded style, and changes up the music (maybe) and some of the lines.
- Villain Opening Scene
- We Cannot Go on Without You: Partly justified, as noted in a later scene that the teleporter can only handle one person out without causing damage. Doesn't really justify why they don't go in groups, other than for quick escapes...
- Wicked Cultured