10 Video Game Remake Character Designs Everyone Hated

3. The Tediz - Conker: Live & Reloaded

Spyro Sheila
Rare

One of the most memorable enemies in the deliciously un-PC original Conker's Bad Fur Day is the Tediz, a race of Nazi-like killer robot teddy bears who hungover, foulmouthed squirrel protagonist Conker is forced to face off against.

In this version of the game, the Tediz are genuinely unsettling, uncanny creations, as best exemplified by their black pin-hole eyes, which perfectly indicate their inherent soullessness.

But for 2005's remake Conker: Live & Reloaded, Rare decided to tone down the game's more adult content, stripping away much of the graphic violence and profanity, and in the case of the Tediz, also giving their design a bit of a "Disneyfication."

In Live & Reloaded, the Tediz now have more cartoonishly approachable, large yellow eyes, and are also kitted out in cute military uniforms and helmets.

Granted, they're still murderous monsters all the same, but the creepiness of that initial design is sanitised almost entirely.

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