Dozens of pla♓yable kaiju from Godzillas 60-year history
Learn about Godzillas absurd🀅 menagerie in the encyclopedia
The slowest
clumsiest fighting system in recent memory
Woeful visuals and a headache-inducing frame-rate
Writing so bad its almost good. Almost
Unlocking and up🦄gꦐrading monsters requires endless grinding
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Lurching mysteriously from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bandai Namco’s churning seas, the inexplicable arrival of the game simply known as Godzilla provokes the same befuddled panic as if an actual kaiju showed up. Where did it come from? Why ♒is it here? What did we do to deserve it? And most✱ importantly, why is it so monstrously awful?
Godzilla can best be described as a slow motion beat-’em-up. Two monsteꦯrs enter a flat urban arena, full of flimsy buildings that somehow know to collapse after precisely three hits, enclosed within a glowing orange barrier you can’t step over for some reason, and only one triumphantly waddles off. A story mode called God of Destruction attempts to string everything together u♐nder a bizarre invasion narrative, but fails pretty spectacularly.
It begins with a playable black and white segment in which you plod into Tokyo, greedily chow down on nuclear waste, and leave without so much as a “thank you”. 🐽Although traumatic for all involved, and generally quite rude, the attack kickstarts Japan’s energy r𒆙esearch and the nation flourishes. 60 years later the radioactive lizard returns like a fat neighbour to gorge on now abundant quantities of delicious G-Energy.
Each three-minute stage sees Godzilla whack energy generators with monotonous attacks, retreat slightly from a timed force field, then whack them again until they explode, meanwhile swatting away buzzing chopp🍌ers and treading on tiny toy-like tanks that are never more than completely ineffectual. About halfway through the level a kaiju shows up for a hilariously bad scrap. In fairness, rams, grabs, three-strike combos, and projectiles all feel incredibly weighty thanks to long wind-ups and extended contact delays to emphasise impact, and some moves, such as frying an enemy with a blast of Godzilla’s plasma breath, result in spectacular spark-filled light shows.
In diorama mode, you can pose any kaiju you’ve unlocked and take pictures of them just like that Annie Leibovitz. Trouble is, it takes so long to unlock stages and monsters that you’ll be done with the game long before amassing anythi𒆙ng interesting to shoot, and since the inter𝕴face is grid-based, you can only plonk figures on specifically designated spots. Also, realistically, who’s going to look at all the pictures you took? Your mum?
| Genre | Action |
| Description | Walk in the footsteps of the iconic monster in this insect smashing building basher. |
| Platform | "PS4","PS3" |
| US censor rating | "Teen","Teen" |
| UK censor rating | "","" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
