Advance Wars of the Monsters
PLAYERS: 1
PUBLISHER: Toho
DEVELOPER: Toho
GENRE: Strategy
RELEASE DATE: February 1992
Godzilla 2 sees developer Toho starting from scratch, which is, admittedly, not a bad idea. The original Godzilla should have been a bash-and-smash delight, but it suffered from irritable AI syndrome and all-around boring gameplay. In War of Monsters, bash-and-smash has been replaced by sit-and-think. Yes, friends, Godzilla 2 is a real-time-strategy game. What does that mean for you, the player? Well, instead of controlling Godzilla and his monster buds, you control… the army. Writing as a gamer and Godzilla fan, I’m already tapping out. I don’t play a Godzilla game to go against Godzilla. I want to control him, destroy other monsters and the human race, and be done with it! Bah.
Anyways, there are twelve scenarios to choose from on the main menu. It doesn’t matter which one you choose, as all of them involve shifting your fighter jets, tanks, and other weaponry closer to the monsters in order to fight against them. Often your goal is to “Stop Godzilla/Mothra/whoever from destroying this structure!” which is funny because the monsters never have any set pattern to their movement. They destroy whatever they want whenever they want, and if you don’t directly engage them, they won’t necessarily engage you; logical, I suppose, but still curious. Well, whatever. The point is, Toho destroyed yet another beloved genre, the RTS: firstly, by bringing in an iconic character that never belonged in said genre to begin with, and secondly, by making the back-and-forth gameplay neither strategic or interesting. Sadly, Toho continued their wave of Godzilla treachery further on the SNES, but (all praises due) I’m not covering that system, so if you’re curious – if you dare – check it out for yourself.
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3 replies on “#260 – Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters”
I’d hardly call this game awful. In fact, as a hardcore Godzilla fan, I enjoyed renting it as a kid, more than once. Granted, the first Godzilla game on NES is MUCH better, and the replay value of this can fade after you’ve played all the scenarios, but for a primitive strategy game, it’s alright.
I really don’t get Toho’s mindset behind these Godzilla games, though. As a child, I wanted a Godzilla game to be ridiculous action and nothing else. Perhaps an ‘F’ rating was too harsh, but I still don’t care for the game. Different strokes!
Godzilla games really need to be just rampage games. Mindless destruction of anything and everything.
I agree 100% no one plays godzilla games, to fight against godzilla.