Worst Godzilla Game

[Mincecraft]

Hard to decide which of the above is the worst. I am surprised the A.V.G.N didn't include the DS game in his Godzilla games review awhile back: http://cinemassacre.com/2009/09/04/avgn-godzilla/

Because it's not an old, crappy game It's a modern, crappy game.

Yeah, but either way, those games are AAAAAAAASSSSSSSS!

[Godzilla94]

Funny you should mention it, Super G's plot was originally gonna be used for a film, leading up to Bagan but it got canceled. This proves that you can have good movie quality story telling in a Godzilla game, the problem is this one game seems to be the only time they did an exalent job with the story where others either drop the ball or just don't even bother trying to tell a story.

Well, the problem here is that Super Godzilla dropped the ball on pretty much everything BUT the story, and if you ask me, I'd rather have a solid gameplay where I fight other monsters or destroy buildings than have a quality story. There's more than enough Godzilla movies out there that have a good story for me to watch. I don't need a video game to give me that.

Besides, Super Godzilla's story is very similar to Godzilla Final Wars, and even the people who like that film (like me) watch it more for the action scenes than the story. I don't think there would be much praise for the story had Super Godzilla been a movie instead of a game.

However, considering that the Atari Godzilla trilogy was supposed to have a really nice story, but time constraints held it back, I'm sure with the Kickstarter project removing the nagging Publisher out of the equation, the story should improve. Now there's enough time to make a nice story as well as a nice gameplay. We no longer have to focus on just one or the other.

[Living Corpse]

It's weird that Super G had a decent story, even G games that have good or decent gameplay don't get that. Honestly I feel if Super G was a fighting game or adventure game with actual gameplay and still had it's plot with all the twists (seriously Bagan was a shock for me when I was a kid, he came out of nowhere) it would probably be regarded as the best G game by most fans.

I agree, they dropped the ball on gameplay. They got one important thing right and screwed up another important thing.

[Godzilla94]

It's weird that Super G had a decent story, even G games that have good or decent gameplay don't get that. Honestly I feel if Super G was a fighting game or adventure game with actual gameplay and still had it's plot with all the twists (seriously Bagan was a shock for me when I was a kid, he came out of nowhere) it would probably be regarded as the best G game by most fans.

I agree, they dropped the ball on gameplay. They got one important thing right and screwed up another important thing.

And, to me, the part they screwed up is the most important aspect. It seems like they spent all the time focusing on the story, and thus, the gameplay is by far the worst gameplay I have ever played in a Godzilla game.

Like I said, the game probably would've been the best Godzilla game had the gameplay been something like Kaiju Daikessen, but the thing is, what we ended up with was absolutely terrible. Seriously, they could've easily replicated Monster of Monsters in that game (side scrolling for the monster walking, instead of a BLUE DOT on a map screen, and standard fighting instead of watching cutscenes every time we do a move besides punching), which still would've been a massive improvement. But there's absolutely nothing we can do to change the past, and thus, we're stuck with what we got, which is a game with a good story that has awful gameplay.

So there we have it, most Godzilla games have competent gameplay with a non-existent or crappy story, and we have one Godzilla game with a competent story with awful gameplay. The new game, hopefully, will have both a good story AND good gameplay.

[Living Corpse]

So what's your favorite twist? I like that they bring MKG in, that King Ghidorah cells make Godzilla's energy higher and later you can turn into Super Godzilla.

[Godzilla94]

So what's your favorite twist? I like that they bring MKG in, that King Ghidorah cells make Godzilla's energy higher and later you can turn into Super Godzilla.

My favorite twist is when they brought in Bagan. That was awfully cool, and Bagan looked badass (I think this game is the only reason why there's a huge fanbase for a monster that never successfully appeared in a Toho movie). Of course, straight after that, it was back to the awful gameplay, and that's why I never played it again after I beat it.

I do, however, rewatch the game on Youtube every now and then, because then that feels more like a movie and less like a game, which means I can enjoy it for the story. Plus, I can skip all the boring parts (the walking around in the city), and the battles can be serviceably entertaining when you're not actually the one playing the game, so once again, we're both in agreement that the story is quite competent. Nevertheless, because of the godawful gameplay, this is still my least favorite Godzilla game. I don't need a good story in a Godzilla game. There are 28 movies, 2 TV shows, and multiple novels and comic books to enjoy. There's plenty of places that I can find a good Godzilla story. What I want is the ability to feel like I'm actually Godzilla fighting other monsters and destroying buildings, and that was practically nonexistent in Super Godzilla

[zilla103192]

I seriously don't understand why everyone LOATHES the DS game.

It's not the GREATEST G game ever... but I still like it. It's fun to play on occasion. There are much worse games out there.

[JVM]

My choice switches periodically, but right now I'd say Super Godzilla.

[Goji]

There may be "much worse games out there", but that doesn't stop the DS game from being one of the absolute worst Godzilla games ever made.

[GodzillavsZilla]

Worst Godzilla game? Godzilla for the GameBoy. It has as much to do with Godzilla as two chipmunks eating raisins looks like a diamond.

[zilla103192]

There may be "much worse games out there", but that doesn't stop the DS game from being one of the absolute worst Godzilla games ever made.

But why exactly is it the worst? I am not trying to sound like a smartass... I just want to know what the game has/does that makes it bad?

Personally I feel that the old gts games are the worst... You hardly play at all... You aim and shoot. That's about it.