Godzilla: Battle Legends

Godzilla: Battle Legends

released on Dec 03, 1993

Godzilla: Battle Legends

released on Dec 03, 1993

Godzilla: Battle Legends (simply referred to as "Godzilla" in North America) is a fighting game based on the Godzilla film franchise, made for the Turbo Duo in 1993, developed by Alfa System and published in the United States by Hudson Soft. When Godzilla fights a certain foe, his appearance changes to reflect the era when he battled in certain films. For example, Godzilla looks like as he did in 1955 when he fights Anguirus, and as in 1964 when he fights Rodan. This game's sequel, Godzilla: Monster War for the SNES, features fewer monsters, with the inclusion of Biollante as a playable character and Mothra. In single player mode, only Godzilla is playable.


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Godzilla
Super Godzilla
Super Godzilla
Kaiju-ou Godzilla
Kaiju-ou Godzilla
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Godzilla
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A simple but rather satisfying 1v1 fighting game featuring a ton of Godzilla charm. Every character and stage is recreated perfectly from one of the movies, down to Goji being the correct version (nine unique skins total!!) based on who he's fighting and where. Sixteen fighters for versus that you unlock through the story mode which has a fun thing where you get a menu of final bosses at the end based on how high your score was, encouraging better play and trying higher difficulties. The fighting is simple-ish due to TG16 having only two buttons, but there are move variants based on tapping or holding, and they actually manage to cram quite a bit of move variety into the simple inputs - to say nothing of how differently many of the weirder playable kaiju work.

Quite easily the best Godzilla game made by its day, benefitting signifcantly from embracing a simpler, crowd-pleaser type of game, and executing it well.

I do, nevertheless, have to dock it at least half a star for not featuring a playable Jet Jaguar. No excuse.

Pretty good, ALSO fucking outrageously good soundtrack!