Line #25 YMMV/WarOfTheMonsters


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
2	** [[DestructiveSaviour Is the player monster a good guy?]] It isn't seen doing any real damage during cutscenes, and throughout the story mode manages to destroy all other monsters, who either posed an obvious threat, or attacked it first. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZaP8CTAgY Origin Videos]] do shed some light on the playable characters (all of them changed in some way by radiation from UFO ships), but not that much in terms of character motivations. To run through each one individually:
3	*** [[KillerGorilla Congar]]: Originally shown to have been [[ApesInSpace a chimpanzee launched in a space pod]], Congar is blasted out of his pod by a UFO crashing into it, [[ReentryScare and plummeting into Earth's atmosphere]] - if it wasn't for the radiation transforming him, he would've likely been killed! When he [[GroundShatteringLanding smashes into the ground hard enough to crater it]], Congar looks at his changed body before giving a MightyRoar - is he [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity reveling in his power to run amok]], or is he [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge looking for payback on those who caused his transformation]] (and if so, is he gunning for the aliens who smashed their UFO into his space pod, or the American government/humanity in general for sending him up into space in the first place?)
4	*** [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Togera]]: As a UFO splashes into the sea, and sinks next to a sleeping Togera, the radiation entering its nostrils, causing it to wake up with [[GlowingEyesOfDoom its eyes glowing from the radiation]]. When a ship comes by (presumably to find the wrecked UFO), Togera bursts from the water, roaring, belching fire, and slamming its hand on the ship's deck. Considering [[Characters/GodzillaTheGodzillas Togera's source material]], the possibilities for Togera's motivations (and whether he/[[AmbiguousGender she/it]] is a [[AdaptationalHeroism hero]] and [[AdaptationalVillainy villain]]) are completely up in the air.
5	*** [[BigCreepyCrawlies Preytor]]: As [[ForScience a scientist feeds a mantis a few drops of the radioactive goop]], [[MiracleGroMonster Preytor suddenly turns into a giant]], [[EatenAlive and devours the scientist who transformed her]]. Is Preytor [[IAmAHumanitarian simply a man-eating beast]], or [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters is she taking her vengeance on a]] MadScientist [[EvilutionaryBiologist who tried to use her for his own nefarious ends]]?
6	*** [[RealRobot Robo-47]] As a UFO crashed next to a hanger of [[ForgottenSuperweapon "Decommissioned Hardware"]], and when the radiation enters the hanger, Robo-47 reactivates, before bursting out of his hangar, and [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou launching a missile at the camera]]. Is [[AIIsACrapshoot the radiation messing with Robo-47's programming]], or [[DetectEvil is it reacting to the presence of alien radiation]] [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure by seeking out and destroying every trace of it on Earth]]?
7	*** [[LivingStatue Agamo]]: As a shaman pours radioactive goop into the fire pit on a statue's head, Agamo awakens, sending the shaman tumbling off his head, [[TrampledUnderfoot before unceremoniously stomping him underfoot]]. Is Agamo a GodOfGood, trying to protect Earth from threats, or a GodOfEvil setting out to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt?
8	*** [[MagmaMan Magmo]]: After a UFO smashes into an active volcano, [[LivingLava Magmo emerges from the radiation-infused lava]]. Is it just a mutated creature, [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod or a manifestation of a volcano god]]?
9	*** [[SuperRobot Ultra-V]]: Created by a Japanese laboratory, Ultra-V activates when it is charged up with a damaged UFO's radioactive energy, [[TestingRangeMishap only to start smashing the laboratory apart as the scientist scream at how out of control it is]]. [[AIIsACrapshoot Is Ultra-V's programming simply haywire]], [[ItCanThink or does it know what it's doing]]? And if it does know, is it trying to save the world, or destroy it?
10	*** [[ShockAndAwe Kineticlops]]: The only monster who is [[WasOnceAMan explicitly a transformed human]], Kineticlops used to be a security guard who investigated an electrical transformer that was smashed by a UFO. After he [[LightningCanDoAnything gets fried with a bolt of radiation-tainted electricity]], he becomes [[ElementalEmbodiment a giant electrical pulse]] with the only visible body part left being [[{{Cyclops}} a giant eye]]. Does Kineticlops remember [[ByTheBookCop his previous life in law enforcement]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist and is stopping the out-of-control monsters from harming innocent lives?]] Or was his LossOfIdentity [[GoMadFromTheRevelation too great to bear]], [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds and is he blindly lashing out in pain and rage]]?
11	** Is Goliath Prime specifically built to destroy you, or is it just another out of control metal beast?
12	** Were the invaders really a massive armada, or was it just [[spoiler:Cerebulon and the three Zorgulons]] with a lot of remote control ships?
13	** Is Cerebulon the leader of the aliens, or simply their ultimate weapon?
14	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The InUniverse film posters were obviously made with as much love for giant monster films as the rest of the game.
15	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: While you often can't hear it due to the explosions and buildings collapsing, it is there. Most of it plays through the credits.
16	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsszlL1yo14 Midtown Park:]] The game's iconic battle theme.
17	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHRbgZctdM Metro City:]] No other song in the game captures the pure terror shaking humanity as this one.
18	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jopmhcK_TOY Bay Town:]] [[AutobotsRockOut Autobots, rock out.]]
19	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqL32hwRm0 Mini Bay Town:]] Your imminent doom is at hand. Panic now, [[PunyEarthlings puny earthlings]]!
20	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcswfKNHoM Capitol:]] Awesome music for a last stand against a stronger enemy.
21	* BreatherBoss: Between the frustrating battles with Goliath Prime and Cerebulon we have Vegon, who may be the largest monster in the whole game, but isn't really much trouble so long as the player keeps moving.
22	* CultClassic: Didn't sell well enough to turn into a franchise for Sony, but has a dedicated fanbase among {{Kaiju}} fans who enjoy it for being a loving homage to the genre in the style of a fighting game.
23	* DemonicSpiders: Military vehicles and flying saucers in story mode. Both are tedious to destroy, and will chip away at your health while you try to fight your opponent.
24	* FanficFuel:
25	** The plot is extremely minimal, leaving a lot of gaps to be filled in by fans.
26	** Beating the game with Raptros or Zorgulon unlocks a Making Of Video, rather than an Origin Movie. Some fans have had great fun speculating their origins.
27	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
28	** Some of the monsters' {{Victory Pose}}s are pretty hilarious like Robo-47 doing the ''Robot'' dance or Kineticlops playing basketball with his eyeball.
29	** Agamo's origin story has some dark humor. After being accidentally awakened by a shaman, Agamo walks away, stepping on the poor human in the process.
30	* GoddamnedBats: The constantly-respawning Kineticlopses in Atomic Island, as well as the military's helicopters.
31	* ThatOneBoss:
32	** Goliath Prime, the first boss. The fact that he's big enough that ''other Kaiju consider him a boss'' should tell you something. The first third of the battle is a mild GuideDangIt moment (you have to ''catch the bombs he throws at you''), and the rest of the fight alternates between him pummeling you, trampling you, or blasting you with cannons.
33	** Also Cerebulon, the FinalBoss. In his first form he fires a beam cannon that drains half your health, and about the only way you can avoid taking damage from it is to hide behind and object and let it take some of the hit. In his second form he invokes InstantDeathRadius with a red lightning attack that drains half your health (to say nothing of how hard it is to actually damage this form since it can only be damaged by throwing the pieces of it's first form at it). In his last form he uses a 12-hit combo that stunlocks you and, you guessed it, drains half your health.
34	* HarsherInHindsight:
35	** The ability to summon a giant Tsunami in Tsunopolis (heavily based on Tokyo, Japan) seems a bit less fun after the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.
36	** The depiction of crumbling buildings in this game turned out to be one for Sony, as while the game was almost complete in 2001, the 9/11 attacks made them worried such imagery would be insensitive, so [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents its release was delayed until early 2003]].
37	*** The game's early development period even had a map more closely resembling New York City. It featured destructible famous landmarks, including the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
38	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: For whatever monster you completed adventure mode with. After taking on (presumably) every other monster in the world, you fight the alien leader, and beat the daylights outta him too!
39	* ThatOneLevel:
40	** The Airfield. To summarize: a [[DualBoss two-against-one battle]]. Small area with virtually no cover, but plenty of explosive objects to be thrown at you. Health pickups aren't more than 5 seconds away, no matter where you are, which means the enemy will eagerly grab them the second they start taking damage. And they think nothing of throwing explosives and spearing weapons non-stop. The enemies, by the way, can both fly.
41	** Metro City has the opposite problem during story mode. The level is home to [[FragileSpeedster Preytor]], who will fly off to the other side of the map, or to the top of the tallest building if you don't defeat them as soon as possible. The fact that you also have to contend with Mecha-Congar doesn't help.
42	* ValuesDissonance: Naming the NoCommunitiesWereHarmed version of Tokyo "Tsunopolis" would most likely face backlash today.

Context YMMV / WarOfTheMonsters