Ready for Monsters and Mayhem?
GigaBash is a Fighting Game made by Passion Republic Games, in which up to four players battle for dominance as giant monsters and heroes. The game is available on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. If the game does well PRG hopes to bring it to other platforms as well.
Humans, having ruled the earth for centuries, are oblivious to hidden secrets underneath the planet's surface. When a newly-discovered energy source awakens ancient, hibernating behemoths living under us, mankind is beseiged by legions upon legions of massive kaiju.
In a new age of giant monsters, almighty titans battle each other and against us for territorial domination, leaving behind a trail of destruction in their wake.
This game allows up to 4 players at once (either online or multiplayer) but only ONE may be the champion.
Characters include:
- Gorogong: A lumbering brute from Polynesian mythology who savagely pummels his enemies with his massive fists.
- Pipijuras: An alien invader from beyond the stars who'd been sealed away for centuries.
- Thundatross: A massive mecha made to combat the Titan threat, piloted by a prodigy teen pilot.
- Woolley: A very round, fun-loving Yeti who sought adventure and play abrode.
- Skorak: A super-sized snail-like eldritch horror that wears the skull of a dead Titan as its shell.
- Gigaman: A size-changing superhero who is past his prime but came out of retirement to fight for humanity.
- Rohanna: A towering plant-monster that rules over an entire kingdom of plant creatures, worshipped as a goddess.
- Rawa: A fire-breathing dinosaur-like dragon with elements of the Naga, a Malaysian dragon, in his design who rules a gilded kingdom.
- Zyva: A stone sentinel from the depths of the Hollow Earth and protector of a powerful energy source.
- Kongkrete: A mysterious living building that none know the origin of.
- Godzilla: The King of the Monsters, a dinosaur turned nuclear God Of Destruction who needs no introduction. Based on the incarnation of the character from the Heisei series; he is the first DLC Guest Fighter.
- Gigan: A cyborg alien dinosaur from M Space Hunter Nebula, the second DLC Guest Fighter.
- Mechagodzilla: Also known as Kiryu, Godzilla's cyborg doppelgänger built from the remains of the original Godzilla as the third DLC Guest Fighter.
- Destoroyah: A swarm of ancient crustaceans mutated by the Oxygen Destroyer that killed the original Godzilla and fused into a colossal demonic creature; the final Big Bad of the Heisei series, as the fourth DLC Guest Fighter.
- Ultraman: An Ultra Warrior from Nebula M78 who merged with SSSP Officer Shin Hayata to save his life, as the fifth DLC Guest Fighter.
- Alien Baltan: A member of a species of size-shifting humanoid alien arthropods seeking to conquer the Earth to replace their destroyed homeworld, as the sixth DLC Guest Fighter.
- Ultraman Tiga: An ancient Ultra Warrior who merged with his human descendant G.U.T.S. Officer Daigo Madoka, as the seventh DLC Guest Fighter.
- Camearra: The leader of the Dark Giants, a faction of corrupted Ultra Warriors, awoken after 30 millions years to destroy humanity and her ex Tiga, as the eighth DLC Guest Fighter.
This game provides examples of:
- Affectionate Parody: The game as a whole lovingly references the craziness of Kaiju movies, especially the story modes which utilize as many cliches as they can fit in, but all of them are integrated in ways to create stories that perfectly represent the characters.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Every playable character is a giant monster no less than 15-20 meters tall, that can grow to a height of more than 30 meters in their respective S-Class forms.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Rawa, Skorak, and Rohanna are constantly fighting to assert dominance over Tarabak Island, with the three of them being worshiped as gods by the indigenous inhabitants of the island. Naturally, when Gorogong defeats all three of them, their respective followers join his side.
- Beam-O-War: Following update 1.3, players are able to engage in beam clashes by colliding their monsters' ranged attacks, with the winner determined via button mashing.
- Behemoth Battle: It's a Fighting Game where you can play as different kinds of Kaiju, a giant super hero and a Humongous Mecha. Special mention goes to the Titans in their S-class forms, where they greatly increase in size and power.
- Cast of Expies: Unsurprisingly, most of the roster are heavily inspired by various characters from Godzilla, with the monster himself appearing, the Ultra Series, and other preexisting kaiju or mecha franchises.
- The Cameo: Shibito-Zoiger and Gatanothor from Ultraman Tiga make appearances in some of Camearra's moveset, with her being able to summon the former and merging with the latter's evil energy to perform her Ultimate.
- Chiaroscuro: Godzilla's first teaser
has Godzilla shrouded in darkness until his dorsal spines begin to ominously glow. - David Versus Goliath: If your opponent reaches S-Class before you, the battle can quickly turn into this, as you are forced to either avoid them as long as possible until their s-class runs out, or get enough hits in to reach it on your own, all while none of your attacks are doing damage to them.
- Destructive Savior: Gigaman and Thundatross may be heroes trying to save the day, but players controlling them can still cause colossal amounts of collateral damage to various cities.
- Easter Egg: A particularly dark one can be found in Pipijuras's story mode. If the player doesn't jump into the hole after defeating the Alpha Yeti and waits for 15 minutes, they'll be treated with a monologue from the head researcher as he tearfully bemoans the extinction of the Woolleys. Given the Story Mode ends with Pipijuras's species invading Earth, this would probably be a Mercy Kill for the poor sap.
- Energy Weapon: Gigaman and Pipijuras both have Giga Energy beams and projectiles. Godzilla, of course, has his famous breath weapon.
- Expy Coexistence:
- Rawa, as a bipedal dragon who spews blue fire from his mouth and is given a kingly title, is an expy of Godzilla. Later on, Godzilla himself was added as a Guest Fighter.
- Gigaman, as a colorful size-changing superhero armed with a Hand Blast, is an obvious homage to Ultraman. The second DLC pack included Ultraman himself as a Guest Fighter.
- Downplayed with Pipijuras existing alongside the guest fighter Alien Baltan, as the former is an expy of several aliens (Baltan included) from the Ultra Series such as Alien Metron and Alien Temperor as opposed to just a Baltan expy.
- Fantasy Landmark Equivalent: The GGN Tower, which headlines its own Tokyo stage, is a blatantly obvious one of Tokyo Tower. Much like the real deal's portrayals in fiction, it's a common target of kaiju and can be knocked over.
- Giant Equals Invincible: When a character gets to his S-Class, along with growing several meters, they become invulnerable to all attacks from a non-S-class character.
- Guest Fighter:
- Four Toho kaiju were announced as part of the first DLC pack:
- Godzilla — specifically the Heisei incarnation from 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah — makes his appearance as the first additional kaiju to join the roster.
- Gigan — specifically the Showa incarnation from Godzilla vs. Gigan and Godzilla vs. Megalon — is the second Toho kaiju to join the roster.
- Mechagodzilla — specifically Kiryu from Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. — is the third Toho kaiju to join the roster.
- Destoroyah from Godzilla vs. Destoroyah is the fourth Toho kaiju to join the roster.
- The second DLC pack includes fighters from the Ultraman series.
- The original Ultraman makes his appearance as the first Tsuburaya character, and fifth guest fighter overall, to join the roster.
- Alien Baltan — mostly based on its first episode — is the second Tsuburaya character to join the roster.
- Ultraman Tiga is the third Tsuburaya character to join the roster.
- Camearra is the fourth Tsuburaya character to join the roster.
- A second Godzilla DLC pack—the Nemesis Pack— was announced on April 25, 2024.
- Four Toho kaiju were announced as part of the first DLC pack:
- Improvised Weapon: Damn near everything. If you can pick it up, you can use it to put the hurt on your enemies. If you can't pick it up, you can probably smash it and use the pieces to put the hurt on your enemies. Alternatively, throw your enemies at it.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: In Gorogong's story mode, a submersible secures the Giga Energy crystal but passes close to Tarabak Island. As the pilot worries, his superior tells him that kaiju can't swim... only for something huge to show up on the sonar. As the superior tells the pilot it's only a whale, Rawa lunges out of the darkness and eats the submersible, the two humans ejecting at the last second. As Rawa swims away, the pilot snarks that Rawa is "some whale" only for his superior to tell him to shut up.
- Isle of Giant Horrors: Tarabak Island is a Polynesian island relatively close to Kahu'a Island, where Gorogong originally dwelled, and is home to Rohanna, Skorak, and Rawa, as well as their respective worshippers. In the story mode, Gorogong settles on the island and usurps the other kaiju as its god-monster.
- Kung-Shui: Goes without saying, when the whole city is your arena. Buildings WILL be destroyed, and landscapes changed.
- Limit Break: Every character has a powerful ultimate attack they can unleash after breaking a Giga-ball.
- Mighty Glacier: Rawa and Thundatross are both slow moving characters with hard hitting attacks.
- Mirror Boss: The final boss for the story mode of Thundatross is Unit-02, an Evil Counterpart piloted by Dr. Reiner and powered by the unconscious body of Dr. Otoma to siphon the Giga Core for his own desires, which is functionally a Palette Swap of the playable character that uses the exact same moveset.
- Mockumentary: The commentator for everything involving the yetis is a researcher who observes them like a wildlife documentary. This causes plenty of hilarity when Woolley "goes off script" in his story mode and finds himself far away from home, as despite the commentator's frequent attempts to steer the story back to the yeti encampment, Woolley continues to get further lost as he follows his curiosity, frustrating the person talking over his adventure.
- Mythology Gag:
- Despite being based on the version of Heisei Godzilla from Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, Godzilla has references from across his film series:
- Godzilla can perform the infamous tail-sliding kick from Godzilla vs. Megalon.
- One of Godzilla's taunts is the victory dance from Invasion of Astro-Monster.
- One of Godzilla's jump attacks is a nod to the memetic flying pose from Godzilla vs. Hedorah.
- When firing his Atomic Breath vertically, Godzilla strikes the pose from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
- Kiryu's super move is a double: While it starts with him going berserk ala his original appearance, the actual move of unleashing every move in it's arsenal at once resembles a signature scene from the original.
- Gigan's initial teaser trailer briefly shows a still of a blue diamond, referencing the diamond form the monster took to travel across space in its original appearance.
- While Gigan takes most of his appearance and abilities from his Showa incarnation, his forehead laser appears more like the cluster bomb attack from his Final Wars incarnation.
- Gigan's ability to teleport is taken from the Pipeworks ''Godzilla'' Trilogy.
- While he's based on his Showa incarnation, Gigan has a skin with the blackish-blue skin and red wings of his Millennium counterpart.
- The Ultraman DLC teaser recreates the opening of Ultraman's title sequence, with the Gigabash logo replacing that of Ultra Q.
- While mostly drawing from the original series, Ultraman's moveset includes references to later media. One of his block attacks recreates the spinning kick from Shin Ultraman and his Ultimate references the rainbow specium beam from Revive Ultraman, a 30th anniversary compilation film.
- Despite being based on the version of Heisei Godzilla from Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, Godzilla has references from across his film series:
- Not Drawn to Scale: Applies to every fighter in the roster, who appear to be around 5 to 6 stories tall despite their profiles' stats putting them in the 40 meter tall range, which they otherwise only reach in gameplay via transforming into their S-class forms. Outside of the monsters, human NPCs that run around on stages appear to be the size of cars.
- Palette Swap: Every monster in the base game starts with 4, with up to 10 available palettes per monster that can be achieved by leveling them up or completing the Onslaught mode. Sadly, this does not apply to the DLC characters - the first wave DLC fighters only have 4 total palette swaps (some of which are barely differentiable from each other), and the second wave DLC fighters don't even have that, instead having different glows instead of full swaps.
- Power Creep, Power Seep: The Godzilla characters in their original franchises usually have heights that can exceed 80 meters tall, in the game they are reduced to being 5 to 6 stories tall just like other kaijus in the game, or around 40-50 meters tall if in-game stats are to be trusted.
- Power-Up: A Giga-ball will occasionally appear during the match, anyone who breaks it gets access to their Super Mode and powerful ultimate attack.
- Punched Across the Room: Fighters knocking each other a good distance across the arena is not just common, it's practically expected. In fact, some attacks are specifically designed to launch enemies and will send them flying clean across the city.
- Purple Is Powerful: Giga Energy is a vibrant purple in color, and said energy is a source of incredible power to whoever uses, with such results as creating a Titan-class mecha in Thundatross that has his own personality separate from his pilot, creating an army of crystal monsters like Zyva that are fully capable of facing against other Titans individually, and of course there's the Super Mode of turning Titans S-Class alongside granting use of powerful Limit Breaks.
- Shout-Out:
- Rawa's Ultimate Attack has him spew a massive blast of flames that is slowly focused into a narrow beam, a reference to Shin Godzilla's scene of Godzilla using its the Atomic Breath for the first time.
- One of Rawa's emotes has him do Godzilla's victory dance from Invasion of Astro-Monster.
- Another emote has Rawa using his fire breath to fly around, Godzilla vs. Hedorah style.
- Notably, Godzilla himself uses many of the same poses, for much the same reasons.
- One of Rawa's attacks has him wreathe his horn in Giga Energy and slash his opponents with it, much like Destoroyah in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah and the Pipeworks ''Godzilla'' Trilogy.
- At the end of his story mode, Gorogong defeats Rawa by grabbing him by the tail and performing a Human Hammer-Throw, just like in King Kong vs. Godzilla.
- Gigaman has a red and blue alt called "Multi-Type" and a green and white alt called "Green Trooper". The former became
Hilarious in Hindsight when Tiga was announced as a DLC Fighter as part of the Ultraman DLC Pack. - An alternate skin for Gorogong based on King Kong was added in the Toho kaiju DLC pack.
- Skorak's home island Tarabak is stated to have been named after Taraban, a snail kaiju from Ultraman Tiga.
- One of the achievements for perfect blocking multiple times is "Ultra Instinct".
- Stuff Blowing Up: As a parody of Kaiju movies where explosions are common, plenty of things create impressive booms when destroyed.
- Super Mode: Accumulating enough Giga Energy will allow the kaiju to undergo a transformation that greatly increases their size and power, while making them invulnerable to kaiju who haven't also undergone said transformation.
- Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: Befitting a game homaging Kaiju films where the attack location is almost always Tokyo, the city is apparently a magnet for Titan activity, with the city being the focus of 3 stages. Not only do both Gigaman and Thundatross live there, but Rohanna randomly pops up to terrorize the place with no explanation despite her usually only fighting to protect her "children" or territory. Though this probably isn't helped by the fact most of the research for fighting Titans is based there, including harboring various Titan-related objects such as Pipijuras' teleporter.
- The Tokyo Fireball: Thanks to all the chaos and destruction caused by frequently rampaging Titans, cities being destroyed and needing re-building is a frequent occurrence, especially the Titan-magnet that is Tokyo.
- A Twinkle in the Sky: When defeated, the final opponent will be knocked out of the stage and over the horizon with a twinkle shot and sound effect.
- Ultimate Life Form:
Word of God confirms that the monsters' S-class forms represent the apex of their potential physical abilities. For examples, Pipijuras's S-class is stated to be identical to the form of his species's leader. - Victory Pose: The screen zooms in on the match's winner allowing them to taunt or pose however they see fit.
