Line #31 VideoGame/GodzillaTheSeries


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2	''Godzilla: The Series'' is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp based on the animated ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' show, developed by Crawfish Interactive and published by Crave Entertainment in 1999 for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor. The game is largely a retelling of several episodes from the series' first season, rewritten into a fairly loose plot. A sequel, ''Godzilla: The Series - Monster Wars'' was released the following year, and is based on the three-part storyline of the same name.
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4	The first game features the following mutations as bosses:
5	* [[{{Tulpa}} Crackler]]
6	* [[BeeAfraid Queen Bee]]
7	* [[GiantEnemyCrab Crustaceous Rex]]
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9	"Monster Wars" features the following mutations as bosses:
10	* [[BigCreepyCrawlies El Gusano Gigante]]
11	* [[BlobMonster Nanotech Creature]]
12	* [[StockNessMonster Cryptocledius]]
13	* [[BatOutOfHell Giant Bat]]
14	* [[EvilCounterpart Cyber-Godzilla]]
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16	!!Tropes:
17	* AdaptedOut: The second game, "Monster Wars", excludes King Cobra, Queen Bee, and Crustaceous Rex (despite the latter appearing on the cover art) even though the latter two appeared in the first game and all of them featuring prominently in the "Monster Wars" episodes. Inverted with the Nanotech Creature, who was added to the story despite only appearing in one episode earlier in the series.
18	* AdaptationalHeroism: Godzilla is never placed under mind control in "Monster Wars" by the Leviathan aliens, and thus is never used as a weapon against humanity.
19	* AlienInvasion: "Monster Wars", although the aliens never appear in person, the involvement in the plot is ''very'' minimal, and their intentions go unknown.
20	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The game states that the Tachyon signal sent by the Leviathan aliens has been active for 55 million years, despite the fact that ship is supposed to have been on the bottom of the sea since the Mezozoic Era, which ended 65 million years ago.
21	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Monique's usage of the French expression "sacre bleu" is misspelled as "sacre blue."
22	* BigBad: Cameron Winter is behind the military's attacks which drive the plot of the first game. In the second game, the Leviathan aliens take this role.
23	* BossGame: Both games are largely a series of [[BossBattle Boss Battles]] separated by side-scrolling levels.
24	* CompressedAdaptation:
25	** The overall plot of the first game is based on the episode "The Winter of Our Discontent", with the [[BossBattle Boss Battles]] taken from "Dreams of What May Come", "Hive", and "New Family: Part Two".
26	** The second game is unsurprisingly based on the "Monster Wars" three-parter from the animated series' first season, with the most notable difference being the fact that Godzilla is never put under MindControl by the Leviathan Aliens.
27	* CoversAlwaysLie: Godzilla battles Crustaceous Rex on the box art of "Monster Wars", despite C-Rex not appearing in the game itself.
28	* DeathByAdaptation: Nick's comments heavily imply that Cameron Winter is dead after Godzilla destroys the Solstice Technologies building.
29	* FinalBoss:
30	** Cameron Winter's Solstice Technologies building, with hordes of tanks, Cyber Flies, and missile launchers to ward off Godzilla.
31	** "Monster Wars" has Cyber-Godzilla as its final boss, just like the storyline the game is based on.
32	* FlunkyBoss: Both Queen Bee and the Solstice Technologies building rely more on their minions to do the fighting. The latter is particularly notable as the building loses its own weapon systems during the later stages of the battle.
33	* GenderFlip: Cyber-Godzilla is referred to as female in the "Monster Wars" game, despite being explicitly male in all other media.
34	* TheGoomba: Godzilla fights his way through waves of soldiers and military equipment, as well as giant squids, mutant rats, and giant bees.
35	* {{Kaiju}}: It ''is'' a Godzilla game, after all.
36	* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Solstice Technologies building spends most of the battle spamming out missiles at Godzilla, though it loses this ability after the top few floors of the building are leveled.
37	* NotMeThisTime: After Godzilla is repeatedly attacked by military weaponry, Nick calls Major Hicks and demands that he call off the attack, only to be informed that no one in the military has orders to attack Godzilla. It is later revealed that Cameron Winter is responsible for the attacks.
38	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Cameron Winter's name is misspelled as Cameron Winters at the end of the first game.

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