Earlier today, Godzilla was revealed to be coming to Fortnite in its next season. This adds to the list of games Godzilla has crossed over with fairly recently, which includes Call of Duty, Dave the Diver, Gigabash, and more. It really raises the question, where is the next real Godzilla game? We did get that little strategy game, Godzilla Voxel Wars, last year, and there was that Kong game that came out this year that at least acknowledges Godzilla, but I want a new, big Godzilla game.

Honestly, I would even take remasters of older games. The trilogy of games by Pipeworks Software is beloved. I had the first one growing up, Destroy All Monsters Melee. A remaster of those three games seems like really easy money. I wonder if there’s some hangup with the publisher, which was Atari. But that seems like something that would be pretty easy to work out. I’d also love to see a version of the PlayStation 4 game for current consoles, especially since the price on used copies of that game has gone through the roof.

But let’s say that we wouldn’t get a remaster, but rather an entirely new game. I think the easiest thing to do would be a new fighting game. I go back and forth on whether I would want it to be a 2D or 3D game. If it was 3D, it would basically be a new take on the Pipeworks games. Lots of monsters smashing through buildings, beating each other up, and just looking cool. I’d love to see a story mode, one that feels like something out of the Showa era of the films… which again is basically what Pipeworks did with their games.

You could also go the 2D route. There’s enough monsters to use that you could easily fill a full roster of a modern fighting game with plenty of special moves and supers and all that. I think the problem would be how they take advantage of the fact that these are giant monsters. Maybe the army could interrupt fights? I don’t think you could do interactable buildings, because they would just get in the way. I think you could make a really cool 2D Godzilla fighter, and they’ve been done before, but I think I’d prefer it to be 3D.

The other way I could see it working would be as an action game where you play as a human. Kind of like Kong: Survivor Instict, except I wouldn’t want it to be a 2D action platformer. I think it would work better as a first person shooter, one where you’re dealing with human enemies, or aliens for that matter, for a good chunk of it. But also Godzilla is there. Maybe we could make it a modern take on Destroy All Monsters or Final Wars, where aliens are controlling monsters and you have to free them to fight them back. Maybe include boss fights where you play as Godzilla.

So those are my thoughts. Is there anything you’d like to see? Let me know in the comments.