NES Godzilla: Round 2

A Godzilla fanfiction

By H.R.C. Stanley

Inspired by the NES Godzilla creepypasta by CosbyDaf


Chapter One: The Moon


The Moon map was basically a mirror-reflection of the normal Earth map from the original Godzilla game, albeit with a grey colour theme; and I noticed that all the level icons had been replaced by a crater, which actually seemed fitting, being the moon and all. The music was very basic and simplistic, a series of echoy piano taps and what sounded like a droning whistle.

Then I found out that I didn't have neither Godzilla nor Mothra as my playable monsters, but instead Rodan and Anguirus (even though the game itself seems to refer to him as 'Angilas' for some reason, properly a mistranslation). I was surprised too, while the original person did recall playing Anguirus, but as far as I know, he never even brought up Rodan aside from one brief mention.

I moved up the selecting cursor to see what boss monsters I'd be facing this time; they were called Redmoon and Erabus. New original ones made for the game? Maybe, who knows.

I selected Anguirus first and moved him up to the limit of three spaces at a time and the level, or rather levels, began. As expected, it was a simple background with lots of craters and some occasional towers and blocks standing in the way, and the music was the same as the board screen. I also tested out Anguirus' neat little skills: punching with his little claws, using a tailwipe similar to Godzilla, as well as some sort of sonic beam.

As cool as it was, it wasn't long before the fun of knocking down obstacles quickly wore off. The game bombarded me with bullets and little UFOs flying into you from any direction, and since Anguirus was in a permanent bipedal stance, I was too big to avoid most of them. Once I reached the end, I thought that'd be over with for now, but then another scrolling level immediately started and I had to do the same thing over for two more times. Luckily, along the way, for every hit I took, I regained a few health from hitting back at the pests.

After that was over with, the CPU moved Redmoon first by two spaces, and then it was my turn. I decided to move Rodan next, who could also move up to three spaces, just to see what he was like. One good thing about him was that he can fly, not unlike Mothra. One bad thing though was that he could only fly, there wasn't any option to have him walk normally. That would've been fine and even tolerable except every time he got hit or shoot, he kept getting pushed down. Ah well, at least he has a dash attack and could also drop his wings on enemies below him much like Mothra. Weird, I know.

Next, the other enemy monster, Erabus, was moved by a single space. While my excitement had worn down some, it wasn't too long at all before I got to my first proper monster fight. I chose to fight Redmoon as Anguirus, the former was basically a red dragon with a long neck and very large bat-like wings, similar to Ghidorah's. Its attacks included a spurt of lightning from its horns and swinging its own head around. I was annoyed by it at first, but I soon got used to the pattern of the attacks and fought back.

After about four or five minutes, I took down the dragon, then moved on the next boss monster, Erabus, who looked like a blue bipedal horse with a wild white mane. Unlike Redmoon, this weird creature didn't seem to have any special beam attacks or anything, just a few punches and kicks. Because of this, Erabus proved to be slightly easier, so it took less time to defeat this one with any issue.

So with the two kaiju beaten, I took over the enemy base and moved to the next world, which surprisingly wasn't Mars as expected, but instead...

ARES


To be continued...