Kaiju feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
A belt-scroller starring kaiju and Tokosatsu-style giant mecha isn’t exactly an original idea. SNK’s not-that-great King of the Monsters series did it first, but here’s the scoop — Dawn of the Monsters does it better, with a game that’ll make you feel five hundred feet tall. And scaly. And basically a big lizard. Not in a weird David Icke conspiracy way, just… in the game.
WayForward published this one — you know, the Shantae lot — and we have to say it does recall their rather under-appreciated Godzilla Domination, a GBA title that saw a clutch of licensed Toho kaiju getting into big-time scraps in a diminutive but dominant (hence the title) fashion. In a sense, Dawn of the Monsters is a spiritual sequel, then, but developed by 13AM Games of Runbow fame; there’s no need to panic, however, as these developers clearly know their kaiju. Excuse me, Nephilim.
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