Gigabash’s Giant Monster designs are so underrated
A lot of people in the Godzilla fandom know Gigabash as the Kaiju arena brawler that has Godzilla, Ultraman and Gamera crossing over, but the original Kaiju (and Mecha and Kyodai Hero) designs are fantastic and ooze personality. Most of them are obvious homages to various monsters and heroes from Japanese Tokusatsu media or mythological creatures, and they do it so well while also setting them apart from their more popular counterparts. For example, Rawa is their Godzilla inspired Kaiju before they actually crossed over with Godzilla, but instead of being a generic clone of him like most media will do, they also made his design more like a Naga Dragon from Asian mythologies. Gigaman while being the obvious Ultraman inspired character before they actually got Ultraman sets himself apart by being more of a veteran Superhero who let go of himself after loosing a fight with a Kaiju that destroyed a city he was trying to protect, but decides to get back in the fight again after being inspired by Thundatross’(lightning Mech) pilot. A bunch of the designs are more simplistic but still work really well sort of like Nintendo characters like Kirby. Also this game is just really underrated in general and I wanted to talk about it, as there are very few choices for actually good modern games that let you play as giant monsters.