Fortnite’s Godzilla Collab Gets Attention With Big Monsters

At the moment, it’s very attractive to invest in franchises and brands Fortnite did not cross with. Epic’s Battle Royale shooter is a melting pot of acceptable stupiditywhere Luke Skywalker and Hatsune Miku dance variously on the corpses of everyone from Goku to Ariana Grande. The ur-brand nature of it all makes it difficult for the latest in a long line of announcements to be seen at the moment, but the latest with the world of Legendary’s “Monsterverse” is more expensive than the rest… because it includes monsters taller than most things on the Fortnite islands.

Last weekend Epic and Legendary launched a new partnership as part of the latest season of Fortnite, bringing skins inspired by Godzilla vs. Cong and The New Kingdom to the shooter. But beyond that Godzilla (alone a bit the queen of the crossoveras of late) now has a physical presence Fortnitemaps. Randomly at some point in the game, giant gates can appear somewhere on the island, and the first player to pass through is transformed into Godzilla to destroy their enemies. If you are no Godzilla, you can fire bullet after bullet at the kaiju to try and reduce his health, getting rewarded if you can do more damage. If you and Godzilla, you spend a lot of time as you slowly but surely trample, overheat, and go through the map, leaving destroyed buildings and dead players.

What’s interesting about all of this is that being a part of the current events is fun as hell. Godzilla is unyielding and slow, but in a way that emphasizes the strength and scale you’re playing with, and the deadly kills that can destroy scenery or melt players with a blast of his breath walk a fine line between being powerful enough. be threatening, but not so overwhelming that it is impossible to fight it. But it’s when you’re on the ground that it’s the most fun, no doubt: whether you’re far away from Godzilla or right next to his stomping feet, Fortnite he has absolutely nailed the feeling of scale that you would want to get out of such a meeting. The looks are in danger (well, based on the Legendary version of Big G), the sound design is good, but it’s the size and the size, almost unlike anything else. Fortnite he’s done it over the years, which makes Godzilla feel very special.

You can see him near the map, as tall as the tallest mountains on the island. As your screen zooms in, or as neon-pink energy sweeps past you. No matter what kind Fortnite‘s battle royale in which there is some damage that is part of the gameplay, and Godzilla changes this, being able to knock down all the precious buildings in an explosion. And again, chaotic as it may be, it seems to be fair to all: the wood is strong, but slow enough that you can really try to speed up the way they burn down. Getting stomped on by Godzilla is not only going to fool you right away but the more of his moves, sending you and anyone nearby flying backwards, the better to check his level. It does not feel unfair to go fight Godzilla, but he also doesn’t feel like he’s fooling around when people are competing to do more damage to him, weaving between their guns and Godzilla’s bolts that burn the same heat.

Fortnite‘s Godzilla has a heavy mind to him jars and a lot of wind first that means the shooter (especially this season, which has also established many mechanics of movement so that the players feel brisker and can move better) . He is disruptive in the best sense: he can be there for a few minutes in the game, if he has the chance to appear at all, but regardless of where you are, when he is. he does show, commands attention. And what else should the King of All Beasts do, but demand his presence?

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