Published Nov 2, 2026, 2:31 PM EST

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is as clumsy and charming as you remember

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When I was a kid, there were some games I only knew through magazines. I never played them, but they were all over the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly and Nintendo Power, so I knew everything about them anyway. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee was firmly a “magazine game” when it was released for the GameCube in 2002. I even had a free poster of it on my wall as a kid, one I kept hung up even after a wave of middling reviews eventually dropped.

Historically, games like that aren’t prime candidates for remasters. They’re left to become rare collectibles found at retro game conventions while canon classics receive countless double dips on modern platforms. So what a delight it is that Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered now exists, in all of its messy glory.…