YMMV / NES Godzilla Creepypasta

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• Adorkable: Usol from Replay is a (comparatively) small creature that is nothing but nice and helpful to the protagonist.
• Alas, Poor Scrappy:
  • Mothra is difficult to play as and generally useless, and the narrator repeatedly complains about her. Even so, it's damn hard not to feel bad when she gets eaten by Red. Thankfully, she comes back.
  • The same could be said for Face. He was kind of a jerk at times, and a lot of the questions he asked were... disturbing, but Zachary admits to feeling sad when he suspected Face was going to die soon. Which he did in Zenith. But he also comes back at the end.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: The original story has a Surprisingly Happy Ending for a Creepypasta. While some people did enjoy the ending, many others found it out-of-place or disappointing.
• Awesome Art: He made those sprites himself. All of them.
  • Special mention goes out to Red's skull-shaped fire breath attack.
• Awesome Music: Author decided to compose a bit of the game's music, and boy, what he did was awesome. He even seems to have Invoked this trope, in that he also referred to a bit of other music on the page for the stuff he didn't do.
  • This fanmade OST for the sequel, which is being used in a dramatic reading by the composer. SIN especially is fitting, and it even gives Usol a theme of his own! Even better; it's listed as a volume 1 due to the story being incomplete. There's gonna be more.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The TV screen icons each display a brief, surreal animation that have little, if anything, to do with anything else in-game.
  • STILL THE BEST 1973 ^note The screen that appears after Solomon completes a level. It has nothing to do with the rest of the story, and the creator said it was only added so it could become memetic, which worked.
  • In the sequel, a creature waiting at the end of one of the "Isolation Zone" stages does nothing except say that "the first man on the moon was an Ezekiel Zanderfruit" and then promptly end the level. Subverted, because the name "Zanderfruit" returns in the recent chapter as a password.
• Broken Base: The ending was either a Cliché Storm of clichés (The Power of Love, Golden Ending, etc.) that don't belong in a creepypasta story, or a fitting and satisfying conclusion that avoids some of the less-desired clichés that crop up in other video game creepypasta stories.
• Cliché Storm: Hits a lot of familiar creepypasta notes. Unlike most creepypasta, though, this one is lavishly illustrated, so the old "photorealistic gore" cliché is rather more vivid than normal.
  • The writer does display an amazing sense for atmosphere as the first creepypasta goes on, and arguably even more so in the sequel. That, and the sheer amount of it, helps it stand out.
  • Godzilla Replay subverts the trope though. The new protagonist has actually read the original creepy pasta and has spoken to Zach and is trying to invoke the events again for some reason, so the dynamic is very different from most video game creepypastas. However, things get even weirder, as demonic possession isn't apparent, and the game seems to have morphed into this weird sci-fi Mind Screw experience with some similarities to an in-universe ARG that Carl is trying to navigate. And this is on top of a weird Gotta Catch Them All objective of beating the incarnations of the seven deadly sins. The only cliché that stands out is Carl getting obsessed with the game—collecting the crystals from those incarnations in particular—and even then, the roots of this obsession seem like they might be deconstructed later on; the significance of the Seven Deadly Sins theme to Carl is still unclear, and the words of the minion who captures Usol imply that Carl is checking out this supernatural game because his "real life is worthless".
• Complete Monster: Red, or the "hell beast", is a shapeshifting, sadistic demon/extradimensional entity who takes the form of a never seen before, never made, never thought up before character in Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!. After Zach, the player of the game, begins to get suspicious about the content in the game, Red reveals himself as a sapient monster within the game itself who directly threatens Zach. Red taunts Zach that his girlfriend's suicide was his doing, and that he is now torturing her soul. From there, Red engages in a brutal massacre, starting with the characters in the video game itself, then the angelic figure guarding Zach and the other figures aiding him, and ending with an attempt on Zach's life in the final battle. He paralyzes Zach and forces him to play the game and beat him or else die and have his soul trapped in the game.
• Creepy Awesome: Red, a dangerous, demonic creature who was responsible for Melissa's suicide and is capable of harming Zach in reality, is very popular just because of how terrifying he is, with some of his scenes being among the story's most memorable.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Solomon became one the moment he stepped in. He earned a lot of fans due to having a cool design, being a competent party member, and for having the memetic phrase, "STILL THE BEST 1973".
  • The Big Bad of the first creepypasta, Red, is also really popular with Godzilla fans. It's to the point some wish he was an official kaiju so they could see Godzilla face off against him in a movie.
  • Misinformation Guy in the sequel.
• Faux Symbolism: Acacius, the 11th-Hour Ranger who shows up to fight Red at the very end, shares a name with an Armenian saint who led the ten thousand martyrs, a group of Armenians who converted to Christianity and were then crucified. Although there are plenty of other Acaciuses the name is more likely a reference to. See Meaningful Name on the main page—the running pattern among the various famous people named Acacius is actually pretty relevant.
• Genius Bonus: In Godzilla: Replay, Carl is unfamiliar with many of the more obscure Godzilla creatures. For example, in the Lost Way part, he ends up escorting Gorosaurus out of the level, while referring to him as "this blue dinosaur".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Come Kong: Skull Island, and the Skullcralwers bear more than a passing resemblance to Not-Hedorah. Right down to the face, even.
  • In one level of "Entropy", a moon hatches like an egg, revealing a life form. In one Doctor Who episode, Earth's moon turned out to be a giant egg.
• Just Here for Godzilla: No pun intended. But many readers just go look at the creepypasta for the impressive sprite-work and mostly ignore the story, due to quite a bit of Narm.
• Love to Hate: Red is popular for this reason. He may have led Melissa to suicide, directly taunted and threatened Zach, and nearly killed him, but that, along with his creepiness, is why he's popular.
• Memetic Badass: Solomon is STILL THE BEST 1973.
• Memetic Mutation: The infamous "RUN" ^note The text accompanying Red's chase stages, which is probably the phrase that first comes to mind for some when thinking of the creepypasta. and "STILL THE BEST 1973". ^note A phrase that appears every time Solomon completes a stage. It caught on with fans, and it tends to be said frequently whenever the story is brought up. The second one is actually an invoked trope, as the creator admits that it doesn't really mean anything and was only added with the hopes of becoming a meme.
• Moral Event Horizon: Zachary genuinely begins to hate Red after he devours the angel. Also done as a Player Punch.
• More Popular Spin-Off: This creepypasta is more well-known and better regarded than the mostly forgotten NES game it is based on.
• Narm:
  • For all the excellent tension and terror that comes from Red and the "RUN" stages, the first stage in Pathos is unfortunately undermined by the screencaps apparently depicting it as a flat featureless stage where all Zack needs to do is literally just hold right on the D-pad, since there's no further effort involved in making Godzilla run away from Red. This makes Zack's claim that he only barely escaped thanks to "dumb luck" or an "adrenaline boost" seem overly melodramatic. This may be why the eventual defictionalization video game adaptation shakes things up by instead having Red randomly lunge at the player from the left or right, testing the player's reflexes and reaction speed instead of their ability to just walk in one direction.
  • The end of the Blood Lake stage builds up a great deal of suspense for the boss. First a half-minute long screen reading "Mother" appears, and then the player finds the corpse of a pregnant creature hanged from a bramble patch by a spiny umbilical cord. Soon afterwards, its abdomen messily explodes to reveal a bat-like creature... with a clown nose and matching makeup. Named Bobo. It still manages to put up a good fight, though.
  • The boss of the "Organic" level, as well. The level leading up to it is quite freaky, with the extremely hyper-realistic graphics and all the monsters looking like skinned, misshapen animal corpses. The boss of the level? Can easily be described as a dog skull attached to a sausage.
  • The story itself has numerous typos, indulges in creepypasta clichés like "hyper-realistic graphics", the game threatening the player directly, and the game physically compelling the player to keep playing, and the plot swerves from "this cartridge has something wrong with it" to "I have to save the soul of my Troubled, but Cute Broken Bird Childhood Friend from an evil demon who's also got it out for me" and suffers from a lack of foreshadowing during the switch. On the other hand, the custom sprites are just that good, so if one finds the story Narmy one can just enjoy the inventively unsettling sprite work.
    • The pitch-perfect level design also helps bring back some immersion, at least. So there's that, too. You'll likely go in and out, especially at the ending.
  • In the beginning of chapter 6 the quiz asks Zack some disturbing questions, asking if he's ever raped someone, if he's ever been molested and... "Will you miss me?", which is the one that disturbs Zack. Possibly justified, as Face has asked Zack disturbing questions like the former two in each quiz level so far, but the last question (which usually refers to the game itself) is something ominous which he has no context for.
  • Another Zenith example: the TV for the level is that of a burned corpse on a rock amid a hellish landscape, with no sound or animation. Right-clicking it, however, nets the file name "tvisbadforyou.gif".
  • Once Red starts talking, he becomes a fair bit less intimidating - especially considering that a lot of his dialogue, with both the protagonist and the other characters, seems like it's out of a corny anime.
• Narm Charm: The original story, as stated many times, falls into many creepypasta clichés and pulls several Ass Pulls that can make it hard to take seriously at times. However, the sheer amount of effort put into the NES-style sprites and overall aesthetics allows quite a few people to look past the generic plot and enjoy it for what it is.
• Nausea Fuel: The Organic. It's a disturbingly realistic world of flesh, with fittingly nasty creatures roaming all around it. Special mention goes to the tapeworm monsters and one that could be best described as Big Bird if he was made of rotting meat. Oh, and if the player stays in one spot for too long, the ground would try to consume their monster. The narrator even mentions that he got physically sick looking at the level.
• Nightmare Retardant: The Nightmare Face that Red makes at the end of Extus is terrifying... unless you've been watching Awesome Center: Under the Awesome, in which case it immediately reminds you of that one goofy expression◊ and you end up laughing instead.
• Older Than They Think: The idea of Godzilla fighting demons from hell seems to have been inspired by Godzilla vs The Devil, an allegedly planned Godzilla film which would have involved the King of Monsters fighting Satan. While the film was actually a rumor that got out of hand, the summary that got spread around claimed that Godzilla would fight against a spider, a bird, and a fish; Fridge Brilliance sets in when all of Red's forms◊ are based on those animals, if somewhat loosely. Red was most likely based off this rumored film.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • To anyone who owns, or has ever owned, Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for the NES. Maybe Zachary's copy isn't the only one of its kind floating around. Or maybe you had/have it and were never aware of it! Feel like dusting off your NES and giving it a whirl?
  • In the epilogue, Zach can't help but still uneasy. Red said that he had known Zach for some time and Zach can't help but wonder at how long he was being watched by the Hell Beast and if he's still being watched right now.
• Signature Scene:
  • The screenshot of Red chasing Godzilla in the first "RUN" sequence.
  • The "STILL THE BEST 1973" screenshot, for coming out of nowhere.
  • The "Mellissa. Kill Yourself!" sequence, especially when Red’s face pops up at the reader.
• Squick: The "organic" levels, which are filled with grotesquely realistic flesh and creatures that are similar in appearance to it.
• Too Cool to Live: Solomon, a particular popular Ensemble Dark Horse, was killed off in the final batte with Red. Ultimately subverted in that he is resurrected at the end.

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