New Godzilla game steers clear of nuclear references

[yuiyoshida]

TOKYO —

Godzillas galore, including last year’s Hollywood version, stomp on buildings, thrashing about and breathing fire, in a video game going on sale globally mid-July. But don’t expect any references to radiation, the mutant reptile’s trademark affliction.

Simply named “Godzilla,” it’s the first video game devoted to the irradiated creature in a decade. It’s also the first such game for the Sony Corp. PlayStation 4 home machine, ensuring dazzling digital graphics.

Shunsuke Fujita, the game’s producer, is flush with excitement when he speaks about how he and his team are true Godzilla believers, having grown up on the movies. They were very careful to render what he calls its “totally cool” ferocity.

In the original 1954 movie, Toho Co studios concocted the giant animal that arose as a mutation from nuclear testing in the Pacific. That had special resonance in Japan as the only nation to have been attacked with nuclear weapons.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/new-godzilla-game-steers-clear-of-nuclear-references

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. That's either going to be really good or really not.

[FSogol]

2. For the same reason recent Iron Man movies had Tony Stark wounded in

an Afghan war instead of the Korean War.