Play Daikaijuu Monogatari II (Japan) Online

Game Overview

Daikaijuu Monogatari II is one of those weird, wonderful SNES RPGs that never left Japan—which is a shame, because it’s basically what’d happen if someone mashed up Dragon Quest and a Saturday morning monster cartoon. You start off recruiting these ridiculous kaiju (think less Godzilla, more "a dinosaur with a top hat") and suddenly you’re deep in turn-based battles against sentient mushrooms.

The pixel art’s got that chunky, colorful SNES charm, and the monsters are equal parts cool and silly—like, one’s a floating jellyfish made of fire, another’s just a big rock with eyes. Combat’s straightforward at first, but then you realize some monsters combo better together, or that the little blob guy you ignored is secretly OP. Also, the soundtrack slaps in that nostalgic 16-bit way.

It’s not perfect—the menus feel a bit clunky now, and good luck finding a translation patch that doesn’t call your team "squishy beef" at some point. But if you’ve ever wanted to lead a squad of misfit monsters through a retro RPG, this is your weird little time capsule.