"Togera is our reptilian sea monster," Giam smiles. "He's a spiny gargantuan awakened from his long dormancy by nuclear bomb. We went through several disparate sea-creature designs during the course of the game, (one of which ended up as a skin for another, guess which one!), but in the end, the best result we got was the result of Koji Saito of SCEI. He and the others at SCEI gave us great feedback on the game and monster design, and it was from some of his people's excellent concept art that Togera was born."
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~ Official U.S. Playstation Magazine, Issue #64 1/03
Togera is a gargantuan dinosaur said to be the last of his kind that survived extinction by hibernating beneath the ocean. Spending untold centuries in hibernation at the bottom of the Pacific ocean, Togera was awoken by leaking fuel from one of the disabled UFOs which sunk to the depths in the proximity of the slumbering beast. Togera is believed to be a descendant of the gigantic dinosaurs that once roamed the earth millions of years ago. Now it is possibly the last of it's species. Survival drives it to fight, savagely-morphing it's body to protrude deadly bone spikes and using its body's nuclear energies. It is a scaly horror from the deep, able to make use of glowing plasma-nuclear breath.
Green Sphere: Act as the health pickup items, the monsters use this when being gravely injured.
Blue Sphere: Act as the stamina pickup items, the monsters use this to restore their stamina and enter their "Monster rage" state.
Red Sphere: Act as a special move pick up item, the monsters pick this up in order to use their special move.
Cloaking Cube: A cloaking device made by aliens that allow the user to be temporarily invisible and prevents target lock.
Throwing Objects: Throwing objects vary greatly in what it can be in War of the Monsters. They can be of the following different classes:
Spears: Items that can pierce and stab an enemy, best for stunning them. These are the following spear types:
Radio Tower
Broken Pipes
Bars
Clubs: Items that can deal extra impact damage to monsters. These are the following club types:
Steel Bars
Parts on Buildings
Explosives: Items that explode upon being thrown at the enemy. These are the following explosive types:
Cars
Planes
Tanks
Boats
Helicopters
Propane Tanks
Planes
Rocks
Debris
Ventilation Systems
UFOs
Gas Trucks
Notable Techniques
Plasma-Nuclear Breath: Togera's Long Range attack is radioactive breath that reaches a medium distance and does average damage, his armor is average and his projectiles fire at a medium rate, dealing medium damage.
Long Flight: H-H-H
Blade Smash: L-L-L-L
Head Impale: H-L-L-L
Tail Whip: L-L-L-H-H
Triple Tail: L-L-UH-H-H
Whiplash: L-H-L-H-L-H-L
Chomp-Chomp: H-H-L-UL-UL-H-H
Other
Standard Tactics: The monsters use the environment around them in combat along with using their melee attacks and special moves. Togera will physically attack his opponent who shooting projectiles, and also uses his plasma-nuclear breath.
Weaknesses: Nothing notable.
Trivia
Togera is an obvious tribute to Godzilla, as well as the British film Gorgo (1961).
Togera's second costume is actually an inverted version of the first costume's colours.
Togera's third costume is most likely based on Mechagodzilla.
Togera's fourth costume is based on Minion the Demon, another character from the Twisted Metal series (Incog is the creator of both games).
Togera's forearm blades are a reference to Baraka, a Mortal Kombat character who also has forearms blades and uses them in combat.
His original design had fins and he had a more amphibian look, which was originally one of Togera's earlier skins. It was scrapped, but was used as a skin for Kineticlops' 4th skin.
Togera, Zorgulon and Raptros are the only monsters who don't appear in the behind-the-scenes featurette of War of the Monster's development.
Togera, Goliath-Prime, Raptros, Vegon, Robo-47, Magmo, Zorgulon and Cerebulon are the only monsters which appeared the least in artwork and promotional material).
In the opening cutscene of War of the Monsters, Togera has webbed hands. However this is not reflected in game where he does not have webbed hands or even webbed feet. This contradicts the idea that he is an aquatic monster but is likely due to the limited processing power of the PS2.
In one of his victory animations, Togera is celebrating his triumph - until he catches sight of his tail where he will then proceed to chase it around in circles.
If you highlight Togera's character portrait and boost the brightness and contrast up, you can actually see 3D vertices and polygonal geometry that was used to make the arms.
Togera's roar, much like the rest of the cast - is a stock roar.
Togera is one of only few monsters in the game that are fought once only, while other monsters had at least 2 versions of themselves that appeared throughout the game.
Battle Records
This battle record is with the Togera Adventure Mode in mind. 14-0-0
