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shikamaru317 said:

For those wondering why the name was changed, there are two possible explanations:

-The official Ubisoft reason: "At the end of 2019, we got the chance to have more time with the game," Phillips told me. "So all the directors, all the team, we got together, played through the entire game, looked at, 'Okay, what do we want to do narratively? What do we want to do visually, artistically? And what do we want to do gameplay wise?' So as we developed that, as we figured out where we wanted to go, narratively, one of the things we wanted to do was put a bigger emphasis on Fenyx and Fenyx's journey through this adventure, and Fenyx's interaction with the gods, and the gods as sort of this meta context of the unreliable narrators on top of it. And so we really wanted to make that the centerpiece of the game."

-The unofficial reason. Monster Energy supposedly filed a copyright infringement suit against Ubisoft, claiming that Gods & Monsters infringed on Monster Energy. Ubisoft and Monster Energy supposedly reached an out of court settlement, with Ubisoft agreeing to change the name in exchange for an unknown favor or sum of money from Monster Energy, possibly some kind of future Monster Energy promotion for one of their upcoming multiplayer games.

I still think they should have worked a bit harder to come up with a better or more original name.