I've never used it in a game to be honest. I view the Tarrasque as something like a hurricane, just something for the PCs to endure.
If I did use it, the focus of the adventure would be evacuation of everything in its path or diverting away from the populace.
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Never used it. Agree it's a natural disaster... like Godzilla.
Never ran into it or used it in pathfinder. In 3.5 however, I had a single campaign that consisted of several of them. and a factory that was literally experimenting on them and even growing them in test tubes. and then there was the super tarrasque that the DM homebrewed... where a tarrasque may be the size of a skyscraper, THIS monster was the size of a city. we ran. quickly.
One session of an old campaign had our party trying to yank a mcguffin out of the city debris stuck in its neck rolls while higher level npcs were doing the whole subduing thing.
Haven't used the Tarrasque in Pathfinder yet, but did in a 3.5 campaign . The party spellcasters flew out of reach an kept it stun locked for several rounds before it ran away in pain and terror. At least Pathfinder gave the Tarrasque ranged attacks this time.
Not in PF, but did it a few times in 3.5... It's not a very interesting opponent, really... It gets old after seeing it once or twice.
We used it once as a demigod of sorts: it was slumbering in the ruins deep beneath an ancient city and had a prominent cult that worshiped him. The Cult of the Beast weren't exactly evil, and featured in a couple adventures. In one, the party was allowed entry into their Temple's Inner Sanctum, which turned out to be a crack in the cave wall through which you could see its eye.
But never as a combat opponent. It's better served as window dressing, imo.
My two PCs (level 18) battled it in the starstone test as one of several battles. They had to win a certain number of battles. This is one of only two I think they lost, but it was close.
The druid put several castings of Clashing Rocks to good use (no SR).