.
me on the right
What the fuck kek
is it that time again?
>leftAn unreal machination with no anchor to reality>rightThe most pure representation of childish energy and love for life
the west's war against the cute and the beautiful has been going on for decades
>>745965432bruh
>>745965432Japan and Europe see golf as a fun pastime. The US sees it as serious business.
>>745965010>jap ver looks White>western ver looks Japanese
>>745965010Japan:soullessWest:soulful
>>745965103>>745965324>>745965432>>745965562>>745965601>>745965630>>745965678>>745965687always the same fucking shitonly an absolute newfag has never seen those
>>745965432You could also interpret this as a sequence of events playing in order.
>>745965754I have been here since 1856 and it's my first time seeing all of those
>>745965754No shit anon, they don't do different covers for different regions anymore so all of the examples are going to be the same as they were years ago.
>>745965909
>>745965887trash vs garbage vs rubbish
>>745965432>Deus_ex_golfing_revolution.jpgThe old ways are lost...
>>745965958>same cover just zoomed in
>>745965958>erased the nips from the coverBased
>>745965794What's Doreiku-kun's expression conveying here?
What are some good examples of this happening the other way around
>>745965432I actually like the boomer version. Looks like they still used actual characters from the game too, besides the old man.
>>745965432Every hobby that gets popular will eventually be taken over by Adam Jensen
>>745966007>It came out so late in europe they had to take the photo of link the next morning.
>>745965748don't know about you, guys, but i really liked how capcom hopped on that train and made a mega man 1 US version alt cover for 9 and 10.
>>745966065He looks like he pooped his diaper in the JP cover
>>745966186I think that was fun. Anybody who would even buy megaman 9 and 10 were probably already aware of its box art sitation
>>745966060Most western to Japanese cover art, like your example. It's more of an issue of adapting, but anything other than a flat "west bad" doesn't fit /v/s narrative.
>>745966112Kek.Seriously though, the delayed release shit really sucked back in the day. Occasionally there were some benefits though, like how our versions of the GBA FFs were based on the fixed second JP release and not the bugged NA release.
>>745965748The EUR box art grew on me, the american one is irredeemable, what the fuck were they thinking.
>>745965248>is that an anime face? AAAA MY REALITY THIS ISN'T REAL!!!Do burgers rly?
>>745966250I'm mostly impressed the sword matches and trying to only look at the sword nowhere else not looking no no no
>>745965887>>745965983fitting for a shit game
>>745965794This has to be one of the biggest rape i've seen on box art, the other were american making japanese one worse, this was a american getting beat on their on game.
>>745965562
>>745966250>basically just a poor redraw of the original art but flippedWhy even redo the art at that point? I get not wanting the big star in the background, since any slightly 'occult' symbolism was getting censored at this time. But still, just repaint the background and call it a day.
>>745965687I had to double check my Ico, but that's because they went back to the JP version cover for the PS3 collection.
>>745966372How long was MGS2 delayed? I feel like it was a full year or something absurd. Thanks for rewarding us with castration extreme mode Kojima I really like knowing I beat it but having literal memory holes of how because I spent like 5 hours trying to take out 35 RAYs.
>>745966060with anime yeah
>>745965887EUR is better than japanese, american is the worse like always.
>>745966539
>>745966539gex detected
>>745966065First time i've seen a japanese box art be actually worse.
>>745966060
>>745965601This one will always be funny to me, what were they thinking?
>>745966652
>>745966480Retarded ESL brown.
>>745966656damn that's really cutelove it
>>745966656I bet Japanese really renders "Sir Daniel Wigginbottom Fortesque IV" well. But big surprise banging cover.
>>745966727
>>745966825Western cover wins here
>>745965010Fucked up how US/Europe is the original, while the Japanese one is the edit. Original release was on Amiga in June 1993, then the Japanese SFC version came out December that year.
>>745965010No
>>745965432>adam jensen goes turbo
>>745966759why does pocky's face look like a full grown woman
>Other continents are so impressed with the original cover they don't even try and release the game locally. Cowards. Where's my Jap version of cheggers' party quiz.
>>745965887>mysterious and enigmatic>period blood>brown and uglyUS wins this one
>>745966759Proto-raymoo is adorable.
>>745966910>American one is focused on the tits>Japanese one is focused on the asshave you guys been lying to me?
>>745966776>I bet Japanese really renders "Sir Daniel Wigginbottom Fortesque IV" well.I kind of want to hear Wakamoto say it.
>>745966623you called?
>>745966937This one really isn't that bad and in some ways I prefer the western sonic trilogy artwork. they both look good, all three, but I find the jap ones too flashy
>>745965562Except this was a french game. Here's the original cover.
>>745967106The Enter the Gecko one was pretty good, tho.
>>745967126my point stands
>>745967091Honestly me too, good or bad it'll be a fucking treat to hear nipponified "wigginbottom"
>>745965432I do not miss the douchebag era.
>>745966910>Japanese version is pluralizedWho would the other raider(s) be other than Lara?
>>745967168>Peer pressure to get me to smoke? I'll never fall for th-
>>745966759This one is particulary nasty.
>>745966759When I was a kid, I always found >Legend of the Mystical Ninja>Pocky and Rockyodd for seemingly trying to minimize the amount of "Japan" on the screen , despite the games being so incredibly,culturally Japanese that to do so seemed an odd choice.
>>745966825What did he see?
>>745967107I personally think the western covers for the original sonic games look much better. The only issue is sonic 3s american one doesn't show knuckles on it for some reason. Instead just showing tails again.
>>745966937Wait, does the JP Megadrive boxart all still use that garbage graphpaper shit from the old Master System boxart? Fucking seriously?
>>745967173Not really because this design is inconsistent. Here's the main screen.
>>745965010why are americans like this
>>745967289suspicious armor on the minotaur there
>>745965010A rare instance of the Japanese version being angrier.
>>745967036Asians are lactose intolerant
>>745966994I'm glad we got Blaster Master Zero's trilogy to basically give back the anime element, including multiple waifus , saving your princess, and a plant with giant melons.
>>745967290No idea but this guy saw it and what was happening in front of him and to the right as well.
>>745965010lol
>>745967308Yes. I think CD looks cooler in Japanese here, but prefer the American versions for all the others.
>>745967359>CLANG
>>745967289SOUL vs [generic hentai cover]
>>745966007Europe cover is better
>>745967297I always assumed the eyes in the brush were meant to be knuckles. I was too young to remember when this game came out so I don't even know if he was advertised before S&K came out
>>745967289
>>745966257>>745966060>>745966652Funny thing is, the Jp box makes the game seem like a violent horror game (with the X 18), when it's for all ages.To cut it short, it was one of the last Mega Drive games released in Japan, and they had 0 budget for the art, so they did what they could to make it stand out. It sold horribly, became a sorta cult classic over there, and is now one of the rarest jp MD games.
>>745967073>JP prefers the lame ass gay ass cartoon designs>US wants the sick ass cool ass comic designs
>>745967445>Japanese sonic's slowly encroaching depression versus American sonic's evaporating on-model budget.
>>745965601>Have good art already done and it's culturally neutral>Hire an artist to make a worse cover for no reasonThere had to have been nepotism involved here yeah? The head localizer had a cousin he owed a favor
>>745967503I hate this so fucking much.
This one's an unreleased game (so no cover art) but the script changes are fucking hilarious>Golf King>Hit the ball on its right side for a hook.>Try it!>Golf Robot>Hit the ball on its right side for a hook, human.>Try it, OR FACE PUNISHMENT AT THE HANDS OF YOUR ROBOTIC MASTER!
>>745965432live service game updates be like
>>745967289I always got that one confused for pic related when it came to the NES version and both of them having vaguely Greek mythology settings.
>>745966051He seriously hopes you guys don't do this
>>745967289i like both
>>745965995These threads are too overfilled with newfag zoomers seeing this shit for the first time
>Japanese people inserting anime into an Amiga game about a little English kid playing football, because it's all they knowTasteless weebs will defend this.
>>745967603I have never noticed that once and now I will never not notice that ever again. Thanks anon, really appreciate that.
here is one of my favorites, the american one is miles better and if you prefer the jap one then you are a massive weeb
>>745965748lmao useu cover looks like it could be a poster for jp tokusatsu film
>>745967647Kek
>>745967603AI before AI
>>745966509Anime was seen as too foreign in the early 1990s so a lot of American releases 'wersternized' art to make it more acceptable to normalfags at the time.
>>745967728>the american one is miles better>When it fucking covers Jack Frost himself almost entirelyshit taste.
>>745967786Fair. I guess this was post pokemon/4kids era. Which even then got pretty 'westernized'.
>>745967603Not worth it but worth a shot
>>745967138Why did they put a screenshot in the corner of the Japanese cover?
>>745967617I like to pretend this is a germany thing and that germans just believe golfing is too violent an act to inflict on human beings.
>>745967290Guy is fuming being jailed in a magic tower.
>>745966825That's not a magic swordThat's a crossbow-rifle
>>745966690Left is worse
>>745967939
>>745965794It almost feels like Japan was intentionally going for the bad Asian movie poster which actually works to its advantage being an homage to the old adventure movies these posters were made for
>>745968068>>745966825If there was any consistency, the usual groups would call the western art woke because the girl's breasts are not front and center anymore.
>>745967646The western cover is much better.
>>745966846Kek
>>745968068/k/bros what am I looking at here? What does the tube do?
>>745968219Thor's story isn't going to last very long in Europe stop drop and roll nigger
>>745965748the EU cover actually has some personalitythe US is the only trash one here
>>745968212They're clearly much bigger thougheverbeitly. Look at those huge saggers.
That rare time when America was angry, but Japan went super angry.
>>745968060German version ripped off Holy Grail.
>>745968272>European Extreme difficulty>Starts with you on fire
>>745968274
>>745968247That's a tactical snake coming out of the bottom of pistol grip.It allows the weapon's wielder to poison enemies in close quarters combat.
>>745968247It allows the user to huff MDF fumes from the tiller/butt(heh) to steady one's aim and resolve after winching the bullet to the back of the barrel.
>>745968060Why is the Sir-tech cover so godawful?Germans have Tim so they're based. Also bitches and rockets. Fuck yeah.
>>745968369heh
>>745968421The rare double soul
>>745965010neither looks good
>>745968370
>>745968416It's kinda crazy they did that when Dragon Ball was just starting to get international traction.
>>745968334Even his goofy mascot seems kind of pissed, I wonder what happened.
>>745966065ok this one time the west won, Ichiban is a silly goof, the cover on the right makes more sense and it distinguishes it more from the other yakuzas with more serious leads
>>745968459I give full credit to the left actually putting the t-shirt in to convey that the kid is also the characters in the back. That's actually pretty smart.
>>745968421radical dude
>>745968527Lip deserved better.
>>745968559>Literally only middle aged mothers bought a wii we can't put anything spooky on the cover.I mean they weren't wrong. Weird times.
>>745968623right is much more accurate to the experience
>>745968416I remember having this one on release, I thought the snake thing on the right looked cool.
>>745968527It's weird how Yoshi is totally absent from that artwork, or really, anything representative of the new theme.
>>745967445tough i prefer the japanese boxart, neither is bad
>>745967583Could it have been some weird mecha design copyright nonsense, where they were allowed to sell the in-game art but not the box art?
>>745968527>Game just casually asks me the last time I was molested by the L tetramino.That's fucked man.
>>745965432Americanism is a mental illness
>Japan: weak, for babies>USA: powerful, for menJapanese men are weak, weak tiny men with tiny penises.
>>745968584>>745968642At the very least, they could've gave some visual indication that they turned into a Yoshi game.
Whatever faggot redrew the art for the international re-release of Gourmet Sentai Bara Yarou not only covered up Mademoiselle's cleavage but also thought that the stuff dangling from her hips was supposed to be her feet and that she was kneeling.
>>745968721Americans not thinking about penises challenge (impossible)
>>745968567WHAT THE FUCK
>>745967907kek
japan vs. usa vs. in-game
>>745968758fuck me those tits are so far apart, they are on different time zones
>>745965995You mean >Adam_Jensen_sneaks_into_a_golf_competition.jpg
>>745967354>>745965010>always gets posted in this order>the order always implies the US/EU version is the port>it's actually the other way around>Japan "Japanized" the character>both look like shitLMAO
>>745968665US cover is better, because its shit just like the game
>>745968783Leave them be, never having intact one due to being mutilated at birth is a trauma they never recover from.
>>745968980DBZ should have been popular enough to keep the Toriyama art at this time.
>>745968914left is pal europe my friend
>>745968665Covers aside, "Quest 64" is a staggeringly shit name, holy fuck.
>>745968345>should we put giant robots on the cover of our giant robots game?>nah
>>745969060Proto Shanona
>>745968416kek
>>745965887Those are all great.
I've always appreciated Japan's "less is more" graphic design philosophy.
>>745965432Why's the postal guy playing golf?Why is japan so effeminate? Even the american woman is designed for male eyes.
>>745969110
>>745969150I'm cring
Why is America artistically third world?
>>745966007"... sorry, Sidon, were you saying something? I zoned out for a while..."
>>745965687Right is much better
>>745969136Wait, a Simple 2000 game actually came out in the west?
>>745968738green french fries
>>745969245Their entire culture is maximalist and action-focused.
>>745966372I always felt a bit bad for you guys, especially back when I was really into the Harvest Moon games and Europe would get lucky if the games even got released over there in the first place, let alone have a 2-3 year wait
>>745968219Europe clears.
>>745968721>Japanese men are weak, weak tiny men with tiny penise-ACK!
>>745969196tales jp vs tales na
Not 100% related, but it definitely fits:
Most of these are just toning down Japanese perversion. And rightfully so if you ask me.
>>745969060well shit, I'll remake it for the next thread. I thought it was Kagero Deception 1's boxart, but it's not. They just released it without a big 2 in japan.
>>745969049>1996oh yeah, sure it was... in latin america, you gringos only got a dub in the early 00s, and even then it was a shitty dub
>>745969328Yes 505 games grabbed a few a them and made some of the kitchesed cover on ps2
>>745966007>cero 12>esrb 10>pegi 12I'm honestly more interested in this difference than the cover visuals
>>745969428
>>745965432its kinda funny how they made everyone less brown
>>745965010>Japanese guy looks a european with diverse eye and hair color>European guy looks like a typical Asian whose color scheme is black/blackWhat did they mean by this?
>>745969494>Oh boy I sure am attracted to the idea of a bunch of sweaty assholes taking photos.
>>745969136
>>745968942didn't ask
The thing on the right is scary. Reminds me of Clockwork Knight.
>>745966539Sex with clowns
>>745969423They released Dragon Ball GT Final Bout in 1997.
the funniest part of all this is to imagine that someone got paid money to do it.
>>745966257>make your characters look the same across all regions>have control over your box art and title screens>keep the japanese box art simplistic and place the characters front and center>japs eat it upa tale as old as time, they fucking love rare's nintendo games over there
>>745967221Larson & DuPont.
>>745969642EU one is probably my least favorite because I love the artwork for the other 2, but I think all 3 are good.
For some reason I only have this saved and not the comparison for what these dudes look like in the japanese version, but it's not fucking this
I always hate it more when they fuck with the in game character designs too
While both are pretty well drawn I actually like the ship design of the international version a lot more.
>>745967715nester!?
>>745968345They even copied Final Fantasy 6 art style
>>745969859What the fuck
>>745969267It's like some kind of layering error lol
>>745967221you, the player
>>745968481the style isn't different at all, why did they change it?
>>745970318Front Mission is another Square franchise with Yoshitaka Amano as the main artist, there's no theft.
>>745969859
>>745970419maybe they wanted it to be even more lighthearted
>>745970420There can only be one. The left one if that wasn't clear.
>no hyper-speed shoot-outs in space posted
>>745969150>>745969240
>>745970585>lol penis spaceship xD get it guise its phalanx because its phallic
>>745965010Right looks more Japanese than left
>>745968219
>essu... kei... hachi...? huh? nani? wakaranai!
>>745970419Just had to make it more angry and violent
>>745970454Thank you, this is soulfulWhat the fuck were they thinking with the other version?
>>7459658873 bangers
Anyone have Breath of Fire and BoF2?
>>745966060>giant strings of text
>>745965794>>745967647pic>>745966825Big guy in the top right of the japanese cover looks like that guy who loves to rape
>>745970885>1994Rugrats?
>>745966656that's fucken great
>>745966652Take a look at this one
>>745969706Which is baffling when you think about it, why release a game based on a sequel series in the US when they hadn't gotten DBZ fully yet.
>>745967728
>>745970904cute thighs
>>745965010right is more soul than copy-paste anime on the left
>>745970931welcome to japan. I saw some shit yesterday where a $1.99 cosmetic DLC was called something like "Goddess of the earth and beholden! Nobody can hold us back, this is how we are! And this is who we always have been! Goddess - 1 Swimsuit costume for [character A] and for [character B]! To reflect our full powers! We will fight on!"They just call their products stuff like that.
>>745971237for what purpose...???
>>745965010Guy on the right looks more human.
>>745966937>Sonic 1Gotta give my vote to Europe. Japan's has too much going on, and I honestly dislike the NA version.>Sonic 2NA/Europe, easily. That boxart is too iconic for it's own good. Though Japan's is pretty good as well.>Sonic 3This one's tricky because they're all just ok. I guess Japan gets the win this time because it shows Knuckles, and Sonic doesn't look off like in the European boxart.Sonic & Knuckles gets an honorable mention because they're all basically the same but the logo is fucking perfect.
>>745968980Remake the game into closer to Toriyama artstyle when?
>>745970931They even do it with songs. A load of Iron Maiden songs have weird kanji subtitles on the Japanese releases.
>>745971049the west is a like a broken clock
>>745971049
>>745971143The armpits of the green haired girl
>>745971237>>745971339Do they think bigger titles are more likely to catch westerner? Chinks have smaller eyes so I would think chinks would notice big titles quicker to make use of their handicap
>>745971313Excessively lengthy titles for works of entertainment are running joke, but also consider information density.What latin alphabet might need 40 characters for, could fit into 4 kanji.
>>745965754why don't you post one instead of acting like an absolute bitch
>>745966385the american one is state of the art
>>745965010>Left: how japs think they look>Right: how they actually look
JA JA JA JA
>>745971512American box wins again.
>>745971563And this is why the localizers that /v/ hates so much are kind of necessary in a format where kids can buy stuff
>>745971049same artist?
>>745971606but isnt that ronaldo, not ronaldinho on the cover?
>>745971752middle is absolute edgekino
>>745971313
>>745971237
>>745971816Pretty sure brazilian bootleggers aren't paying attention to the finer details
>>745971707Nah. The length of text strings is a non-issue or a trivial issue at worst. Very few games (or, more generally: software) ever have had UIs so bad that they can't easily handle texts of differing lengths everywhere.Also, old japanese games used only kana with western-style whitespace because they couldn't use kanji due to technical limits.
>>745970970this is just LEON S FAGGOT with a haircut and a different change of venue
>>745968035dam is that outfit even in new genesis or PSO" i would buy it in a heart beat.
yes they're all the same game
>>745972109Bottom right is amazing
>>745972109EU never beating the probotector allegations
>>745972109>MILF 2
>>745968980this game was fun
>>745972109There's a typo on the bottom right one, it should say FML
and the "first one"
>>745968035the eu/us cover is sovl though.
>>745972023Issues usually occurred when dialogue boxes or menu interfaces had limited character tiles, and localisations more often than not replaced the character tiles and strings instead of adapting an improved dialogue or menu system.Breath of Fire I and II on SNES are particularly notorious for it and why every character's name is 4 characters maximum.The Game Boy / Color Pokémon titles have pretty small text boxes, so having longer sentences results in a lot more fragmentation between text draws, and longer words are seldom used.Mega Man Battle Network embraced it for the names and descriptions of battle chips, because it was incidentally organic to how DOS file names were limited to 8 characters.Terms like "w/" were used to denote "with" by omitting the "o" from "w/o".
>>745968665eu version has a cat girl on the cover
>>745965678Ahnald AND Stallone on my video game cover? You bet your fucking ass I'm choosing that one.
>>745965678>kawaii gamesThat's not very kawaii what the fuck is this misleading advertising
>>745968665>British release>Life of Brian
>>745969463>CERO>Depictions of Violence (Battles with Monsters)>ESRB>Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol >PEGI>ViolenceIt's basically the same shit ESRB added E10+ to their ratings like 20 years ago as a middle ground for games that aren't completely squeaky clean of anything even possibly offensive but not enough to be rated T
>>745965748the EU one looks epic. I love the melancholy in Wily's demeanor.
>>745965010carlitos balá looking motherfucker
>>745967290he has sythensized black tar heroin and is trying to act sober
>>745966413Yes they do. They see their culture as the best in the world, same with every media the mutt media industry pushes out.And if they watch/play, or consoom rather, any other country's stuff, they demand dubs and insists that their voice actors are better than Japanese ones. Seriously, they always insists that muttland localization and dubs are the CORRECT way to view anime for example. And that all countries should respect and use their dubs for all media.Even when every other country sees dubs mainly as something just kids use who can't read well.But that also answers why mutts also uses dubs. Ignoring people there who needs dubs because they second monitor their first watch of anime and movies to the point Netflix asks movie directors to make characters explain what they are doing so that kind of "people" can follow what's happening in a movie they aren't even watching(recommended Wes Anderson movies to one american friend and he said it was hard to follow what's happening while using TikTok, he's over 30yo), the literacy rate in US is horrible. And its not even black thing, its the whole population, even their politicians. Its mixture of low literacy rates, second screening, and superiority complex which makes them think even other countries love their localizations. They can't fathom why someone doesn't want to watch Ghibli movies or play JRPGs with dubs.
>>745971614>>745971512>>745971049When it comes to differences in Castlevania boxarts, nothing beats Castlevania II's western art that basically plagiarizes Strahd from ravenloft (but it looks fucking cool so it gets a pass, I guess).
>>745971563It's still ridiculously long in kanji They just decided to make titles really decriptive/eyecatching cause they figured more people would see that on the shelf or on the search page of a website than going in to look at a description Its the same shit with japanese novel titles
>>745972812I remember reading that nips think the Japanese dub of The X-Files is better than the original performances by Duchovny and Anderson. They're insane.
>>745972914Wrong pic?
>>745972812>that picReminds me of this gem
>>745971718Yes, Tom duBois. He did lots of western covers for Konami at the time.
>>745972980I was gonna reply to the post further up the chain with the battletoads boxart but I ended up writing a response to the other thing too
>>745965010>generic anime vs soul
>>745973002Wizardry is a Japanese series
>>745973024>Tom duBois
>>745966690Neither of these are good
>>745973104Don't be stupid
>>745973024
>>745967290>"it wasn't a fart"
>>745965887EU looks way better but the US one is also leagues ahead of that weird Jap cover art. The Jap one looks like someone had an accident in the shower.
>japan likes big eyes
>>745973424This is one of the worst ones. The west is constantly defiling DoraKue's sacred legacy.
>>745973024Love contra 3s art. I like how everything on screen is also in game.
>>745965958Left was too cluttered and makes it kinda generic looking.
>>745971718Right is more authentic to the original Eastman/Laird TMNT comics
>>745973485Nah it's nowhere near as bad as the Gameboy port's shitty 3D render cover
>>745973424Could be a cover for an Ultima game from the same period.
>>745973671The rare double kino
>>745973671>powermetal cover vs fantasy flash gordonkino
>>7459674452 boxart doesnt seem like actual one in america tho
>>745973671>wings of wornew expansion for Warld of Worcroft
>>745972109>>745972329>Hey, did you see the new Charlie's Angels?
>>745973671Is the thing on the right in game? Looks crazy.
>>745969267I think visually left has right beat. However you could make the argument that right wants to kind of show that the horrors of Yarnham are inside the hunter since he is possibly dreaming. However I feel that they could have zoomed in more on the hunter so the cover isn't 60% primer paint.
>>745974071rare case where the US boxart holds up just as well as the JP boxart because they kept the moeblob face instead of turning it into generic western hot chick face
>>745973437I mean these both look bad. Why do so many of them just both look bad
>>745973921It is. To the point both the second movie poster and the current american comic series referenced it.
>>745974258the box is exactly what the game looks like thoughbeit
>>745970585The American one won so hard it's not even funny.
>>745974350well then, I guess it's accurate, but it's still repulsive even in game
>>745974482>zoomer can't handle 2000s kinomany such case
>>745969423Only the US didn't know about it, Dragon Ball was all over most of Europe by the start of the 90s.
>>745972975Live action dubbing is insane and I will never understand it. Unless its 100% meme shit.
>>745974329Look at >>745967445 closer, it's an edited version that uses the Japanese character designs.US/EU Sonic 2 cover artwork gave Robotnik a beard and hollow eyes. A lot of western Sonic media depicted Robotnik with black or hollow eyes because of that.
>>745965103Ok... Guys, hear me out...
Japan won. Apologize.
>>745965562he looks like he doesn't wipe after taking a fat hairy shit and he takes pride in it
>>745974790Huh, didn't even notice that. Not sure why they did that, it's one of the first images that comes up when you google the box arts.
>>745974945I like the right better.
>>745966846America showing more sex appeal?
>>745974970sega of japan was notorious for not sharing shit with other developers
>>745966867The thing is, in this particular case (the SNES one) the japanese version came first and there are some remnants of the japanese art in the western one (those speed lines at the right). Also the western one's face looks off with that front looking face, when the character is clearly at an angle. As far as I know, this pic is exclusive of the SNES version, it's not even on the original Amiga release. This SFC release is a complete shitshow and they even got the Dodge Danpei mangaka to design the character (who doesn't even appear on the gameplay itself).
>>745967519>trying to get the good ending as a kid and writing down locations of the dna splices i have fucking no idea why i ever thought that shit would be worth it
>>745965687unironically, the left looks too high brow for most gamers. Right was the better call.
Empire Total War probably hold record for the most amount of regional cover variants. Although I could see something like Fifa beating it.
>>745966491
>>745965324Semi wrong, the Sega USA and EUR version have the same art, the USA one in that pic is the Amiga version.
>>745966656>real map from the gameKINOOOO
>>745974945The EU art was better
>>745969164You are a retard and a kid
>>745966825>>745967290everyone on the left is in a court room after being sued by Ivon the Drawf, both heroes and villains the wizard here is absolutely baffled that their epic battle had to be interrupted by legal shit
>>745965010I have no problem with old-school designs, but do you guys think the design on the right was ever actually considered charismatic at any point in human history? Because I honestly can't imagine any scenario where a child, teenager, or even an adult would look at that character on the right and think, "Wow! This character is so cool!"I mean, Popeye is from 1933, and he, Brutus, and other characters are charismatic even with such an old-fashioned design, so it can't be the fault of the times...
>>745974213I don't think there's that exact monster, but the game's monster designs are still extremely good
>>745974616>real jap cover
>>745974223Marina's 3D model is okay, but copy-pasting the Clancers makes it low effort.I really like how the Japanese box contains every character in the game crammed in there. Makes the box art fun to look at after you beat the game and start recognizing the dudes.
>>745974223And then they ruined it by just copypasting a sidecharacter into the background.
>>745966846I didn't buy persona because those stupid ass mascots are off putting and I really really really don't wanna hear about college boy stories and dramas. Am I wrong? What am I missing. Persona 5 is still on sale. Or is the mascot handled like something close to Jack Frost, rude and carefree? I did play some SMT
>>745974213kinda
>>745965687Left is so fucking gay
Druid is a game where every cover is cursed in its own way.
>>745967786Nothing has changed. Anime/Japanese stuff gets fucked with all the time here.
>>745971237 Weird how Hekseville is depicted as being all green on the box art when in game it's all red desu
>>745975665that's a...
>>745967953Probably for easy browsing in the store. With that screenshot you can somewhat easily discern what kind of game it is.
>>745975652Did you like Persona 4 with Teddy?I don't think Morgana was as obnoxious as Teddy.
>>745975610kys and take your slop with you
>>745968068Had I seen this in current year I would've suspected it of being AI generated.
>>745975852US cover is unironically the best one
>>745966491>female characters in the east>female characters in the west
Possible the best example of this
>>745965103>white potemkin
>>745975852>JP: 12+>US: 17+>EU: 12+lol
>>745966060I dunno what Japs were smoking with this one
>>745967583>>745968690They probably paid the artist just for the JPN release.
>>745968035I keep seeing a long haired Jeffrey Tambor on the western one
>>745974616>>745974678>>745974737Surprised the US was the one giving more fanservice with the covers for these.
Konami are the masters of this craft.
>>745974815
>>745976258And there was another game with 12/10/12.We can only assume ESRB ratings come from a d20.
>>745967583it is not the same publisher
>>745971339They also changed the names of the main characters and the... antagonist? Or whatever she was.Protag was Kitten in Japanese, changed to Cat in USA/EU.The rival/antagonist/whatever was Crow in Japanese, changed to Raven in the west.
>>745968219>>745970789I always forget if Ariga did the covers or just the sprites for these games.
>>745975610Her panties are visible in game and they are pink
>>745966257>Banjo-Kazooie 2Ruined
>>745973001Perchance.
>>745971642>but wake up! I can NEVER lose to you…>…because I'm not alone!>Watch and learn… the TRUE power of friendship!
>>745966656The are is actually fitting with the humor of the game.
>>745973001the teacher was a turtle.
>>745974737>>745974678>>745974616>japanese title is in english
>>745971803for as shitty as the Europe box art and title are, it's the only version of the game with dual audio
>>745971642fifa has female players?
>>745976947SEAnigger or jeet?
>>745972085if you mean the left girl's yes, in pso2 market.
>>745965432I never noticed before that he clouds are different between the JP and EU versions. What an odd detail to change.
>>745976954I am curious to know what you mean by that; could you clarify your thoughts?
>>745976754More like Reparations: Persona!
>>745976260Z0VI_
>>745977329
>>745965562>(((the west)))
>>745967290They found 7.62 Petabytes of Pokémon porn in the dorm server and the entire cast got summoned to determine who did it.>Pro tip :Everybody chipped in except barbarian because he's the village rapist and it's chicken season.
>>745965010
>>745976454US boxart is completely accurate to the plot of the game
>>745976463
>>745977771which angry kirby boxarts have been wrong
The japanese cover for Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters look like a movie poster, the international/american one definitely looks more like it does in-game though.
>>745965562kek, is that Ed Roth?
>>745973424>>745973589
>>745977945
>>745965748Wait, the EU one fucks actually, it's really good.
>>745966051"it belongs in a museum."
>>745972812That's no different from any other Eurocommie shithole.
>>745975209I'm sorry anon
>>745965887all fitting for a game whose soundtrack is industrial noise
>>745968665>Quest 64I'm surprised this shit isn't on the N64 NSO yet. Imagineer still exists and makes those Fitness Boxing games.
Which way, Tekken man?
>>745976505Kitten is just a weird name to English speakers, especially when you consider the sexual connotation of the word vs CatIt would be like naming a non-father character Daddy; technically it could be used as a name but it would be really weird and have a sexual connotationCrow would've been a cool name though, Cat and Crow even have alliteration. But it's also a more masculine sounding name in English vs Raven, which is a real girl's name in English
>>745965432i never asked for this
>>745965687Being an adult is realizing that right was always better
>>745965010I never did understand what was the problem with some generic anime character on the box art in the late 80s.
>>745966065>has to place three unrelated characters on front and center just because they're a recognizable actor face scansI hate this
>>745965601This is kind of the opposite of the noirm. Usually Japan has the quickly drawn out cartoon character while the US box has the detailed painting from some scifi novel cover artist.
>>745965010Giga soul
>>745978719nice try bowl cut porcelain face man
>>745968758Now the purple thing on her right hip just looks like a dildo. Also artist put a lot of work into the tips since they seem to be gushing out of the top vs just big and round.
>>745966060woah
>>745978719People born after Pearl Harbor were still sore about it.
>>745978719Kinda this, I get the hatred of the cute monster or cute little critter character on the cover since no American consumer would touch anything with that on it back in the 80s. But when it came to action anime guy with a sword or in a tank being replaced by generic nondescript looking guy, that makes little sense to me. Just keep the cool action character coverart.
>>745972812>insists that their voice actors are better than Japanese ones.no need to specify japanese, they do it with every foreign film
>>745979030nip crash 3 is better imo
>>745979158It's quite funny because nips do exactly the same thing. Weebs are hypocrites.
>>745965678I like that almost every Contra game past 3 lets you choose the probotectors as alternate players
>>745968758You haven't seen shit, here's the steam pic
>>745968182That's exactly what it is: They wanted people to know that it was a cheesy movie. They should have hired a better artist though
>>745973003The few times where they are all good.
>>745972812this
>>745978719Part of it was also the Japanese executives themselves that didn't think it would sell in America. It's hard to imagine now but there was once a time when American media was a global empire. While the 80s and 90s were amazing in many many ways compared today, the "XXXTREME TOO COOL 4 RULEZ" thing aimed at kids and teenagers was everywhere and a true blight.
>>745973003>project rubwhat did euros mean by this
>>745979187fuck thateven though the motorcycle levels sucked bandicoot penis, motorcycle crash was fucking iconic
>>745971883This is just one of many titles in the Chuck Tingle franchise, don't act like this is the norm.
>>745977240I'd assume it's so the golf ball stands out more against the blue background. It'd blend in with the clouds if you're just skimming the shelf.
>>745979030These aren't even especially bad I'd say.Crash 1 cover is just kinda difficult to compete with.
>>745979030Japanese crash is way too round. His angular design on the original boxart just fits his attitude much better.Also JP Crash 2 looks like the fucking Gimp logo
>>745966065Isn't putting nanba up there kinda spoilery?
>>745980269>>745979030would you be shocked to learn that they even did this with Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled
>>745965748>ushow did it sell that much with that cover??
>>745968640>I thought the snake thing on the right looked cool.Coatol. You're not the only one.
>>745980738Man I appreciate the fact they did this but>no Japanese Crash skin>Coco unchangedmakes it feel unfortunately half-assed, but I guess it's the thought that counts. They did also do it for N Sane Trilogy at least
>>745976018no
>>745980893did coco have a change? i thought they added her specifically to appeal to nips. the rest of the characters on the box are the same, except they moved oxide it looks like
>>745981047See the Crash 3 cover here >>745979030 , she does stay mostly the same but I think she should at least have been given the different eyes and flatter fur render to match Crash, it's just kind of odd for Crash to have the Pacman eyes while Coco has the normal ones imo
>>745969069especially compared to HOLY MAGIC CENTURY
>>745977878>his cape gives me ick
>>745965103My favourite characters>sumo man>ultraman>caveman>orangutan man>muscle man>rhino man>clown man>woman
>>745969390>"gee thanks for shattering that bottle, bro! you turned his deadly weapon into a deadlier weapon!">"anytime, brother!"
>>745968745why is he looking at me like that..
>>745970393dunno, man. both look rad as fuck.
>>745966668I can imagine the intention was to make the robot look more toy-like to attract the transformers watching kids
>>745975269Always the plastic-y doll face shit. Boomers made terrible calls.
