post games with cool cover artsthe japanese cover of ephemeral phantasia on ps2 was made of screenshots from the game
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>>751518667sometimes I feel like god is gaslighting me by making obscure 20 year old games that I've never heard of but should have
I just think it's neat.
>>751524763i wouldn't even say ephemeral fantasia is that obscurebut it happens, anoni do sometimes find out games i never knew existed completely randomly
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>>751525320Ah yes, that one shmup I told myself I'll play decades ago and still haven't.>>751525014>>751525320This one is really nice, it's so simple but so atmospheric.
>>751525050a nice cover art wasted on a shitty shumuptroon game
I love old hand painted vidya box arts.
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>>751526506my man
>>751526532What were they thinking?HOW did they even make this?They had to have someone 3d model this new character from scratch just for the cover, then render, then pass it to the editor, and then the person actually putting together the final image.And at no point did anyone, NO ONE has stopped to say "hey wait a minute this looks like dogshit?"Seriously, this one image alone feels like it can probably have a 3 hour youtube video essay on the history of how and why it was created.
They unintentionally made the big bad of the game looking like the main character but he really looked cool so I get them.
>>751526867God tier character design>Black skin makes his face more obscured, which bring focus to the eye and also makes him look like the grim reaper>Also make the white clothing more apparent as a result, White clothing which goes against the usual depiction of death, which make sense as he cannot die>Also literally "The Black death" which is the surname of the grim reaper
Great fucking game also.
>>751525994I can't count the amount of times some character artwork has caught my eye only to end up being from a fucking shmup game of all things
>>751527349either this one or the sequel filtered me hard as a kid
>>751525050Came here to post this
>>751518667I commend them for adding Guitar Freaks into the core gameplay (it even supports the guitar controller), but damn this game sucks.
>>751525994Deranged plebs aren't allowed here. Take the rope.
>>751528150>it even supports the guitar controllerthat's awesome
>>751529308i wish this game was good
>>751525050>>751525050All 3 releases of this game feature cover art of the girls in some form of distress. 360 version features the 360 exclusive character Piper not looking so well. On that note i dont think Piper made it to the Switch.ps5 release
heres the LE of the latest release of the game with the girls getting probed by mech tentacles. no mercy for these chicks
>>751527434Has anyone played that one? Is it worth it?
>>751529308>GONZOIs it because of their involvement with the Ao no Roku Go OVA (which had designs by Range Muratq too)?
>>751530603I have played it, no it isn't.It sucks balls, it's a spiritual sequel to hoshigami on ps1 which was a shitty FFT clone.Which now that it's on ps2 is a shitty disgaea clone.The main gimmick it has is combo attacks like in disgaea, but it's very poorly realized and the game is piss easy to boot.So if you want to play a really shitty and piss easy tactics/srpg then it's all yours my friend.
>>751530623they're the studio who did the intro animation or something
>>751530772What a disappointment. Artstyle and Story (wikipedia) reminded me of BoFIV. I wont waste time on this shit then
>>751531761cool
>>751526590Are there more anime covers for western games?
>>751528663At least the japanese box touts it, but since Guitar Freaks and its controller never came overseas I have no idea if that release supports it.
>>751533256Ah I remember playing this as a kid and my dad walked in when I was in the gimp sex dungeon, good times.
Wtf happened to box arts that were made using practical props and models? Why are these not a thing anymore?
>>751534284Went out of style.It was in vogue at the time but the interest and demand shifted with the advent of 3d graphics.
The Void had a really cool cover and a neat collerctors edition from it's initial release, where clothes were a separate layer and slided off.Think I still have one
>>751534574my whole life i thought this girl was baldbecause i thought the white part was just the swirly energy/paint as the other stuff around and only now looking at it on a big monitor do i realize that it's hair... i think?or was i right the whole time
>>751534752That's def hair.
>The only time a Yakuza box was better in the west>They got the word "sex" in there twice
>>751534364No good box art comes from following trends. See >>751526532.I think this type of art can look wonderful in its own right. There's no reason why it's can't be done today.
>>751534119>mfw my son isn't winning
>>751535287Oh sure it can, but there's no demand for it.The biggest demographic prefers them to look "new" even if they look like dogshit to people with refined tastes like us.The problem is we're the minority and things aren't marketed to us, they're mostly marketed to kids, something niche like this wouldn't be appealing to them because they're used to seeing 3d animation and movies and hate something that doesn't fit the norm that has been fed down their gullets since early days on every screen by big corpos coordinating their efforts to indoctrinate them to buy their product.
>>751531679I really like the title font, it reminds me of the original final fantasy cover.I miss that flashy early 3d cg looking stuff.
>>751537947Forgot pic.
>>751537947>>751531679I think it looks terrible. I had to read the jap katakana to understand the english letters Looks like it says ENNUS.I totally cannot see the R
>>751538574Oh yeah it's unreadable, I just like that bryce 3d look.
>>751518667it looks like mpreg from the thumbnail lol
>>751538574Who cares if it's readable - readable font is what the game spine is for, the cover art is there to look cool.
>>751533256I still wonder what that cop game they were making would have been.
>>751534284That cover is too good and gruesome for such lame game.
>>751538574>Looks like it says ENNUSWhat?
>>751535687That's an L, not an R. The game is called Lennus, a.k.a. Paladin's Quest in the US. That box art has such a "wtf am I looking at" factor to it, I just think it looks sick. I don't even know what tools they used to draw and color some of that. Anyway the sequel has some cleaner-looking box art. Again I'm not sure how they made this dragon but it sure looks cool.
>>751540095Fuck me, meant for >>751538574
>>751539396HE SAYS THE LETTERS ON THE BOX LOOK LIKE THEY SPELL "ENNUS"IS THIS LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND, FAGGOT
>>751540095hell yeah
>>751542459sick
The PCE had many drawn by famous manga artists at them but I'm drawn to the Haniwa games art.
>>751544138Oh and it's sequel. Don't let Rance near his wife...
>>751544138That's really cool.
:3
>>751524763kek i know that feel anon
>>751518667I'll save you some time and just post a site with a bunch of artwork done by Hiroo Isono instead of posting most of Seiken Densetsu (Mana series) cover artshttps://doorofperception.com/2016/11/hiro-isono-into-the-depths-of-the-sacred-forest/
>>751518667This game is fascinating. It has NPC schedules more complex than Shenmue, MM, etc. What made it flop was the absolute lack of guidance and huge amount of loading screens. Otherwise it would be considered a fine game. It certainly has more ambition in its game design than something like Metaphor, OT2, FF Resonance or other modern JRPG slop people here praise.
>>751534574>clothes were a separate layer and slided off.QRD? apparently there's completely different russian and western versions, which one did you play?
>>751548021My disappointment was immeasurable when I found out the Secret of Mana box art wasn't its own standalone thing but rather one of the artist's earlier pieces with the game characters plastered on.Not that the box art isn't beautiful but that kind of ruined it for me.
