"Alright, thats a sweeping generalisation, but it’s also quite true. We all know that films, games and books all get different covers and treatment depending on the region they release in, but every time you can guarantee that the NA box art will feature characters on the front and someone will be angry. In fact, the vast majority of NA box art is as far from what anybody could call artistic, below are a selection of some of the best (and worst) offenders in the world of box art. "
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Cosmic Fantasy 2 box art for the TG16 CD is beyond bad. Back in those times, NEC NA feared that the anime art style would scare away gamers.
Here's the original Japanese box art:
http://timewarpgamer.com/im...
Their solution for NA:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u...
This was bad on so many levels from creepy looking faces to just plain lack of human figure drawing ability. It's like they hired some middle school kid to draw the box art for free.
No imagination.
the worst offenders are the ICO and Heavy Rain NTSC box arts, the Resident evil 4 PAL boxart was awesome too compared to the NTSC one
its the stupid publishers fault I know many americans which absolutely detest the NTSC boxarts compared to the one we get over in the UK.
But the big wigs think that its need they need character, gun or women plastered over the cover with little or no artistic integrity
Here's a great example
Yakuza 3 Japanese Box Art- http://www.cheatmasters.com...
Yakuza 3 American Box Art- http://cdn4.spong.com/pack/...
ehh. some are good and the ones that suck suck equally bad for both. but NA box art isnt that bad