Superior Japanese box art

[Blueskunky]

Show me Japanese box art that you think is superior to the USA box art with images of course

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Marvel Super Heores vs. Street Fighter

 

[DeletedB!tch]

There's some

 

[Jill_Sandwich969]

Literally any capcom game in 90s

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Better than NA in my opinion

 

[Deleted member 77791]

I can find many but I'll only mention the one that bothers me deeply:

Spoiler: click to see the box art

Without spoiling you all I can say is this box art has a specific deep meaning that eventually makes sense as you play it. No, it's not about "romantic love", it's beyond that. Especially when you get to know the girl and the boy, the life they live and how their ordinary life and trivial existence become part of a divine situation you see their tragic relationship with each other in one of the route in the game that I can say "true story". Also the tall building in the distance and the dragons means a lot for the game.

When Japanese developers sees their video game as artwork that has abstract deep meanings, but then they look at Americans all they think is "Americans only care about violence" then they just put some generic box art that indicate "there is an action in the game, it fits to your sense" lol. So here is the awful American version box art:

Spoiler: click to see the box art

Yeah, man, show me a guy holding a big sword like this is all the game is about. The bigger the sword, the higher the testosterone, right? And put some girl there. It's bonus if the guy seem he protecting a girl. lololol

 

[Tortuga]

All of them

 

[Blueskunky]

Mischief Makers Jp box art is art

 

[TruxtonTatsujin TruxtonTatsujin]

Most, but not all. especially if the game is Japanese developed. There's so many but I'll pick the first one that comes to mind.

Honestly it be a lot harder to do the opposite.

 

[sneakyguts]

 

[ArkenDev]

These US covers are a war crime

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Honestly there’s a lot, though funnily enough this might be a case where I say the international art is better

The poses are more dynamic, it shows off the first stratum where the first part of the game actually takes place, they’re all in battle poses like they’re about to fight whatever’s in the labyrinth and Armoroad is now in the back, better representation of Etrian Odyssey III if you ask me. Shame HD went back to the old art.

The first Etrian Odyssey’s box art I’m mixed on though. The Japanese box art has them all in battle poses but there’s no fucking background lmao. The western box art has art of the labyrinth, but the characters look like deers in headlights. Combine the two personally

 

[Deleted member 77791]

Wow they thought "Americans will love this box art because they love to get high" lololol.

 

[nobitakun]

Show me Japanese box art that you think is superior to the USA box art with images of course

Are you aware that virtually 99% of the games will be posted here? lol

 

[Blueskunky]

Are you aware that virtually 99% of the games will be posted here? lol

Yeah

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I was gonna post the USA box art but the Japanese box art for Mickey racing USA is PK FIRE

 

[nobitakun]

Yeah

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I was gonna post the USA box art but the Japanese box art for Mickey racing USA is PK FIREView attachment 73441

I will give you one then. This is pure joy:

Another one:

 

[Viviana Santos]

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[Karaswinglet]

Talking about the disparity between Usa and Japanese cover the "Breath of Fire" series always come to mind:
BF1 Usa BF1 Japanese

BF2 Usa BF2 Japanese

BF3 Usa BF3 Japanese

BF4 Usa BF4 Japanese

BF5 Usa BF5 Japanese

BF5 EU Cover

It's one of those case when they really went overboard to give a different image to the games, especially in the Snes era. The first Psx game had it rough too with that bland cover.
Thankfully they started changing direction with BF4 but they still had to change things here and there.
In BF5 they had an gigantic amount of fantastic illustrations but they instead used the 3d models.
I'd praise the EU version: even if they didn't used the japanese illustration they still used a more atmospheric approach with the dragon symbols and glyphs.

 

[Blamhammer]

Dunno who made the call to slap a lame box art on the cover in the west back then. Thankfully covers tend to be the same in all regions now.

Except for that age rating. Germany have the most stupid sized age rating i've ever seen. Ruins the entire cover, it's as if they think everyone in Germany needs glasses to see.

SIGNALIS has a simple cover, but the Japanese cover's red is more story\character related over the implied horror in the western cover.

 

[sneakyguts]

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[Viviana Santos]

I don't even need to explain why the Japanese box art for Final Fantasy VI is superior.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Jp: calm, peaceful, ambient, intriguing, mysterious

US: “MMURRICA!!! FUCK YEAHH!!””

 

[Deleted member 257420]

 

[Turbo Kid]

Unlike the crappy Bare Knuckle II Japanese art (yes there are actually lots of Japanese games with bad cover art, shocking I know), Bare Knuckle III got the superior cover