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U.S. art is fine, acceptable, but the Japanese cover is really good.

[full scans]
[previously in '80s/'90s game fashion]

Fun fact, the U.S. artist was Marc Ericksen, who did the famously ehhh box art for U.S. Mega Man 2. he's got a lot of nice ones under his belt too, though.

check out these for example, wonderful:







they're all only available in tiny sample form. i'd consider getting a print of that first, airport one.


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in reply to @wave's post:

Can we thank Chrono Trigger for that? Just looking at what Square did release over here, it's the only one that matches (or imo is superior) the Japanese boxart.

And I don't recall any other series doing that. Mega Man 7, X, X2, X3, and Soccer all had something that invoked a something similar to their Rockman counterparts, but it wasn't until X4 and 8 that they something of a variant cover with the anime style.

Castlevania didn't do it either, though Dracula X was close. Enix didn't release Dragon Quest V, VI, or Terranigma over here either.

i'd suggest that unaltered anime art became semi-common on PSX, perhaps more from smaller publishers than the big ones? took some time to get started though as we still got western-market abominations like the early Toshinden and Street Fighter Alpha covers.

it would be fun to try and think of / ask folks to come up with cases from the '90s where the western box art surpassed the Japanese originals.

one other thing i'd say is that sometimes Konami's western in-house style was still pretty cool in itself, like for Castlevania III and IV, Super C, Contra III, etc. (it didn't fit SNES Legend of the Mystical Ninja quite as well.) wonder if there are other pubs we could say that about.