Who has best cover arts? Japan or US?

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marvelvscapcom2:
Hello everyone :D.

I know this varies by game, but as a whole. If you had to choose either Japan cover arts or US cover arts for the rest of infinity, which would you choose as having better covers? :)

I have made a thread before comparing Japan versus American consoles like Famicom vs NES. And the art styles of the boxes and controllers. So I thought this would be interesting too as their is so much variances.

I personally think Japan almost always has way better covers imo and I always love how they look. But I think this might be because I am from the United States so I have become accustomed to our covers. This is why Americans love Japanese culture so much and vice versa. Because it's different and new. And the covers seem to be so colorful and fun to me.

Here are some examples of comparisons. First i'll start with one rare occurance that I think US did way better than the Japanese version.

I love the US design of Okami. It really pops and is beautiful.

Here is the JP version of N64 Smash Bros. It is awesome looking. It looks like a comic book almost and has nice artistry.

It almost seems like the devs in Japan might try to alter covers to be more rustic and simplistic thinking things as eccentric and fun as Japan has might not attract an American consumer. But I could be overthinking :)

Using our Super Mario world as comparison, it doesn't have the popping backgrounds, colors. Just a blue wallpaper PNG from google images and the basic Mario and Yoshi. Much worst imo. Although I love it because it's my childhood :).

One of the biggest comparisons is Rockman vs Megaman. A huge debate of namesake and even design.

The American covers on Mega Man are notoriously EBOLA. And JP does better imo. :).

FFX is another that I think US won by default. I love the US cover for this one.

Out of all examples you can think of. Who do you think has more consistently better covers? JP or US? :)

I know PAL sometimes has exclusives covers too. But I wanted to keep this simple between the two biggest comparisons as many of the time UK adopts US's cover.

Thanks for sharing everyone :)

kypherion:
Japanese. Their cases are better too:

ferraroso:

--- Quote from: kypherion on March 02, 2019, 09:21:18 pm ---Japanese. Their cases are better too

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I think the Japanese covers tend to look better than their Western (mainly US) counterparts too.

However, in the case of the GameCube especifically, I couldn't disagree more!
I like the size of the Japanese boxes, but that's all. Their decision to use this damn carton sleeve above the plastic case makes it EXTREMELY difficult to find games in good conditions in the wild. Besides, the price discrepancy between games that lost their carton sleeve and CIB is often absurd.
At least in Japan, Nintendo only got their casing right by the time the Wii hit the market...

Agozer:
US cover art can be bafflingly poor, and it was especially so during the PSX/PS2 era.

mark1982:
Yeah I have to agree that Japanese Cover arts look better and have a higher creative flair than the western releases.

Some of my favorites:

The US/EU Covers for Panzer Dragoon on the Saturn is a thing of nightmares... "shudders"

And basically the entire library of the Japan PC Engine & PC Engine CD has better cover arts than their US TurboGrafx counterpart. The US TurboGrafx covers are horrendous imo, what were they thinking?

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