Legend of Legaia Art Question

[disgaeniac]

Question about:  Legend of Legaia's...

...Cover-Art for the NA, PS1 release(s)?!

So, I've been semi-searching/interested in picking-up a copy of this game for awhile now.

A couple of days ago, I bought/received it as part of a somewhat sizeable purchase from CranberryRiddles.

I was adding my game to the site here -and- no problems.

What's confusing me, though, is that - looking on G*Faqs and Amazon...the cover art for the front of the game's case is *completely* different...W.T.F.?!

Btw - both Amazon & G*Faqs are showing the same art work as the other.

In their pics. of the game - the picture on the front-cover is simply some blue-haired dude showing-off/admiring his bicep.

*BUT* the cover of *MY* game (just like the image here on vgcollect) is of:

- A pink-haired girl on the right,

- A brown-haired guy on the left, and

- "Mr. Blue-Bicep" centered between the other 2 characters & in front of them...

*Interestingly* enough (may or may not be at all relevant) - the picture on Amazon (for the game's Strategy-Guide) is the exact same picture as my game & the one already in the vgcollect database...

Wtf am I missing here?

I'm not seeing any GH-versions and/or re-releases/alternate cover-art-versions of the game...and, apparently, both pics pertain to the USA/NA releases of the game...

Well, since this site's showing 50+ owners of this game - I figured that maybe someone here could answer this/explain this to me!

Thanks -

[scott]

Split this off of the General thread, just so you may get a few answers faster.

[disgaeniac]

Split this off of the General thread, just so you may get a few answers faster.

Thanks - that's probably a better idea

[foxhack]

The cover with the three characters is the actual cover.

Bicep guy is the front of the game manual.

[disgaeniac]

The cover with the three characters is the actual cover.

Bicep guy is the front of the game manual.

Makes sense -but- doesn't that still seem strange that, not only G*Faqs, but what looks to be the majority of the places selling the game would *ALL* be making the same 'mistake' by not displaying the correct cover-art?!

Ex.

Lukie games & E-Bay both are selling this game (w/ the 2 different images)...w/ the SAME item numbers, as well...weird; huh?!
 

[foxhack]

Several store sites pay for the rights to use item databases like Muze, but they never fix the damn things so there's bound to be errors.

As for GameFAQs? The cover image is the same one at Amazon - look at the black space at the top. Since it was user-submitted, we can conclude that he was just a lazy dumbass.

And most sites won't bother getting new images or scanning them in, especially if they're in double jewelcases like this game was.

[disgaeniac]

Maybe there was a re-release of the game in a single jewel-case (since it *is* only 1 disc)...in which case the cover of the instruction manual would be the front cover-art (like all of the other 1-Disc, single jewel-case PS1 games)?

[scott]

In that case we've found a variant release. But what's to say any found single jewel vases isn't the manual and rear art stuffed in said case, as a holder?

[darko]

There was only one release. The item number is SCUS-94254.

Here's the case:

[foxhack]

Maybe there was a re-release of the game in a single jewel-case (since it *is* only 1 disc)...in which case the cover of the instruction manual would be the front cover-art (like all of the other 1-Disc, single jewel-case PS1 games)?

There wasn't. The game didn't even make it to Greatest Hits status.

And if there was, it would be listed at other sites, or even mentioned somewhere like Game-Rave.