ITT: Japanese covers of Western Games
ITT: Japanese covers of Western Games
Asher Brooks
Jaxon Scott
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Jaxon Reyes
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Dominic Sanders
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Gabriel Campbell
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Lincoln Morales
STI's games sadly seemed to get stuck with inferior, if not outright shitty, Japanese art. Americans ruin Jap covers, and Japs ruin American covers. Poetry.
Dominic Wright
So those blue pirates from rayman 1 really were niggers?
Aaron Foster
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Levi Green
the american version of The Ooze...
Kevin Perry
But why though? Why did they change it?
Kevin Williams
And the incomprehensible box-art for The Ooze in Japan.
"Okasan! I want the game that looks like Otosan's business memos!"
Easton Johnson
Probably same reason localizers here rip up parts of games. "Cultural differences." Crying shame that the Japanese discarded Boris Vallejo's gorgeous Ecco artwork for something that, in the words of its localizer, would be "less threatening" to customers. 'Cuz Ecco totally looks like he is about to bring you back to his Atlantean rape cave.
Ayden Brown
You really need to post the original for comparison.
Wyatt Russell
>a lot of the back is just mirrored from the front, including some text
>no screenshots or anything
>none of the typical symbols MD boxes always have telling you how many players the game supports and what type of game it is
What in the fuck is this shit?
I'm less baffled by Phalanx banjo hobo.
Jeremiah Long
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Noah Diaz
Not angry enough. Wouldn't plok.
Charles Wood
Got these two years ago in Japan
Hunter Carter
Isn't Plok extremely pissed during the course of the game because his island was conquered by fleas? Why is he so cheerful?
Tyler Roberts
Not sure if this counts. I think the port may have been done by a Japanese company.
Christian Lee
>western games
Samuel Brooks
Noah Scott
>What in the fuck is this shit?
I bet you it's the Phalanx strategy, except instead of choosing a wild image to make the box stand out, they chose the most wildly boring image they could think of.
Now the Wizardry covers are pretty sweet.
Connor Green
Here's the minor platformer from Crystal Dynamics, Pandemonium.
Oliver Lee
And the localizers said "this isn't anime enough"
Carter Cox
You must be imagining things.
Luis Jackson
...did they not understand that that one character was like, a jester?
Xavier Bell
They actually swapped out the character models and redid all the cutscenes to have these two in it.
The guy's design is beyond faggy though.
David Howard
I'm surprised they went through so much effort to make it look so much worse.
It's kind of incredible in a way.
Zachary Perez
This happened a lot, really.
Xavier James
Rayman used to be adorable
I mean he doesn't look bad now but he isn't cute.
Luis Myers
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Adrian Jenkins
>its identical to the original
that was disappointing
Hunter Sullivan
>they turned it into isekai
fucking japs cant help themselves
Jordan Sanchez
>Ripto
woah.
Carter Williams
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Adam Evans
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Tyler Williams
The back is just the front mirrored, it's the solution to the front of the box, which is just a paragraph where you have to guess what words go where. Nothing to do with the game, but I guess it's eyecatching on a shelf.
Dominic Edwards
Took my like 30 seconds to realise that was Gex
Luke Nguyen
It's even worse if you understand the text
>The season has already ○、if you say ○ it's gotta be ○.
>But if you go to ○, they don't have ○○.
>But you've done all the work to ○, so you want to ○○○ something.
> Seems like ○○ a trend has become ○, thinking about your own ○ is ○○○.
> Oh yeah, that's it.
Grayson Williams
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Hunter Turner
Oh shit i didnt even realize
>It's already fall, and when it's fall it's all about going to the mountains.
>But I don't have money to go to the mountains.
>But it is fall so I want to try to make some memories.
>It's stupid to just follow trends, or what I mean is that doing your own thing is the most interesting.
>Oh yeah, that's it.
does this have anything to do with the game itself?
Angel Baker
a lot better than the american boxart
Noah Jackson
Worse
David Clark
Looks like a mid-2000s photoshop of the boxart by some high schooler
Lincoln Diaz
This looks like Serenity.
Dylan Morgan
It's "following trends is pretty stupid, but thinking of stuff on your own is a hassle." I don't know how you got "most interesting" out of 面倒くさい.
This is followed by "ah, I've got it. THE OOZE!"
Ryan Wood
It actually reminds me of custom box covers used for pirated games sold in Eastern Europe and Asia.
John James
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Charles Kelly
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Grayson Fisher
its amazing how the NA boxart for a game made in NA can clearly be the worst
David Jones
At least they made Doreiku look like the antihero he is.
Jace Carter
that cover is actually pretty cool
Gavin Gray
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Leo Howard
Is this still the only physical version?
Brody Long
Here's the USA Killing Time cover
At least this is kinda cool... but talk about totally unfitting! Future Cop and the Strike Series is so western that it's almost unthinkable to see it imagined as anime, lol.
Jayden Russell
and the japanese, too bad this is the only size I found. It's uh, trying to be something.
Mason Barnes
>left the western boxart the same
>change the in-game portraits
Why?
Logan Roberts
Post them my man
Dominic Sullivan
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Christian Lewis
Because they specifically wanted to have there be region differences like how the famicom was stronger than the NES and could display some nicer things
There's a list of differences somewhere
Henry Thomas
If I'm not mistaken that's actually how they got Ripto's name
Andrew Morris
What? Is it possible to play with those region differences?
Easton Rodriguez
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Carter Foster
Do anime chicks show up ingame?
Isaiah Edwards
Consider the following:
Ian Price
Beautiful.
John Green
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Grayson Martinez
Damn she's pretty sexy
Kayden Taylor
Post western cover.
Jayden Diaz
Jello is for Communists?
THANKS JAPAN
Eli Martinez
if they made an actual 3d game that used an artstyle like this I would buy the shit out of it
Anthony Rivera
>no "NAUGHTY"
Flunked that one, kiddo
Joseph James
>dat Soul Calibur-esque logo
Owen Rivera
Not him but here ya go
Joseph Smith
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Evan Taylor
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
When did Amano make cover art for PoP?
Alexander White
The JP filenames
shovelknight.wikia.com
Isaiah Carter
Alternatively:
Joseph Anderson
That ain't Amano, faggot.
David Kelly
Japan only got 2
Matthew Torres
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Joshua Sanchez
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Adam Young
If you set the language to JP it changes everything with localization.
Matthew Mitchell
>artwork pixellated while logos aren't
did they use low-res assets from the game to make that cover? what the fuck
Anthony Clark
Not him, but i hope this looks good enough.
Adam James
Why does Time Splitter have a head growing out of his shoulder?
Evan Clark
This one is dope af
Hudson Powell
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Wyatt Wright
In some languages slang for africans is literally "blueman"
Jordan Walker
Looks like Katsuya Terada.
Luke Wood
i actually like how weird this is
like the knockoff digdug in the top right
holy shit that owns
japan loves the shit out of wizardry for whatever reason
somehow more nightmarish than regular gex
man i love this one, it's good shit
pretty great actually
Jeremiah Ramirez
Cute as fuck
Dominic Rodriguez
typing af is stupid af
Jayden Bennett
ass fuck
Grayson Stewart
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Aaron Murphy
>Western Games
William Stewart
HOW THE FUCK IS THIS NEVER POSTED IN JP VS WEST BAIT THREADS? THIS IS FUCKING GOLD PERIOD.
Connor Gomez
It's like a melted plastic figure
Matthew Ortiz
Fukken saved
Elijah King
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