Poll: Box Art Brawl: Viewtiful Joe
Hello folks, acquire to another book of Box Art Brawl!
For final week’s brawl, we took a demeanour during one of a handful of Virtual Boy games (and one that many of we had lost even existed): Panic Bomber. It wasn’t a utterly tighten competition for this one, with Japan winning positively with 71% of a vote. Well done, Japan!
This week, we’re streamer behind to a GameCube epoch to check out one of Hideki Kamiya’s best games: Viewtiful Joe! We’ve got opposite cover designs opposite all 3 vital regions this time, so it’s going to be a proper, three-way brawl. Nice.
Launched behind in 2003, Viewtiful Joe was expelled exclusively for a GameCube as partial of a ‘Capcom Five’; 5 (well, technically four) games that Capcom had affianced to emanate privately for a GameCube to boost hardware sales and denote clever third-party support, including a mythological Resident Evil 4. Of course, many of us know by now how this all eventually transpired: 3 of a 4 games done their approach to other platforms, with usually P.N.03 remaining disdainful to a GameCube.
Nevertheless, Viewtiful Joe was a vicious success, even if it wasn’t utterly a blurb one. It spawned a approach supplement and a integrate of spin-off games, and utterly frankly, we’re usually prickly for Capcom to get it ported over to a Switch!
Be certain to expel your votes in a check below; yet first, let’s check out a box art designs themselves.
North America
North America’s pattern for Viewtiful Joe is substantially a many “traditional” out of all of a variants, in that it simply facilities a suggested protagonist opposite a sincerely bustling background, full to a margin with a game’s several enemies. It’s positively gorgeous, ripping with colour from dilemma to corner, with a trademark itself good and confidant during a top. Lovely!
Europe
Huh? Twoooo?!
Yep. Europe got dual box art variants for Viewtiful Joe, yet a usually disproportion between them is a colour: one is yellow, and a other pinkish – ta-da! Otherwise, we’ve got a protagonist himself distinguished a same poise as a North American variant, and both designs have a same credentials as any other. Why were there dual variants? There usually were! This author remembers being lumbered with a pinkish one and being sincerely disappointed, yet looking behind now..? Yeah, they’re both unequivocally nice.
Japan
Japan’s pattern is utterly interesting, since it’s a usually one of a garland that facilities a game’s signature film tilt visible during a top. Our protagonist is distinguished a opposite (albeit arguably some-more iconic) poise from a western design, and we’ve got a unequivocally poetic pinkish gradiant going on with a background, including some flattering flower petals surrounding Joe. This is a good pattern overall!
Which segment got a best Viewtiful Joe box art? (819 votes)
North America
Europe
Japan
Thanks for voting! We’ll see we subsequent time for another turn of a Box Art Brawl.
