We're getting the PSN download-only treatment for the upcoming strategy role-playing game Record of Agarest War, but the UK is getting a fully boxed title, just like Japan did. The issue here isn't about the delivery format, though. We're more concerned about the potential box art fail that could have came out of European publisher Ghostlight.
Their version of the game, retitled Agarest: Generations of War there, could have had been packaged with the box art on the left (above). Ha! Is that guy supposed to be the round-eye version of Leonhardt? You can see a better image the original Leonhardt in the gallery below. I mean, they're dressed mostly the same, but what's up with the hair and the face? Is that Leonhardt's child predator half-white American uncle cosplaying his nephew? How Mega Man-esque!
Thankfully, Ghostlight let fans pick the final design.
[via Japanator]
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8:30 PM on 08.31.2009
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Don't you mean it the right one, not the left?
It ain't trying hard enough.
As Tregaurd of Knightmare once said, 'Oooooooh...NARRRSTY!'
Agreed.
Then it's a good thing you don't design boxart. That other box art is basically all around terrible. Besides the atrociously ugly character on the front, the text also looks terrible as does the background. The boxart doesn't remotely convey what the game actually is.
These kids don't know an Also, Cocks from a Lobster Milkshake.
This is so wrong.This one is the best example of wasted effort.
cocoloko said they both look terrible. Forgive me for being presumptuous, but I think s/he knows the redesign is an example of what not to do.
I'm not sure how you get that from "I think Its still better than generic anime/manga BS."
I think he got it from "He looks hilariously bad".