Hello everyone, welcome to another version of Box Art Brawl!
Because scuffle last weekwe reviewed one of the few Virtual Boy games (and one that many of you forgot even exists): Panic Bombers. It wasn’t a particularly close race for this one, with Japan comfortably winning with 71% of the vote. Well done, Japan!
This week, we’re going back to the GameCube era to check out one of Hideki Kamiya’s best games: Lovely Joe! This time we have different cover designs on all three main areas, so it’s going to be a true trilogy brawl. Beautiful.
Launched in 2003, Viewtiful Joe was released exclusively for the GameCube as part of the ‘Capcom Five’; five games (well, technically four) that Capcom has committed to creating exclusively for the GameCube to boost hardware sales and demonstrate strong third-party support, including the legendary game Evil 4. Of course, most of us know how all of this ended up going: three out of four games have moved to other platforms, with only PN03 the rest is exclusive to the GameCube.
Still, Viewtiful Joe was a critical success, even if it wasn’t a particularly commercial success. It spawned a direct sequel and a couple of spin-offs, and frankly, we’d love for Capcom to port it to Switch!
Be sure to cast your vote in the poll below; but first, check out the box art designs yourself.
North America
The North American design for Viewtiful Joe is perhaps the most “traditional” of all the variations, in that it simply features the main character on a rather busy background, swarming with various enemies of the game. game. It’s absolutely stunning, overflowing with color from corner to corner, with a nice and bold logo at the top. Lovely!
Europe
Huh? Haiooo?!
You then. Europe has two boxy variants for the Viewtiful Joe, although the only difference between them is the color: one yellow and one pink – ta-da! On the other hand, we have the main character posing himself like the North American variant and both designs have the same background. Why are there two variations? Only! The writer of this article recalls that he was left behind with the pink color and was quite disappointed, but looking back now..? Yeah, both are very good.
Japan
The Japanese design is quite interesting, because it’s the only one of which has the game’s signature reel image at the top. Our main character is taking a different (albeit arguably more iconic) pose than the western design, and we have a really lovely strip of pink in the background, consisting of some Pretty petals around Joe. This is a great design overall!
Thanks for voting! See you in the next round of Box Art Brawl.
