disastermouse
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I miss those things. It felt like you were setting a complete set of stuff and it also telegraphed that this game was a bigger commitment than Super Mario.
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What's the story behind Final Fantasy II's box art?
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Cha
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More importantly, what happened to Mog's legs?
Underrated
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Who knows why FF2/4's box is so plain. They could have had like Cecil or someone that looks like him in the background or something. The other two could have been better too I think. Guess they didn't really care that much back in the day.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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Okay wait...now I want to know what was up with 4 & 5. What happened to Amano for those?
VI is one of my favorite box arts ever.
This thread shows that the NES FF games and 6 were the only ones to have good box art.
What the hell is going on with the art on the JP FF4 boxart?
Honestly I think all the FF games covers should be the Amano artwork or the minimalist Final Fantasy font laid over an iconic and abstract image like the meteor with 7 or Squall and Rinoa hugging with 8.
What the hell is going on with the art on the JP FF4 boxart?
Honestly I think all the FF games covers should be the Amano artwork or the minimalist Final Fantasy font laid over an iconic and abstract image like the meteor with 7 or Squall and Rinoa hugging with 8.
Triggerhappytel
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Agreed. In the UK (and I assume the rest of Europe/Japan) we always got really nice minimal ones with an image subtly depicting the game's theme in the background of the text (i.e. the meteor from VII, Squall & Rinoa embracing from VIII, the crystal from IX), but I've seen some which have all of the characters crowded in which look a lot busier and uglier.
Looks pretty good to me.
OMG those are insanely beautiful! Wish modern Final Fantasies had covers like those... I've just been slayed!
The original God Squad that made it is mostly disbanded and elsewhere now, in addition to being way older and technology (and therefore culture and perceived market demands) changing.
So depressing. FF9 really was the last good FF title. Lost Odyssey had a pretty good crack at it though.
Silent Chief
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Kain reminds me of that Frenchman in his underwear who dispersed a crowd with a shovel.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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I thought you were going to talk about FFII's box art. As for this one? I dunno, why question it?
Why is Cecil an FF1 Warrior? Who are the black/white mages? Is this really the box art?
sensui-tomo
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... I need this for later discussions for a specific FF thread in the future.
Cornbread78
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Having serious childhood flashbacks right now...
I remember an article in Nintendo Power back in the day selling me on FF and me begging my mom for weeks to but it for me...
I remember an article in Nintendo Power back in the day selling me on FF and me begging my mom for weeks to but it for me...
Ivan Amiibo
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yeah. it would be the warranty in 76 different languages.
That and just showing screens of the game in Nintendo Power-->
yeah. i also somehow got the guide before the game, so I read through it and planned my playthrough, which was pointless because so much in the game is busted or useless lol
Hero_of_the_Day
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Yep. It's fucking weird.
spindashing
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I've always wondered about - and been bothered by - that. From the neck down it looks like a hulking sort of ghost, but then it has a...duck for a head?
Rollo Tomasi
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FTFY
sixteen-bit
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unreleased FF2 NES box art rocked.
Looks pretty good to me.
As much as I like modern Square Enix's CG and Nomura's artwork, I couldn't agree more. Amano's art is just God-tier for things like book and game covers. This holds especially true for (at least) the first three Final Fantasy games, where a certain level of ambiguity is present in regards to characters. Where the US boxart makes FFI feel like a stereotypical D&D kind of thing, Amano sets the mood to something much more unique, while remaining pleasantly generic.
Were it not for Rosa looking about right, that could have convincingly been a box for FF3.
spookyfish
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That is some fantastic box are right there.
That box art never made sense to me either. Unless this game was originally going to have a job system and they changed it at the last minute.
HalfwayOrb
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The Final Fantasy 2 box art felt Final Fantasy to me when I was a kid (and still do).
I thought it was kinda neat when Square was going the color-coded route for their FF/FFL titles - the blue of FFL2, green of FFA (my favorite), red for FF2US, purple for FFL3... was wondering what other colors we may have gotten if 5 got a US release for instance.