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[Moonkid]

Nier's cover is fine IMO. Father Nier is a hideous dude, but there's no fixing that aside from a paper bag over the face.
I think it makes him more relatable/humanized as a character. I play plenty of JRPGs and I've had my fill of bishonen protagonists.
The game itself is Best of the Generation for me.

Sure he's an ugly dude, but the framing or whatever artists call it is uninspired. We have the protagonist from the waist-up with side-characters floating beside him and bad-guys in the background, it doesn't really give us a sense of what the game is going to be about aside from 'this is an action game.' They could have shown the father with Yonah which establishes the driving force behind the game without even having to look at the blurb. Or even better, juxtapose his rugged ugliness with her childish innocence. Ugh, I need to stop talking about this game and just play it lol.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I'm not sure why some people like it but i thought the alternative cover was just as bad as the original....Well maybe not as bad but its still pretty awful.

it's not really great at all, I agree. one can tell that every line was drawn digitally. nice concept, fan art execution.

 

[Morning Star]

I'm not sure why some people like it but i thought the alternative cover was just as bad as the original....Well maybe not as bad but its still pretty awful.

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I wouldn't say this is awful. This and Elizabeth with the songbird were the best out of the alternate boxarts that were being voted on.

 

[Dark_castle]

 

[fvng]

I love all the charming Sega master system box art

 

[Triggerhappytel]

The person who drew that cover is my neighbor two houses down. He gave me a copy of the game signed years ago.

Is he proud of it, or does he realise how genuinely shite that artwork is?

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

If by "bland" you mean "awesome", sure.

My pick:

It's pretty bad from an aesthetic point of view, but what really sets it apart is that SHODAN's appearance is supposed to be a late-game plot twist. Uh, spoiler alert. This isn't even getting into the [transmission interrupted] on the back.

Wasn't she always on the cover?

 

[Novocaine]

I always hated the SF2T box art for the SNES. The look on Sagat's face is just stupid.

 

[Rlan]

All Mega Man 2.(Art cleaned up by me at The Video Game Art Archive)

 

[NewGame]

Every master system game looked the same.

And I loved them...

 

[cafemomo]

 

[AniHawk]

the most famous hedgehog in the world

don't sit there and waste your precious time. when you want to do something, do it right away. do it when you can. it's the only way to live a life without regrets.

sonic races through the green fields. the sun races through a blue sky filled with white clouds. the ways of his heart are much like the sun. sonic runs and rests; the sun rises and sets. don't give up on the sun. don't make the sun laugh at you.

 

[malfcn]

The worst part is the "sticker" saying it has a code for extra content. And the "sticker" isn't one, but actually is part of the artwork.