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[Joey Ravn]

If this game delivers, there will be very little competition for my personal GOTY this year...

 

[Vylash]

oh man, gorgeous

 

[Love Deterrence]

Lawd. Wow. Looks great.

 

[10k]

Man Nintendo should use the faded black for all covers. Screw that bright blue.

 

[TI82]

Have you looked at NOA's Wii U boxarts? They're almost universally great.

Examples? I love the covers of the Wii U games I have acquired last year... =/

Splatoon
Wind Waker HD
Hyrule Warriors
3D World

Just off the top of my head, sure there's a ton I'm forgetting

 

[skLaFarebear]

mmmmmmm so god damn good. i need it now.

 

[BY2K]

Splatoon
Wind Waker HD
Hyrule Warriors
3D World

Just off the top of my head, sure there's a ton I'm forgetting

3D World, Splatoon and Hyrule Warriors are the same as the Japanese ones, aren't they?

 

[oti]

I just hope the US cover will be angry Kirby.

 

[Min0]

Splatoon
Wind Waker HD
Hyrule Warriors
3D World

Just off the top of my head, sure there's a ton I'm forgetting

Those all look great tho.

Btw anyone willing to photoshop the cover on a normal blue Wii U case?

 

[Sadist]

It's cool.

 

[InternHertz]

Very nice box art!

I'll get the physical copy and keep it wrapped. I have begun the preloading on Wii U today so I'll be playing this way come April 29th.

 

[TI82]

3D World, Splatoon and Hyrule Warriors are the same as the Japanese ones, aren't they?

Sorry thought we were talking cover art that I didn't like.

Pikmin 3, Bayo 2, DKCTF, and now xenoX look good though

 

[Zalman]

Nintendo is my favorite box art maker for sure.

 

[Hero of Legend]

They fucked up Captain Toad with that stupid yellow pattern background

#stillmad

Nope!

 

[Fandangox]

Kind of odd they have the black haired custom MC on cover, but they have been using the redhaired one as default on most footage.

 

[TriBlade]

I want a statue of that mech to come with a limited edition.

 

[TI82]

Nope!

NA version is covered in cheetos

 

[RPGCrazied]

So 5 total characters including you? Hopefully there is a couple more.

 

[ironcreed]

Straight up HOT.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Jesus

 

[sörine]

Sorry thought we were talking cover art that I didn't like.

Pikmin 3, Bayo 2, DKCTF, and now xenoX look good though

We were talking about NOA changing boxarts or not. Sorry if you thought otherwise.

 

[jimi_dini]

 

[Hugstable]

Beautiful

 

[Madrugador]

Amazing cover :claps:

 

[PensivePen]

Doesn't look bad, not a huge fan of how grey the sky looks or how prominent the little patch of ground is at the title.

 

[J@hranimo]

This looks nice.

Watch us in NA get the same exact cover, but instead of the black case it's blue lol.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Higher res:

 

[protomouse]

Splatoon
Wind Waker HD
Hyrule Warriors
3D World

Just off the top of my head, sure there's a ton I'm forgetting

We don't even know what the final Splatoon cover will look like. All I saw was something that looked like an RGB export, and it wasn't even sourced directly from Nintendo IIRC.

This cover looks great. The bright blue outline that we usually get here in the west is going to fuck it up. I hope they'll keep the JP box. Oh, and reversible cover for Europe please.

 

[TI82]

We were talking about NOA changing boxarts or not. Sorry if you thought otherwise.

My bad.


Wind Waker HD in Japan is pretty great but the NA version is awful!

 

[razgriz417]

Damn that looks good, is there a release date yet?

 

[Illucio]

If we get some crappy boxart instead because of incompetent Nintendo of America I'll rage hard.

 

[SniperHunter]

Awesome

 

[SerTapTap]

I see no reason NoA would screw this up, looks great.
(please don't screw this up)

 

[shadowkat]

Looks awesome.

 

[Min0]

This looks nice.

Watch us in NA get the same exact cover, but instead of the black case it's blue lol.

The case is black because the game is rated cero C. It will 100% be blue for the NA/EU versions.

 

[Zalman]

Damn that looks good, is there a release date yet?

April for Japan, later this year for the rest.

 

[Dr. Buni]

Shouldn't have put the customizable protagonist in the box art, because you know, it goes totally against the purpose of having a customizable protagonist.

Spoiler

I can already see a lot of annoying people claiming the protagonist is canonically male because of the box art

Other than this detail, the box art looks great. Truly great.

 

[CanUKlehead]

HNGHHHHHHH

 

[videogamephilosopher]

Excellent cover. I wonder how it would look with a red Mech, that would have been a stronger design decision. Character or object on the far right looks like it has a Kim K booty though... which is weird.

 

[TheGreatLugia]

Looks gorgeous.

Hopefully NoA keeps the same cover with the only possible change being the Wii U bar on top. Both releases of the original Xenoblade have the same cover in every region, so hopefully it will be the same case this time.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Looks better up close than it did when we saw that one pic of it in that Japanese store.

 

[Otakumegane]

At least they know not to show the character faces lawl.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

The dark blue sadly won't make it to North America.

a question: are the characters on the box art all available party members?
I'm on a media black out. So a yes or no would be cool ^^

Yes but I'm pretty sure the guy directly to the left of the doll is your created character. The back of his head matches with the early trailers.

 

[Raven77]

Holy crap that's magical!

 

[Caronte]

I bet NoA is already hard at work to ruin it.

 

[LiK]

hope the art is the same here.

 

[zroid]

now I ask myself how will NoA screw this up

 

[NobleGreenBeast]

Another great box art. Nintendo should have made the mech an amiibo.

 

[Redrop]

Another orange and blue cover. So mature, hardcore and next-gen Nintendo.

I know this is the joke, but the cover is predominantly cyan toned.

 

[thesaucetastic]

That's a damn good cover.