Shortly after it released a bunch of stunning screenshots of this Odin Sphere-esque game, in fact, it also unveiled its beautiful box art:
Call me crazy, but the first thing that came to mind after I stumbled across the box art above was the imagery that will front Japanese copies of another coming-soon-to-a-store-near-you PS3 title, Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
Granted, this kind of "arrange all of the game's characters in a circle" design is hardly new--see the cover art produced for Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, among others--but I was still a bit shocked when I realized just how similar the two examples above are to one another.
See also: 'Let's Play: Which Box Art is Better? (Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn edition)'
They sure are similar! Even the grey patterns in the corners kind of corresponds to the faded characters outside the main circle in the FF cover. I do like this one better though, I like that it's easier to see the characters more clearly, I think that cartoony style is better suited to this sort of thing. Of course, thanks to those white outlines that pop everything so well, it also looks a bit more like they just arranged a bunch of random character art in a circle rather than creating something new. But I like it a lot anyhow. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with pretty much everything you've said here, Michael--especially the part about the Nippon Ichi art being less messy/easier to see. Thanks!
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