Box Art Brawl: Visual Joe

Hello guys, welcome to a different version of Box Art Brawl!

For last week’s brawlwe checked out considered one of a handful of Digital Boy video games (and one which a lot of you forgot even existed): panic bomber. It wasn’t a very shut race for this one, with Japan successful comfortably with 71% of the vote. Nicely achieved, Japan!

This week, we’re going again to the GameCube period to take a look at considered one of Hideki Kamiya’s greatest video games: Visible Joe! We’ve totally different cowl designs throughout all three major areas this time, so it will be a correct, three-way brawl. lovely

Launched again in 2003, Viewtiful Joe was printed completely for the GameCube as a part of the “Capcom 5”; 5 (properly, technically 4) video games that Capcom promised to create particularly for the GameCube to spice up {hardware} gross sales and display sturdy third-party help, together with the legendary. Resident Evil 4. After all, most of us now understand how this all turned out ultimately: three of the 4 video games went to different platforms, with solely PN03 remaining unique to the GameCube.

Nonetheless, Viewtiful Joe was a essential success, even when it wasn’t significantly industrial. It spawned a direct sequel and some spin-off video games, and albeit, we’re simply itching for Capcom to port it to the Change!

Make sure to forged your votes within the ballot beneath; however first, let’s try the field artwork designs themselves.

North America

North America’s design for Viewtiful Joe might be probably the most “conventional” of all of the variants, because it merely options the titular protagonist towards a reasonably busy background, crammed to the brim with the sport’s numerous enemies. It is completely beautiful, filled with shade from nook to nook, with the emblem itself good and daring on the high. Pretty!

Europe

Huh? Doooo?!

Sure. Europe acquired two field artwork variants for Viewtiful Joe, though the one distinction between them is the colour: one is yellow, and the opposite is pink – ta-da! In any other case, we’ve the protagonist himself putting the identical pose because the North American variant, and each designs have the identical background as one another. Why had been there two variants? It simply was! This author remembers that he was loaded by the pink and fairly upset, however now to look again..? Sure, they’re each very good.

Japan

Japan’s design is sort of fascinating, because it’s the one one of many bunch that options the sport’s signature movie reel on the high. Our protagonist strikes a special (although arguably extra iconic) pose from the western design, and we’ve a very nice pink gradient factor occurring with the background, together with lovely flower petals round Joe. This can be a nice design total!

Thanks for voting! We’ll see you subsequent time for an additional spherical of the Field Artwork Brawl.