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[KiteGr]

Is there a story behind this one like the one I posted?

nah... (not to my knowledge at least)
I've seen games having art from different artists, but this one appears that he is trying to make the game not look like anime...

Is it that Asuka's body and legs look like they also belong to the Eva? Or is it that she is holding something huge between her legs?

It's the way her waist is bending....

 

[ckohler]

This is amazingly bad yes, but I think the real question is how can you have a Final Zone 2 when the first title was called Final Zone? Was it not really final???

Not any more than the Final Fantasy.

 

[Acorn]

This is amazingly bad yes, but I think the real question is how can you have a Final Zone 2 when the first title was called Final Zone? Was it not really final???

Ask Square.

 

[Von Koz]

This gem has to be up here.

 

[Durante]

I really think the "worst fails" by far are the watermarked ones. It shows a blatant disregard for both your own product and the copyright law (which is generally something game companies seem to believe to be very important).

 

[djtiesto]

I don't think this art is as bad as everyone else, but it makes the game look like it's something it's not - walking into a store and not knowing what the game was, I'd have thought it was a Koei-style historical simulation.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Phalanx was done like that as every Shmup back then had A Ship (like now they're all A Girl) on the cover. Banjo pickin' Denver Pyle got your eye on this title, though, didn't it? All as planned.

I don't think this art is as bad as everyone else, but it makes the game look like it's something it's not - walking into a store and not knowing what the game was, I'd have thought it was a Koei-style historical simulation.

"It's the guy from Dune! Wait, this game's awesome, but the art's all differ...hey waitaminite..."

 

[Galactic Fork]

What were they even thinking?

What do you mean? It's not amazing or anything, but how is it an example of the "worst cover fails"?
Is there some issue like a watermark I'm missing? Or Luigi's L?

 

[Shadow Hog]

Two that come to mind:

Derp Yeti, mostly. Just as an aside, it was GAF that introduced me to this one.

I can only imagine this is what he's saying.

Looks like Van Damme got knocked off a building by Patrick Swayze.

FHTHL Fuʀy

 

[Syril]

These types of threads can never be complete without North American Ico.

I will never know why they decided to transform Ico into a bratty, blank-staring doofus and Yorda into a giant purple-eyed, dark-haired ghost head. Especially when the game's own director painted this, which was used as the cover art everywhere else.

The North American version came out before Ueda's painting was ready was the story I had heard.

 

[qualitydisc]

Its just screaming out for a next gen remake! I'm guessing that the scooter here was not to scale.

Worth pointing out, for those that don't know the game, that it didn't actually feature any ninjas in the game. It was just a popular cultural bandwagon at the time that they hijacked solely to make the cover look exciting. I guess for today's kids they would cal it Zombie Scooter Simulator or some bs. And I'm guessing for a game that cost 2 pounds, they didn't have much of a budget.

The North American version came out before Ueda's painting was ready was the story I had heard.

I was about to say "that doesn't make sense" til Wikipedia said that the US version came out 3 months BEFORE the Japanese version. That had to be almost unheard of for a Japanese game in the early 00s?

 

[FlyinJ]

Worth pointing out, for those that don't know the game, that it didn't actually feature any ninjas in the game. It was just a popular cultural bandwagon at the time that they hijacked solely to make the cover look exciting. I guess for today's kids they would cal it Zombie Scooter Simulator or some bs.



I was about to say "that doesn't make sense" til Wikipedia said that the US version came out 3 months BEFORE the Japanese version. That had to be almost unheard of for a Japanese game in the early 00s?

I'm pretty sure the game was a tie-in with Ninja Scooters, which is a brand of scooter.

That still doesn't explain the cover, but there you go. Looks like that was the UK/EU cover, and maybe Ninja didn't sell scooters in those territories. Then the publisher had no idea what was going on and just threw that box art together?

 

[robovanburen]

 

[shysaursoft]

Nice discussion about it already on page 2, with an explanation for where it came from too.

 

[CaptainLoveline]

What do you mean? It's not amazing or anything, but how is it an example of the "worst cover fails"?
Is there some issue like a watermark I'm missing? Or Luigi's L?

The character's heads were originally meant to be seen, but the big Xbox 360 banner cuts them off.

Why they decided to give it the go-ahead instead of readjusting it is beyond me.

 

[LurkerPrime]

What do you mean? It's not amazing or anything, but how is it an example of the "worst cover fails"?
Is there some issue like a watermark I'm missing? Or Luigi's L?

The thing that kills me about Fuse's cover is the NTSC thing perfectly covering the black dude's mouth. CENSORSHIP!!!

 

[arglebargle]

I get genuinely annoyed when people post this. It's obviously his hand, unless you think guns just levitate in front of people's faces.

Indeed. The cover is just fine.

i think you are missing the point. no one disputes it is his hand. the way it lines up looks like an extension of his mouth, which people think looks odd.