Submitted 1 day ago by Grimm@lemmy.zip to gaming@beehaw.org
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You’ve unlocked a childhood memory. I was like twelve browsing used video games, guy at the store asked me what I liked and I said RPGs. He handed me a copy of Suikoden and said “I know it looks like absolute garbage but I promise it’s actually really good.”
At the time, my taste hadn’t developed enough to understand what was wrong with the American box art but I didn’t say anything.
I mean the JPN cover is much more true to the original game ascetic and is more artistically pleasing…
But c’mon the US cover looks like a frickin 80s fantasy trash movie poster. Retrospectively that’s so iconic.
A list of several boxarts for Suikoden: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/…/boxes
The PAL version uses the original art from Japanese release. I think it even improves on it by having a white background, which looks more classy to me: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/…/10236
I could swear my original US release had some weird combo of the two. I gave away 90% of my PS1 and PS2 games last year so I can’t check now, but I really think it had the main image shown from the Japanese release on the case. Maybe the image was shown in game on the loading screen or something and I am just remembering it wrong.
I remember this circle art being inside the American manual.
Maybe that is what it was that I am thinking of.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s such a shame that Western publishers were so ashamed of games Japanese origins. For me, being a teenager at the time, I wanted anything and everything Japanese I could get my hands on. I felt like this was the case for a lot of people at the time. It’s why anime and manga were exploding in popularity.