Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Mega Man X

One of my all time favourite games. For nostalgic reason I choose Europe. But the Japanese one is amazing to

@Martijn87 same here, both are amazing but nostalgia reasons locked my vote for NA/EUROPE version. I remember the day my Dad brought this game home for me back in ‘94 and my initial reaction was “Mega Man 10?? What happened to 6,7,8 and 9?” Lol.

Western box art for Mega Man games got much less egregious over the years as Capcom USA stopped shying away from the series' anime roots, but this apple-cheeked android still bothers me.
And this may be nitpicky, but what is X leaping/firing at while the boss is clearly posed behind him?

Voted for the Japanese one because the guy in the middle making the "W" sign with his hand has a very derpy expression and I find that funny.

No winners here, they are both awful.

@nymbosox Lol, same here I always thought it was 10 until X-2 released.

Got to go western on this one. It’s more dynamic and I like how they put X in the Super Armour. The Japanese version isn’t bad but Sigma’s Derry expression kind of ruins it for me.

Gotta love Sigma giving everyone a friendly hello wave

I would vote for Japan if it wasn't for Sigma's goofy ass face

Sigma from the Japanese art looks he’s been dejected from not getting a high five.

This was the first game I ever bought with my own money, and I bought it based on box art alone. Gotta go NA/EU.

As much as I love the North American box art, I had to vote for the Japanese cover this week.

I like them both, but i chose the US/EU one, because of Tentacles.
Thats a Hint that Megaman is fighing Hentai and searching for good Calamares.

I went with NA. The Japanese boxart is awesome but it comes off more as fanart to me.

The NA one does a nice job capturing a moment from the game without looking too different from the original character designs, the Japanese one falls into the habit of just flooding the image with characters and calling it a day, the characters are just randomly floating on a blue void and very clearly aren’t in scale with each other.

50/50 so far. What the hell? Hahahaha. I think the NA/EU cover is much more epic and better drawn. On the JP cover, it seems Sigma is saying "HAAAAOOOO!" hahahahahaha.

Both are great, but the western covers Mega Man X's face looks a little too much like western classic Mega Man's, which is not actually the same character. For that reason I'll go with the Japanese one.

An exciting matchup. I like the action of the NA/EU but the JA is so entertaining that I had to vote for it.

As others have said or alluded to, that Japanese box is a design mess. Sure, you can try to put every character on the box, but there’s no focal point. No priority in what your eye should be looking at.

NA/Europe for me. (actually surprised the race is so close)

Not liking the HEY GUYS! gesture from Sigma on the Japanese boxart. Not something a bad guy should be doing.

Both are good. The NA/Eu one is my preference, specifically NA. One of my favorite armors, aesthetically, and functionally, is the Light/First armor. The Eu has a smaller image. The Jp one is also good, though the only parts I like of that one are X, and Zero.

I love how the early X designs were essentially a teenaged Rockman/MegaMan. I love the Rm/MM 7, & X(1) art styles very much. In that regard, I also love the rosey-cheeked X on the NA/Eu box art, since it looks so close to how Rock was drawn on the NA box art for MegaMan 3-7.

Easily Japan. It much more closely matches the game’s anime art style and highlights the actual bosses in the game instead of picking random stuff from Octopus’ stage. Plus it’s not squashed with large borders around the sides.

THEY BOTH LOOK GOOD! So this was mental torture for me to cast a vote.

For me, Japan wins easily. I'll give credit to the western design. Things had improved so much from the early covers for Mega Man. The characters still look a bit weird in that style. I've always liked the Rock Man art style going back to the Famicom, so that's a big plus for me. The composition works well for me too.

When it's Mega Man, Japan box art gets my vote every time. It took the west awhile to get it right 😑

Definitely the Western version. It's a better representation of the game. The Japanese one looks more like the cover of a manga or something.

Western. I think keeping Zero a secret until he shows up in the game made it that much more epic when he appears.

I had to go with the NA/European version, but I like the Japanese version as well. This is my favorite game of all time, so the NA box art holds a special place in heart.

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 37

Japan: 45

North America: 46

Australia and New Zealand: 1

I never saw the Japan art before. But I have a huge nostalgia bug for the NA version (Mega Man X is one of the most influential games of all time to me and one of the most amazing examples of a series 'glow-up' of all time).

I do like the presence of all the Mavericks on the box in the Japan art, but it's not enough to sway me from the quality of the NA box art. And Sigma's expression looks a little too weird and not menacing at all.

Both are really good covers but I do like how the Western cover gives a little preview of X in his enhanced armor as if to tease the player what they could be capable of playing the game. That and Japanese cover loses a few "cool" points with Sigma looking like he's waving and yelling "HEY GUYS!" with that goofy face he's got.

The Japanese one looks like amateur fanart. The western one looks a bit cheesy but at least it looks professional.

@nymbosox Thanks for the reminder that Mega Man 6 wasn't actually released in Europe/PAL outside of collections until 3DS VC. I had to go and look at the release dates since I was wondering why you mentioned Mega Man 6 with 7, 8 and 9, since that game would have been out by X's release.

@Nua i wonder why they never released it for PAL, was it too late in the NES life for you guys at that point? Either way it throw us all off when X came before 6 did lol

@nymbosox The game did release in early 1994 in NA, which was firmly into 16-Bit Territory. Capcom didn't publish the game in North America either, so that might be why Europe didn't get a release of 6. Nintendo of America published 6, and that might be why Nintendo of Europe didn't also publish 6. The NES was more popular in NA than it ever was in Europe from what I've read, and it might not have been viewed as a good investment with an even smaller market.

I'd wager a combination of the timeframe, no unified publisher, and reviewers growing more tired of the Mega Man formula. A word repeated a lot on the MM6 wiki page is redundant, how it's a redundant sequel, especially compared to X and how it was evolving the series formula.

I'll stick to the north american one, since it was the one i saw first, Japan's not bad.
Lost count as to how many times i beat this game, pure awesomeness

Voted for Japan, I like how more characters are represented.

@Xiovanni

I forget.

honestly both are cool but the western one loses out on the silly apple-red cheeks that western cartoonists thought looked cute on everybody for some inexplicable reason

Are we really just not differentiating between the North American and European covers? I like the art, but to me (an American, admittedly) the European one looks way too busy with that "pal version" and the unappealing clash of the black on the left and the greenish teal on the right (and also on the far left, for some reason). It's also kinda weird that it doesn't include the Capcom logo, though that doesn't bother me.

North america is way better than the japanese one, sigma looks goofy in the japanese box art version.

It's kind of weird that snes western box art usually better than the japanese version, but playstation box art usually has better japanese version (like ico for example).

Japan's looks nicer. Lol at your good sense of humor.

I can't tell which one I like more. They're both goofy for their own specific reasons: Western box art X looks really cool in his fully decked out armor, but his face is killing it for me, meanwhile in the Japanese box art, Sigma looks like your uncle stepping through the door all like "Hey! How's it going?!" meanwhile he just walked in on a family intervention, and everyone in the room was trying to be serious. I guess for nostalgia reasons as well as the armor being cool as hell, I'll pick the western box art.