Poll: Box Art Brawl: Donkey Konga

I can’t deal with the japanese and European logo. I know Donkey Kong’s toothy smile is iconic but I’ve never liked it, so anything that doesn’t have that is better. NA it is.

Europe by far, it doesn't have any visual clutter like the NA version and the box art design actually has good art that gives you a general representation of the game unlike the Japan one.

Ahhh love the tagline … brings back so many memories with that song and playing the bongos.

Ollie … You know your games

On the American one, are those people on the box even in the game?

Gotta be Europe then Japan in that order for me. I'm all for understated simplicity.

The American box art feels like an advertisement, which probably helps in the store, but when I've already paid money for the game it just feels like I've bought a commercial for the product I already paid for.

A rare example of a pre-Wii game using photos of casual party game fans to sell their game, at least in NA. not a fan of that personally.

JP one looks funny and have some kind of positive energy in it, imo. JP one for me this week.

Europe feels empty. NA has people but I like the way donkey Kong looks. Japan wins for me due to the other 2 sucking.

This is the 1st time I couldn’t vote. All of them look pretty bad to me.

All three are hilariously bizarre for different reasons but I'd have to go with the Japanese box art since it reminds me of an arcade flyer, which fits the game the best being a goofy, arcade-style rhythm game.

ew, the American one might have kept me from buying it, yuck... the European one since best in balance, although I like the mosaic of the Japanese

I'm digging the flash that is Japan!

EU for me all the way. Humans on a cover for a video game would make me steer far away from that game.

I must be very tired, I swear I read the North American description as "North America definitely has the rhythm".

As for my pick, I'll go with Japan. I'll elaborate on why later.

EDIT: Now I'm awake, I voted Japan because it is the one that does feel like a Gamecube cover art, the European one is so empty and the North American one feels like a flyer or something.

Also, people may not know this but Donkey Konga is actually a trilogy. The third game was only released in Japan.

I owned the NA version but they all look terrible in my opinion.

I'll go with Japan this week. I like that it really leans into the tropical island vibe (the background looks like art that wouldn't feel out of place on the side of a building in the Caribbean or something).

EU is probably second. I think it's thrown off by the fact that it has two different depictions of DK though, and the background is generic.

US is terrible this week. Looks like Wii era shovelware, and there's too much text.

They're all a bit... blah, but Japan wins this one.

The NA version is ugly. The European one has nice character models. The Japanese one has a fun color scheme and 2D art, I voted for that.

Japan and it isn't even close, that NA cover is atrocious

The North American box art is the worst one here. I voted for Europe for having both Diddy Kong and Donkey Kong, Japan's is a close second.

NA is terrible, EU is alright, JP is alright but better than EU.

JP is meh, NA the real people makes it weird, so Euro it is-simple but nice.

This one was hard because they're all so underwhelming 😅

I don't know if any of these are exactly good, but I do know that the NA cover is absolutely horrible. From the stupid marketing line on the bottom to the random stock picture of people fake smiling for some reason, a tactic that reminds me of the TurboGrafx 16 box(also horrible), it's a total disaster. I voted for Europe because I don't think the game's logo is strong enough to carry the Japanese cover.

As per usual the NA one looks like a bootleg.

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 58

Japan: 60

North America: 65

Australia and New Zealand: 1

Honestly, all three box art covers are ugly looking.

Giving this one to Japan. The NA one feels peak 2005 or whenever this game came out but I just love the colors and look of the Japan one so much more it’s so pretty.

Europe has twice as much Donkey Kong as the others and is therefore the best.

Such a weird game. Pretty fun even if it got painful after playing for half an hour. A shame there weren't any other games to utilize the drums, at least that I ever saw.

I actually don't like any of them.

Voted Japan, Europe is fine, NA might be one of my least favorite box arts ever. The rhythm is not in me.

America, and it's not even close. Europe's doesn't even look finished.

The North American variant would easily get the most excited to play the game of I saw it at the store. The other two are nice too, but they are missing something that catches my eye.

You should put the actual box game art instead of the inside package box. Not very good representation of the art

Never had to knock on wood, but I know someone who has…

I think the NA version describes best what kind of game to expect. It‘s more more of a party game for casual players than a game like Donkey Kong Country.

The only part of any of them that I like is the NA DK. So I held my nose and voted for that one. And now I have to wash my voting thumb.

Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet, but the AU copy I have features a different cover to both the NA and EU ones.

https://cdn.mobygames.com/covers/4321821-donkey-konga-gamecube-other.jpg

Not sure if we got a separate cover, or whether the bundle did, but I thought it might be worth mentioning, since a lot of people seem to find the people the least appealing thing about the NA cover, and this removes that, while keeping the other main elements intact.

@FullMetalWesker Dude! This one is the best! Thanks for the link.

My original comment was just going to be if I was the only one that saw the 3 people on the NA box art, and wondered whatever happened to them? Did they go on to model for other things, or is this the highlight of their career, and they still keep a copy of the game on their book cases for their friends to see when they visit.