Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Mega Man 7

Neither is bad but Japan wins in virtue of not showing Mega Man with pecs which uh. That just looks wrong on him lol.

....someone should mod that into Smash Bros though.

A real Showdown of Destiny this week. Went with Japan.

Seems like all of Rockman JP cover arts are better than non-Japanese. So, JP one for me.

For a change I voted US/EUR and I'm in the minority again! ^^

I really don’t like either… What is Proto Man shouting at? Why does Wiley look drunk? Why the overbearing color scheme on the US/PAL box? 🤮

Doesn't the Japanese box look like an 80s - vintage cheap BBC cartoon to anyone else?

I love the North American box art, but I have to give it to Japan.

The Japanese version for me. Looks awesome and I like how it features many characters, including Roll in her classic "pray" pose.

I prefer the Europe/NA one. I think the Japanese version looks more like a TV show poster. It gives me Robby the Rascal vibes (I hope other people remember Robby the Rascal).

As usual in these MegaMan polls, I went with the Japanese box art. They tend to focus on the games’ casts of characters, and I love the cartoony gallery art.

Going to go with the Japanese one. My curiousity is, however, is his blaster, where he has his on the right arm in the Europe/NA box, and left arm on the Japanese.

The Japanese box art just looks too jumbled up. The Western art has dynamic action while showing off some of the foes you must face. I went with the western box art.

"We can see the hero in the middle of the composition towards the bottom, with all the supporting cast, including Rush and Zero, lurking in the background."

You must have better eyesight than me, as I can't find Zero...

Honestly it feels like if you've judged one Mega Man boxart, you've judged them all. Even that seems pretty similar between games.

Japan. The characters there get a deserved appearance in the boxart limelight.

Japan's is a bit busy, sure. On the flip side, the NA cover is a bit sparse. Mega Man looks good, front and center in a dynamic pose. NA Mega Man covers sure came a long way at this point. But there's so much nearly empty space. Putting tiny enemies around the background randomly doesn't really lift up the composition. It's not bad. The Japanese one continues the design of jumbling up all the characters like a collage, and it's not a clean design, but I always thought it worked. Plus, the art style for Japanese Rock Man art just can't be beat. I prefer the Japanese cover, as usual.

Japan - this one wasn't close for me. I like having all of the main characters on the box. The other version has too much black-space, makes it difficult to see the other characters, and has a Laguna logo that feels really out of place. One thing I will give the other version - I think its Mega Man is more in line with the redesigned Mega Man they used for this game.

Zero? That's Bass!

I’m going to vote against the apple-cheeked Mega Man every single time.

Edit: another commenter has pointed to my attention that the Western Blue Bomber has inappropriate pectoral muscles. To that I add that he’s also a robot who sweats and wears a cute little belt buckle with his initials on it!

North America/ Europe looks so classic Super Nintendo, I love it.

The European cover is cool, but its more like back cover of an album design.

Honestly for this one I actually went NA/Europe because while I like the all together look of the Japanese one the red really does play off Megaman s blue.

Japan easily

@SmileMan64 Maybe she should team up with Paula?

I went with NA as it includes that awesome punk steam roller boss.

Is this one even a contest?

Both are great to be honest, but I'm going with Japan this time. I like the artwork just a little more.

Always hard to vote for the NA SNES boxes. Those big black borders and excess marketing logos make them seem like they’re “greatest hits” skus instead of AAA new releases

I like the japanese more, the western background is weird and too drab.

@Tempestryke LOL Awesome. No final boss could oppose them if they pray together.

I wanted to like the US box art, but it just a little… off. I think it just comes down Mega/Rock man expression. He looks stressed (I don’t even want to mention the fact that he’s sweating…) If he’d just had a confident smirk or something by like that, I would’ve preferred that cover more.

@SmileMan64 lol

@olliemar28 Out of topic, but have you guys already reported that Nintendo blocked international transactions in the eShop out of the country the credit card was issued in?
Nobody can buy in the Argentina shop at insane low prices anymore

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 61

Japan: 63

North America: 67

Australia and New Zealand: 1

I'm playing this right now on the Switch after my initial playthrough on the Wii U Virtual Console. The Dr. Wily in this game is unforgiving.

As for the box art I choose, I'll go with Japan as usual. Why does the western box art show Treble as if he's fighting alongside Mega Man? Where's Bass?

Not to mention, I love how Dr. Wily is like "Lemme be in the photo" between Freeze Man and Burst Man.

There is no sense of composition with the Japanese one. No direction. It doesn't guide the eye. There's no tension. It's as mentally empty as it is visually full.

As usual Japan gets it right so my vote goes there.

in a rare instance, the NA MegaMan box is pretty good. but, JP still wins.

A lot of early western Mega Man artwork in general has been awfully inconsistent with how they are actually depicted in the games themselves. I believe that stopped after Mega Man 7 and X3 (the gag box art for the American versions of MM9 and 10 were only done out of self-parody).

I found it kinda weird that the NA box art features Treble but not Bass.

I chose Japanese just because Mega Man looks more like he's supposed to look, but I'm not crazy about it either.

The overall composition of the Western art is better than the jumble of (admittedly well-drawn) character in the Japanese version. Point goes to West.

The Western one looks off model, like fan art almost. The Japanese one looks how I think Megaman and gang are supposed to look. And since it's Megaman, it makes a lot of sense showing all those bosses on the cover.