Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Jack Bros. (Virtual Boy)

Japan for Pyro Jack and Jack Frost. Also those fairies look adorable

Wow, the US cover is so bad!

The US cover hides the third characters face behind the games name? This alone makes that cover unvotable…

The US cover has its own weird unique style…. Love it. Even though it has nothing to do with the game. It’s so bizarre it’s good.

JP one, easily. It has Jack Frost on the cover, hee hoo!

Surprised America is winning here. Japan has the actual character designs at least. Not a fan of made-up westernized ones.

Knowing nothing of this game, if I were to buy something on a whim and these two options were presented side by side, I would buy the NA one.

Though I am reading here the JP one is more like the game itself... oh well, vote was cast.

For a game rated K-A, that US cover sure is terrifying and not representative of the product

I voted Japan for the awesome Gameboy aesthetic, and lack of disturbing nipples. Though honestly I like The US art just fine.

I like the US style more, but the logo obscuring one of the main characters is an epic design fail.

The US one just changed the characters and tone and then stuck the logo over one of their faces? I’m genuinely baffled that anyone voted for it, Japan’s is so much better!

Normal I like art that reveals how the game will look and play I had to vote for NA this week.

NA one is just hideous. Gotta go Japan, hee-ho.

I actually kinda love the NA cover. I have no idea what Jack Bros is, but it does make me want to play the game. Even though I'd probably be disappointed considering it's a virtual boy game of all things.

Japan cover is easily my choice because of Jack Frost. I'm a bit surprised that the NA cover is winning though. (Also the NA title on the cover is blocking a character.)

I love the more intimidating look of the North American cover, so I voted for that one.

@Poodlestargenerica It's actually not nipples. Gotta look at it more closely. Those things are hanging on the green thing of that character. (But yeah it's easy to mistake them for nipples.)

@IceEarthGuard The funny thing is, I know the whole art, and I still thought they were nipples.

This is a close one for me, but I felt like the colors popped more on the North American variant, so that is the one I went with!

Japan for sure, if only because it uses the intended character/art designs.

It's a Japanese game, any western attempt to de-Japanese/anime a game's art direction immediately renders that region's art ineligible, no matter how good it otherwise is.

NA’s is unmistakably cooler, but I voted JP since it’s more representative of the actual game and Jack Frost isn’t covered by the game’s title in that one.

That's some visual whiplash right there.

I think the NA cover has pretty good art. The problem is it's so cramped due to the big logo obscuring one of the featured characters, along with the Virtual Boy logo and the border. Skeleton guy might be crouching, or he might be on the verge of getting crushed between the two logos. The Japanese cover is much simpler. I might not have picked it if the NA art wasn't obscured and crushed. But Japan's ended up working better for having more room to breathe. It just worked better. Japan it is for me.

Gotta go with Japan as it has the actual art from the series and also doesn't lie about what's in the box.

Also and even though the US horror redesigns are fun, I find it hilarious that the title has been stuck there right on Jack Frost's face, preventing us from seeing how the main character actually looks in this crazy over the top slasher reimagining. I know Jack Frost is not the only character but still it's kind of the mascot for the whole series. Let's just say it screams to me that people who handled this did not really know the source material.

EDIT : and also hee-ho

Plenty of characters in Shin Megami Tensei are nightmare fuel, but this is supposed to be about Jack Frost and his bros. Did nobody in the NA office read the brief or play the game?

Japan should be walking this one home (says the guy with a Jack Frost keyring)

Absolutely Japan. It’s more faithful to the actual characters and tone of the game as opposed to the North American box.

Voted for Japan because it actually matches the characters and the game better, though I do think the NA cover is pretty neat, if messy.

Although it looks like disparate quality scans strike again! The Japan cover looks a smidge washed out, and seems to have been blown up from a smaller image...

Voting NA, both cover suck, but, NA cover tries at least to tell a story hahaha.

So happy this in on here! The fact that Jack Frost is covered up is heinous and his nipples are nightmare fuel but it's just much more exciting than the Japanese one, even if it does show the characters and the game's concept faithfully. If they were a bit bigger and bolder I'd go for it but against my expectations going in the US pips it for me. It's so bad it's good.

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 70

Japan: 69

North America: 81

Australia and New Zealand: 1

I've never heard of this game, but im going with North America. It looks like artwork for a haunted house attraction.

The American one is amazing and stupid. I love it. I vote for it.

Never heard of this, but the NA artwork ticks the nostalgia box. Loved early 90s artwork like this, which promised a game that the pixels could only deliver when coupled with your imagination.

I think they are both incredible. I love the NA cover because it reminds me of how much we had to rely on our imaginations in the "good ol' days" (gaming is better than ever imo). The Japanese one looks like a videogame ass videogame, and I'm into that too. Voted for NA because nostalgia for old covers.

Voted Japan on this one not only because those designs are the actual designs but the American one literally obscures one of the characters faces for no reason

The American one covers the face of the main character.

It loses my vote just for that alone.

@Banks Those aren't nipples. Lol