Hello everyone. Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
Last week’s Brawl featured the GBA kart classic Mario Kart Super Circuit. North America and Europe joined forces to take on Japan and win with a staggering 75% of the vote. It’s clear that the more simplified composition proved to be very popular with our readers, and we categorically agree.
This week we check out the SNES version of Prince of Persia that Konami has published for the system. This 1992 version of his game had better visuals and more levels compared to his original Apple II release and was quite well received by players and critics.
This week is a full three-way brawl. let’s start!
Vote in the poll below. First, let’s check out the box art design itself.
Europe
The European Prince of Persia design has been greatly scaled down to fit into the standard regional box layout, but has much in common with the Japanese design. That said, it’s a great piece, full of color and detail.
On the flip side though, it’s so truncated that it misses out on nice details like formidable skeletons rising out of what appears to be lava at the bottom. Look!
North America
So the North American variant, hmm… strangeThe prince himself jumps over the title of the game, with an interesting gold pattern in the background. It’s certainly bold, but I’m not quite sure why this was chosen when Japanese/European designs exist.I can’t imagine this being particularly popular with voters.
Japan
The Japanese design is the full image seen in the North American version and shows everything that is missing from the cropped image. Even looks like it’s hidden underneath out of the way of a beautiful image.
We feel like we know how this vote will turn out, but it’s been horribly wrong in the past, so let’s see!
Thank you for voting! See you at the next Box Art Brawl.
