Western vs Eastern Game Characters: Muscles vs Moe

Cuz American proud of their god gift appearance that's the best in the world, unlike japanese as none anime people(real japanese) aren't so good looking like american so they make them look kawaii.
American = Beautiful
Japanese = Cute
Your choice?

http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv240/Strife91/Other/4460411_33.png

There was an articale on Sankaku regarding character design of Gears of War vs. Final Fantasy

So let's see, the eastern characters are cute, beautiful, and strong.

The western characters are also strong, but, well, ugly.

i can't see the different between those ICO
;;^^a

Athena is also a good example. Check HG101 for arcade flyers.

As usual, america fails.... hard!

moe all the way~

Hahaha, the american Rockman and the Breath of Fire's 'Conan the Barbarian' clone expressions are priceless.

American have bad taste in art and moe..

I'd play that US bomberman over bomberman act zero

Suikoden (PSX) boxart makes me want to puke :)

MOE for president!!!!!!!!!

Like, eww. Interesting comparison, though... and a good warning to Japanese companies: Don't sell out!

moe > all

Hey musclekun meet moechan

9 month later came out

GHOST IN THE CRADLE

ICO looks like shit in the American cover version.

Too bad, since that game was great.

Ok here's a test.

Which to you is "Gayer"

1 a) A Dating sim where you try to win the hearts of 5 different types of Bishoujo.

1 b) A game where you play a musclebound he man from a planet of musclebound hemen thrusting your giant sword into other musclebound he men...and not a woman in sight.

2 a) A volleyball sports game with women in bikinis

2 b) A game where 10 sweaty men pile onto each other trying to grab balls

Inspirited by this article I made this thread on ASSEMblergames.com:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23337

Of course, there are a lot of ppl there who prefered the american covers that the japanese ones but...you can't blame them for their bad taste. :P

Fuck American box art. Fuck them taking away the Japanese voices. Fuck them ruining Japanese games in the American releases period. Fuck them for making region codes, making updates which disable region unlocking, and making stores not carry imports, modded consoles, or freeloaders. Fuck them for not making enough copies of the games they make.

Fuck them for making us beg and plead and bend over backwards just to let us enjoy the games we want to play and the way we want to play them.

Yeah... I'm reminded of a very awful Megaman box art which may very well have been a redesign. At least today they don't do that (for the most part).

Both of those ICO boxes look cool to me.

thus explaining our higher birthrate

the megaman one is epic xD

lol at the "minna no golf" image!
i can imagine those older games being westernized but when i saw that it was made for the ps3 i just had my when will they learn moment..

The Japanese box art is way better...

...WHY DO I LIVE IN AMERICA??!!!! WHY???!!!!

NICE MUSCLE XD

Moe moe kyun?
And god, I didn't knew about the BoF 2 one...

sorry, my moe loving brethren... but I have to go with the BOF2 american artwork *instantly gets transformed into a troll*. I don't know maybe it's just nostalgia from seeing that box so much on the rental racks and being such a fan of the conan the barbarian cartoon (I think I even made that connection the first time I saw the box as a kid). C'mon is there really no one here who actually owned that box back then? Instead I'm finding people who had "no idea". Did you first play the game in rom form? You're making me feel old.

Personally, I'm a fan of more muscular anime characters, like those from Street Fighter. And Richter Belmont was the best looking Castlevania character before that bishi artist got to him too, but I'd even take the NES works over some of the characters it has today. Characters in anime that are too moe, especially in the wrong context, come off as "market research" for me.

But I'm still against publishers changing someone's work just because of the belief that it'll make the title sell better in their territory. It's like censorship. That's what's really wrong with this.

I'll take moe any day over those froggish hypermasculine freaks.

The new worst boxart of all time is definitely the one for the US version of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier. THe Mega Man boxart was far less of an atrocity in comparison.

Yeah.. The packaging on that dungeon game is one MAJOR reason why I didn't pick it up.

If they'd kept the original box, I would have, though.

Also, I am utterly distraught at how they swapped out the ico box art. Fuck you america. Fuck you.

I would say thay sure not every one don´t buy game only for the box cover but I think that many are like me. When you walk in a game store to buy games, you some time happen to buy a game becuse the box cover appeald to u in some way when u where there and looked for a new game even if u never heard if the game you got atracted to it by the box cover.

If only there was a middle ground. Something between roid rage, vein popping western art, and frighteningly androgynous, feminine manboy eastern art.

Those two golf games aren't even the same game. WTF?

I'm amused that even though Mega Man has an arm cannon built in, he somehow ends up with a gun.

Wow! When I first saw Mystery Dungeon cover I thought the game was an american one.

Ha, ha, ha. Look at Mystery Dungeon. They even tried to make the weasel look manly.

When you have a moment, go look up the American cover for Pocky & Rocky. It is horrible enough to warrant mention.

I hate the second ICO cover, I have the first one (UK here) and I think it looks much better, personally. I don't like musclebound heros/heroines much. Cute and moe please!

If I recall correctly, Capcom did the same for later Megaman titles.

Typical US always gonna destory the orginal stuff im not saying it to be mean to US but when I comes game box art they always make it but uggly. But a few times good

you should have included Kirby in this. Often it used to be that they just added angry eyebrows to the Japanese box art and released that for the US audiences... lol

That western Rockman cover is a true classic. It's so hideous.

the bomberman and megaman wester characters are horrible.

LET'S MUSCLE!

I cant believe companies are still pulling this shit. Shirens cover art was great, the USA cover art looks almost exactly like the first Mega Man cover art. UGH!

You should had posted the japanese/western covers of Super Castlevania too =O

While megaman has awful box art it's not bad seeing how he spend a day on it rushing it(CoA called him a day before it was due).

On the flip side, the male characters in Manga/ anime are mostly Bishie Syndrome sufferers. Something unacceptable and unmanly to the US audience.

Except, Goku and the rest of the Super Aryans. (I meant Super Saiyans lol).

Heroic, macho, stoic, strong, - the stereotype of western heroes.

Arnie! (Governator!)

Perfect time for KINIKU!!!!!!!

I like moe!!! muscles does not attract something, it's when you see the cover you're challenged, but moe has the attraction aura...^^

I think those games would of done just as well if it wasn't muscled in the US. Most gamers at that time would probably buy and play it because it's a great game, not because of the cover art.

Its interesting that the 'modern mainstream consumer' studies have been proven wrong by this trend.

Apparently, Americans prefer men, steroids, manly women, and middle aged people.. Even that one white guy in that Videogames documentary admitted that the American version of Megaman looks too old.

Btw, how can you forgot Super Street Fighter Fugly?

http://www.errormacro.com/2007/04/the_saturday_scan_super_street.php

Why can't we have Muscles and Moe?

MOSCLES!!