The CEO of Nintendo has recently made some interesting comments to the effect that he is glad his predecessor dared to defy the advice of his American advisors and not turn Pokémon into muscle-bound monstrosities, because “Monsters can’t be cute.”
Of course, we all know how well Pokémon turned out, but what about games where the wisdom of American marketing prevailed and the characters were redesigned to meet the exacting standards of Western tastes? You can see some examples below…
Via Hachimaki.
This continues even to this day, with at times disturbing results…
thus explaining our higher birthrate
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.
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. 😛
The EU version of Ico has the original cover.
f♥♥k American box art. f♥♥k them taking away the Japanese voices. f♥♥k them ruining Japanese games in the American releases period. f♥♥k them for making region codes, making updates which disable region unlocking, and making stores not carry imports, modded consoles, or freeloaders. f♥♥k them for not making enough copies of the games they make.
f♥♥k 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.
If both american and japanese both gets profit from each other, it doesn’t really matter. it’s all about the money.