Box-Art-Schlägerei: Schall-CD
Hallo Leute, und willkommen zu einer weiteren Ausgabe von Box-Art-Schlägerei!
As usual, Werfen wir einen Blick darauf Ausgabe der letzten Woche before we crack on with another high stakes brawl. We threw the NES classic Punch Out!! into the ring to see which of the very distinct variants would come out on top. Rather surprisingly, it seems that the vast majority of you preferred the version featuring “Iron Mike” himself, Mike Tyson. Gewinnen mit 57% der Abstimmung, it beats out the Gold Edition at 29%, and the Mr. Dream variant at 14%. Well done, Mike!
Diese Woche, we’re going to be looking at Schall-CD for the Sega CD. Launched back in 1993 as a planned enhanced port of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic CD is a curious entry to the franchise that felt a tad messy at times, but was nevertheless well received for its unique time travel feature and exceptional music.
We’ve got three distinct variants this week from North America, Europa, und Japan, so it’s going to be a proper three-way brawl, which is just the way we like it! So enough chit-chat, let’s get on with the show.
Achten Sie darauf, Ihre Stimme in der unten stehenden Umfrage abzugeben; but first, Schauen wir uns die Box-Art-Designs selbst an.
Nordamerika
North America’s version of Sonic CD is arguably much busier than the other variants, featuring Sonic and Metal Sonic grasping for a Time Stone while a pretty sizable explosion lights up the background. We have to admit, we like the fact that Sonic is just casually smirking here, despite the clear danger he seems to be in. That’s the way to do it, Sonic!
Europa
Europe’s version is a lot more straight-forward and makes full use of the smaller space available on the game’s cover. We see extreme close-ups of both Sonic and Metal Sonic gazing menacingly at each other and… gut, that’s about it! There’s a weird, sort of paint-splattered background effect going on, aber wirklich, the focus here is on the two characters. It’s certainly impactful!
Japan
Schließlich, Japan’s version is an expanded variant of what we saw for the EU cover. Sonic and Metal Sonic are once against glaring at each other against a pure black background, but this time we’ve got a funky, Sonic-themed border around the outside, Das ist ziemlich großartig! We love the font design for the title itself here, even if it is unreasonably squished.
Danke fürs Wählen! Wir sehen uns das nächste Mal für eine weitere Runde des Box Art Brawl.