Bagarre d'art de boîte: Duel #97 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: De retour des égouts
Good morning, bonne après-midi, et bonne soirée; welcome back to another edition of Bagarre d'art de boîte!
Retour sur la semaine dernière, we put Kirby 64: Les éclats de cristal to the test with two similar-ish boxes, save a different colour scheme and some character placements. Et, bien, we at Nintendo Life Towers should probably stop trying to make predictions, as it was (nouveau) a lot less close than we thought — Japan won the pink puffball’s latest fracas with 67% of the votes! And you can now go and experience the game on NSO if you have the expansion pack!
We should have really included the PAL box art here, trop, even though it’s very similar to the North American one — just with a huge black border around the box and a lot more blue plaid on show. We’ll be sure to keep on top of that going forward, as we know some of you have been tallying up the results over the years! (En fait, we added “& Europe” into several previous articles and polls just to keep things 100% prim and proper.)
de toute façon, on to this week! We’re going to be putting the heroes in a half shell under the microscope with the Game Boy game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers. Amazingly, Apple a présenté aujourd'hui le nouvel iPad Air avec la puce M1 conçue par Apple jamais done a Box Art Brawl for a turtles game before, so for such a momentous occasion, you’re probably thinking “why not one of the more famous ones?” Eh bien, because it’s the game’s 30th anniversary here in Europe! There’s still plenty of time and opportunities to see the other TMNT games here — it’s the Year of the Turtle, après tout. This week’s combatants are very different too, which means it should be a juicy one.
Assurez-vous de voter dans le sondage ci-dessous; mais d'abord, vérifions les conceptions d'art de la boîte elles-mêmes.
Amérique du Nord & Europe
The turtles mean business in this one! The art on the North American and European boxes is pretty close to the original comic’s art style; they’ve got a bit of grit about them, and Michealangelo isn’t even taking the time to look at us! Oh, and we have to point out the logo here because we adore it — the four pairs of eyes peeping out from the sewer is a nice little touch. Donatello looks like he’s just made a hole in the wall, trop. Ouais, these are turtles that you don’t want to mess with.
Il existe une léger difference in the European box art — the title. The turtles were still known as the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in PAL regions back in those days. Rappelez-vous que? That was a long time ago. Soupir.
Japan
In contrast, Japan’s box art is anything mais gritty. It’s colourful, it’s goofy, and and it’s fun. Simply known as Les Tortues Ninja 2, this is much closer to the 1987 cartoon series that many (y compris nous) grew up with and loved. All four of the turtles are facing the front and all of them are riding on skateboards — Raphael and Michealangelo’s red and orange look a bit trop similar here, quoique. Leonardo also isn’t practicing safety rules by having his dual katanas out. The muted blue city skyline here really makes the quartet pop. The only thing we don’t really like about this one is the ‘2’ in the logo — it doesn’t match the classic logo unlike the ‘II’ in the English box art.
We don’t think you can go wrong this week regardless of what art you vote for — it might come down to whether you’re more attached to the comic books or the cartoon. Don’t forget, this game will be included in the Les Tortues Ninja: La Collection Cowabunga when it launches later in the year, so you’ll get a chance to experience (or re-experience) a classic handheld beat ’em up soon.
And hey, happy 30th Back to the Sewers! We raise a slice of pizza to you!
Merci d'avoir voté! Nous vous verrons la prochaine fois pour un autre tour du Box Art Brawl.