Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves.
Europe / North America
One look at the EU/NA cover tells you all you need to know about Twilight Princess: It’s the one for the dog. The red logo still takes pride of place on the top half of the box, but the rest of the cover is surprisingly muted for a Zelda game, awash in grays and browns.
As anyone who’s played Twilight Princess will be able to tell you, that color palette is surprisingly accurate – this is a much darker Zelda game and the cover accurately conveys that. Slap the central image of Link in human and wolf form (two sides of the same coin style) and this cover is a neat summary.
Japan
On the other hand, the cover of Japan was something completely different. “Nobody’s going to want dogplay,” they must have thought, “just show me sexy emo Link.” And that’s exactly what we got.
Link stands front and center on this one in his new armor redesign. A similar diagonal split is happening here as we see on the EU/NA cover, but instead of showing the old wolf on the other side, we instead get a fade in black and orange pixels of the Twilight Realm. It’s certainly more of an obvious Zelda game in its increased liveliness and image of Link, but is it all that Twilight Princess-y?
Thanks for voting! See you next time for another round of Box Art Brawl.
