indiegames
January 12th, 2010, 13:40
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/500x_rainuk.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/rainuk.jpg)What is it with American publishers - Sony Computer Entertainment in particular - and ruining nice pieces of foreign box art that should otherwise have been left untouched? Take Heavy Rain (http://kotaku.com/tag/heavyrain/), for example.
Above is the PAL cover to the game, revealed a month or so ago. It's dark, it's mysterious, it's slightly menacing. Exactly like Heavy Rain. It's a classy cover!
Now look at the American cover, below, spotted on Amazon. SCEA obviously believed an all-origami cover wasn't obvious enough, and instead filled the cover with...well, yes. A couple of things wetter, and more prominent, than the papercraft.
It's not quite as bad as the stunt Sony pulled with Ico's cover (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/17/sonys-kobayashi-better-ico-box-art-could-have-boosted-sales/) back in the day, but then, few stunts could be.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/500x_rainus.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/rainus.jpg)
[via Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Rain-Playstation-3/dp/B002CZ38KA)]
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kotaku/full/~4/0tKzI6SVccg
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/0tKzI6SVccg/another-perfectly-good-piece-of-box-art-ruined-by-americans)
Above is the PAL cover to the game, revealed a month or so ago. It's dark, it's mysterious, it's slightly menacing. Exactly like Heavy Rain. It's a classy cover!
Now look at the American cover, below, spotted on Amazon. SCEA obviously believed an all-origami cover wasn't obvious enough, and instead filled the cover with...well, yes. A couple of things wetter, and more prominent, than the papercraft.
It's not quite as bad as the stunt Sony pulled with Ico's cover (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/17/sonys-kobayashi-better-ico-box-art-could-have-boosted-sales/) back in the day, but then, few stunts could be.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/500x_rainus.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/rainus.jpg)
[via Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Rain-Playstation-3/dp/B002CZ38KA)]
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/kotaku/full?i=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/kotaku/full?a=0tKzI6SVccg:ydNFaSI5CSA:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kotaku/full/~4/0tKzI6SVccg
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/0tKzI6SVccg/another-perfectly-good-piece-of-box-art-ruined-by-americans)