Top 10 Good Video Games with Bad Box Art

The Top Ten
1 Shantae

The artwork of Shantae used on this box art gives me strong "How to Draw Manga" book and Archie Sonic vibes. I'm glad that they improved and got their act together with the covers to Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero though (however, I'm pretty envious of the Japanese and the super-awesome cover art they gave to the 3DS version of The Pirate's Curse myself).

LOL, I was waiting for this list.

2 Mega Man

The North American box art to this game is pretty infamous alright.

I like that they added box art mega man in Street Fighter as a joke.

It looks nothing like the actual game!

He looked so weird.

3 Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

The North American and Japanese box arts were decent but the European box art was bland though with having just a render of Klonoa on a white background.

4 Mega Man Zero 3

The European box art looks like something that should've been on the cover of a "How to Draw Manga" book instead.

5 Strider

I mean the North American SEGA Genesis box art, of course.

6 Mega Man Zero 2

The European box art is just a random 2D render of Zero being angry and about to hit you with 2 Z-Sabers on a generic, flashy yellow background.

7 Mobile Light Force 2

How do 3 Charlie's Angels rejects have anything to do with some Touhou-esque bullet hell game with anime-esque characters? And please don't get me started on the European box art...

8 Super Bust-A-Move

This baby is Justin Bieber.

9 Mobile Light Force
10 Mega Man 2
The Contenders
11 Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram

The Japanese box art is great but the North American cover is pretty bad though with just having a render of Temjin slapped on some cybernetic background.

12 Bust-a-Move 2: Arcade Edition
13 Phalanx

The cover alone tells me this is must be the greatest game ever. Why? Because it has a hillbilly playing the banjo. Can't argue with that.

14 Ico

Compare the American artwork to the Japanese. It's horrible

15 Tales of the Abyss
16 Barbie (Nes)

It is just a Barbie doll on a pink background. How lazy is that?

17 Barbie: Game Girl

Same as the Nes Barbie game

18 Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga

Who put this here? List items like this are the reason we have the boring white background cover arts nowadays.

19 Piglet's Big Game (Ps2/gamecube)
20 Amazon Trail II
21 Oregon Trail II
22 Dragon Ball Z Trilogy
23 Sonic the Hedgehog 3

I think the box art looks good.

24 Shantae: Risky's Revenge
25 Mega Man 3
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