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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    Just to clarify with people, FF XII had a 16+ pegi rating too, mainly because of the battle cutscenes at the start, so nothing out of the ordinary here
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    I'm wondering if the European box art will continue the trend of just being white with the game title / logo running through the middle. Given how Square have bucked a trend with releasing a new entry into the FF series, they could well roll with this for the PAL box art.

    I like this image of Lightning though. It's not amazing. But it's a cool piece of art that's a little enigmatic.
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    12/01/09

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    up-skirt intentional
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    12/01/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: She's wearing shorts :s.
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    12/01/09

    @yargh: lol
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    I really like the minimalist modern look to it. It's not like I stare at the sleeve while I play the game anyway.

    Buuuuuuuut. I'm sure NA will get something a little bit more baroque.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    I have to say, it's a pretty minimalistic design for such a major game.

    On the other hand, I wouldn't like an overly ornate cover that ends up making the case look gawdy. Sometimes less is more.
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    12/01/09

    @RockyRan: Interesting enough it's rather overdone compared to the old FF games prior to FF8/FF9, in which it was usually just a white background with the title I believe.
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    12/01/09

    @Kitty: Prior to today I was only aware of the US covers of Final Fantasy games (never been a big FF fan), which are extremely ornate designed to give an "epic movie" look. I definitely like the idea of the logo on white background, though. It makes it look classy (that, and the logos of Final Fantasy games are always very good in my opinion)
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    12/01/09

    @RockyRan: Yeah. Japanese sleeves are pretty minimalist like this. It makes sense. A Japanese gamer probably knows exactly what they're getting when they buy a Final Fantasy game. In the US, they have to try harder since it's not considered mainstream.
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    12/01/09

    @RockyRan: Yeah that's what I liked about the initial design. American designs are much more in your face and try to capture your attention on the large wall of video games sales.

    There's a good chance that in Japan they're still using just the title with the logo for FFXIII though, I can't be certain. Really makes the logos more memorable too when they're not in competition with everything else on the cover.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    They were doing good with FFX and XII, giving the rest of the world besides Japan boxarts that contained some nice designs, and not just "Final Fantasy logo on white background", but it seems that's starting to carry over to other regions. I think this mentality has carried over from the majority of Square's Final Fantasy DS games that feature similarly boring boxart.
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    12/01/09

    @Mit: Only america used to get an alternative box art and we were fine with it I don't understand why we have to get the same cover as the american version while all the other main titles are with the normal logo.
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    12/01/09

    @Legna: Ah, you are correct.

    In that case, I hope my American boxart does not look like this _ This isn't even as classy as the older boxarts that just had the logo on them (featuring enlarged Yoshitaka Amano art at most). The big CG art of Lightning kind of breaks that up for me.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    God, it's like some of you guys complaining about this box art have never bought a FF game before.

    Almost ALL of the Japanese covers have been white with the FF logo - that's it. Ditto for the Euro covers, which are often just the Japanese ones. This actually has more going on than most.

    Doubtful it'll be the US cover anyway, but I actually wish it was. The US FF covers too often cheese it up and dumb it down.

    FF is supposed to be a classy game, it should have a classy cover treatment.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    Damn... Why couldn't they keep it in theme with the other PAL versions were it was strictly the logo of each game on the cover with a plain white background, it was nice and clean that way D:

    One thing is wierd though, in the 360 cover, because the boxes are taller, you see more of Lightning than in the PS3 cover, I wonder why they didn't have each box show the same amount, but just proportion her smaller on the PS3 box to fit in.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    Looks okay. Curious what the NA box will look like.
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    12/01/09

    @Đipic: My guess is they'll have Snow or Snow + Lightning on the front cover to try and "appeal" to a wider audience there.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    Seriously? This looks like mockup art.

    I'm guessing they'll tweak that for the US market at least...
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    I approve this Lightning #crotchshot.
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    Does anyone else find the proximity of the 16 logo to Lightning's crotch strange xD
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    nothing eerie about the xbox 360 and the FF logo if you ask me,i have had this one for quite a few years now

    EDIT:and once again when i edit my post on here the picture disappears
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    12/01/09

    @metallicorphan:
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    I disliked the FFXII Boxart in the US because it didn't have the logo design like it did in all previous releases.

    It should be more like FFX!
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    12/01/09

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Box Art, Now With More Xbox 360
    What do we have always get the crummy 3D renders on our boxarts?
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