American Kirby Is Hardcore: Difference between revisions

* The first Super Famicom ''[[Ganbare Goemon]]'' game was translated and brought over as ''Legend of the Mystical Ninja'', and [[Macekre|funky character renaming aside]] (Kid Ying and Dr. Yang? ''REALLY?''), the [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/goemon/goemon1sfc.jpg box art] was suitably [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/goemon/mysticalninjasnesa.jpg "Americanised"].

* ''[[EVO Search for Eden|E.V.O. Search for Eden]]'' is a [[Subversion]]; compare the [http://web.archive.org/web/20150330071406/http://ocremix.org/files/images/games/snes/5/e-v-o-search-for-eden-snes-cover-front-76900.jpg SNES version's] realistic, if fanciful, box art to the [[Kawaiiko|considerably cutesier]] [http://www.videogameden.com/sfc/cover/evo.jpg Super Famicom version]. Looks like a straight example, right? It turns out that the SNES version is actually using the ''original'' cover art from ''[http://medium.media.vgm.io/albums/59/1495/1495-1262596848.png 4.6 Billion Year Story: The Theory of Evolution]'',<ref>Which is what the SFC version of E.V.O. is named in Japan. Image is the cover art for the [http://vgmdb.net/album/1495 Symphonic Synth Suite album].</ref> made by the same company for the [[PC 98|PC-9801]], and of which ''E.V.O.'' is a (loose) port!

* Just when you thought Nintendo was eschewing this with Kirby, along comes ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]''. In Japan and Europe, the box to Link's latest DS adventure features him happy riding his train (the train being the game's big innovation, after all) while in America, he's doing his best to look like a sword-brandishing tough guy. [http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452033569e20120a62ab5b1970b-pi Which kind of clashes with the art style.]

** Ironically, this also meant that America pretty much erased Zelda's ''first appearance on the box art of one of her own games'', since the PAL and Japanese boxart features her {{spoiler|in her ghost form and therefore suspiciously pale}} sitting on the top of the train. No, the pink Phantom on the American boxart does ''not'' count.

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