Author Topic: BEST AND WORST IN SERIES? Week 16: Box Art (Read 15273 times)

Nintendoobsessed · « **on:** May 25, 2008, 04:02:36 PM »

Rather subtle, but which Mario game had the best Box Art?

BEST: Super Paper Mario (1)

WORST: Super Mario Bros (1)

NOMINATIONS:
Best bowser/fortress/castle music (7)
Best Mario Sports game (2)
Best Level (1)
(Nominations require 10 votes to become a reality)

BEST Winners:
WEEK 1(Attacks): Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
WEEK 2(Final Boss Battle): Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
WEEK 3(Music): Super Mario Galaxy
WEEK 4(Underwater Levels): Super Mario World
WEEK 5(Powerups): Super Mario Bros 3
WEEK 6(Bowser Level):Paper Mario
WEEK 7(First Boss): Super Mario 64
WEEK 8(Yoshi's Role): Yoshi's Island
WEEK 9(Intro): Super Mario Galaxy
WEEK 10(Ending): Paper Mario
WEEK 11(Races): Super Mario 64
WEEK 12(Non-Bowser bosses): Yoshi's Island
WEEK 13(Hub):Super Mario Sunshine
WEEK 14(Hub Dwellers): Super Mario Galaxy
WEEK 15(Title Screen): Super Mario 64

WORST Winners:
WEEK 13(Hub): Super Mario Galaxy/Super Paper Mario
WEEK 14(Hub Dwellers): Super Mario Sunshine
WEEK 15(Title Screen): Mario Kart Wii

BP · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2008, 04:20:00 PM »

Best: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. It... makes me want to play the game!
Worst: Super Mario Sunshine. Mario looks like a bad person, it has a bunch of hoo-hah about moves and stuff that you can't even read, and on top of all that... it's boring.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2008, 04:50:44 PM »

BEST: Super Mario All-Stars. Mario in a top hat, with plenty of fun in the background.

WORST: I'll have to split my vote again. 60% to Sunshine, for the same reasons as Bird Person, and 40% to I Am A Teacher: Super Mario's Sweater:

Mr. Wiggles · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2008, 05:16:19 PM »

Best: Super Mario Strikers. The art style makes it look pretty epic.

Worst: Mario Kart Wii. Same boring promotional picture.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2008, 06:09:40 PM »

Best: M&L:SS, PM2, and SM64.
Worst: SMS (WTD is up with the text encircling him?) and MKWii (did LoZ:TP's cover have Link on a white background with his shadow holding a sword? Didn't think so).

Robert · « **Reply #5 on:** May 25, 2008, 09:46:39 PM »

Best Boxart: Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (Epic)

Worst Boxart: Super Mario Sunshine (Mario has that expression that just screams, "what are you lookin' at, punk?)

Kuromatsu · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2008, 10:22:18 PM »

Best: Paper Mario TTYD. I can't really say anything about it. I just like it.

Worst: Mario Kart DS. Mario Breakdancing(?) on his Kart? What?

penguinwizard · « **Reply #7 on:** May 25, 2008, 11:03:07 PM »

Best Art: Super Mario Kart. Part nostalgia (even though I never bought the game, I've rented it several times), part giddyness from all the character chaos and the personality of old-fashioned 2D art. It almost looks better than the 3D art of more recent games.

Worst Art: Mario Kart Wii. No background, and the two are just floating there holding Wii Wheels. I just think it's cheap that a character holds a Wii peripheral. Imagine Link holding a Wii Remote to mimic shooting an arrow in Crossbow Training. Or Amaterasu holding the remote like a paintbrush for Okami Wii (with various website logos in plain sight near Ammy's body).
Second-worst would be Super Mario Sunshine, now that I notice the pointless text surrounding Mario.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2008, 12:27:00 AM »

Best: I'm going to go with SMB3 on this one.
Worst that I can think of right now: MKWii.

Kojinka · « **Reply #9 on:** May 26, 2008, 12:32:35 AM »

Best: PiT or TTYD

Worst: MKW for the same reasons as Mr. Wiggles and penguinwizard. It's like they didn't even bother to make more concept art that markets the game itself and not the peripheral.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #10 on:** May 26, 2008, 09:07:39 AM »

Quote from: Kojinka on May 26, 2008, 12:32:35 AM

It's like they didn't even bother to make more concept art that markets the game itself and not the peripheral.

Well, they certainly never describe their games anywhere beyond what the Wiimote/stylus does.

blackcat12 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 26, 2008, 01:24:22 PM »

BEST: M&L: Partners in Time. Very nice artwork that makes you want to play the game badly!

WORST: no preference.

missingno · « **Reply #12 on:** May 26, 2008, 03:00:06 PM »

BEST - Super Mario Bros.- I'm a fan of the pixelated box-art in early NES games.
WORST - Super Mario Sunshine - Mario with FLUDD... how exciting.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #13 on:** May 26, 2008, 04:05:14 PM »

Quote from: missingno on May 26, 2008, 03:00:06 PM

BEST - Super Mario Bros.- I'm a fan of the pixelated box-art in early NES games.

Look at the Japanese box art:

Now look at this:

I know this is obviously for American box arts, but... look what we missed out on!

jmdblazer · « **Reply #14 on:** May 26, 2008, 04:50:08 PM »

Best: Partners in Time. There is just so much going on in that picture that it really makes you want to play it.

Worst: Mario Kart Wii. Read the earlier posts.