Final Fantasy XII side by side

I like both. The manual of the US version looks cooler.

The actual cover I like in the now traditional style of plain white and the Amano logo's. NTSC-J and PAL FF's always use this style. Find it odd how it's always the US that makes use of full cover art whilst Europe and Japan use the simple, yet effective logo. Almost every FF on the PSOne up to PS2 has been like that. Heck, even Crystal Chronicles. The US versions all used some new image (FFVII-Cloud, FFVIII-Squall/Seifer/etc, FFIX-Garnet/etc, FFX-Tidus, FFXI-stuff...). Oh well. Both look nice.

A shame you didn't get the tin version.

Man, could the FFXII characters be any more uglier?

The US one looks craptacularly photoshopped.
I prefer the boxart from Japan.

Another vote for Japanese box art. It's not that the US one looks bad. It just doesn't look as elegant as the jp one.

Sqaure-Enix of America is screwing us, mang! I swear they are. The way I see it, they think us Americans need pictures of characters to sell us on a game, even if it is Final Fantasy.

I much prefer the approach of the majority of Japanese boxarts.

I prefer the simple style of the japanese box art, the u.s version is way to colorful, its almost like they intend to only sell it to 5 year olds.

Put down one more vote for the Japanese box art. Then again I suppose that I have always liked the plain FF logos that they come up with for each installment, so it's not too suprising.

You guys arent thinking it thru.Yes the Japanese logo looks nice with its simple style.But if you saw it in a display stand next to lots of other games,it would look pretty damn underwhelming.

US Version.Easy.

I prefer the Japanese style. It leaves more to the imagination, and for me, generates more excitement. The design is clean and simple, but at the same time, I am awestruck by it. The US design has too much clutter, IMHO.

To be honest, it's always the plain (or shiny) stuff that stand out to me in a shop shelf. There's little in the way of it so that's why my eyes usually veer off into the direction of the plain box.

I HATE ALL OF U

I prefer the US cover.. BTW; what it says in the back of the US cover?

I prefer the Japanese one, no contest. Simple and elegant. The "collage of heads" on the US box is ridiculous and unnecessary.

i prefer the US one better. the Japan, in sales, would not sell for anything, poeple would take one look and think it was a crappy version of an older game. The US has value and actually shows u the poeple ur going to use and shows just by the front cover that the story lines are based on what u see fro mthe cover