Box Art Anthology: Final Fantasy IV

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I like the original Japanese PSOne and GBA covers best.

There were some nice art cards that came with the European Edition of Anthology. Nice indeed.

i like the wonderswan one the most !!!

i like the gba/ps1 (japan) the most,its good i passed it for a while
and managed to get this too good to be true :) remake instead..

When FF2 came out for SNES, I didn’t care what the box looked like. It blew my mind.

Amano art always make a FF cover look classy. I would have to agree the PSOne and GBA looking better than the DS’s. I wonder if the US version would take out the illustration and use a plain logo again like FF 3, which is a pity.

I have a soft spot for the SD art on the SF box. Every time I dig my copy out its so nice to see those little guys marching along. I cant wait for the mooks and guides to come out for this game.

I love how busy Japanese box art is. The Super Famicom box art is my fav because it barely has anything to do with the game. I like the fact that they just used generic class illustrations for the cover (with the exception of what I would guess to be Rosa and Edge.)

I really like the mock up they were using over the summer. The black cover with Golbez behind the title looked really cool. I kind of hope they use something like that for the U.S release.

Of course the US ones are trash and the FFA one has nothing really to do with IV. I agree with Pizza Pasta, the SFC artwork is very cute! But the overall composition and feel of the Playstation logo is my favourite by far.

I still not very fond of this game, to be honest…

The Super Famicom is cute, but doesn’t really grab my attention. The Super Nintendo is just bland, devoid of any special characters or images on the box. The PlayStation one is okay, but doesn’t really grab my attention, the Chronicles one doesn’t really show any spark, Anothogly’s cover seems okay and has good artwork, Wonderswan really doesn’t show much, and the Advance one in Japan seems just basic, not displaying most of it’s main characters and the Advance one in America is just the PlayStation one. Overall, the DS one is the best, a real piece of art that gets me instrested into the game. This game is probably going to be one of the first games I import and will probably come to America next year.

Now, where’s my Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG DS?

“But the overall composition and feel of the Playstation logo is my favourite by far.”

Bah, I meant Playstation cover, not PS logo! :-P Chris, I hear what you mean about the Japanese GBA FF IV cover, but I own the game, and there is one thing that an online picture doesn’t do justice to. Its that the grey outlines of the characters is actually a metallic silver on the actual box, and looks much more defined. Admittingly it still only shows Kain and Rosa (that is Rosa, isn’t it?), but it comes off as very professional, also considering the finish of the box is pretty shiny (as opposed to the US GBA boxes which are plain cardboard.)

The US FFIV for GBA cover is actually nice, but I have problems with the stupid GBA logo. Not only is it a big fat stripe that takes slightly more then 10% of the area, but also it isn’t even rectangular, it has some rounded edge which just juts outs near the centre, combined with a lame shadow effect that makes it more noticible then should be. Otherwise the actual art is nice (same art is on the GBA FFIV pack, btw), and considering the US heritage (seriously, I could’ve made a better FFA cover and I don’t have a professional background) I guess I shouldn’t complain about something Squeenix has no control over.

Cheers for cover topics, by the way! We need more of them!

HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS GAME BEEN RERELEASED? Are there no limits to the number of times folk with buy it?!