Thanks for the info! I think more games should do reversable covers as it's not difficult at all and it's a nice incentive.  Also since most games don't make manuals anymore why not :P

The Japanese boxart looks great too! With these different JP/NA box arts why can't the just have both box arts, one being the main and the other being reverse.

Well we had the Charlies Angel cast back with FFX-2 so i think it's time to give an all male cast a try.

Maybe playing the game will answer this.  Guessing off the bat is that since Noctis is royalty (and black is their colour?) so his entourage should match.

I guess they went with the black background look for the reversible logo cover cause the characters are all in black to suit the theme?

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Personally I think the NA box art looks great! Sure it can be better but you can honestly say it's different (at least it's not just one guy in the middle with a gun lol).  I can't recall another box art that's similar like this.  Square really wants to emphasize the friendship theme going on.   And I love the cloud image of the monster/villain?  Makes me really interested to play the game and see who that is.

But....my box art is different as it comes in the form of the Collectors Edition...so it's just Noctis.  But maybe ill double dip and get a regular edition when its cheap for the hell of it if it's that good of a game.

Honestly, I think this cover isn't very good. I'm not really sure what's going on here. There's 4 characters all doing different things. I don't know what to feel. It's just.. confusing and doesn't really catch my interest. Also, why is the title so small? I didn't even notice it until I remembered they need to be on the box. It doesn't stand out either. It's small and miss able.

Yeah, the title is small, but at least legible and centered. Thank god they didn't pull an Arkham City GOTY edition with this.

Not yet...

..nah, we'll probably never see anything as bad as that cover again.

Not a fan of that cover at all. :(

probably the worst I've seen in years... atleast the Japanese version looks ok.

I prefer minimalist style that Final Fantasy brings to mind. Glad to hear reversible, every game should have that.

I don't want to judge a book by its cover, but that cover art is really bad. The reversible art is much better - black background notwithstanding - and the Japanese art is slightly better.

The main characters just look so goofy and unappealing.

I don't like it :D.

I don't care anyway, I'll be getting the digital version.

Edit: But If I had to choose one I would go with the reversible one.