now YOU tell me

if the FF13 & Resonance of Fate Box arts were side by side, which one would stand out to you?!!

ignore the names of the games for this excercise!

There's like a hole in the bottom left... misses some more random crap there (or the guy's move doesn't seem right). Other than that, it's decent, but not the best. It's too monochrome or something.

JRPG boxarts done right:

Yup.

FF13, because the RoF one looks like your typical greyish brown average shooter affair, albeit with a japanese flavor. But most definitely still nothing special.

And how is this better exactly?

Now this I can support. Much better, thank you very much!

wow that girl has no buns!

There we go, typical brown shooting affair will sell tons here!

Next question:

Who is more pretty, lightning or the girl on the ROF box art?

Three people holding guns.  Really?  How is that interesting at all?

Jp boxart shows a huge clocktower reaching higher than we are allowed to see, with mechanical gear stems coming off it.  It makes me interested and curious to what that is, and the scale of the tower (Edit: Especially in contrast to the three people) is very nice.

That wasn't my point

To answer your question, Lightning. The RoF girl is too anime-ish, too doll-like.