The Weirdest Video Game Box Art Ever Made

[@DiamondBolt]

Break up with basic browsers. Get Opera GX using my link: www.operagx.gg/diamondbolt2 pls reply no to this comment it would be really funny

[@xpro5454.]

no

[@Pizza_Crusader]

Just like to say I do unironicaly love your videos you got me addicted to transformers so its a tradeoff

[@stephen77184]

no

[@Landon657]

no

[@krishacz]

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[@Val0284]

8:46 it's fucking hilarious that two box art is half naked ladies and Freddy Fazbear on the Nintendo switch

[@splattwig]

Fun fact! The first game in that image is illegal in the United States

[@Wasabi19940]

​​@@splattwigunderage public flash right?

[@snake3563]

@@splattwig Another fun fact: The producer and director of The Guy Game was the founder of Retro Studios and Nintendo bought his ownership stake of Retro and they boot him due being a total sleazeball and not showing up to work, also he was using Retro's servers to host a website for adults.

[@flarestorm9417]

@@Wasabi19940 Yep. Basically, it was just some FMV quiz show game recorded over Spring Break in some place, where-in the women would flash the camera under certain circumstances (I assume it's if you get the correct answers). One of the women in that game lied about being of-age at the time of filming, thus making the game child you-know-what. I think she used fake ID for it, since I don't think the guy that made the game ever went to jail for it. The sleezy director eventually released a disc with just the FMVs to try and capitalize off of the controversy, but after that I don't think anyone's heard anything from him since.

[@SRobot08]

You see, Freddy only wears a hat and bowtie, it is still the same

[@ukotoa1639]

The one that always gets a laugh out of me is Resident Evil 8 cover with Chris Redfield’s fursona

[@corryjamieson3909]

Sonic, Morbius, Tekken, what else?

[@elliebingo]

you gotta wonder just... why?? Chris is barely in the game and his fursona doesn't even appear in game. The lycan's aren't just wolves so like... Whyy? You have 4 pretty cool looking Villains, and also Moreau I guess. Why not put them on the box art if they're really that afraid to show Ethan's Ben Shapiro looking ass face, or hell have Ethan looking away with the lords and Miranda bearing down on him or just.. Anything other than solumn Chris talking about how on all levels except physical he is a wolf

[@dorcat2867]

I straight up thought Chris was going to be a werewolf in this game because of the cover😂😂😂

[@coltforceplayer]

​@@dorcat2867would've actually been fucking sick if he did and he had like Far Cry abilities such as running fast, attacking using claws and stuff

[@dorcat2867]

@@coltforceplayer Literally, I need to see at least one of the RE protagonists have abilities because of the viruses, like how Wesker can teleport, but it affects them in different ways, like Chris having werewolf abilities

[@Tybell702]

I fucking love the Yakuza 3 western box art, instead of just giving westerns the japanese boxart, they had to give kiryu the biggest blank stare any character has gotten

[@cookieface80]

They made up for it with Yakuza 4's box art, which is way better than the Japanese one.

[@deadchannel726]

When the yakuza

[@Aaa_Tactical]

@@cookieface80 we are the yakuzer 4

[@tattieverb265]

Me when the selfish deed is not freedom

[@JodaroKujo]

We are the Yakuza 5

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*The duality of Kirby cover arts:* The Japanese has the cute and saccharine aura with the smile of our pink boy's face, and the American one is where he got the "let's get dangerous" expression as he's ready to unleash his wrath. And all that for a piece of cake.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

I like that in the new game art they fixed it so he is just a cute pink little guy again.

[@julesbrown4319]

Cake, you say? I can relate. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Scribble2345]

Plok is kinda the same. He made an entire species go extinct because they stole his flag.

[@Kindasus25]

Yakuza: Like A Dragon actually does the opposite, with the Japanese art having Ichiban glaring, and the American version giving him a goofier look.

[@The-S-H3lf-Eater]

​@@julesbrown4319Why you gotta make things weird???

[@TheSegaMascotSP]

DiamondBolt should get his own Netflix documentary about all the therapy he goes through "suffering for content"

[@waterking74]

Man seen things no one should ever see in the light of day

[@logankreger2075]

4:04. “Two man with gun” You 1 man and 1 girl with gun

[@Fatih_M177]

The best FPS boxart in my opinion is "Man with Crowbar and Woman with Pistol" XD

[@Amins88]

HuMAN

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

It’s still two people with guns 🤷‍♂️.

[@The-S-H3lf-Eater]

​@@kaylemathewcomendador6964Hello? Still justifying misgendering in the year of acceptance? I just wanna let you know, if you keep this up, you are not gonna like what comes next.

[@Fatih_M177]

@@The-S-H3lf-Eater Something about this reply is just really funny to me. The funniest part is that i can't even tell if it's sarcastic or not.

[@maryautumn7922]

Opera GX being based off Chrome but marketing itself as not Chrome is so bizarre

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

I saw a video on how all its system support features are ass the ram limiter is weak an the VPN just routes your to the Chinese servers XD

[@KrimsonKattYT]

It's based on Chromium, Google's open source browser engine that Google's own browser Chrome runs on. It's also faster than Chrome and has lots of features that chrome doesn't have.

[@KrimsonKattYT]

​​@@senritsujumpsuit6021The VPN defaults to a server in China when you turn it on for the first time. But without premium you can choose between servers in China, Norway, Canada, or Australia, all of which are secure. With Premium you set your server to anywhere. Opera GX is the only browser that auto-skips KZbin ads.

[@mehaven4374]

8:41 OK but that box art goes insanely hard

[@Amins88]

"EAT THIS CRAB RIGHT NOW! DO IT FOR PHIL!!!"

[@ARandomWolfApproaches]

​@@Amins88 this literally made me almost piss myself laughing 😭

[@SRobot08]

“There’s a bonus captain Phil yoooooo”

[@Luxan-yf4rv]

​@@Amins88I love you 😂

[@EuthanizeAllDogs]

ungodly hard crab slaying

[@Dan_K_Meme]

2:00 “Whoa, hey guys. Welcome to EB Games” Thank you for mentioning the Mega Man box art lol

[@eiriksundby]

Dissing titanfall 2's boxart is a minus to your gamerscore

[@justsomeguyontheinternet5898]

And the dead space 1. Obviously it’s his opinion whatever, but like come on the hand lying there in space fits so much with the theme of horror imo.

[@InTheSky521]

Nearly all of his choices for "bad" box art were terrible imo

[@emilianocastillejos1330]

@@InTheSky521 Yea ngl this is a pretty pointless video, just showed a bunch of covers for games and said they were trash, no real reason why or anything. Just a yap fest imo

[@Carrotspizza1971]

5:38 the reason kirby looks mad is so Nintendo could get a American audience since back then kirby was new to america

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

Nowadays, Kirby is allowed to be happy in America

[@Geneolgia]

I think it was mostly because he was "too cutesy" looking and that wouldn't sell well.

[@KrimsonKattYT]

​@@mariajimenafigueroa233Yeah starting with the Switch era Kirby is happy in all regions. The 3DS games is technically where "American Kirby" ended but Kirby is pissed in all regions for Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot. The Kirby American box art trend only started in Kirby Air Ride on the GameCube and continued to Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland for the GBA, Kirby & The Amazing Mirror also for the GBA, Kirby Squeak Squad for the DS, and the original Kirby Returns to Dreamland for the Wii.

[@specky_gaming]

@@KrimsonKattYT Reminds me of the Sonic box art. He kept the same smile plastered on his face for nearly all the games and then there's Sonic CD and maybe Unleashed too that said fuck that. Of all the Sonic games I played (sadly didn't include Colours, Generations or even the Advance games), I liked the box art cause they were the only ones I saw that had Sonic actually frown for a change.

[@Rhaynebow]

The cover for Princess Peach Showtime got the same Kirby treatment though where the US cover had Peach’s more pissed off movie face

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

And here's our lovely heroine: Peach! She's a jolly lady Peach: 🤨

[@roberthall8503]

Just publish the game with comic sans text and we’ll buy it anyways

[@zipzopzooie4972]

Thanks for putting Freddy Fazbear in the thumbnail I really appreciate it!

[@ragnaazure6231]

I don't! He ruined Chuck E Cheese & McDonalds for an entire generation!

[@ragnaazure6231]

No, Zipzopzooie. That evil robot bear ruined Chuck E Cheese & McDonalds for a entire generation!

[@Charles.mp4]

3:44 ah yes because motorfest does not exist

[@Odin_Allfather]

The God of War one was intentional, and it was meant to be a parallel. This surprisingly wasn’t one of the cases of reusing assets.

[@voxelbandit]

i won't have his slander of the god of war box art, it goes hard

[@ANDY123SON]

0:36 Look everybody! The funny man in our KZbin misspelled something, point and laugh at him!

[@zaynoonmoses]

Im too tired too

[@BlankA.D]

@@zaynoonmosesi'm 2 tired: tired up

[@paradoxxikal7327]

Used to be 11 minutes but he had to cut out say gex from the video 😔

[@GlyphWitch]

3:19 we really gonna let that Doom 2016 disrespect fly like that?

[@night6724]

Am I the only person who likes doom 2016’s Boxart for what it is like yeah it’s just the doom guy standing there menacingly but it’s like come on. It’s doom guy looking menacing and I basically says everything about the game.

[@AfianySnow29802-GS]

​@@night6724Nah.

[@Grayson-tk5hn]

3:19 i will not stand for this doom slander

[@nickrustyson8124]

I'm assume you're joking about Book Covers but honestly Books have it the worse because with Video games you can find modern stuff with good covers and a lot of them, with Books you're shit out of luck they have the most samey covers dark background, character or prop slightly transparent, title on top, author on bottom, and send it. That's how most books covers are today, now let's compare that to back in the day where they would draw a scene with a detailed background and our characters, sure they still fall into samey but at least they're doing something

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

Or the art looks like it’s primarily made out of stock photos.

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

If you look at children's books they still have good covers

[@rosykindbunny1313]

The Lunar Chronicles series has beautiful hand-drawn cover art in one version... but the only version I could physically buy for most of the books was the boring version with the title and like one stock photo.

[@mm123gchannel9]

I think it kinda depends on the genera of books, like comic books are often known for having interesting cover arts, and so as some original children’s books. I think it tends to be the worst when it comes to licensed stuff, sense it gives them an excuse to just plaster in pre-existing promo art.

[@nfortyeight]

I love how the only actual “Game” on your shortcut tab is World of Tanks TMNT edition

[@thesausageman5388]

1:41 don’t call me out like that😊

[@mr.psycho_the_nerd5790]

Excuse me what

[@bullymaguire71352]

5:30 It's runnin' time!

[@TheBruheak]

Man Standing definitely is the best style of video game box art

[@AluminumFusion22]

Thank you Hideo Kojima for the first Stand-type game.

[@SpaceyGuy]

5:21 Yakuza 3 (indirectly) mentioned 🔥🔥🔥

[@tattieverb265]

YAKUZA 3 MENTIONED I LOVE FIGHTING ON THE RUFF

[@kyethememer9836]

Mine took Daigo up there.

[@deadchannel726]

Daigo is gay for mine

[@tattieverb265]

@@deadchannel726 daigo is also gay for shinader

[@infiniteoctopaw]

4:37: GRAVITY RUSH TIMESTAMP! Sorry, this is literally just for me. Gravity Rush is just the goat and I’m always happy to see it. Mr Adam DB, you continue to have excellent taste.

[@AluminumFusion22]

Fun fact: Ken Levine, the director of BioShock and BioShock Infinite, deliberately had BioShock Infinite's box art changed to cater to the Call of Duty demographic, and the feedback was so overwhelmingly negative to how generic the box art was that the game shipped with a reversible cover, which showcased art much more emblematic of the final game. The same thing happened with DOOM 2016. As amazing as the game is, the box art was heavily criticized for being unremarkable, so the game shipped with another reversible cover, as did DOOM Eternal, though that might be to keep consistency.

[@Anonymous-cn9ow]

Of all the covers, nothing goes as hard as Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix

[@someweirdo]

5:17 Bruh the cover on the left looks so cool and the one on the right looks like shovelware 😭

[@NotSoGenesiz]

5:26 it’s funny you mention this about sonic covers, since the modern sonic covers in japan typically have a more consistent and much more interesting theme. the parallels between secret rings/black knight/frontiers japanese box art are a big example of this

[@mad2fan2018]

8:04 I have a confession to make. I own both My Friend Peppa Pig and Peppa Pig: World Adventures. I bought both of them on PS5 as a joke, and I streamed both of them.

[@HollowNaruto63]

Dmc lumped in with shooters is crazy

[@SRobot08]

1:43 hearing Adam say this is insane 💀

[@Pan-cackes]

Thank. Now we have a new " guys, i have a theory" with this Sonic/Morbius covers 😂

[@aburt270]

I'm not sure about splatoon 1 but if you take out the box art cards for splatoon 2 and 3 and put them back in side out not only do you get a special alt covers to show of salmon run and hero mode but the spine of the box is designed to look like a splatoonified version of the regular spine with an inkling squid replacing the switch logo.

[@aburt270]

P.s in Europe we got our own box art for Breath of the Wild and it pretty much just a screen shot that someone just painted and stuck on the front of the box P.P.S we also got a unique box art for mega man 2 that look as if it was pulled out of Dungeness and Dragons or something

[@jonzy123]

6:53 *insert leonardo dicaprio pointing meme* that's the football team I support!

[@cellophanezebra4663]

"It's dedicated it's entire cover to showing you a guy who you don't even see in the actual game" Gordon Freeman would like to have a word with you

[@SuperSonicUltimate-YT]

He made a morbius reference, HE MADE A MORBIUS REFERENCE!!!!!!!

[@jalkahn2685]

Err what were those games at 0:20

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

It's better you don't find it out

[@dmolegend1699]

Milfs 😈

[@ZuhayrRawoot]

" Where my gamers at " President Mall-Cop

[@themysterioushand1046]

Some game impress us with box art but fail to deliver the game (CYBERPUNK)

[@channel45853]

no, cyberpunk is good

[@Ravencroft.]

Actually it’s the opposite (for me at least). The box art is similar to Bioshock since the game is in first person and you barely see V. And the game is practically perfect now with all of the patches and updates. It took them three years but here we are

[@dioxoi8369]

@@Ravencroft. Hope they don't drop the ball again with Cyberpunk Orion...

[@Luxan-yf4rv]

​@@channel45853I wouldn't consider buying a game to only get 30 precent of a game good. I know they fixed it but it's still unforgivable

[@JJet828]

You forgot the Mario RPG remake on switch which is just a blank void with like 3 characters standing there

[@mack4919]

6:22 It’s The mystery of the Druids🎵 they all have an attitude!🎵 I’m having flashbacks to the Phisnom stream

[@Mr_bukowski4435]

I swear Megaman has been done so dirty when it comes to box art it’s hilarious

[@devofficialchannel]

1:42 This is the first time I've heard Diamondbolt actually mention Hazbin Hotel.

[@mallermart]

The Undertale Steam boxart definitely goes hard, the effort is unthinkable Bravo, Toby!

[@RenOfCosmos]

The RE2 box art looks really good since it's a homage to art from the OG

[@thedude3005]

7:40 yakuza 3's us box art has left side of his face on the cover, germany version of the box art has the right side of his face, combined they make his full face, does that count?

[@ondururagittandeska2004]

Atlus has been fire with their box art and no longer massively altered like it used to be. I think the only bad artwork from a modern Megaten title is SMT 3 HD remaster featuring Dante from DMC where it's just 1 half of Demifiend's face.

[@ediemorriss-kk6hx]

The animal crossing box art does not prepare you for the suffering Tom Nook puts you through

[@VideoGameTaco-mo9qc]

Its called Knack 2 because its so good you need to own 2 copies, otherwise you belong in hell with the DOOM box art creators

[@venomsnek]

I sure do love when diamondbolt uploads a video at 11:30 at night ❤

[@dontbother2knock]

japanese kirby: sweet kind adorable american kirby: looks like he was laid off off job that provided for his two kids college

[@semedis]

I hate that we have such similar tastes in humour. YOU MAKE ME LAUGH ALL THE TIME. PLEASE STOP. I WANNA EAT MY DINNER IN PEACE 😭

[@SushiTray]

4:07 I love the Knack presentation in your videos, keep it up!

[@Mr.Feather130]

Diamondbolt: *uploads a video about video game box art* Me who predicted it a week ago: i did it... Everyone: he did it

[@quintariusgooch]

Well, I didn't expect this. Not only did I get a Diamondbot video on the day I started senior year, but I also got one on the day I graduated. I'm two and a half hours from graduation and all I need to say is thank you Adam/Diamondbolt for being a big part of my time in school. (also I'm serious, it was the "Watching Terrible Mobile Game Ads" that came out on the day school started, you can check.) Here's to the future.

[@GlitchyAnthony1]

7:45 speaking of covers that line up perfectly, the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series got it perfectly

[@compassrose1466]

I feel like the god of war box art is an exception. The reason for that is due to the original box art showing Kratos’ battles but then the two new box art shows it’s more of an adventure and even shows the time gap between the two games. I feel like even though it’s the same pose, they evoke two different adventures.

[@froggie_8]

"Speaking of contractual obligation... this vid is sponsored by opera gx"

[@MaddyMays]

The box art for deathloop goes HARD. It looks like a 60s movie poster, is drawn like a 60s movie poster, and has the title in quotation marks which makes it feel more retro. You've got beautiful renditions of the main characters (Colt and Julianna) holding the common weapons for each of their gamemodes and it just looks great to me at least. And don't even get me started on some of the key art.

[@Siivajenna]

Having breakfast at the time of writing this

[@RubySoupy]

raaah!! no more heroes mention at 6:00

[@Harry-potter7]

7:36 WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!?!?!?🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻

[@JayWolf1955]

7:08 "when you look at some of the best covers" Immediately shows a fan made cover of marvel vs Capcom, a game that does have a amazing JP cover

[@sheshankamajith-4841]

I need old diamondbolt humor 😢😢

[@MarveLars]

I do not know why but i bursted out laughing when you showed the 2 copies of Knack.

[@PhoenixDening-cz5wd]

Diamondbolt proving his PC is suffering with steam once again

[@byronvonedmund]

Fire emblem box art are pure art resembling the anime era the game was released in

[@LREHAnimation]

I just wanna thank you for your amazing content. Even my most favorite KZbinrs’ uploads have me like “I guess I can listen to this in the background”, but you consistently have me locked tf in!

[@matthewhunter1193]

Normally sponsorship segments are something I would skip over for any other KZbinr, but I love how the editing style of the sponsorships in Adam's video's is no different from the rest of the video.

[@Anijah2001]

It kind of sucks that a lot of video game box art are generic because they're still a lot of cool looking ones around nowadays.

[@Ryder-a-Blaze]

I can’t believe that Hungry Hippos ripped off Hungry Horace shame on them

[@Dan_K_Meme]

4:07 KNACK MENTIONED

[@christianparrish3292]

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone is having a great day so far.

[@WraxTV]

7:08 Oh wow, that's the MvC cover I made at least a decade ago when I uploaded to thecoverproject. Good times. (Obviously just the cover, the artwork itself was made by Kinu Nishimura.)

[@Stewzyy]

MY bongos POPPED OFF when mystery of the druids popped up at 6:21

[@banobobot]

7:45 Transformers cameo

[@thewritingrowlet2980]

I got an add for a ball shaver on this vid, thanks Adam I needed this

[@bigTy]

When you brought up shooters why was hitman their. Its a stealth strategy game that penalizes you if you kill anyone that isn't the target.

[@giorgimamalashvili4220]

6:37 wtf

[@sorenstarlander]

ngl its ironic that Just Dance used to have really bright and busy cover art for a simple party game, then they finally started adding lore and the cover art regressed because of it.

[@michaelknox3715]

Speaking of Borderlands the cover art when through many variations during development. Also Borderlands 3's cover art is just chef's kiss.

[@The_Don_]

3:42 "Yes the floor is made of floor here"

[@saladrat]

spoilers for bioshock infinite 4:54 I love how diamondbolt says “the game cover is dedicated to showing you a guy you don’t even see in the actual game” and then immediately shows the guy you play as in the game

[@hadinasrallah8928]

9:33 OMG DIAMONDBOLT YAKUZA RETROSPECTIVE?!

[@FoxyTattyDrew]

I know the book cover video idea at the end was a joke but I genuinely want more people to talk about the fact EVERY GOD DAMN ROMANCE BOOK HAS A CARTOON COVER NOW. Like I've had to tell multiple parents that the book they're gonna buy their child has spicy scenes in it. Give me back the shirtless men! Also don't get me started on all of these hockey romance books. Like I love hockey but why are there so many? And they all have cartoon covers.

[@channel45853]

Shirtless men is the most generic book cover type though

[@AyyKayy-n3u]

​@channel45853 but the shirtless men is what I buy the romance books for

[@FoxyTattyDrew]

@@channel45853 I know I just meant I grew up seeing shirtless men and knew they were romance books but now it's hard to tell adult books from tween books because they have similar art styles and apparently they changed because people don't like shirtless men anymore. (Or more people want to blend their spicy books with their normal books)

[@platypusplayer_0630]

Oh let's go fresh bolt content

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

The disrespect to the Zelda box art is crazy. They are IMO some of the best box art ever made. The encapsulate the games perfectly and are beautiful unlike other art it’s also hand drawn.

[@thequester8271]

I genuinely didn't realise the IGN logo was on the Okami Wii box art until you pointed it out (because it's *very* faint). Thanks, Adam! I will never unsee it! 😄🤘 Also, Kingdom Hearts box arts always go hard! Thank you, Nomura! ❤❤❤❤

[@fryguy9704]

Hotel mario was Peak Box Art.

[@consvolt-void]

You should have talked about the alternate Doom 2016 box-art.

[@deepseagoblinyt]

I think the Stick of Truth box art works really well

[@HaloscornX]

0:23 I've never seen anything about this game before, but all I have to say is you are a man of culture I see

[@zaijantv4237]

5:07 this part is for real 💀💀

[@VNCVRDRY]

box art has never been the leading reason I pick up a game

[@arbiterrokz6841]

3:15 this is how I find out about the borderlands movie

[@phorchybug3286]

6:07 Funny. They have to japanize Crash yet Cortex, Oxide, and Coco are perfectly fine.

[@marxssweetass6118]

4:07 The Reason is simple Mr. Diamond "Adam" Bolt. *IT'S CUZ IT'S KNACK 2 BAYBEEEEEE!!!!!*