#back covers

[hkartincolor]

Front and back cover of Ultra Artwork

[every-ciel-and-sebastian]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Joyce Carol Oates - Do With Me What You Will - Vanguard Press - 1973 (back cover, photo by Jack Robinson)

[bearpillowmonster]

That last reblog reminded me of something and I wondered if anybody else felt the same epherealness of it. (yeah I made that word up, deal with it, you know what it meant)

Everyone likes to talk about game covers and how some of them are better than others. KH is a great example with stylized hand drawn 2D art. But...what about the back?

You see, nobody ever mentions those because 9/10 you're going to know what you want before you get the game anyway, you don't need to read the synopsis or see pictures. We have gameplay trailers. We have Youtube. But there's something about looking at Kingdom Hearts' back covers.

I remember the first time I saw that and I was in awe, I'd never seen one quite like it, it's so mysterious. We had the delight of seeing the 2D cover but the back is what the actual game is about. Different Disney characters, some interacting with the strangest of match-ups. Hades scolding Cloud? And the energy that Genie gives off just shows that it's like the cartoon. There's so much color in those little squares, contrasting that black background (*darkness* THE GAME'S THEME!) and then we have that very opening scene of Sora landing on the Dive to Heart, this is the literal introduction, inviting you to come play the game. No big paragraph, just short blurbs enough to tell you what you're actually in for.

KH2...like just WOW! How can you succeed in making a cover so good that I want both the front AND the back as a poster? There's Stitch and The Lion King, King Mickey face and all! Just the kind of thing we would want from a sequel. And what's this? A black and white world? Oh, I'm in. And what is that one in the middle, Tron? Huh, this game seems like a wild ride, so much to choose from!

E10, Mild blood? Use of Alcohol? In my Disney game?? That wasn't in the first one. Pirates of the Caribbean? How are they going to pull that off? Cloud vs Sephiroth?? This game is going to be edgy! And instead of showing the very beginning, we see the very end where Sora's in the Realm of Darkness. Pure poetry. Storytelling THROUGH the covers!

Of course I love them all but these two back covers are indeed the best of all and I hope KH4 will have them return this way. Even though I've played the games multiple times, I still look at the backs like "Mickey's in this??" I just can't wrap my head around it, it peaks my interest so hard.

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[yours-stevie]

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[hkartincolor]

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