{"id":130812,"date":"2022-12-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143015"},"modified":"2022-12-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T12:00:00","slug":"poll-box-art-brawl-duel-metal-gear-solid-the-twin-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/25\/poll-box-art-brawl-duel-metal-gear-solid-the-twin-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel &#8211; Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3adcbabfa28\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3adcbabfa28\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Twin Snakes - Box Art Brawl\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3adcbabfa28\/twin-snakes-box-art-brawl.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTE2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"516\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3adcbabfa28\/twin-snakes-box-art-brawl.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Twin Snakes - Box Art Brawl\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/box-art-brawl\">Box Art Brawl<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/poll-box-art-brawl-prince-of-persia\">In the last bout<\/a>, we took a look at the SNES version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/prince_of_persia\">Prince of Persia<\/a>, and well&#8230; it&#8217;s safe to say that there was a pretty clear winner. Japan&#8217;s elongated design was absolutely stunning and really knocked it out the park, ultimately landing 89% of the overall vote. North America came in second with 6%, and finally Europe with 5%.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we&#8217;re going to be looking at an iconic GameCube remake. No, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil\">Resident Evil<\/a>. It&#8217;s Silicon Knights&#8217; take on Hideo Kojima&#8217;s masterpiece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/metal_gear_solid_the_twin_snakes\">Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Released back in 2004, The Twin Snakes was a faithful yet bold new take for Solid Snake&#8217;s mission in Shadow M&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*beep beep, beep beep!*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Snake:<\/strong> BROTHERRRRRRR!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ollie:<\/strong> Oh no&#8230; No, Liquid. Snake isn&#8217;t here, I&#8217;m sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Snake:<\/strong> Did you like my sunglasses?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ollie:<\/strong> Yyyyeeeesss&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Snake:<\/strong> Thank you. Perhaps you&#8217;re worthy of the codename FOX, after all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ollie:<\/strong> Wh..? The heck you on about, man..?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Snake:<\/strong> Have I ever told you about the <em>Les Enfants Terribles<\/em> project?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ollie:<\/strong> Oh God. No thank you! Good bye, Liquid!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Snake:<\/strong> Not yet! It&#8217;s not over yet!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ollie:<\/strong> It is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*boop*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/gamecube\/related-articles:137033 @ 2022-12-26T10:32:28+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let&#8217;s check out the box art designs themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Europe \/ Japan<br \/><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Twin Snakes - EU\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f2d0ca5fe4c3\/twin-snakes-eu.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgMTI3OCI+PC9zdmc+\" width=\"900\" height=\"1278\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f2d0ca5fe4c3\/twin-snakes-eu.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Twin Snakes - EU\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Konami<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay, so Europe and Japan&#8217;s take on The Twin Snakes&#8217; box art is pretty iconic, right? It utilises the artwork of series veteran Yoji Shinkawa to beautiful effect, portraying Solid Snake and Liquid Snake against a stark red background. The logo is in the classic Metal Gear Solid font that we all know and love by now, but there&#8217;s also a weird kind of effect going on around the title that we&#8217;re proper fond of.<\/p>\n<h2>North America<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Twin Snakes - NA\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/667c5ff646f44\/twin-snakes-na.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgMTI2OCI+PC9zdmc+\" width=\"900\" height=\"1268\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/667c5ff646f44\/twin-snakes-na.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Twin Snakes - NA\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Konami<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only thing the design for North America has in common with Europe and Japan is the title font&#8230; That&#8217;s it. Otherwise, Konami went for an altogether more western approach to the overall design here, swapping out the illustration from Shinkawa with what looks like in-game renders repurposed for the image. Again, it&#8217;s Solid Snake and Liquid Snake, of course, and we can see Metal Gear Rex looming in the distance. As it is, it&#8217;s a pretty neat design, but when compared to the Shinkawa version..? Hmmm, we&#8217;re not sure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Thanks for voting! We&#8217;ll see you next time for another round of the Box Art Brawl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! In the last bout, we took a look at the SNES version of Prince of Persia, and well&#8230; it&#8217;s safe to say that there was a pretty clear winner. Japan&#8217;s elongated design was absolutely stunning and really knocked it out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}