{"id":133561,"date":"2023-05-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-149011"},"modified":"2023-05-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T10:00:00","slug":"poll-box-art-brawl-duel-yoshis-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/07\/poll-box-art-brawl-duel-yoshis-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Box Art Brawl Duel: Yoshi&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1e220c536704\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1e220c536704\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yoshi's Story - Box Art Brawl\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1e220c536704\/yoshis-story-box-art-brawl.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a1e220c536704\/yoshis-story-box-art-brawl.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshi's Story - Box Art Brawl\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s the weekend and that means it&#8217;s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl.<\/p>\n<p>Before we head into this week&#8217;s dino duel, let us first recap what happened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/04\/poll-box-art-brawl-duel-batman-returns-snes\">last time<\/a>. In celebration of its 30-year anniversary, we looked at the Gotham-set beat &#8217;em up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/batman_returns\">Batman Returns<\/a> on the SNES, pitting the EU\/NA and Japanese covers against each other. Simply put, it wasn&#8217;t even close. Japan&#8217;s comic-inspired cover art walked away with a massive 76% of the vote, while the EU&#8217;s more movie-accurate approach only got 26% \u2014 bad luck, Batman.<\/p>\n<p>This time, we&#8217;re jumping from DC to dinosaur as we match up two different covers for the Nintendo 64&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/yoshis_story\">Yoshi&#8217;s Story<\/a>. The game is celebrating its 25 anniversary here in Europe next week, so we thought that this would be a good time to look back on the spin-off side-scroller before we all go Zelda mad over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The covers in Europe and North America were much the same this time around, so we have only got two different entries to choose from. Let the duel commence!<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/yoshi\/related-articles:59430 @ 2023-05-08T03:39:09+01:00 --><\/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>North America \/ Europe<br \/><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yoshi's Story - NA\/EU\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e33e3aa0d6754\/yoshis-story-naeu.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNjI4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"628\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e33e3aa0d6754\/yoshis-story-naeu.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshi's Story - NA\/EU\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now this is the cover that a lot of people are going to remember when you think of Yoshi&#8217;s Story. It&#8217;s bright, it&#8217;s colourful, it&#8217;s got those uber-smooth 3D sprites on the front \u2014 what&#8217;s not to like? All those Yoshis (and the guest appearance from Shy Guy) give you a pretty good idea of the tone that this game is going to strike without actually showing anything specific \u2014 neat.<\/p>\n<h2>Japan<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yoshi's Story - JP\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2fc7c4871c296\/yoshis-story-jp.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgMTI0MSI+PC9zdmc+\" width=\"900\" height=\"1241\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2fc7c4871c296\/yoshis-story-jp.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshi's Story - JP\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Moby Games \/ Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once again, the Japanese cover goes for something completely different. It&#8217;s still bright, colourful and adorned with multiple Yoshis, but it has a crafted feel in its embroidery aesthetic that&#8217;s not a million miles away from the hand-made look that has been so important to the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/yoshis_woolly_world\">Yoshi&#8217;s Woolly<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yoshis_crafted_world\">Crafted World<\/a>. True, the outline embroidery might make the dinos look a little spikier than usual, but we&#8217;d say it&#8217;s pretty eye-catching all the same.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div id=\"poll-which-region-got-the-best-yoshis-story-box-art\" class=\"poll\" data-uri=\"polls\/which_region_got_the_best_yoshis_story_box_art\" data-id=\"7763\" data-question=\"Which region got the best Yoshi's Story box art?\">\n<div class=\"results hidden\">\n<h3 data-toc=\"Which region got the best Yoshi's Story box art?\">Which region got the best Yoshi&#8217;s Story box art? (1,845 votes)<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"poll-results\">\n<li class=\"result with-image first\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9cede786cbf1\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"North America \/ Europe\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">North America \/ Europe<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"671 votes\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"36\"><span class=\"val\">36<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"result with-image last\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d574603e2c7a2\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Japan\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">Japan<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"1,174 votes\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"64\"><span class=\"val\">64<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Thanks for voting! We&#8217;ll see you next time for another round of Box Art Brawl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life It&#8217;s the weekend and that means it&#8217;s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl. Before we head into this week&#8217;s dino duel, let us first recap what happened last time. In celebration of its 30-year anniversary, we looked at the Gotham-set beat &#8217;em up Batman Returns on the SNES, pitting 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-133561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133561","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=133561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}