{"id":137053,"date":"2026-05-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-200611"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:00:00","slug":"poll-box-art-brawl-duel-final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/03\/poll-box-art-brawl-duel-final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Box Art Brawl &#8211; Duel: Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b99adca4f6538\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b99adca4f6538\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"b99adca4f6538\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - BAB\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b99adca4f6538\/final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales-bab.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b99adca4f6538\/final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales-bab.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - BAB\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is everybody ready for another edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/box-art-brawl\">Box Art Brawl<\/a>? Oh, go on then!<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book\">The Mysterious Book<\/a> on our minds, we took a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/yoshi_topsy-turvy\">Yoshi&#8217;s Universal Gravitation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/poll-box-art-brawl-yoshis-universal-gravitation-gba\">last time<\/a>, and it was <em>another<\/em> pretty close-run competition at the top. North America crashed out of the race with 14% of the vote, leaving Japan and Europe to fight over the remainder. It was ultimately the horizontal Japanese design that took it, though, claiming 46% of the vote while Europe received 41%.<\/p>\n<p>This week, with all the recent talk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth\">Final Fantasy VII Rebirth<\/a> on Switch 2, we&#8217;ve been thinking an awful lot about those adorable little Chocobo. So yes, it felt only right that we matched up a pair of covers from the DS&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/final_fantasy_fables_chocobo_tales\">Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This delightful little release launched in 2007 and saw us navigating a magical book to take down Darkmaster Bebuzzu. There&#8217;s card-based combat, there&#8217;s an adorable art style, there&#8217;s microgames \u2014 come on, what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>With Europe and Japan opting for the same design, we have just two covers to choose between this week. Let&#8217;s see them, shall we?<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/ds\/related-articles:200040,200476 @ 1777877421 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<h2>North America<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"24043202670cc\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - NA\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24043202670cc\/final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales-na.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24043202670cc\/final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales-na.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"805\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - NA\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com\/games\/details\/6509-final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales\">Square Enix \/ Launchbox<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The North American design sells Chocobo Tales as the <strong>Paper Mario<\/strong> game time forgot. It&#8217;s all really rather sweet, with its picture-book aesthetic, bright colours and impressive number of sprites. There&#8217;s perhaps a little too much going on at an initial glance, but it sure does feel like one of those covers that grows on you the more you look at it.<\/p>\n<p>If only that central Chocobo was a little bigger, eh?<\/p>\n<h2>Europe \/ Japan<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"1fcc215b5f5d6\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - EU\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1fcc215b5f5d6\/final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales-eu.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1fcc215b5f5d6\/final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales-eu.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"809\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - EU\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com\/games\/details\/6509-final-fantasy-fables-chocobo-tales\">Square Enix \/ Launchbox<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh, now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> bigger! The European and Japanese designs throw all of North America&#8217;s detail out the window and opt for a big, eye-catching Chocobo instead. It&#8217;s certainly more simplistic, and the bright yellow backdrop stands out from the crowd, but is it actually a case of &#8216;less is more&#8217;?<\/p>\n<section id=\"poll-11772\" data-block-type=\"poll\" class=\"poll\" data-uri=\"polls\/which_region_got_the_best_final_fantasy_fables_chocobo_tales_box_art\" data-id=\"11772\" data-question=\"Which region got the best Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales box art?\">\n<div class=\"results hidden\">\n<h3 data-toc=\"skip\">Which region got the best Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales box art? (1,359 votes)<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"poll-results many-results\">\n<li class=\"result with-image first\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa23e43e20acf\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"North America\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">North America<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"963 votes (70.9%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"71\"><span class=\"val\">71<\/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\/61533bb25503c\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Europe \/ Japan\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">Europe \/ Japan<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"396 votes (29.1%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"29\"><span class=\"val\">29<\/span>%<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><em>Thank you for voting! We&#8217;ll see you next week for another edition of Box Art Brawl!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Is everybody ready for another edition of Box Art Brawl? Oh, go on then! With The Mysterious Book on our minds, we took a look at Yoshi&#8217;s Universal Gravitation last time, and it was another pretty close-run competition at the top. North America crashed out of the race with 14% of 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-137053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137053","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=137053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}