{"id":137490,"date":"2026-06-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-202105"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:00:00","slug":"poll-box-art-brawl-duel-rayman-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/poll-box-art-brawl-duel-rayman-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Box Art Brawl &#8211; Duel: Rayman 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb1470c2b676\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb1470c2b676\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"9bb1470c2b676\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Rayman 3D - BAB\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb1470c2b676\/rayman-3d-bab.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb1470c2b676\/rayman-3d-bab.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Rayman 3D - BAB\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Walk this Ray, it&#8217;s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/poll-box-art-brawl-warioware-inc-mega-party-gameusd\">Last week<\/a>, we matched up three covers for the GameCube&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/warioware_inc_mega_party_gameusd\">WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Game$!<\/a>, and you lot were clearly on the same page as us, crowning the North American design the best of the bunch with 76% of the vote. Poor old Europe and Japan had to split the remainder with 12% apiece.<\/p>\n<p>With all of this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/previews\/hands-on-rayman-legends-retold-somehow-legends-returned-but-why\">Rayman news<\/a>, we&#8217;re taking a look at the limbless legend&#8217;s <em>last<\/em> 3D outing in the aptly-titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/rayman_3d\">Rayman 3D<\/a>. This port of the Dreamcast&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/rayman_2_the_great_escape\">Rayman 2<\/a> may not have blown our socks off when it arrived on 3DS back in 2011, but the 3D visuals looked great on the handheld screen, and it was a nice excuse to get all nostalgic for the extra-dimension platforming of yore.<\/p>\n<p>There are just two covers to choose between this week, so let&#8217;s dive into a good old battle of NA vs EU.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/3ds\/related-articles:15356,201568 @ 1780855728 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<h2>North America<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"32051b2ba9691\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Rayman 3D - NA\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/32051b2ba9691\/rayman-3d-na.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/32051b2ba9691\/rayman-3d-na.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"808\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Rayman 3D - NA\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com\/games\/details\/12330-rayman-3d\">Ubisoft \/ LaunchBox<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Mr. Ray himself might look a little uncanny in the North American cover, there&#8217;s no denying that this homage to the Rayman 2 original art has some cool composition at play. The hair overlapping the title? Cool. The splintering walkway? Cool. The giant exploding ship in the background? <em>Cool<\/em>. Overall, pretty cool.<\/p>\n<h2>Europe<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"9fdef1c873b1c\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Rayman 3D - EU\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9fdef1c873b1c\/rayman-3d-eu.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9fdef1c873b1c\/rayman-3d-eu.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"798\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Rayman 3D - EU\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdb.launchbox-app.com\/games\/details\/12330-rayman-3d\">Ubisoft \/ LaunchBox<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The European design is&#8230; not as cool. Rayman himself looks much better, but all of the action and drama of the NA cover has been replaced by simplicity. We&#8217;ve got a plain blue backdrop and a singular Lum. That&#8217;s it. Hey, at least the title font is a little cleaner.<\/p>\n<section id=\"poll-11938\" data-block-type=\"poll\" class=\"poll\" data-uri=\"polls\/which_region_got_the_best_rayman_3d_box_art\" data-id=\"11938\" data-question=\"Which region got the best Rayman 3D box art?\">\n<div class=\"results hidden\">\n<h3 data-toc=\"skip\">Which region got the best Rayman 3D box art? (1,067 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\/0baa507e98261\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"North America\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">North America<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"812 votes (76.1%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"76\"><span class=\"val\">76<\/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\/dda8fdfcad9eb\/100x60.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Europe\"><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"answer\">Europe<\/strong><span class=\"votes\"><span title=\"255 votes (23.9%)\"><span class=\"bar accent-bg has-votes\" data-value=\"24\"><span class=\"val\">24<\/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 Walk this Ray, it&#8217;s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl. Last week, we matched up three covers for the GameCube&#8217;s excellent WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Game$!, and you lot were clearly on the same page as us, crowning the North American design the best of the bunch with 76% of [&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-137490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137490","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=137490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}