Uh-Ohkami: Capcom botches Okami Wii box art, inadvertently advertises IGN [Joystiq]

[DP ServBot]

Filed under: Nintendo Wii

With all the work that goes into the designing, writing, and programming of a game (especially for a title as hotly anticipated as Capcom's waggle-infused port of the PS2 under-appreciated gem Okami), we assumed that there would be one person at every video game publisher who would give the final retail packaging a once-over, keeping a keen eye out for any typos, printing errors, or hidden watermarks from popular video game news sites. Then again, maybe that's just us.

As is the unfortunate case with the Wii Okami box art -- NeoGAF user Bob Digi discovered that right above a permanent "sticker" promoting the game's high score in Play magazine (an unsightly blemish in its own right) sits a fairly clear IGN watermark, the result of the artwork's background being photoshopped from an image on IGN's Okami PS2 site. Then again, perhaps the game underwent some serious changes in its Nintendo transition, and now features protagonist Amaterasu traveling throughout feudal Japan, devouring the logos of major gaming news sites.

[Thanks, Riven.]

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[Vectorman0]

Can anyone here verify this?

[Dr. Dib]

Wow, as if IGN didn't need enough publicity. I wonder when IGN will pick up the story. A quick check on their message boards shows that no one has realized this.

[diskoboy]

I don't see it....

[Daria]

I don't see it....

I didn't either until I went to ign.com and glanced at their graphic logo. It's like a bullseye with a saturn ring. Very distinctive once I realized what it was I was looking for.

[Mayhem]

I don't see it....

Perhaps this shows it better...

[Niku-Sama]

you guys is crazy

[Sudo]

Wow, as if IGN didn't need enough publicity. I wonder when IGN will pick up the story. A quick check on their message boards shows that no one has realized this.

There are several threads on the IGN Wii General Boards about it. I'd link you to the main one, but I got banned for mentioning that I had finished The World Ends With You already (even though someone else in the same thread did so before me and wasn't even warned...).

[carlcarlson]

If you click on the link about the sticker you can see it much better. I don't have an actual copy so I can't verify, but I can definitely see it in the pics above.

[Sotenga]

Actually... the way the logo is positioned, it looks like Amaterasu is trying to eat it. So maybe that's a subliminal statement!

[Kitsune Sniper]

There are several threads on the IGN Wii General Boards about it. I'd link you to the main one, but I got banned for mentioning that I had finished The World Ends With You already (even though someone else in the same thread did so before me and wasn't even warned...).

You dirty dirty pirate. ;D

[Sudo]

You dirty dirty pirate. ;D

Guilty as charged. I just don't have the $40 extra to give Square-Enix for a DS game these days. I'm not trying to justify downloading games or anything, I know it's not "right". The thing is though, I didn't even say that I had downloaded it in my IGN post. The game has been out in Europe for almost a week now; how were they to know if I had imported it or downloaded it?

[DigitalSpace]

/me says "meh," continues browsing porn

[Dr. Dib]

There are several threads on the IGN Wii General Boards about it. I'd link you to the main one, but I got banned for mentioning that I had finished The World Ends With You already (even though someone else in the same thread did so before me and wasn't even warned...).

As I said, quick check through. I only checked the Okami board.

Anyway, I tried to look to see it for myself at Target, but of course they didn't have it there.

[SkiDragon]

Does anybody else have a giant review score circle on the cover?

[PapaStu]

That picture in the first post is shit.

I did check copies at GameStop today. It indeed does have the watermark. Quite an interesting thing that either Capcom's art department has a 0 budget, or that they didn't do the cover for the game. I'll have to snag one now just cause.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Not as bad a goof as Sony posting images of PGR on their site to promote Gran Turismo... but, it's pretty damn close.

I believe the Wii port of Okami was handled outside of Capcom by another dev. I guess they just couldn't be bothered to email and ask for some art resources from Capcom for the box art so... they just "borrowed" an image from IGN. Way to go geniuses!

[Cryomancer]

So silly. Why would they even use such a low-res image for a print cover. If it has a water mark on it, it couldn't have been that big. One call to an art department should have prevented this. Hell, they should already have had access to at least a press FTP or something.

[Ed Oscuro]

gg crapcom

seriously, what the hell

i need to shop hidden dicks into all the images on the CV Dungeon & Contra HQ, yes...wait, that's Konami and they wouldn't do something so stupid (I hope).

[Krook]

Wasnt it something similiar with like the ps3 and a mac logo too back when the first pictures of it was released?