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BulletWitch is another game I've been keeping an eye on for some time, primarily because of the excellent design of said Witch and her giant Broom Gun. The game got decent reviews in Japan, but Atari, who is publishing it here in the US, is supposedly fixing up some of the problems with the game before it hits in late February, namely the camera control and targeting.
As far as the box art goes, Atari stayed pretty close to the original design, zooming out from Alicia a bit (which let's you see some more of the intricate design on her gun) and shifting the logo to the top of the box to make it easier to spot on store shelves which often block the lower half of a box.
I'm not sure why they felt the need to change the cold blue cityscape background to some sort of fiery hell but I suppose the brighter color makes it stand out more. I definitely prefer the Japanese cover, perhaps because I have a thing for giant celestial objects. When it comes down to a Gigantic Moon or a Fiery Maelstrom I'm gonna pick the moon every time. Oddly enough, the Japanese cover of Chulip, my previous entry, has a giant Sun on the cover.
Anyway, the good news is that Jeremiah Cohn, the Product Manager on the title, posted on his blog that they are planning to include the original Japanese cover on the flipside of the insert, which is what all publishers should be doing when they bring Japanese titles over and mangle the cover art.
Ironically, BulletWitch's US cover art is pretty good so an alternate cover isn't as sorely needed as for let's say, any of the US Resident Evil covers, which are completely different and much cooler in both Europe and Japan and are usually exclusive to each market. But that's another post...
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