8 TERRIBLE Video Game Box Arts That Made You Avoid AMAZING Games
3. Fatal Frame
To look at the cover art for Fatal Frame, you'd never know it was an acclaimed and much-loved survival horror game that went on to spawn a franchise of hit titles.
From the tacky title font to the generic ghostly faces and the hilarious disembodied head floating upside down in the middle of the cover, it's full of head-scratching artistic choices, and topped off by the hilarious "Based on a true story" sub-title.
Everything about this makes it look like an awful low-budget horror movie, and to make matters worse, the game's protagonist, Miku Hinasaki, isn't even featured on the cover, possibly a result of early 2000s casual sexism - namely the belief that this would present it as a "game for girls." Oof.
Europeans were thankfully spared all this indignity, given that we actually got the main character on the cover along with a far more appealing font.
The trade-off, though, is that the title was swapped out for the far more generic nothingburger moniker that is Project Zero. You can't win 'em all.