Through the error, the usually invisible process, people, and technologies involved in this type of artwork preparation were revealed.Įmbarrassed by the whole affair, Capcom offered to replace the covers with non-watermarked ones - free of charge.
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PIPEVINEFORV RD CONSOLE PS2 X360 PS3 Wii PC PS2 X360 PSP PS COMING. Rather than getting original source images - which Capcom presumably owned - they found it easier to take it from the Internet-available source. FEATURESTORY TITLE: SAINTS ROW 2 FORMAT: XBOX 360 1 PS3. This error revealed quite a bit about the process and constraints that the cover designers for the Wii version were working under. Apparently, a designer working for Capcom had found it easier to use the images posted by IGN than to go and get the original art from the game itself. Sure enough, a little bit of digging on the IGN website revealed this high-resolution image from the cover, complete with IGN watermark in the appropriate place. As part of writing reviews, IGN frequently takes screenshots of games, watermarks them, and posts them on their website. In fact, it was the logo for IGN - a very large video game website and portal. PS2 had that paper filter that was gone from the Wii for some reason and some people prefer a controller instead of a motion. The blurry symbol near Okami’s mouth was a watermark - an artifact intentionally added to an image to denote the source of the picture and often to prevent others from taking undue credit. PS3, its pretty much combine both what the PS2 & Wii version had. Here’s a highlight with the area circled. People looking closely at the cover of the Wii game noticed something strange right near the wolf’s mouth. The Wii version was released in April, 2008. In Okami HD from Capcom for the Nintendo Switch, the player takes the role of the mythical sun goddess Amaterasu, in the form of a wolf. It was ported (i.e., made to run on a different platform) to the Nintendo Wii by a video game production house called Ready at Dawn and by the PS2 version’s distributor Capcom. nintendo nsw nintendo switch joy-con controllers (neon green / neon pink) (japan). Here is the cover art for the PS2 game which is indicative of the unique sumi-e inspired game art.ĭespite Clover’s failure, Okami won many award and was a commercial success. The developers of the game, Clover Studios closed up shop several months later. Okami was originally released for the Sony Playstation 2 (PS2) in 2006. The blog Photoshop Disasters recently wrote a story about a small fiasco regarding cover art for the popular video game Okami.
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