10 Best Wii Box Art

A grinning blue blob bounces over a grey city while a stripe of bright colour bursts out behind him. It is the whole game in one picture, since Blob mixes paint and spreads colour through each level.

The American box is a busy little parade of characters under a bubbly yellow logo. Japan's box, however, is a rainbow of vertical stripes with the cast dancing along the bottom, and it looks like pure joy. Europe went its own way again with a black speaker and a dancing girl on yellow.

A tiny king sits on top of an enormous pile of subjects and treasure, all drawn in bright storybook colours. Every corner hides a joke, so the box rewards a long look.

A red sword lies in a field of green grass, while a gigantic frozen titan looms in the clouds behind it. That sword is the Monado, and the whole game takes place on the bodies of two warring titans, so the cover is as literal as it is beautiful.

A little girl sits on a swing that has frozen solid, icicles hanging from the chains, against a pitch-black background. It is cold and properly unsettling. Japan's box, by comparison, is the same girl in grey, which loses the chill.

Travis Touchdown slashes his beam katana across a white box spattered with black ink, under a red logo. It looks like a punk record sleeve. Japan's box, on the other hand, puts him and a woman under a street sign for Santa Destroy, which is fun but much busier.

A gold moon fills the sky over a flock of swordsmen, framed by swirling purple patterns. It looks like a painted folding screen, which suits a game whose director based the story on kabuki theatre.

Kirby is stitched out of pink yarn on a quilted blue background, and even the logo looks like embroidery. The game turns Kirby into yarn and sends him to a world made of fabric, so the box looks like the game you are about to play.

A pencil sketch of a woman with flowing hair sits inside a delicate circle on an almost white box. It looks like the first page of an illustrated novel. The game was directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, and it was originally going to stay in Japan.

A hulking man with a chainsaw arm lunges across a white box in nothing but black ink and splashes of red. It is brutal and stylish at the same time. The game's look was inspired by Frank Miller's Sin City, and no other Wii box looks anything like it.