Poll: Box Art Brawl #75 - Resident Evil: Deadly Silence - Nintendo Life

Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our regular poll to find out which region got the best cover art for a particular retro release.

The North American cover stormed it with over 60% of the vote, leaving Japan with a quarter and Europe to mop up the rest.

Yes, Resident Evil: Deadly Silence launched fifteen years ago on 19th January 2006, bringing Shinji Mikami's PlayStation original to Nintendo's handheld in time for the series' 10th anniversary.

Using the system's touchscreen and adding a couple of mechanics to the original framework, Deadly Silence is an underrated little port and remains an excellent way to revisit the shlocky B-movie horror and mid-'90s visuals of the game in its original guise (as opposed to the beautifully slick, reimagined REmake).

The Resident Evil series is a regular in the 'Brawl, of course, with no fewer than four previous appearances to date; variants of Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 4 have all battled for your approval in the past.

The European cover puts the grisly Tyrant on a suitably blood-red background with its mutated claw visible, though largely covered by the logo.

We like the deep red and the overall impression the big bad delivers, although it's a little bit in-your-face and doesn't convey much of the tension you'll feel while exploring the mansion's drab corridors.

The North American cover adds more action, with Jill Valentine mid-leap with two guns in her hands, one firing.

The logo is identical but has shrunk to show off more of the art!

Overall, it's fine, but more generic and less focused than the European version.

The Japanese cover goes for something a little more thoughtful; something that evokes the evil in residence without showing the final boss of the game or a gung ho, gun-firing hero.

Bearing in mind this was a game released at the time of the iconic original's 10th anniversary, it's reasonable to assume that everyone already new what 'Biohazard' was, so this more evocative cover would have worked well.

Went with NA because I like the way the claw is coming down.

The Japan cover passed the which would I rather have as a poster test.

I prefer that the Japanese cover looks like art and not clipart.

I'll go with the Japanese one as that one is the most subtle.

I honestly don't like any of them, though as @yosher said, the subtly of the Japanese version wins for me.

Japan looks cool, but NA has Jill.

While I like seeing Jill in action like that, the NA cover's composition feels all over the place.

I cast my vote for the Europe version.

But I agree with other opinions here that EU and NA look like clipart compositions - while the japanese one is the only one that feels (kinda) professional.

The Tyrant just looks...bad to me.

I usually don't go with the Japanese options, but this time it seems better.

The other two look like cheap horror films.

I ended up voting for what the majority went with (so far) and went with the North American cover art.

Americans outnumber Europeans on this site that's why their box art wins but imho the European box art is almost always better just like their SNES was ugly and our Pal SNES looked way better.

The NA ones emphasis on the claw hand looks too much like a Nightmare on Elm Street cover and the Japanese one isn't scary looking at all (even though it looks cool)?

Japan for me, it's the only one that makes sense when the game has 'silence' in the title.

I go for the EU version because that is the version I own.

Picked the Japanese cover this time.

The placement of Tyrants claw in the NA version looks so weird compared to the rest his body.

Like he's lunging forward with his wrist extremely bend, it looks so unnatural.

I don't love the "mystery" vibe of the Japanese one with the crow?

I don't like the thick outlines on the CG thing on the Euro cover?

While I have issues with the composition of the NA cover, I eventually chose it as the best of a flawed bunch?

Deadly Silence and Dragon Sword are my favorites.

The tyrant spends most of the game sleeping in a tube, and isn't particularly vocal.

(And is deadly).

The European version is the own I own, but I gotta give it to North America this time

This is a tough one, but I chose North America even though it's perhaps evenly matched with the European cover (which the Australian release inherited)

Proud owner of the game and it was my first Resident Evil experience

I loved RE: Deady Silence, and completed it at least six times (from memory) trying to find all of those endings (I wasn't successful in finding all of them), and mastered the hard difficulty as well

The Japanese one got my vote

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