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Just look at the lips, squinty eyes and Wakka hair on this magnificent specimen. I wonder what female Japanese gamers would have thought of THIS Solid Snake data-laughing

Also, why does this very green and EXTREMELY 90s looking Meryl have some kind of Iron Age shortsword on her belt?

I have to know if this magazine was around for MGS2- their version of Raiden must have been transcendent. They would've probably drawn him to look like Dolph Lundgren as He-Man

EDIT

I just chortled at this goofy magazine cover illustration but apparently someone at Konami liked it enough that it was actually used as the cover for the manual of MGS: Integral in Japan

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[โ€“] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

These were literally drawn by a comic book artist. Joe Madureira. He worked on Uncanny X-Men and he's also worked in video game development. He helped with the designs for Darksiders

Now these covers are kind of goofy, but they're also pretty cool. The guy's a talented artist. He's just infused with the essence of the '90s

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah, from what I read it looks like they hired actual comic book artists to draw each of these covers, and not like, the editor's nephew like I had assumed