Misrepresentation Monday, November 12, 2007 : 9:30 PM PDT By: Chris

People who played the NES during the 80's will be more likely to get this strip at first glance. Of course, it makes reference to what could the most atrocious box art of all time, the cover of the original Mega Man. If first impressions are so important than this box didn't do Mega Man any favors. If people bought games purely on the appearance of the box than it's pretty much a sure thing that Mega Man would have never become the hugely successful franchise it is today. When you think about it, there's got to be an interesting story behind this artwork. How could something so horribly proportioned, something that misrepresents almost every facet of the game, and something that is just so unappealing to look at make it onto the cover of a nationally released game by a major developer? If you're the person who produced this artwork and by some alignment of the heavens you are reading this, please email me and tell me your tale.

Speaking about Capcom in the current era, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles comes out this week. This game will motivate me to play my Wii for the first time in months simply because I can't seem to not play a RE game (an affliction that led to me trudging through the very awful RE:Gaiden). However, I was taken aback to see that Capcom has retconned some material from the RE movies into this game. This really makes me question the sanity of some people at Capcom. You have your RE games and your RE movies -- they're like a flower bed with a patch of weeds next to it, both exist but they are separated from one another. Now you don't go and snip the blossoms off all those flowers and try to graft on the grotesque weeds in their place. This is what Capcom has essentially done. And, unfathomably, I now have a brand new layer of dislike for Paul W.S. Anderson for creating those movies. Maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit. Maybe they've found a way to sanitize certain elements of the movie of their crap-ness. I'll keep my fingers crossed.