Talk:Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country

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@Ferret: File:Torna The Golden Country cover.png is not an accurate representation of any of the game's official box art or digital icons. It is unusually compressed vertically, and looks thinner than it should be. The physical box art does not feature the majority of the foreground characters that are seen in it, and has the exact same recognizable art elements (logo, foreground characters, castle, dragon) as its official digital icon as it appears on the Nintendo Switch, which has been uploaded as File:Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Torna – The Golden Country.jpg. At a square ratio, this is also better for {{Infobox video game}}, as the same exact recognisable artwork is being presented without the excessive vertical height that bloats the infobox and overlaps too much of the article. I also don't see the need for a 200 KB PNG file instead of a more comfortable 42 KB JPEG file where no noticeable change in visual quality can be discerned, especially under the second article of the non-free content criteria. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk · articles · reviews) 07:25, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@PhilipTerryGraham: Saves us all time if you explain it when switching covers, as MOS:VG otherwise says not to do so without a strong reason. I disagree about the vertical compression: That's how tall Switch game boxes are. The square cover image is not representative in that sense. However it is true that the other characters seem to have been cropped out of the final release cover. -- ferret (talk) 12:27, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Ferret: You misunderstood what I meant. Here's the image file (top) and official box art (bottom) with the discrepancies pointed out. Notice how the characters and logo look thinner? The square image is the official digital icon for the game as it appears on the Nintendo Switch home menu, and it retains the key art elements from the physical packaging, so it can take the place of the physical packaging and still be recognisable as its cover art. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk · articles · reviews) 13:26, 19 February 2019 (UTC)