This. I have made my peace with it. Game is too good. =)
Apple are now letting users select their own icons for certain apps on iOS!
Well I'm only speculating. And the white background for FF is mainly a Japanese thing to be fair.
Totally agree. Love the art associated with this game and would have loved to see them use some of it for the icon. Oh, well...
By which you mean, saving time and money and not buying games that you're not sure you'll like, and where the only thing you know for sure is the icon is bad
Yeah. I was very mixed on the demo. And when you're mixed on a demo, details like an icon can tip the scale.
oh ok i mean usually for me if im mixed on the gameplay i'll wait for a sale or play another game but i get that you dont really have that option
I always buy games full price. It's not a matter of cost, it's a matter of potentially wasting my time. Since I was mixed on the demo, the only guarantee would be a bad icon.
Seems not to be an issue for you.
It's really not understandable. They're aware how the home screen of modern consoles work. The icon is the digital representation of the game. They should take pride in making it look pleasing to the eye, just like they do with box art.
People that care about others caring about icons, to the point they want shit icons to be made just to aggravate them are bizarre.
I know people who've bought (and not bought) cars based on the designs of the front grill, the patterns of the rims, or the shape of the windows. Equally superficial and meaningless, but that's how consumerism works.
Yeah, it's probably healthier to not worry about how people do or don't enjoy their toys. This stuff is all highly subjective anyways.
It's just plain, especially next to nicely detailed icons with lots of shades, textures, etc.
It's just the little things that work against it for me, and with it being so simple they stand out more. Wide horizontal logo put within a square box, with tight padding that seems optically off-center due to the accounting for the TM.
That's the thing, some form of illustrative element would have been nice. I even mentioned above how an FF styled title for the game would have been nice (though too reminiscent to be done imo).
Thing is they do generally make pleasant 'icons'. It's just that what an icon represents is changing.
There was a video posted last page that shows off new features from Plus (with the little glyph on the Switch screen signifying it's a physical game) that uses the same icon... which seems bad... BUT, it also uses the name "Sonic Mania", which seems like it might not be the final version? Or they were just lazy and didn't change the name? I don't know.
