Talk:Bayonetta 2/@comment-11584687-20140617134445/@comment-1661895-20140617141335

I think it's difficult to say what the real reason is. Based on what Kamiya said in regards to who changed the box art from it's original, he states in his tweets that he doesn't know who's responsible and only refers to them as 'they'. Whilst it seems likely that Sega would be involved in doing something like this given how they are still a part of the game and for the reasons you've shown above, it could easily have been Nintendo's decision based on what they're doing overseas.



Check out the Japanese box art here. Both of the games are being packaged together on seperate discs, similar to a box set for a DVD collection. The changes make more sense in this context as it's shown matching with the predominantly red Bayonetta logo at the bottom and has this altered artwork as if it was to be packaged more like a special edition than anything else. I think this is a case of this particular box art being simply used on the international copies as well once they had decided on this for the Japanese release, even though the games are not physically in the same box. That's why it seems to be oddly designed.