🧵THREAD - The AI-Assisted Kingdom Hearts Cover 🧵
So, this cover have been pointed out for being ai-generated. Yeah it's shit. BUT after I did some dig in, it's actually kinda more complicated than this. So let me expand on this 👇
UPDATE :
To prove my point further, @dekudraws.bsky.social, one of the artist who can mimics the best Nomura's art style, stated exactly the same thing as I.
Kahene
You can't help who you fall in love with but you can absolutely help who you choose to be with
So it seems, in the end, that the blame lies with Square Enix’s U.S. division, which—believing that the Japanese cover art wouldn’t “appeal” to a Western audience, decided to modify it using AI rather than commissioning a new one or simply… keeping the Japanese version. 🤡
Kahene
BUT, and this is where it starts to get weird, the US Switch 2 version of the game uses the shitty-modified-AI version as a cover.
And it seems that this original untouched version is used for the Japanese PS5 and Switch 2 version of the game.
(I think the PS5 physical copy is exclusive to Japan)
