I had dabbled in Nanostray 1 and 2 for the DS. But the third installment in the series, Nano Assault, really looked like the shmup fix I'd been jonesing for. After picking up the game and savoring its gorgeous visuals and glorious shmuppy-good gameplay, I turned to admiring its snazzy box art when I realized.... the ship is completely backwards!
Observe...
If you look at the in-game ship, the rounded surface is the front and the back has several metallic pillars (shafts?) sticking out - one from the center and then one on each diagonal corner. The center pillar emits propulsion exhaust to propel the ship forward while the other pillars act as back-swept wings of sorts.
However, the box art seems to have a trail of propulsion exhaust bending from around the alien cell in the background to the rounded surface of the ship. Meanwhile, laser blasts are firing from the metallic pillars and culminate in some kind of explosion. Seems like if I were designing a (nanoscopic) fighter jet I would put the weapons facing forward, wouldn't you? This all implies a forward-swept design in the wings and thus that the layout of the ship is entirely backwards!
So what's the deal? Am I crazy or is this an honest to goodness gaff? How could such a major error make it to the box art's final design? Who could be responsible?
What do you think?
