Escape from Monkey Island gets my vote. Grim Fandango's composition is pretty horrid. Don't think any of those two will be making it very far in the contest though. XD

Grim Fandango box art for me.

Grim Fandango.

Neither is very good, but if I knew nothing about the games, I'd go with Grim for its Casablanca vibes. Monkey just looks like a quick, simple poster from a knockoff Disney movie.

Going with Grim.

EMI is the better eye candy, but quickly reveals itself to be empty calories. There's just nothing that interesting IN the pretty artwork.

Grim Fandango is rather disappointingly blah, but those character designs are just so distinctively cool, they make me want to know more. (Bonus points for not including Glottis.)

Yes, exactly this. I have no strong feelings for either of these covers, and neither are my favourites (Grim the GAME is obviously one of the best adventure games ever). But I still think the Grim cover manages to interest us with cool character design – remember that they always looked blocky, that was its style, they were supposed to look like paper mache figures. The fonts and indeed the tagline also look cool to me.

Escape from Monkey Island is colourful and kind of fun, but I can’t get over the fact that Guybrush simply doesn’t look like himself. Even following up the CMI cover art style (which it seems like they are trying to do with the box art) this looks kind of off, and kind of cheap. And is that really Comic Sans at the bottom? Now that’s a dealbreaker.

I’ll have to vote for Grim.

Very close call. EMI's artwork is quite good, but does nothing to distinguish it from other MI box artwork. GF is pretty bland too. But it is different enough to say I've never seen anything like this before. Different however, does not equal great . By the slimmest of margins Grim Fandango has my vote.

I think the Grim Fandango box is the better of the two.

I vote Escape From Monkey Island. I'm not a big fan of it overall, some of the art is cute but a lot of it is ugly and the composition is bleh. But it wins out over Grim simply by being more than a few assets slapped together on a black background.
As mentioned already, doesn't really matter as whichever one wins will get demolished by MI2 soon enough!

Grim Fandango simply for the cool noir vibes, if nothing else.

Grim Fandango wins 14-4!

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Fate of Atlantis is stunning, and wins for me. An all-time gorgeous piece of art (side note, I had always thought it was a Drew Struzan original given how good it is, but it's by William Eaken!).