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Description A bit of fan art for the severely unappreciated and underrated PSP game series 'Rengoku' the 2nd game in the series has since become one of my most favourite games of all time because of it's level of artistic integrity unique concept and story line, and for proving that most reviewers are simpletons

basically if you liked movies like Casshern and manga like Blame! then you should give at least the second game a play through

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the story is about a race of robots named A.D.A.M 'Autonomous Duelling Armed Machine' created for the sole purpose of waging war.
They where unique in that they were constructed from a unique metalloid substance called 'elixir skin' which when programmed could morph into virtually any weapon imaginable.
They eventually ended a centuries long machine war and an age of peace dawned, however with no war left for the machines to fight what was to become of them?

the humans built gargantuan towered called the 'Rengoku' towers or 'towers of purgatory' where the robots would battled endlessly in a futile attempt to reach the top. the humans bored of peace would watch the magnificent machines battle.

however further centuries pass and unknowest to the A.D.A.M mankind died out

you play as one of these robots, named 'GRAM' but he is unique he has somehow, spontaneously developed and ego who struggles to grasp the concept of existence and now seeks to escape the confines of purgatory

Rengoku is © Konami , Hudson and Jun Suemi


coloured in photoshoppe cs and opencanvas 1.01

EDIT - overhaulled the colours and fixed some lineart errors :0
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Comments: 34

max7238 [2010-11-10 00:35:14 +0000 UTC]

Great art, great music, great game... I'll stop there before I geek out again...

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DemonicDante1 [2010-06-28 23:56:37 +0000 UTC]

I love this art. The game is severely unappreciated and underrated. I hope the new one they was rumored to come out proves all of the critics wrong about the series.

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Vamore In reply to DemonicDante1 [2010-07-08 13:47:44 +0000 UTC]

your enthusiasm is appreciated :3 sadly I'm pretty sure that 'Rengoku - end of the entury' was canned along side of 'Coded Arms Assault' a bit of a pity : / ...although 'Vanquish' is looking kinda promising as far as the whole 'cyber argumentation' theme goes...too bad about the actual story for that one X'D

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aefyn [2010-03-17 12:56:52 +0000 UTC]

This is freaking awesome! Good job. I especially like the lighting effect and the wings.

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Sunday-Soul [2009-06-24 06:05:57 +0000 UTC]

the first game i ever had on psp and i gotta say one of the best and yea people do overlook it glad to see some rengoku fanart up.

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sotek666 [2009-04-24 21:45:11 +0000 UTC]

THIS IS A GREAT PIECE, AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT GAME, HAVING CLEARED THE ENTIRE TOWER TWICE... WHAT EQUIPMENT DOES YOUR A.D.A.M. HAVE?

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mungywungy [2009-02-03 11:01:12 +0000 UTC]

wow, great pic! :3

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MachinesBleedToo [2008-11-19 04:51:30 +0000 UTC]

The colouring in this is incredible. It's so soft and airy, and the cool + warm tones together make for a really captivating image. Your attention to detail is enviable too.

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6gr6im6 [2008-08-21 19:16:25 +0000 UTC]

awesome!!!

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s0ulsurvivor [2008-05-18 03:51:05 +0000 UTC]

Bravo! Lurv the wings!

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dire-musaera [2008-04-22 08:33:38 +0000 UTC]

i think i remember you showing me this game

its very majestic. love all the little details and the lighting effects.

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Vamore In reply to dire-musaera [2008-05-02 14:21:02 +0000 UTC]

really? X'D I dun remember , anyhow thanks muchly Wendy...btw guess what 9 pages I'm finally getting around to 8D

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dire-musaera In reply to Vamore [2008-05-06 04:03:35 +0000 UTC]

9 pages?

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Vamore In reply to dire-musaera [2008-05-06 05:06:39 +0000 UTC]

well...we already did the first one a thousand years ago X'3

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MetalLearner [2008-04-20 12:51:53 +0000 UTC]

Kudo's to you MANY KUDO'S

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Vamore In reply to MetalLearner [2008-04-20 13:41:43 +0000 UTC]

I thought you might like one :3, thanks yo

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MetalLearner In reply to Vamore [2008-04-21 08:11:14 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes! I'd like to see some Original designs for the Rengoku universe possibly

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Vamore In reply to MetalLearner [2008-04-21 08:36:33 +0000 UTC]

:3 i dun due requests...but my commissions are pretty reasonable X'D

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MetalLearner In reply to Vamore [2008-04-21 08:48:10 +0000 UTC]

It's just a suggestion for a series of drawings as I've yet to see interpretations of Rengoku which is certainly an underrated game

Kudos to Jun Suemi for the designs


Correct me for the creators' spelling as I think I've got it wrong

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Vamore In reply to MetalLearner [2008-04-21 09:11:46 +0000 UTC]

nope, you spelt it correctly :3

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MetalLearner In reply to Vamore [2008-04-21 09:53:28 +0000 UTC]

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kitfox-crimson [2008-04-20 09:17:18 +0000 UTC]

Holy crap! Its easy to tell when someone really likes something when they do fanart this good!! The lighting and colouring style is awesome! Heh, that game is so you it's hard to tell that you didnt make up the designs yourself XD

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Vamore In reply to kitfox-crimson [2008-05-02 14:19:34 +0000 UTC]

just a little tiny bit obsessed maybe X'D, yeah I think that time I found the game manual like a year ago it just stuck in mah head, although it's kinda similar to the Nihei stuff I like anyhow, so it kinda works both ways : D

'n thanks about der lighting, it's something I need to work more on 80

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Plod-85 [2008-04-19 22:40:19 +0000 UTC]

Dude, this is one of your best, in my oppinion. The limited palet works really well, but I'm most impressed by the light effects. You've done a really good job here, nice and holy/heavenly.

Oh and the drawing r4wk5 2

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Vamore In reply to Plod-85 [2008-04-20 02:14:55 +0000 UTC]

why thank choo kinda sur 8D .
yeah the glowly highlights where a bit of an experiment that I'll probably only use for this image ( this extremely anyhow ) it pretty much reflects the uber bloom effects used in the game :3

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synner [2008-04-19 17:22:18 +0000 UTC]

Holy shit man, the pic was already awesome, why did you have to colour it and make it ultimate? hehe.

TBH the colours u chose are different ot what I imagined, I expected post apocalyptic for some reason but I do really enjoy these versions. More in-tune with the whole heaven idea really.

Would be cool to see a burning world around him tho. Lots of orangey smoke clouds etc

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Vamore In reply to synner [2008-04-20 02:12:54 +0000 UTC]

yeah that that wouldn't make any sence X'3, this is a recreation of the end of the game, at the top of the tower. while the lower levels of the tower are grungy rust piles, the closer you get the the top, the more techy and pristine the environment becomes.

also as the world ended centuries ago in rengoku, the sky is nice and normal 9in fact probably cleaner than when people where about ) however if i where to to a backgrounds showing the ground it would be a endless wasteland sparsely populated by even more towers...i was thinking of added that in, but the angle is wrong in this case X'3

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synner In reply to Vamore [2008-04-20 02:57:51 +0000 UTC]

Certainly is. From everything you've said about thhis game it does sound very respectable indeed. And some awesome art design. very you really

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BazookoidBen [2008-04-19 15:31:44 +0000 UTC]

Oh sounds funky, trust Konami to come up with something with big robots. This image makes me think of a cross between Akira and Neon Genises evangelion. Brillaint pose I like all the technological stuff all around it.

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Vamore In reply to BazookoidBen [2008-05-02 14:15:57 +0000 UTC]

actually the robots where only about man sized in this particular game 8D, but yeah there is a kinda Eva-ish-ness to the designs, but they are alot more varied and organic looking...but actually machine...unlike Eva's which where machine looking but actually organic X'3

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scafeofhell [2008-04-19 12:23:12 +0000 UTC]

I haven't seen the game, I bet its a great game, awesome picture too.


--
The Gaurdian of Hell!

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Frozen87 [2008-04-19 12:15:12 +0000 UTC]

Really really beautiful.

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Vamore In reply to Frozen87 [2008-04-19 12:41:36 +0000 UTC]

thank you muchly

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xodarap [2008-04-19 12:07:58 +0000 UTC]

havent seen this game, it sound pretty cool. really good work here, pretty epic pose hehe.

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