News: Torikago no Mukougawa

March 04, 2007, 03:53 PM

by brandon, via Takuyo -
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Torikago no Mukougawa is a rather unremarkable game from Takuyo with some rather remarkable artwork, I'd say. It's an adventure game with sliding puzzles and girls to woo, but what struck me was the excellent use of color in the illustrations. Check the (worksafe) sample images to see what I mean. It's slightly reminiscent of a more human take on the Elebits style (though this came before). Shame that it was used for this sort of game - I imagine that if you applied this graphical style to an RPG or similar, you might get something more along the lines of Odin Sphere.

If you're curious about the game itself, or want to see a bit more art, there's a movie download (with decent music about halfway in), as well as wallpapers. The illustrations are by satoshi kuramochi, who I believe also did work on Takuyo's cancelled Xbox RPG Master/Slave.