Folklore for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

This game is beautiful. Both on a technical level for the graphics, and art design.

The action is also quite nice, especially since your set of attacks is so customizable.

However, this game suffers from one major flaw: the pacing.

You'll spend 15-20 minutes tearing through monsters, and the next thing you know you're spending another 10 minutes strolling around talking to a bunch of NPC's about a plot that reads like a sci-fi murder-she-wrote episode, that's pretty irrelevant. Also, the agonizingly slow piano soundtrack doesn't help this dull and tedious dialog either.Sure, it's fine that not every dialog sequence has speech, but when all you can do is fast forward through text while listening to what sounds like a cat walking across a piano... it gets very tiring.

It's quite a shame really, as there's so much potential, but with the horrible pacing of the game with the dull story-telling, I couldn't sit through more than 3-4 hours of this.

I played the demo for this game and I was interested but not overwhelmed. I must say that I have to change that. Folklore brings to the PS3 what it needed most, a decent RPG. While its not a traditional RPG, it has the look and the story of an RPG while it plays more like an action RPG along the lines of the recent X-Men games. The coolest part of of the game is that you get to capture the creatures you fight ghost buster's style. If you yank the PS3 controller up (or left and right), you can capture the creatures and use them in battle after you defeat them. The game is more fun than I thought it would be. The story carries the game and makes it interesting, even when you are just wading through mindless swarms of "Folk." If you like RPGs, this game will get you by.