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Fruity

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this because it looked really good. And that it does. The graphics and visuals are amazing, as is the general concept; a doorway into parallel universes with various, interesting new species. That's where the fun ended for me.

While my husband enjoyed this game, I found it to be annoyingly redundant. He kind of likes redundant stuff, I loathe it. It seemed like you just had to do the same thing over and over.

The plot itself was okay, but could have been better. But overall, this is better left to the kiddies, and I wouldn't recommend it for the avid roleplayer.

funkey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

gets my wrist sore flicking the controller back and forth, will kinda keep you in shape lol

It's No Final Fantasy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting more of this game. Like one of the other reviewers mentions there is about 90% of the story presented in a kind of comic book style in the cut scenes, which is really disappointing for a PS3 game. Were they too cheap to animate and hire voice actors for all the cut scenes?? I did play the game through to the end (hence the 3 stars), so I got my money's worth from it but I won't ever play it again. If you are a RPG player then I think you will find this game a little weak. It's no where near the standard of a Final Fantasy game (not even close)!

Stunning visuals!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The visuals in this game are stunning. It makes you to pause the gameplay for a while and admire the environment. The gameplay itself is a bit slow paced, but it depends on whether you want to release all the karmas or whether you want to collect all the special items. It's a neat game with very smooth graphics. I played it on an HDTV capable of giving maximum output. The storyline itself may seem somewhat boring. The enemies are not hard to beat, but they tend to be repetitive.

Overall, if you want a lot of hours of gameplay, want to see awesome visuals, excellent music, and a cool game, this is for you. Slasher fans will not like this game. The replay value is also more because you can play the game with multiple characters. A good game to show-off your PS3 to your friends. I found this game to have a lot of similarities with the Final Fantasy series in which you defeat the enemies using magic powers, attacks, and the like.

It's a slow game, but gets addictive as you go along. Definitely a must buy for the PS3.

A nice game with nice gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

one of the games for PS3 which have a very nice game play.
This game truly brings out the capabilities of playstation 3 system.
Nice keep.

Repetitive, boring, and maddening

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The visuals presented in the game are stunning, but gameplay itself is (in typical Sony style) boring, repetitive, and extremely maddening. Most of the actual game is composed of a few simple actions: 1) take 10 steps, 2) bump into someone, 3) watch a quote slowly scroll onto the screen, 4) click a button to watch the other side of the conversiom, repeat 3 and 4 ad nauseum until the "conversion" is finished, then repeat 1 through 4 for each other person along the path. When you finally finish the boring conversations, take 10 more steps to bump into something to kill, click like mad to figure out how to kill or be killed, rinse and repeat.

The other thing I do not like about this game is that the game has to be completed in stages before it allows you save your progress. This is maddening because I find the game presents various "monsters" throughout each stage that are relatively easy to defeat, but the last one in the stage is usually much more difficult and requires several attempts to figure out. Unfortunately, the obligatory death in the last scene requires one to start over at the beginning and this eventually becomes extremely repetitive, boring, and frustrating.

Sony has a fairly decent gaming platform in the PlayStation 3, but Sony continues the same lame strategy in every game it produces so I use my PlayStation 3 exclusively to play music and movies.

BORING!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: April 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Barely spent an hour with this game and I was ready to sell it!......I played a few games for PS3 before one of them was Conan....which was more fun and violent then this game.....but that's just my opinion please read more reviews....before making your decision.

Great Folklore

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is definetly a very good game for people who love celtic/Irish cultures, you have all this creatures from miths and books.The ocassional player will find a resembleanse to The Spiderwick's Chronicles..
But this is a dark walk through ancient brit islands mithology.Great game fro RPG Action Lovers.

Great graphics but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is beautiful but I find the walking around and fighting things for 2 hours without much purpose is boring and only 10% so far has voiceover work while the other 90% is reading in comic book style. I feel that this is nextgen not ps1 and there is no excuse for this kind of shortcutting on a $60 dollar game don't let the term RPG fool you this is single party hack and slash with magic instead of a sword.

Generally speaking, I like it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought several games, for my XBOX 360 and PS3. Quite a few were disappointments, but this one is pretty good. Folklore still has a few things that could have been better, though. For instance, the graphics in the close-ups and the town of Doolin are adequate, bur I'm not totally crazy about the graphics in the Netherworld (the "dungeons"). They seemed a notch down, in terms of both resolution and color. I guess "Oblivian" is the new standard for me.

People complain about games being too short, but I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever finish this game. I've probably spent 20+ hours on this game and I'm think I'm not even a quarter of the way through, and I had a terrible time killing the boss of Warcadia (the second realm). Took forever, maybe ten, fifteen tries. And it's not like you can save just before you have a boss fight in this game. No, save, THEN you have to fight a BIG bunch of Folk every SINGLE time just before you enter the arena. And they keep getting more numerous in each succeeding dungeon. Add that to the significant discrepency between the regular fights and the boss fight (which also have several components that require different Folk to be used to fight) and you have my biggest complaint about the game. I've been trying to ramp up by building up my Folk, but it gets very tedious and monotonous very fast. Frankly, I don't know how people play both of the characters (Ellen and Keats) through each of the realms, the repetition would drive me crazy, not to mention the doubling of the boss fights. I guess some people love 'em, but not me.

This game has an interesting (but convoluted) plot, it seems the majority of the people in this TINY village were/are being killed off one way or another, which is kind of funny in a way. Each time you think you're going to get some useful information from someone, another murdered or dead person comes into play, giving you another bit of esoteric intormation. I guess it does give the game a sense of overarching cohesion, instead of just jumping into one dungeon after another, but its sometimes hard to remember when you bashing one enemy after another just to ramp up in the Netherworld.

Overall, though, playability is good, the one exception is that the map is barely adequate. It takes a while to figure out the symbols, and it only shows a small part of where you are, so no "big" picture which is sometime important to figure out where you've been and where you want to go. The tutorial is good, and you can press R3 to know how to inhale your enemies' karma with the triaxis controller. Pretty cool. Lots of dialogue, but it's not too informative, I was hanging on to every word anyway to try to get more info, but so far its slow to come.

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