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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.

A Comic Book with Repetitive game play...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 22
Date: November 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game, but there are just so many annoying little things. The storyline is exposed via a myriad of text bubble comic book sections, that last forever. Even the game designers added a fast forward to get through it quicker.

The world map sections are tiny, usually involving walking forty paces and then transitioning to a different section load. I much prefer seamless worlds you can spend an hour or more exploring, rather than 30 seconds. Also you keep having to go through the same sections again to get places, even though once through them interacting with the NPC's, there is nothing else to do.

Fight/game play are repetitive fishing expeditions where you have to choose the best absorbed character to battle other characters, but you do the same thing over and over and over again. You only get four characters active at any one time, otherwise you have to go remap the right hand buttons in the middle of play. Lord help you if you hit L2 by accident, because before you know it you've remapped one or two characters. I think a selection system closer to the new Rachet and Clank's would be better where you can quick select a character for play and page through them rapidly as well to access all of them at once.

Because of the comic book intermissions that should have been interactive with voice dialogs instead of text (what is this the 80's) the small world maps, and repetitive game play I have to ding this one.

I give it two stars though for graphics and imagery. I was just hoping for a lot more since the concepts were great.

Rent this before you buy it.

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.

Not Quite What I Expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 29
Date: October 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When the demo for Folklore became available for download a couple of months ago, I was quick to get it. I thought the demo was a LOT of fun, but the only thing I didn't like was all the text bubbles instead of actual voice acting. I knew this game had been created in Japan, so I thought that when the game came to the U.S. the text bubbles would be replaced with voice acting. This game is a lot of fun to play, but be warned that there is a LOT of text to read. Sometimes the text screens go on and on and on. I really think this slows the game down, and really got on my nerves after awhile. You may want to rent this before buying.

Not Bad, inventive, original, but lack luster.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, This game is pretty fun but doesn't do well in keeping me attached much less holding my attention for too long. But it is a pretty cool game. The gameplay is original and is fairly enjoyable but a bit slow at times. If you're a person who's into RPGs this game will seem like it takes forever to get to the meat of the story. I've been playing for months and i didn't take interest in the story until it came close to the end. Graphically it's also not bad. I'm very impressed by the presentation and the originality of the characters in the game, there has even been an instance which a contest winner had his character design put in the game. If you're like me, you'll probably notice this game had a lot of shift-of-focus in the story even for an RPG. None-the less, over all this game is not that great but also not bad.

Fun though often repetitive

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo before buying this game and was impressed by the ambiance created by the graphics and outstanding sound. The full game, however, was somewhat disappointing. The levels are chopped down to bite-size rooms reminiscent of games made during the Pentium 2 generation and loading times are rather long even with the optional HD installation. The camera works well more often than not, but not always. The storyline is confusing, predictable and no too enthralling. I found the highlight to be the combat system and the use of the sixaxis motion sensor (this is the only PS3 game I have where it didn't feel tacked on).

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.

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)!

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.

Love this game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 34 / 38
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay. I Love this game!!! The fighting sequences are not complicated in any way. Sometimes (always with the boss fights) you have to figure out how to beat the enemies by evaluating a picture. But this is also an easy task.

I have to say whoever made this has a wonderful immagination! I am always interested to find out what the next foe looks like! And the story lines are fun to solve. My attention is never lost.

This is the perspective of a 15 year old female...so I dunno how this will fare with others.

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