E3 2007: Hands-on with Folklore
While the PS3 is still way too expensive for me, there were a couple of compelling titles at E3 that made me stop and think if I could actually afford it. One of those games was Folklore, an absolutely gorgeous game in the vein of Okami, Zelda, and surprisingly Pokemon. You adventure through a Labyrinth/Dark Crystal style world, fighting a variety of monsters and capturing their souls. Soul capturing actually uses the PS3 controller in an interesting and non-gimmicky fashion: you yank back the SIXXAXIS to rip it out of the monsters. It's very satisfying. Once you have a mob's soul you can then map it to one of your four face buttons, using them as an attack. For instance a goblin might be able to punch, and repeatedly pressing the button you assigned the goblin to will punch as if you were punching all real-time action game style. Each monster's attack is useful for different things, and they are upgradeable as you progress.
I'll be watching this game quite closely. Hopefully it will end up sucking so I don't have to sell any organs to buy a PS3.
