Folklore Comments by Dave McCarthy

MadMirko: It got 9/8/8/8 in Famitsu. (edited, confused the score with the new everybodys golf review that got 9/9/9/8)

Yossarian: Nah I'm just teasing him. I thought R was a good but not great game either.

Famitsu is after me lucky charms

I must say I was looking forward to this game for the PS3 but a 5 even if the game scores higher at other sites still makes me feel there will be moments in the game where I probably would feel renting it would best serve my money.

Anyway, I hope more games will stop with the shake mechanic to perform certain actions in a game. I really hated that in the Heavenly Sword demo and I know I will hate it in FS.

Ah....

I'll get a cheap Ebay version then.

Shame :(

@disc

Famitsu scores are not very reliable. The fact that it sold only about 30k copies is more telling.

Machiavellian: You can disable it in Heavenly Sword, much easier to pull of the aerial moves then.

MadMirko: Yeah I know about Famitsu scores, they are very strange at times. I mean 40/40 to Nintendogs ;)

But sales in Japan isn't a good way to judge the quality of a game either, just look at Okami.

Okami also got good reviews in reliable publications, and sold more than Folkssoul in Japan. :)

EDIT: About 5 times more, BTW.

can't we all just respect disc's faith?

Another shit ps3 game. What a surprise.

Yossarian: Uh?

Call me crazy but I don't think Folklore being shit will spell the end of PS3...

ps3 in shit game SHOCKER

You're mum was the Rose of Cork?

PIC!!!!!!!

what a shame, this looked like a good game :(

"Call me crazy but I don't think Folklore being shit will spell the end of PS3..."

No but sub-par games, even worse ports, and the ps3's price tag will.

just watch movies with it and call it a day. game nearly over.

Seems harsh, but if its not, its really dissapointing. The demo showed huge promise I thought.

Of course it would be pretty hard to enjoy a game to its fullest if you needed a translator so I assume the score will go up in the pal review.

@WaxBrazillian

Why would you spend £425 on a console and sell it after 3-4 months (assuming you bought it at launch)?

Pointless review, I'm not that bothered if it isn't great because there is so much good stuff out this year. But what crappy review. I could have wrote that from just playing the demo.

"But what crappy review. I could have wrote that from just playing the demo."


It is of course entirely possible that the full game simply offers more of the same and doesnt have much more substance than the demo.

From the makers of the 5/10 Genji games comes.... 5/10 Folklore!

It can't be as disappointing as the Dragon's Lair/Heavenly Sword demo surely?

Pipe and slippers at 998mb.

Must've missed the Dragons Lair demo. Thanks for the heads up.

;)

Sounds like Pokemon crossed with Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal.

Dragons lair? wtf?

Pass the spliff please. :)

Thanks disc
I was on the fence with Heavenly Sword because I really hated the shake in order to pull off the aerials. The demo was very short but it did provide enough combat for me to at least consider buying it.

Too many games are tacking on the motion controls for the SixAxis and it's not making me happy. Most deal with shaking the controller which is not fun in any shape or form IMHO. I wish they would think of something more inventive then shaking the controller that feels very forced and unsatisfactory.

As someone else said, I'm inclined to disagree based on my experiences with the demo;-)

I'd just like to say that this game doesn't seem to really require 'shaking' the controller, at least not in the demo. It seemed to me you use it to yank the souls out of the enemies...

screw PEter More, some big company get this guy - as702ecs - he knows every detail, or he has an amazing crystal ball. The PS fundamentalists are funny, 1st it was "let PS3 see the light of day and no one plays any other system" now it's "just wait for 2222 and we'll dominate"..., funny.
360 sales hit a brick wall, hummm, taking a look at the games charts I don't see any wii or PS3 game..., not even in Sonyland - Europe.

Communities already made their decisions, video-gamer enthusiasts are using 360's, girls and families are using Wii's and somebody should use PS3 2008-2009, right as702ecs ?

I see Resistance (ya know another "average" game) and Motorstorm still in the UK charts.

Mind you it is quite hard to get PS3 and Wii games in the charts if you don't release any new games.

lol, shit then

"you'll find yourself in the village of Lemrick, where the living meet the dead." So they captured the theme of stab city perfectly!

@miiguel

Worst post ever!

Suprise supris EG review a PS3 game and give it a crap score.

I am suprised people actually take these reviews seriously. Download the demo & try it yourself.

SIMPLE!!!

Also EG review the enlish language version.

CVG just gave this 8/10. "It seems like PlayStation 3 has its first gem."

I'd like to see if Eurogamer revisit this once the english language version comes out as I feel that this review is way too premature. It's light on detail, insightful thought and commentary and seems as if the reviewer played the game for about an hour and decided that 'they thought it was dull'. I'm not even sure the guy could understand the story or read kanji. Poor attempt, 5/10 for Eurogamer on this one...

I lost my trust in EG reviews when Oblivion got 10/10...

"If it weren't for the fact that some folk are only vulnerable to certain other folk, you'd never really need to swap them over - and the fact that some folk are only vulnerable to certain other folk feels a bit like a contrived way of providing an incentive to catch 'em all."

Totally agree. I also hate it in other RPGs that you have enemies with specific elemental weaknesses and that you have to acquire all magic spells to effectively deal with it. Why not just one monster status of “elemental weakness” and one spell “elemental magic”?

Played the Folksoul demo and the game seemed very old fashioned when it comes to the overworld. After Oblivion (crap game though that may be) it’s quite hard to put up with invisible walls anymore in next gen games. But liked the gameplay. At least in the demo the sixaxis controls were simple and effective and added to the experience.

Oh dear

My questions are "Does he read Japanese?" and "If it's "average like he said, why is it a 5 instead of a 7?"

Whoever gives this game a 5/10 is just either being juvenile or biased. If you have the chance, download the demo and try it for yourself. Solely based on the demo, it deserves a much better score than a lowly 5/10. I've been gaming for more than 20 years and I can tell you it is simply impossible this game is below average. I played the demo and had fun. In fact, I was impressed. There is originality put into the folks and enemy creatures. The use of the sixaxis to pull and absord "souls" is a nice touch. It's simple and not overused that it becomes tedious and annoying. The only small complaint I have is that the demo was too easy and a bit linear. I don't know about the entire game but the demo merits at least a 7/10.

@ dysonlu

I agree, EU demo is good fun and much better than the Japanese version. That was more about the story/setting and actual gameplay was quite limited. Whether it holds up after prolonged play, I can't tell, however the terrific art direction is sure to cary me through the full game. But it's definitely an acquired taste.

Review score in general are useless IMO (like any human opinion they’re subjective), that’s why I actually reed the text in order to support a buy/no buy-decision. This review is one of the poorer ones at EG, criticizing a game for being a game. Might have been due to the language barrier. It sure isn’t import friendly if you want to follow the story.

I still can't believe this got a 5. :)

Damn harsh.