There is a lack of RPGs for the Playstation 3, and with so little to choice from it’s a great thing I cam e across Folklore. It can be purchased for under thirty dollars and your will receive about thirty to forty hours of game play. There are not many titles to chose from, so it is a good thing when you come across a hidden gem, or at least an unknown title that has flown under the radar. The game that I am referring to is Folklore and you can pick it up used for between twenty and thirty dollars. That’s a pretty good deal for thirty or forty hours of game play.

While you await the next installment of Final Fantasy, Folklore is a great way to get your RPG fix. It focus around a daughter searching for her mother, and an investigative reporting looking for a story. It take place in a small Irish town, not the usual setting for a Japanese RPG.

In the game you capture your enemies and use their special powers attack and level up, and their are numerous ones available. You also have various outfits that fluctuate your strengths and weaknesses. It also utilizes the six axis controller by requiring you to shake it in order to capture certain enemies.

The graphics are pretty good, very fluid and clearly detailed. It looks especially pretty on an HDTV, the particle effects are very nice. You can see the dust floating through the air in the shafts of light coming through the window. It is very cool.

The game is split between two missions, using the two different characters. They basically travel the same areas, but they get to see it from a slightly different vantage point and you get different pieces of the puzzle using the two characters. I found that switching back and forth between them every mission or two gave me a good idea of what was happening, without missing out on what both characters were seeing. I guess that you could use one first and go all the way through and then use the other, but that way I think would make it confusing.