Sunday, July 15, 2007
Folklore.
Woah. Folklore may be the game that gets me to purchase a PS3.
From Kotaku:
"Part of what makes the art direction so sturdy are the two themes balanced against each other: stereotypical protagonists (one moody girl and a fey journalist) in a traditionally English fairy tale setting, with leering trolls and incongruously assembled mechanical hobgoblins clad in fluted metal armor and flying leather straps with clanking buckles. (The materials physics are top shelf.) And the thing that clutched at me, made me flush, was the male protagonist's default gait: he sidles along with his hands in his duster pockets, barely concerned with the tromping circus of spiny enemies he'll soon be combating by evoking the captured spirits of other fairy tale creatures. It's a little bit steampunk and a little bit Alice in Wonderland, although I'm told it's set in the present day."