Folklore -- Initial Impression.

I've been playing Battlefield online with a little Phantasy Star Online thrown in. I sort of needed a bit of a break after nearly seventy-five hours of Pokémon so I haven't started anything for a few days. Now it's time to jump back in and I'm going to be doing that on the PlayStation 3 with the Gamer Republic developed and Sony published Folklore. The game is an action adventure with a dark setting based on Western fairy tales and mythology, especially those of pagan Gaelic origin concerning Samhain. You know, the basis for Halloween and All Saint's Day and the general celebration of the end of the harvest. Where the pagans believed that the boundaries between the living and the dead were weakened and the dead became dangerous to the living. I find the setting and concept for the game to be extremely enticing. It's good to see more western folklore and mythology appear in Japanese made games. And not bastardized versions of it along the lines of Xenogears. Considering that the game is an action adventure title I'm hoping for a good combat system backed up by a great story. We'll see how it goes.