Groucho on 11 August 2008
I concur with the Heavenly Sword and Folklore appreciation. Both are great games. Heavenly Sword's only real fault is that it is way too short -- i.e. we all wanted a lot more of it. It was too short to be worth $60, but its a great buy at $20, IMO.
Folklore is a RPG at heart... a bit different from your stock FF-clone JRPG, but in a good way. Its a lot of fun, if you like RPGs, and very much under-appreciated. As such its hard to find in stores anymore, although, since it was published (and developed?) by Sony, you'll no doubt see it as a "Greatest Hits" one of these days. At least I would hope so -- I don't recall that it put up impressive numbers, so it might not make the cut for a reprint.
