Hi again Eric and my other fellow friends and gamers!

I’d just like to take a small moment of your time to amend my prior postings (#30-31) with an additional bit of new FOLKLORE DLC information that you may be interested to know,

Released today (Feb. 7th) to the Europeah PSN market was a brand new FOLKLORE Folk DLC pack — the “Malion Pack.” Unfortunately, the MNalion Folk is not currently available to North American gamers, nor does it appear to be coming any time soon… if at all.

This is really a shame — the Malion appears to be a really cool Folk addition to the game, which I why I’m sorry to report this bit of disappointing news. Along with the previously-discussed “Pigly Pack” and the “Every Game Magazine Original Rare Folks” packs, this now makes a total of five (5) separate Folk DLC packs which are not currently available to North American FOLKLORE gamers. *SNIFF*

As I’m sure most of you will recall, Sony held a FOLKLORE “Create-a-Creature” contest last year in North America and Europe. The development team, Game Republic, would be selecting two first place winners (one from each continent) who would have the honor of seeing their critter released in a DLC pack for the game… in addition to receiving a copy of the game and a limited edition art book. The winners were announced a few months back and the North American winning folk, Quasarilli, was released back on January 24th.

The Malion is a really cool looking Folk. At the most basic level, it resembles a wooly lion with a camel-like face, has a dark mane which features some random open flower petals, as well as a long rat-like tail with a large spore cluster on the tip. Here’s the description that was featured on the original Malion artwork:

“The Malion (Space Lion) runs circles around the enemy whilst creating an intoxicating spore cloud from its tail and thorny mane. When the prey is dazed the Malion jumps in for the kill. The tail and claws are the primary attacks, but this Folk is highly poisonous; wear protective gloves! The Malion fears fire.”

‘Nuff said. Many thanks, Eric, for considering releasing these additional Folk packs, and for forwarding our requests to the other developers. Again, it’s very much appreciated.

Regards!

(QUICK P.S. TO THE GROUP: Does anyone know if that LE FOLKLORE Art Book is available anywhere, or if a standard retail edition is available for purchase? The art design for FOLKLORE is just so stunningly beautiful, I wish there was a way a mere mortal such as myself could have it in my own collected bound volume. Thanks!)

The point is, the stand-alone Folklore was probably the most content heavy single player experience I’ve had since working on Baldur’s Gate 2 or Torment. To top it off, there’s the 6 download packs (3 bundles), the free xmas pack, and the create-a-folk – I think that’s the most additional content available for any title on PSN. As I said… I’m impressed.

Keep leaving your comments and I’ll keep pointing them out to the developers – I’m rooting for a Folklore 2 as well.

Thanks again,
–Eric

I would however like to say to Eric & Sony that designing a game to appeal to “completeists” (find all the folks, unlock all the powers, etc…) and then making it impossible to be truly complete is just disasterous.

Then only thing worse would be posting “We’ve got 5 more folks that you’ll never have! Neener-Neener!”

I view this differenly than say Soul Calibur that has platform exclusive characters because that game is not designed in such a way that you’re expected to “catch them all”.

I mean, captur folk, use the good on for the good ennemy.. that’s it.

Sorry, it’s interesting, but to say that this is MARVEL compared to a DMC4 .. or anything else.

Again, I just did the demo, perhaps the complete game has hugh history, hugh rpg, hugh caractere, interesting plot.. etc..etc..

Sorry for my english

greetz

1. One you play
2. For Backup
3. One that never leaves the packaging.

Yeah, it’s weird, and I love it because it’s different and original. Same reason why I love Metal Gear Solid so much, just like Folklore, it’s different, unique, complex, unparalleled and deep. It just isn’t about the generic saving the world crap like in every game I’ve ever played, it’s a nice change of pace. I could tell the developers put a lot of time and heart into Folklore, considering the attention to detail is simply amazing. Compared to DMC4 which looks and acts like a rehash of DMC3. It seems developers nowadays don’t care about this detail anymore, they just care about pretty graphics.

Oh, and:
Give us Folklore 2! Give us Folklore 2!