Of course we’re all still gushing over the newly released E3 trailers for Killzone 2, MGS4, Heavenly Sword and what not (even though only one of us here actually has a PS3 to play them on *cough*). But here’s something else to drain your fluids! Being developed by Yoshiki Okamoto (he was the executive producer for Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, and Onimusha) and his company Game Republic, Folklore (originally known as FolksSoul: Ushinawareta Denshou in Japan) is a PS3-exclusive and will be released this year in October round-about.

Quick overview from IGN:

In the title, players venture into the netherworld as Ellen, a 17-year-old on a quest to find out about her dead mother, and a Keats, a reporter for an occult magazine.

As your journey into Ireland and the supernatural begins, you’ll be faced with a number of monsters called folks. These little tool bags will pack machine guns, cannons or other assorted weapons and basically try to crush you at every turn. How do you attack and defend yourself? You harvest the spirits — called ids — of these folks and use them in battle.

Let’s say you run into a Barrager, a little bugger with his machine gun drawn. You press whatever face button you’ve assigned the spirit of the shell-shooting Brummbear to, and the ghostly image of the hulking jerk appears and blasts the gunner. The gunner gets weak, his spirit appears above his body, you latch onto the spirit with a snake-like purple beam and yank the Sixaxis controller up to rip the id from the body.

And now check out this sexy Sailor Moon-ish magical transformation sequence, followed by some gameplay montage. Also, expect some user-created maps via the game’s Dungeon Trial mode. I don’t know why, but my first impression of the game was something closer to Lost Kindgom, a really obscure Gamecube RPG that involved using monster cards. It’s like Yu-Gi-Oh, but hawter and more importantly doesn’t have a sucky anime series for people to mock on Youtube.

Thanks to Joel Johnson for mentioning this interesting looking title. You can read his mushy love-letter at over at Kotaku.

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