Want a reason to want Folklore, the upcoming Playstation 3 adventure title? Kenji Kawai.

Kawai-san is the lead composer on the spooky fairy tale set in an alternate universe of mythic folklore, joined by Super Sweep veterans Ayako Saso and Shinji Hosoe. If the background music is evocative of a motion picture soundtrack, it is because Kawai has lent his prodigious musical talents to such breakthrough Japanese movies as Ringu, Ghost in the Shell and Death Note. How’s that for a repertoire? Having heard the score in its entirety, I can safely say it is up there with the most engagingly macabre wonders dreamed up by Danny Elfman.

Want a reason not to want Folklore, though? Perhaps like me you cannot, nor ever will be, able to afford a Playstation 3. If so, at least you can take solace in the scathing review from Eurogamer, which brands the title “one part boring adventure game, one part underdeveloped collect-em up, and one part standard dungeon crawl.” Ouch.

I’m thinking I might just stick to the soundtrack and leave the Sixaxis for future generations. Or at least until Media Molecule’s game is on shelves.

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