Folklore ~Chapter 1: Familial Warmth 「Ellen」~ Part 3
Folklore is a 2007 action role-playing video game set in Ireland and the Celtic Otherworld of Irish mythology, centering on a young woman named Ellen, and a journalist named Keats.
Developer(s): Game Republic
Publisher(s): Sony Computer Entertainment
Director(s): Yoshiki Okamoto, Takashi Shono
Producer(s): Yoshiki Okamoto, Kouji Okada
Artist(s): Kohei Toda, Chichiro Matsukura
Writer(s): Hidehisa Miyashita
Composer(s): Kenji Kawai, Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Hiroto Saitoh
Platform(s): PlayStation 3
Release: [JP] June 21 2007, [NA] October 9 2007, [EU] October 12 2007, [AU] October 18 2007
Genre(s): Action role-playing
Language: English
Played on PS3
The game takes place in the present day. A young university student by the name of Ellen (Lisa Hogg) is lured to the sea-side village of Doolin, in Ireland, led by a letter from her supposedly dead mother, telling her to meet her at the Cliff of Sidhe, Doolin. Meanwhile Keats (Richard Coyle), a journalist from an occult magazine called Unknown Realms, receives a telephone call from a woman in distress telling him to come to Doolin, and crying about Faerys who would kill her. Though he suspects it is a prank call, he pays a visit to Doolin Village.
When Ellen arrives at the Cliff of Sidhe, she sees a cloaked figure resting at the edge. Thinking it is her mother, she calls out to the figure, but it does not reply. Keats arrives on the scene then, and asks Ellen if she was the one who called him. When she, surprised, says no, he wonders aloud if the figure at the cliff was the one who called him.
A strong gust of wind suddenly blows across the cliff, and when it dies down, the figure has disappeared. Ellen, distraught, runs down to the beach to find the body and bumps into a girl from the village named Suzette. She questions Ellen, but she is so distressed that she faints. Keats arrives and, after questioning Suzette about Ellen, decides that the best thing would be to bring Ellen back into the village.