How long to beat this game?

[Vashiro]

Hey there,

I got little time on my hands at the moment but I am intrigued. How many hours on average does it take to beat this game? Talking Main story.. and is it linear or can you also just go on your own doing side quests?

Thank you~

[wwm0nkey]

30 for the story and 60 for story + side quests

[Vashiro]

Thank you, enjoy your reward!~

[Frantz Ziger Van Forsberg]

Roughly 30 hours on normal difficulty and 60 with side content.
Expert mode if you are decent at parrying and dodging, roughly 50-70 hours and with side content up to a 100.
Do note that expert is really tough and you will die A LOT which is why it can take so many hours beating, you really have to master parrying and dodging on expert.

[Revan]

Games journalists needed apparently 70 for one playthrough. But, those are games journalists. Many of them can be beaten by a pigeon in games that require critical thinking, reflexes and so on.

Took me around 40 hours to finish the game with some of it's side content.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Frantz Ziger Van Forsberg:

Roughly 30 hours on normal difficulty and 60 with side content.
Expert mode if you are decent at parrying and dodging, roughly 50-70 hours and with side content up to a 100.
Do note that expert is really tough and you will die A LOT which is why it can take so many hours beating, you really have to master parrying and dodging on expert.

Did all of the side content minus one bonus optional fight on expert and with dying a fair bit to a fight I had no right doing (Did not have damage cap removed yet.) I still finished it in under 60 hours on expert. The 30 for story, 60 for everything is pretty spot on, surprisingly. I just wasn't going to use a broken/exploit of a build for a silly achievement I wouldn't even feel like I was earning.

[Vashiro]

Thank you all for your responses!

Yeah.. game journalists are either too fast and don't pay too much attention to side details and play it usually on easiest difficulty. I definitely would want to go for the hardest difficulty. Sounds like a 50~60h game for me then. Pretty good!

[Fluff]

Took me 61 hours on Expert with letting bosses do all their moves and learning to parry them + clearing all map.

But I also did some 9999 early boss fight challenges just for myself since wanted to. And slowly & impressively was taking the game, since it is very good, did some backtracking for missed journals. Without those would take 5-10 hours less. Without parrying everything 5-10 less hours as well probably.

[Kapika96]

25-30 for the story. Took me 32hrs, but I'm generally pretty slow when it comes to this kind of game. So shouldn't be hard to do it in under 30hrs.

The story is linear, but there's plenty of opportunity to go and do side content when you want. It has an overworld map, think FF9 and the like. Although there certainly isn't as much side content as a game like FF9. So I'd imagine about 50hrs should be enough to 100% it.

[Insane fox]

i did beat 100% achievements in 72 hours

[Insane fox]

and i did quite possibly everthing. i made a checklist of all locations to know where was stufff that i couldnt beat yet.

[jamesrieko]

How long this game takes is entirely dependent on difficulty, skill, and engagement with side/endgame content. I could easily see someone spending 60 hours on this game, but could also see someone flying through it in 15 hours on the easiest difficulty.

If you've played parry heavy games before I recommend playing on the highest difficulty so you get more time out of the game.