Fighting the final boss

[From Within]

I reached the hub and I am told to acquire 5 items from previous bosses before I can fight the final boss. I didn’t see anyone online talking about this. That makes the game much longer than 4 hours.

[Zulgarr]

I suppose it depends if you rush through the levels or actually explore / look for secrets. I did in about 7-8 hours with lots of exploring and I wasted time replaying levels BEFORE I needed to run them again...that being said, I'm still re-running for secrets / rescues / 'chievos and different endings. (Haven't got a different ending yet). So 10+ hours?

If you look at it as a run through without extra 4-5 hours would be about right.

[thorin.hannahs]

Correct. I wish I had known this from the start it would of made my first couple of hours less painful. Just rush through each stage until you get booted back to the beginning THEN do collectible hunting.

[IDOLxISxDEAD]

It's almost like the dumb crap people say to downplay and diminish the length of a game is often uninformed, purposely misleading, and completely stupid. Who'dve thunk the internet is full of asshead trolls and children?

The game is easily 7-8 hours just to get to fight the final boss, and that's probably half of what it takes to find all the collectibles and secrets in the 3rd run of the game for the other endings. Once there's a guide for all the collectibles, that will be a little bit shorter, but probably still 10-12 hours even with a guide. And then there's boss rush mode, which is another 2 hours or so to complete all the difficulties even on the easiest settings.

[Zulgarr]

You're probably right on IDOLxISxDEAD.... I'm at 14 with a few collectables left and a couple secrets for 'chievos + endings. Give it time, when guides come up you're right it will make it 10-12.

[From Within]

I finally beat the game using the bad ending and it took me over 10 hours on casual, as a casual player. I played it on switch so I can’t leave a review on steam.
Looked like there were more than 2 endings to the game. I am missing 13 achievements.

[thorin.hannahs]

Yeah there are 3 endings. Each ending depends on the collectibles you've gathered. Once Legendary mode became available I switched right away. The games "difficulty" modes are just using retro design mechanics which are more frustrating than challenging.