How long is a average match of this game?

[Uncle Jon]

I am currently playing through story mode and the first board seems to take forever, if I am playing against other human players how long is a match?

[Rally]

story mode is not short. Its a long game... Last time i did a casual game it took about a week or so irl.

Nothing about this game is quick

[Uncle Jon]

Originally posted by Rally:

story mode is not short. Its a long game... Last time i did a casual game it took about a week or so irl.

Nothing about this game is quick

Are online matches this long also?

[Jode]

There are 5 modes available so it would depend on the mode i would guess but Story Mode is one of them and it does take a long time to complete. There's a playthrough on youtube of it as 3 person multiplayer that is a 144 episodes of 15-20min per video.

[Xuande]

Depends heavily on the play pacing. I'm able to finish a 4p game with AI in a single day (~8 hours if speedrunning, more if self-handicapping), but I would expect to add 8+ more hours than this per new player present.

There is a chapter for each major landmass, with "Greenland" replacing "Antartica". The first chapter is the quickest if you exclude the prologue map, but the others aren't that much longer generally.

Online is likely to be slower due to players paying less attention than in a local multiplayer game.

[Uncle Jon]

Also if this game is so long, do players online stick for very long in one match?

[Baphled]

I think if people were to play together online, they would either be friends setting up multiple game sessions, or playing a different mode. They story mode can be incredibly long, depending on how many players and how fast they're trying to go.

[burn1none]

depending on the players and how fast they play I've had some games go for over a year on the old consoles. hoping with a PC port we can get it down to a few dozen play sessions online

[vermillion0]

Yeah it really all depends on the number of players, and how experienced you and other players are when it comes to playing this game. General consensus will say it will take a day or two (or even several, or weeks even) regardless if you can speed run the game...provided if you do take some breaks in between... When playing online you definitely need some sort of communication with others, as well as setting up schedules, before even trying to get things off the ground; especially in Story Mode. At least in Normal Mode you can set up a number of weeks of how long the game goes on (I ballpark that it can take anywhere 14-22 minutes per week depending on the on the number of players; not counting any delays), so you can reliably finish normal games in single day sessions.

[The Grand Mugwump]

The length of the game depends heavily on how much backstabbing occurs and if someone can get their momentum going. Beating the red boss monsters typically gives a ton of money, which lets them always afford the best equipment and spells for that continent and the next.

At that point, the only thing which can stop them from blitzing the red bosses on the next continent is player intervention. If this doesn't happen, then the game zooms along and finishes in four-five hours.

If there is a lot of backstabbing, especially if someone doesn't care about winning and REALLY knows how to destroy other players, then it can go on for weeks.

[funewchie]

It also depends on how petty the player in last place is.

Especially if they decide to use the Dark form, and effectively trigger New Game+, with that ability that takes literally everyone's towns from them.

[Uncle Jon]

Originally posted by funewchie:

It also depends on how petty the player in last place is.

Especially if they decide to use the Dark form, and effectively trigger New Game+, with that ability that takes literally everyone's towns from them.

A match can have new game+? Like the person in last can restart the entire game over when it ends? Also can only the person in last place become a darkling?

[funewchie]

Originally posted by Big Brother Darunia:

Originally posted by funewchie:

It also depends on how petty the player in last place is.

Especially if they decide to use the Dark form, and effectively trigger New Game+, with that ability that takes literally everyone's towns from them.

A match can have new game+? Like the person in last can restart the entire game over when it ends? Also can only the person in last place become a darkling?

People semi-jokingly call it that.
But yes, a Darkling's ultimate technique (requiring about 200 points, if I recall correctly) summons monsters to every town in the world, meaning players lose all of their towns and it's back to being just like at the start of the game.
(They keep their castles though. ....Though the next ability to it allows the Darkling to steal a castle.)

That said, obviously story progress is kept, and so on.

And yes, if a player is in last place for 14 days, they get the bat-shaped dark mark above them.
Meaning if they go to the dark point east of Dokapon Castle and agree to the bad guy's terms, they become a Darkling for about a week.
(Or if they get a Webber event and he gives them a Dark Contract, once used, it teleports them directly to that place)

[Geneticfreak69]

the normal mode could take very long if you set the times of 999 weeks.