About how many hours of gameplay?

[Cheng Xi]

I usually like to get about 1 hour of gameplay for each $ spent. So if they are selling this at $20, then it should provide about 20 hours of gameplay.

Game looks good. I saw a review video on IGN so there is a definite interest to buy. But too short could be a deal breaker. Then of course I will be waiting for a sale.

[Ribbon]

From what I've been hearing, it's about the same length of Bastion. Which makes it -roughly- 5 or so hours the first time through, unless you have the limiters (If you've played Bastion, they're the Idols of this game.) and getting your butt handed to you.

[HokiHoshi]

I've heard roughly 8 hours of gameplay... but if you ask me, 1 hour of Bastion/Transistor is infinitely better than 100 hours of most any other game

[Max Headroom. -]

anyways we cant know that because the game is bugged as fk

[Cheng Xi]

I might just be using my money instead to buy Child of Light. That is roughly 1 hour of gameplay for each $ spent. Sorry, but 5 to 8 hours of gameplay for $20 is a little expensive, IMHO. I'll wait for a killer sale like I did with Bastion and pick it up for $2 at the end of the year.

[Ophenius]

That is a ridiculous thing you're expecting. By that logic, you'll only be playing open world games or RPGs if you expect the amount you pay to equal the game length. Having a short game isn't necessarily a bad thing if the substance more than makes up for it. Take Journey on the PS3 for instance; I paid $15 for it and only got a max of maybe 3 hours for it, yet it was a great experience. Your way of thinking for a game's value is very shallow.

[Cheng Xi]

No it's not very shallow it. It is very me. You are not the cookie cutter standard for everyone else as I am not the cookie cutter standard for everyone else. You have not lived my life for one second therefore you cannot judge.

Saying I'm shallow....how trite.

[Terin]

Sounds like the regular game is 6 hours, then there's recursion mode, which seems like it'll let you replay the game with variation on enemies. Might fit your bill at a $10 price point. Seems like it's a quality 6-10 hours, though.

[Comrade TastyPaste]

There's kind of an important distinction to make here and that's length does NOT equal quality.
Bastion was pretty short but it was densely packed with high quality content, I beat that game about twice and every level was well crafted and enjoyable.
Conversely, a game like Skyrim has an immense amount of content that you can sink hundereds of hours into, except that it's all incredibly shallow and not necessarily good.
I guess it comes down to whether you're more concerned with being able to sink hundereds of hours of possibly mediocre time into a game or you just want to sink a few hours into a game that are almost guaranteed to be enjoyable.

[Berioth]

Originally posted by Terin:

Sounds like the regular game is 6 hours, then there's recursion mode, which seems like it'll let you replay the game with variation on enemies. Might fit your bill at a $10 price point. Seems like it's a quality 6-10 hours, though.

plus you can do runs with 1 to 10 limiters(the idols of this game), so far the only 2 limiters ive found already make it noticeably more annoying to fight many enemies