Length

[PAN]

Hyped for this game, curious about how long it is in comparison to FC. Normal in FC took me 30~ hours and nightmare took 60-70~

[Pal]

From the people who played it in japanese, almost twice the time.
60~80 hours roughly.

[ladynadiad]

Twice the time. Average actually ends up between 70 and 100 hours depending on how many sidequests you do, how much you talk to NPCs, etc.

It's got 9 chapters and a prologue, and the last chapter is massively long.

[PAN]

Cool, this weekend is gonna be busy :]

[astray1202]

FC took me 70 hours, does that mean this one will take me 140 hours to finish?!! x2 because I'm going to play it twice (at least)?!! That's almost 300 hours!! I can't wait.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by astray1202:

FC took me 70 hours, does that mean this one will take me 140 hours to finish?!! x2 because I'm going to play it twice (at least)?!! That's almost 300 hours!! I can't wait.

Being someone who plays games slowly, and is not even out of the Prologue despite already having 21 hours logged on FC...yeah, I know that feel...

[astray1202]

This is... amazing, could you tell me your play time once you finish SC?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by astray1202:

This is... amazing, could you tell me your play time once you finish SC?

To be fair the first four hours of my playtime were sorta wasted since I started over. But still.

[astray1202]

I wish I could play games as slowly as you, I tend to rush games when they have a good story. I'll try not to do that with SC since I want to play every bit SC has to offer.

[Orbus]

FC took me around 60 hours.
So yeah, if SC really does take twice as long to play through I'm looking at probably over 100 hours.

That makes a hell of a meaty game.

[Mr. Manual]

Oh boy, Xenoblade Chronicles has some competition for the title of longest single playthrough. My first Xenoblade playthrough, including sidequests, was 80 hours.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I remember Earthbound being quite a long game. Satisfying, though still noticeably long.

[sorathecrow]

Originally posted by Mr. Manual:

Oh boy, Xenoblade Chronicles has some competition for the title of longest single playthrough. My first Xenoblade playthrough, including sidequests, was 80 hours.

Heh. My first playthrough was 150 hours. Five stars on every area, collectopedia finished, 100% affinity with everyone, STILL missed some quests and the superbosses... T~T

Originally posted by Quint the Robot Girl (new mouse):

Originally posted by astray1202:

FC took me 70 hours, does that mean this one will take me 140 hours to finish?!! x2 because I'm going to play it twice (at least)?!! That's almost 300 hours!! I can't wait.

Being someone who plays games slowly, and is not even out of the Prologue despite already having 21 hours logged on FC...yeah, I know that feel...

Prologue took me somewhere in the 15-20 hour range too, since I spent a lot of time doubling/tripling/quadrupling back to talk to people.

[iemander]

I didn't really think FC was that long. Most of the game is talking to NPCs in town because they have their unique stories.

Not like Xenogears or something that's basically 70 hours of non stop story.

But the amount of detail to the world building was pretty amazing. I hear later games are shorter. I hope the series does not lose it's deliberate pacing and detail.

[astray1202]

SC is two times bigger. The 3rd is smaller but have a lot less npc's to talk to and less side quests. Both crossbell games are bigger by like 5 millions Japanese characters. Cold steel 1 and 2 are approximately the same size but I think they have more gameplay. I've only played FC so I can't guarantee you all of this is true.

[Missilepom]

The length of SC can vary from 60 hrs to 100+ depending on your playstyle. Normally it shouldn't take more than 70 hrs for a casual player.