How long is chapter 1?

[76561198206889848]

Just wondering how long chapter one is i keep hearing that it's the shortest chapter.

[Ohagi-Chan]

It is not the shortest chapter, it would be the second shortest chapter, after chapter 4, Himatsubushi-hen [Wasted time arc]. I would say it is roughly the length of the first few Harry Potter books, it takes most people around 12 hours to read.

[Heatth]

I have been a long time since I've played, but I believe I finished Chapter One in a couple of sittings. So I would say maybe around 6 hours? It vary from people to people, of course.

For what it matters, the Visual Novel Database ( website dedicated make a database of all visualnovels) estimate the playing time of the whole thing(Kai excluded) to be from 30-50 hours, but I don't know how accurate they tend to be.

Btwm Chapter One is not quite the shortest one. The fourth Chapter is kind of an extra chapter, so it is the actual shortest, if I remember correctly.

[Ohagi-Chan]

To be more precise, Himatsubushi was eventually included, but during the design phase Ryukishi was only planning to use it as concept, not as an actual release during the question arcs as it became.

[Yirba]

I'd say Chapter 1 is about six hours long, each chapter gradually increasing in length until Chapter 8, which is about nine hours long. Chapter 4 is of course the exception, which I'd estimate to be about three hours long.

Of course, this is just how long it took me to read these chapters and the actual amount of time it will take you to read them will depend largely on your reading speed.

[CutToSleep]

Each one is somewhat long but still not long enough to cause damage to your social life as you marathon through it.

[Alice]

It depends on your reading speed. Each chapter took me between 5 - 8 hours to read, but I read fast.

[76561198206889848]

Thank i been curious as to how long chapter 1 would be for its price. Definitely will be purchasing on release day.

[dragoonbb]

took me about 3-5 hours to finish the first chapter...But this is 1 chapter out of now 14 now so you'll be getting your monies worth...Still not sure if their going to release everything in a bundle. The first four chapters are bundled on mangagamer for one price. Not sure how thier going to do it here.

[Ohagi-Chan]

They will probably wait until the first four have all been released to bundle them, rather than sell them as a season pass, I reckon there's more money to be earned that way and if that's the case then mangagamer will already know this.

But damn, all you guys read faster and faster than the last! Did you have auto set to max, or can you read so fast that it was better to just manually progress?!

No one has mentioned this yet, but each chapter is broken up further into smaller segments; I personally call these segments "episodes". Onikakushi is broken into 13 episodes.

[KEN]

About 10 hours.

[CutToSleep]

Publicado originalmente por Theoneandonly Bustablademan:

But damn, all you guys read faster and faster than the last! Did you have auto set to max, or can you read so fast that it was better to just manually progress?!

Actually, at least in MangaGamer version of Higurashi, the default auto is soooo slow. Or, rather, text appears on the screen really slow; the pauses between lines aren't that long. So it is much better to manually progress.

Publicado originalmente por Theoneandonly Bustablademan:

No one has mentioned this yet, but each chapter is broken up further into smaller segments; I personally call these segments "episodes". Onikakushi is broken into 13 episodes.

Which causes some confusion as Umineko has its the other way; 8 individual parts are named 'episodes'.

[Yirba]

I usually set the text to appear almost instantly. That way I don't have to wait for the text to gradually appear before I can read it.

[Xinny]

I spent 8 hours for original one.

[Ohagi-Chan]

Publicado originalmente por CutToSleep:

Actually, at least in MangaGamer version of Higurashi, the default auto is soooo slow. Or, rather, text appears on the screen really slow; the pauses between lines aren't that long. So it is much better to manually progress.

I increased the auto speed from 50% along the bar to about 80% and only used manual progression when the text went through those unreadably fast sections.

[Quilliano]

I'm curious, how many chapters are there set to be on Steam, and how many are official in total? I'm a newcomer to the series, my friend likes the anime and recommended this (since I like VNs) though she hasn't played it. I'm afraid for spoilers so I thought I'd ask here :) thanks so much!