Too short

[edersam]

I took 4 hours to finish the game. It is a great game, but too short and no replay value (for me)

[Yazite]

I disagree. I didn't think it was short at all, but it did become rather boring in some parts. I'm playing a second time and enjoying it slightly more now that I know what I'm doing.

[Richard]

12.4 h

[zombie-flesheater]

The replay value comes from doing things that aren't connected to the main story. There are loads of optional dialogue and even new rooms and sidequests if you dig around a bit. There are also various decisions with different outcomes on some sidequests, which will easily blow it up to 8+ hours or more. 😉

[ToadMilker]

Interesting opinion I guess. I just beat the game this morning at 8.5 hours. 27/69 collectibles. I think there is plenty of replayability. I plan to come back to it in the future and slow down even more to find what I missed and choose different routes.

[Artur Ditu]

12h+ and i'm around the ending but still didn't finish it yet.

[zombie-flesheater]

I think it does have a certain oldschool approach. You get what you make of it. If you're used to hand holding and doing what you're told, you'll probably beat it in a couple of hours and won't be seeing much more than the main story.
If, however, you look around, talk to people at the doors on your own etc. there are at least a couple of quite rewarding hours more.
And since there's multiple endings, it's certainly worth it to at least play it again a 2nd time and try to do things differently this time.

[CyberPioneer]

Originally posted by edersam:

I took 4 hours to finish the game.

For full immersion you should be playing more thoughtful, studying the details, and not just running on the story.

[JocularJosh]

How the hell did you beat it in 4 hours?
Took me a little over 8 hours to beat it the first time and I am definetly going to play it a second time to get the other ending and more collectibles, after that I am going to do a third playthrough to get everything I missed (via guides or videos if I can't find them myself).
Did you just rush through the story without checking every door or talking to every person?
That's a shame since there is quite a lot you can get out of this game if you actually explore the building.

[Battlekruse]

If you manage to finish the game in four hour only, then you really have rushed it and miss a lot.

[PossiblePsycho]

Yeah, I guess it's possible to beat the game pretty quickly if you don't take your time exploring (most likely you'll miss Pieta's story this way), don't interview tennants, don't try to find everything there is to find at crime scenes and so on. Took me 8,5 hours to finish the game, and I'm usually among those who complain about, for example, 4 hours of gameplay when developers claim that it's 6-8 hours at average (although admittedly I've beeing struggling with monster sequences for maybe 30-40 minutes in total). Basically, I think the length is pretty decent by modern standards.

As for lack of replayability, it's a feature of adventure games in general (although I tend to replay some of my favourite ones every few years).

[zombie-flesheater]

Originally posted by PossiblePsycho:

Yeah, I guess it's possible to beat the game pretty quickly if you don't take your time exploring (most likely you'll miss Pieta's story this way), don't interview tennants, don't try to find everything there is to find at crime scenes and so on. Took me 8,5 hours to finish the game, and I'm usually among those who complain about, for example, 4 hours of gameplay when developers claim that it's 6-8 hours at average (although admittedly I've beeing struggling with monster sequences for maybe 30-40 minutes in total). Basically, I think the length is pretty decent by modern standards.

As for lack of replayability, it's a feature of adventure games in general (although I tend to replay some of my favourite ones every few years).

Since there's no chapter select and different saves and I wanted to check something out, I rushed through the game (3rd playthrough) and... well, if you really know what you're doing and what can be skipped, it takes roughly about 2 (!) hours. I absolutely wouldn't advise playing it like this, though.

[Cerilun]

4 hours is pretty much skipping everything that's in the game so it makes me sad to read someone with quick run through say it was too short. It's a story game, not a race.