How long does this game take to beat?

[Thunderdrake3]

I can rarely finish a game if it takes more than 20 hours. I can go longer if the plot keeps moving, but I have had way too many JRPGs waste my time with dozens of hours of meaningless grinding for resource collection or XP. How long does this one take to beat? Do short JRPGs even exist?

[TotemMX]

Complete story? Around 20hrs
Complete achievements? Around 80hrs

This game is a grind fest.

[Unknown Zom]

About 20 hours to complete the single player Story if you ignore any grinding and optional side things and if you don't plan to go back you can probably ignore collectibles too and finish in about 16.

Post game multiplayer stuff (from unlocking new bosses enemies and weapons)((worst case afk grinding(((don't do this))))) if you ignore trying to drop the Terminis weapons and just be there to complete the boss fight at least once you can do that in about 15-40 hours but there is no more story significance just some more cool boss fights you can try new characters on so don't chase the grind and you can even do the last few bits to experience the fights, I don't think you can do much about Lucilius without a Terminis weapon + war element but you may get away with just Full defensive build and get carried.

So About what TotemMX said, if you buy the game, welcome to Grindblue.

[k-ricks]

why you want a short JRPG also this game isn't a JRPG type :/

[Kriss Hietala]

game is short. Story ends after 10h

[Chaac]

This ones story can be beat in around 13 hours. Perfectly paced imo

[vatto.dev]

Beating this game is a delight. Now the post game content might infuriate people that are not used to extremely repetitive tasks.

[ChaosFred]

20 hours should be enough for complete main story,
40 hours perhaps if including after ending main questline up to first clear of Lucilius fight, with/out friend party. Add some more if you want to S rank every quests and if you want to really maxed up all characters could reach probably 1K hours++.

This game pretty much like Pokemon or MonHunt, the main quests can be rushed over. What makes it long actually are the side contents.