why is the game so short?

[Moon Truther]

the game intruduced all the characters and then ran the end credits. i don't see why people would pay for this

[KrowSea (黑白羽未)]

What do you mean though? Isn't that just the prologue, then the opening? Each route is around 4-5 hours on minimum if you don't skip.

[MOW]

2 hours? Pretty sure that was the opening movie not the ending, What happened when the movie finished? Did the game go back to the title or did it just shut down or did it continue lol?

[KrowSea (黑白羽未)]

Like you can spoil yourself if you go to the screenshots in steam (would advise against), those are the later scenarios of the game if your game works properly. Well if you have not even completed a route, you won't be able access the CG library in game as well.

[Moon Truther]

Originally posted by MOW:

2 hours? Pretty sure that was the opening movie not the ending, What happened when the movie finished? Did the game go back to the title or did it just shut down or did it continue lol?

i quit before the credits were done because i saw that i was really close to the two hour mark (Had no intention of keeping a 40 dollar game if it was a 2 hour read.)

[Mr Unlimited]

What? I just finished my 2nd route and clocked in at about 19ish hours.

[MOW]

yeah that was the opening movie.... not the end credits. I finished 1 ending in 10 hours out of the (5?) endings. So if ya liked it in those two hours there is for sure a lot more content... it is labeled as long on vndb 30-50 hours. It is kind of strange how far in the opening movie is.

But yeah that was certainly the opening movie.

[Moon Truther]

Originally posted by MOW:

yeah that was the opening movie.... not the end credits. I finished 1 ending in 10 hours out of the (5?) endings. So if ya liked it in those two hours there is for sure a lot more content... it is labeled as long on vndb 30-50 hours. It is kind of strange how far in the opening movie is.

But yeah that was certainly the opening movie.

Are you sure? i want to belive that people aren't paying 40 dollars for a 2 hour game, but its the internet.

[JdP500]

It had to have been the opening movie. Besides, you can see screenshots even just on the community page that were not in what you played. You can also check the hours people have on the review page. Way more than two hours. Keep in mind some of them were probably playing along with the fan translation before this came out, so they only had a couple routes left (that unlock after finishing the four heroine routes).

[Abeltensor]

Obviously a troll; the game doesn't end after the prologue. The game isn't linear enough for you to be able to just skip to the end. After the prologue, the map feature opens up which leads into the first 4 routes and then the last two routes which are only accessible via the main title screen.

[MOW]

Yeah shortly after the opening movie you get the route selection screen it show the island with different characters at different locations.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1995199494

The game is then played by choosing a route by selecting a character. The selection screen will appear many times. Then once you get to the end of that character story you restart the game, the 2nd time it gives you an option to skip the intro (you can also use the skip button on the menu it only skips things you have read) There are 4 main character routes, once you complete all of them there is a final route that is unlocked. For me it took 10 hours to complete the first of four character routes. The final route is usually longer than a character's route but I haven't gotten that far, you can ask somebody else how long it is.

I think everyone who has read it will agree it is around "30-50" hours total.

[chaoticenigma]

It's going to be longer than 50 hours for me as I've gotten a bit into both of the minigames and am going for 100% Records, and not just 100% Achievements.

[Moon Truther]

Guess i'll buy the game again, thanks for the replys everybody!

[KamiGema]

yeah this is like a 12 hr game idk what you did but...I would recommend trying again lol

[KrowSea (黑白羽未)]

12 hours game? Kek. People have played 30+ hours for the full game once and end up satisfied/unsatisfied. Other spent over 60 to 70 over hours and maybe even 100 over replaying, just to reach their satisfied ending. It is as some one in the review has mentioned (this is already assuming you read as fast as me, like 4-6 hours per route without skipping most things):

30+ hours: About enough to complete the full game once without complete most achievements/records without skipping.
40-50+ hours: Possibly most/all achievements/records through skipping after completing the entire story once
60-70+ hours: Piecing some/most of the foreshadowed/silently told scenes through multiple replays that occur in the story which Jun Maeda intentionally hidden. Therefore, having a different interpretation of the ending. This is just the nature of open storytelling, the reader is free to interpret all the heroine endings however they like. But, Jun Maeda generally only has a one particular idea in mind and the ending is mostly tailored to that idea (yes it was mentioned he had an idea before creating summer pockets in an interview).

It is pretty funny/sad that people can say that the best part of the game are the minigames after playing at least 50 hours. Oh well, that is just my POV. And trust me steam playing hours =/= to actual time thinking and playing, or playing on a non-steam platform via the JP version.

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Originally posted by Moon Truther:

Guess i'll buy the game again, thanks for the replys everybody!

Was it your first time playing galgame?The time's much much longer than 2h.
But it doesn't matter.Now you know. : )