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Forums - Sony Discussion - They said 60 hours, I beat it in 35-the biggest problem of Final Fantasy 13

If you want a long, content filled JRPG that lasts 60-80 hours for its main quest, you play Dragon Quest. If you want a graphically detailed and story driven JRPG, but it only lasts about 30-40 hours for the main game, you play Final Fantasy.

Its kind of been this way the whole time throughout the run of their series. Dragon Quest has been getting longer and longer with more emphasis on exploration while Final Fantasy has been getting shorter, but more story driven.



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myabsolution said:

Took me 60 hours 14 minutes - was my time after i beat the end boss. Although I did spend tons of time grinding money and mobs

Right now im at 87 hours 54 minutes - time it took me to get 840/1000G (33/35). I will not be going for 5 stars on every cieth stone quest nor aquire every accessory.

 

And you're right, this FF is uber barebones. Add that on top of the linearity, no towns, and super AWFUL story with no plot and its one heck of a below-average JRPG...

and yet you spend almost 88 hours with it. You must really like Final Fantansy games.



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I was expecting a lot more in the game. I think the reviews it did get were correct around a 8. I didnt like, how I can only controll one character. The story line is weird is not as great just like how FF12 story line wasnt great either. I beat the game now doing the sidequest and trying to get the ultimate weapons, a lot of farming to do.



sapient said:
I am at 34 near the end of chapter 9. I don't think i have been doing much grinding, I do however like to find all secrets and treasures (not that I think i have all of them). Your time seems way short, how did you manage to beat the bosses? Had you played through it once to know what their weaknesses were? It has been a trial and error thing for me so far.

I had read that the cut scenes alone are about 10 hours, Did you skip over all the cut scenes too?

I only did like 3 cieth stone missions (the simple ones that present themselves once you enter gran pulse). i didn't really see the point of fighting random monsters for some random piece of rock for some random reward. it just didn't feel epic, like fighting emerald weapon or something.

The bosses.. the only one I really had problems with was the first Barthandelus fight. I didn't know that you were supposed to hit him when he does his charge thing. He kept ****ing me up. But after that, some bosses and some random battles gave me fits, though I was able to beat them the next time around. I'm rather conservative with fighting, always keeping hp high, always having two medics in the team (only using one at a time of course), and always reverting to sentinel/medic/synergist when hp turns yellow. i didn't play through it first or anything. i was just careful, i guess.

I didn't skip any cutscenes of course. I dunno, I just finished in 35. That's all I can say really.



Did you get any character to full ability? I think a lot of my time has been spent on carefully thinking about what ability to get next :)

I like strategy RPGs most, so I am rather careful :D



 

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^ that's the thing. i don't see any reason why i should bring my characters to full ability. the monsters that i can fight in the side missions all feel so random. i feel no reason to fight them because why should i care about some random piece of rock telling me to kill some randomly named creature just to get some randomly named treasure?



I have you all beat. I didn't buy the game because I'm not falling for FF anymore. :)



Coronalex said:
Wagram said:
kowenicki said:
why do people rush games?

I'm at 25 hours early in chapter 10.... what game length am I lookign at?

If you finish the game. 40 hours.

 

If you for for Platinum. About 90.

Hey Wagram, how hard was it to get the Plat ?

After looking through the trophies a lot of them seem more "time based" then difficult.

The only one that struck me as difficult is to have all the different weapons and equipment equipped at one point.

Is all the stuff available at the end of the game from shops or is it kinda like "if you missed it, you're screwed"

Not too tough overall. Just lots and lots of time.



Last time you complained about a game, you were using a guide for it. Were you also using a guide for this one?



^ no need, prof. final fantasy doesn't make you relive the exact same area with the exact same monsters, and it doesn't punish you like crazy if you make a mistake (there's a retry feature you can do any time you want). i think only crazy-ass games apply those kinds of crazy-ass gameplay mechanics.

luckily final fantasy isn't a crazy-ass game. demon's souls? that's a crazy-ass game.

edit: while final fantasy's side quests are also all about grinding, at least you have an option to not go through all of that if you don't want to. my main gripe with demon's souls was that you have no choice but to grind.