Heavenly Sword is pretty damn short!

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RolStoppable said:

ddobson said:

gitanil said:
12-15 hours for an action-beat-em-up is more than enough. Both Gears and RE4 were shorter than that. Games like these are usually in the range of 10-12 hours.

 

Ouch -- I'm about 17 hours into RE4 right now and just coming up to the end of Act 4. I'll admit to being a little bit methodical and careful with these kinds of games, and doing a fair amount of backtracking to save points when I'm in uncharted territory and feel like I've accomplished something (holdover from my text adventure days, I suppose!) But I don't think it would be common to complete the game in less than 12 hours unless you had already played through it once or used some kind of a strategy guide. Or am I just extremely slow? The style doesn't really encourage run-and-gun, and there are definitely scenarios I've replayed after realizing I could get through them with significantly less ammo/health resource consumption.

Don't worry, it took me about 16:30 to beat RE4 the first time. I took my time to search for the treasures and I had to do quite a lot of retries. Personally I would put RE4 in the 15-20 hours range.

What's strange is that someone I know from another forum was able to beat the game below 13 hours on his first try even though I usually was way faster and better in any other game we talked about. I guess he just didn't bother for treasure hunting at all.

Of course if you know the game and have the unlockable weapons in your inventory it's possible to beat the game much faster. Another chance to brag, so I'll take it: my best time is 2:17. I think the fastest players managed to get just below 2 hours, but my time isn't that bad either.

2:17 minutes o_O. Speed runners are scary. My best time (when I'm trying to go fast) is 5:37 minutes. *hides in shame*

Edit: I should point out that I haven't tried to speed run the Wii version yet.  I could probably go faster with it due to the aiming.