TornadoCreator said:
I based the numbers off three things. Personal Experience, the times listed on howlongtobeat.com and the YouTube longplay community. Some of them I disagree with slightly, but generally they're quite accurate and the longplays can't really be argued with as you can physically watch them play them. (Admittedly, I'm using speedrun times for FF6, it's open ended in many respects so it's entirely possible for the game to be 30 hours long depending on how you play it, but it's possible to complete the game in around 5-6 hours, in fact some people can do it in as little as 4 1/2 hours). Link To The Past in 6 hours, now that's perfectly reasonable, and I've done it multiple times myself. |
I'm sure it's not from personal experience because unless you speed run Secret of Mana there's no way in hell you're coming close to 2.5 hours. My opinion is you typed each game in Youtube and took the first playthrough you saw. There's actually a co op Secret of Mana speed run that was live streamed in two hours and 30 minutes on Youtube.
I say this because even if you beat the game, doesn't mean it took you that amount of time. Why not say that Castlevania takes 13 minutes to beat because that's the fastest speed run. I can beat it in under 20 minutes, but is your average player going to be able to beat it in less than 30 minutes their frst time playing? Probably not.
