Kowan said:
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You are literally making this up as you go at this point. You can only infer so much from the limited information, and you've gone far beyond reason. They have only said definitively that all of the original story content will not fit in a single release, and specifically cited expanding and heavily populating areas like Midgar for that. This does not mean each episode is going to be a 40 hour experience. You are positively delusional if you believe that will be the case. That would cost far more than even Square Enix would be willing to pour into the sequel both in work hours and budget.
Expect each episode to net about 10 - 15 hours, and for the final experience to be somewhere between 50 and 60 hours. Unless they've completely changed their design approach since the first interviews back in late June and early July, they will only be integrating some content from the various side games. No, there will not be totally playable Crisis Core as one episode. There will just be additional plot elements, maybe all of an hour, that will help tie it in more securely to the FF7 story. Same with all of the side content. From what they've said, it will be acknowledged and lightly integrated to some extent, but they have only said at this point that they want to surprise even long time fans. That did not speak to me like drastically changing the shape of FF7 and making it into a 200 hour epic, but adding a few things here or there to enhance the experience.
