Star Ocean 5 is a less than 20 hour jrpg MORE proof, Amazon japan users complaining

[tiffac]

That sounds about right for Star Ocean without doing much of the side quests.

Then again I remember doing a lot of stuff in SO3 & 4. lol!

But SO1 & 2 was about that long. Of course 2 had more replayability with a 2nd main character.