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

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Maraccuda said:
Typically JRPGs are about 30 hours long main story + many more hours of side quests/bosses.

If Star Ocean 5 is only 20 hours long with little to no side quests then it is an indication that it was semi rushed.

The only other JRPG I can think of that was short was Last Story on the Wii. Even though I liked that game the short length was annoying.

There's also a little game called Chrono Trigger you've probably seen on the occasional greatest games of all time list :P