Games that could have beneffited by being shorter

[Nuvendil]

Bravely Default. There's a whole third of the game that accomplishes nothing, progresses the story in no way, and worst of all rewards you with NOTHING. There's this great WHAM moment and then the story just stops. All the characters stop thinking, the whole section is just a vast narrative void. It's like they had a really great 25 to 30 hour RPG but decided they need to shove in ten extra hours worth of absolute nothingness just to pad the game out so they can get into the big boys' club.