How many hours is the Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky?

vivi21 9 years ago#1

Without doing any sidequests or anything extra?

It just isn't a Bethesda game if it doesn't corrupt my savefile.

VeghEsther 9 years ago#2

That depends I did a 100% BP (subquest run) held down the X or O button to manually skip all that long text just to get to the battles and yet I beat the entire game around 20 to 25 hours.

Guruda 9 years ago#3

If you follow Vegh's advice (protip, he doesn't know nearly as much about these games as he likes to pretend) you'll miss everything that makes the game good, which is to say the story and characters and the world-building. You'll probably want to do sidequests for the Mira, the items and the rewards that come from raising your Bracer Rank but even if you skip a bunch you're looking at about 40 hours.

helldew 9 years ago#4

about 30-40ish hours and yeah while you can skip side quests i would recemend against skipping all cause a big part of the franchise is world building and the script in this game is massive. skipping the side quests IMO feels like skipping a big part of the game.

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VeghEsther 9 years ago#5

I play JRPG's for battles not the long xenosaga type text the game has so if you skip all the text other then BP choices I still got 100% BP In under 30 hours (and started SC's 8th chapter of the 9 in about 25.)

vorfeed 9 years ago#6

And you also miss story points that tell you how to fight bosses that would be inordinately difficult without said advice. :D

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VeghEsther 9 years ago#7

Well FC doesn't have really any hard bosses save for the one where if you lose you won't get any BP at all.

But still because of the long text the game has I'd rather skip all text but the ones that give out BP and still got 100% BP in 25 to 30 hours (my SC run to do the same) took me closer to 40 hours and that's only because the game itself is 2 UMD's long.

kern 9 years ago#8

vivi21 posted...

Without doing any sidequests or anything extra?

One thing to realize about this game is that the "sidequests" are a bigger part of the game than in a lot of RPGs, and there's really nothing extra in terms of bonus dungeons or bosses. In a typical playthrough, the non-essential Guild quests will form at least a third of your playing time, and the story suggests you're supposed to do them.

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VeghEsther 9 years ago#9

Well had I not done the quests my under 25 hours to beat the game would be cut in half for my total game play hours.

zinformant 9 years ago#10

VeghEsther posted...

Well had I not done the quests my under 25 hours to beat the game would be cut in half for my total game play hours.

Yeah, but not everyone is as good at these games as you are (granted, you surely used a ton of retries) and will actually be hurting themselves by not doing any quests like the guy last week who struggled to get through the chapter 2 boss due to being grossly underleveled. All other reasons aside, the game becomes difficult by not doing the quests because I suspect it was designed under the assumption a player would do most of them.

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