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I am going to have to respectfully disagree with the developer here. While she's working tirelessly on remastering her renders to make it look better, I'd encourage you to go ahead and download the current game and give it a shot.
1st -- its just three chapters. You can probably play through the 3 chapters (the first time) in less than an hour and you will get to see what the fuss is all about...
2nd -- BELIEVE ME.... you are going to play it through again, making different choices. And again, making different choices.... and then again, trying to break the system... and again, "for reals". Now you have gotten 3 hours of fun out of an hours worth of content.
3rd -- You will now have a frame of reference for "most" of what is discussed here... i say "most" because it can go off the rails fairly easily, but that is the other amazing part that the game itself created a little community of fellow travelers that kind of check in with each other daily, hourly, minute-Ly? with each other just "cause".
4th -- The new renders are going to make it sexier - but the content/story isn't changing, so when It does come out, you can oooh and ahhhh with the rest of us and not feel like the noob.
Welcome aboard, now go get started!
*PS*
and if you like the game, I'd encourage you to go to the patreon and throw some coin the developers way.... if ever there was a new developer that deserved patronage, it is this one.
PPS
There are a few developers from other games that hang out here from time to time... which is a god sign. And birds of a feather..... so go check them out as well cause they are quite interesting too!.
Almost all right except for the timings... I recently played through just one route (to test an android version) and it took me close to four hours. Of course, depending on your reading times and how much you investigate, your timings might be different. But unless you skip through loads of text or mash the space bar (really not recommended) it's way more time than an hour (Notty mentioned around three hours for the first three chapters) just to get through once without rolling back and trying a different route.
PS I would recommend waiting for the remaster though, it's not far off and based on some of the shiny we've already been shown, it'll be well worth the wait!
Thank you for the kind wordsReading speed average is thought to be 200 to 300 words a minute. So take the amount of words in the game, do the math and you have something close to how long it might take, this does not include any time taken to weigh decisions or choose paths. It also doesn't include or break down on which path you may be taking, reloading to not die, etc.
On content time I have a rule of thumb that you -should- get an hour of play per chapter at least for a decent run through. Of course H5 is not a "clicky flicky" game so that is based upon it actually being read as it's intended to be. Naturally, your content will depend upon your choices with some paths being longer than others.
The word count is an interesting one. Not sure really how to measure it. Per path? In total? To include the PDA gubbins? Tricky one. Must be well over a 100,000 words in total though I guess so far.