- May 28, 2021
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I mean, what games are you actually playing for that long if you're not enjoying the experience? It's not like the game is forcing you to put 100+ hours into it to see everything. The game is also not hard unless you want it to be, so the odds being against you is really up to your discretion.While it's true the game never has a proper tutorial and nothing ever explained to you, on purpose, because the game really isnt that big, that complex, which Rem really been trying to hide and acting like there actually more to it than it shows. After at most 20 hours in you more or less mastered the game, before you even get to level 4 on your very first run, you can already tell what you did right or wrong in a current run and how it will go and end. What's left for the next 300 hours is to fight is the RGP with odds stacked against you.
Once you've gotten both the Happy End and Empress End + unlocked all of the sidejobs, you've effectively seen everything. All that's left after that is the core gameplay loop with new runs and different approaches to the game. At that point, it shouldn't be any different from how we play any other arcade-type games on repeat. Unless you're super stubborn with how you play, you should hit both endings in under 30 hours and I expect most people to stop playing around then.
As an aside, critiques and criticisms are perfectly warranted, but I feel like some of what gets said here goes way beyond that.