Does Anyone Else Wish That JRPGs Were A Bit Shorter?

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JRPGs are proper massive aren’t they? I still haven’t finished Persona 5 because it’s 50 hours too long and seems obsessed with taking its time at every turn. Royal improved upon a lot of this needless busywork, but it remains incredibly lengthy and requires a serious time investment to see the whole thing through. Yakuza, Fire Emblem, and Xenoblade Chronicles are the same, all pastimes you need to dedicate weeks to if you have any hope of seeing them through to the end. I just don’t have the time anymore and it bums me out.

I grew up with JRPGs. Final Fantasy is my favourite franchise of all time and I spent so much of my youth immersed in its myriad worlds and imaginative characters. So many days were spent squared away in my bedroom seeing these stories through, encouraged to check out similar franchises like Xenogears and Disgaea as I came to recognise how many sprawling adventures were out there waiting for me, and how many I’d missed that had emerged long before my time. It was magical, but it's hard to recapture that feeling as an adult without worrying that you’d be better off doing something else with your time.

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When I started my career in games I became known as a reliable JRPG critic, editors often throwing massive game after massive game at me regardless if I actually had the time to play such titles, let alone complete and review them. I still remember taking on Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life back to back and living to tell the tale, even if my sleep schedule suffered as a consequence. I don’t regret it, and it’s not like I’ve gotten much better in the years since either given I’m currently mainlining Xenoblade