Final Fantasy 16’s story takes 35 hours to complete, and 70-80 to do everything
Final Fantasy 16 developers revealed that it would take players around 35 hours to get through the game’s story and 70-80 hours to do everything besides it.
In an interview with Famitsu (translated by a Twitter user @employee), director Hiroshi Takai and producer Naoki Yoshida said that they calculated the gameplay time for Final Fantasy 16’s story mode to take into account that players have busy lives outside of video games, so they wrote it in a way that only allowed players to do the bare minimum. If they are too busy to complete multiple tasks. The team originally intended it to be 20 hours long, but the additional content they put in brought the story up to 35 hours.
“When I first started developing the game, I was thinking that players these days are really busy with other things, so I wanted them to be able to strive to at least complete the story,” Yoshida said. “I thought making the game something you could complete in about 20 hours would make sense, but more and more get involved with it.”
“[Final Fantasy 16] It’s a story-driven game that will take you for a quick spin, said Takai. If we include side content, it’s double that.”
By “twice that much,” Takai means the playtime for the side content is between 70 and 80 hours, depending on how many players are playing — and there’s a lot to do. To reach the maximum game time recorded by Yoshida and Takai, players will need to complete side quests, max abilities, obtain all accessories, and complete each monster hunt.
In addition to the story mode and side missions, there will also be a New Game+ mode known as Final Fantasy Mode, which will allow players to transfer stats from the previous game file to the new one. The difficulty level in Final Fantasy Mode appears to be equivalent to Proud Mode in Kingdom Hearts, which means you’ll take longer to beat everything. And for players who want more, there will be a leaderboard that will allow people to compete with other players around the world.
Final Fantasy 16 will be released on June 22nd. For more info, check out our game preview, or what we know about the world of Final Fantasy 16.
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