This... actually looks good, thanks for sharing it!
Though the length...
The game states 50+ hours of game play currently, in reality, it is closer to 100+
Does it really need to be that long? 50+ hours of game play was a selling point when I was a teenager, but now I don't know when I'm ever going to find time for a game of that length.
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Good thing you don't have to play all of it in one session. If you have 1h/day time to play a game and the game lasts 100 days instead of 50, you got twice as much value for your buck. Meanwhile other games can easily get thousands of hours of playtime.
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I'm at the point where I care more about quality than quantity, and I don't necessarily want to play the same game for 100 days. I would rather play ten 10-hour games or twenty 5-hour games that are great and where ever hour is exciting than play one 100-hour game where a lot of the content feels like padding. Not saying that's necessarily the case here - I haven't played it, so I don't know - but I'm not sure how an RPG-maker game gets to such length otherwise.
Plus, at a certain point, I start to get tired of playing the same game. It's a rare game that can hold my interest for 30+ hours, let alone 50+ hours, without me starting to wish that the game would hurry up and end already. The first 5 hours of any game is exciting. The 50th hour? The 80th hour? The 100th hour? Those are far less exciting.
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I think you misunderstand. I have little time for games, which is why I want to make sure that each hour I play is a meaningful one, and would reward my time investment.
I appreciate short games because they tend to be compact and focused with no filler and nothing to waste your time. Many 15+ hour games, on the other hand, end up having filler that feels like it's just there to raise your playtime or otherwise overstay their welcome such that I start getting impatient for them to end.
For example, I really enjoyed Nier, but almost every side-quest is either a fetch quest, a messenger quest, a "kill X" quest, or a "collect X drops" quest (this last one is the worst, particularly when those drops are rare). They add some additional backstory to NPCs, which is nice, but they could have been done in a way that didn't involve the player having to repeatedly run back and forth across great distances or having to clear out a dungeon a dozen times hoping for rare drops. So while I really like the game, the side-quests are pure time wasters and I abandoned many of them. The sequel, Nier: Automata, was a lot better in that it didn't have time-wasting quests (with a few exceptions).
If TLS is as good as you say, I'll give try to give it a shot sometime. :)
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Oh, looks really nice! I am trying it for sure xD Another free game worth a look is Battle for Wesnoth (something like a Fire Emblem game if you are into that): https://store.steampowered.com/app/599390/Battle_for_Wesnoth/
And Grimm's Hollow: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170880/Grimms_Hollow/
Not free, but if you don't mind Rpg makers, you should try Ara Fell, it's really cheap when on sale and I enjoyed every second of it. For me, it's the best Rpg maker game out there, everything is custom made by the devs and looks gorgeus.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/440540/Ara_Fell/
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