Takes around 10 hours to 100% the NA version with all the magic and HP/MP upgrades. Might miss a few potential villagers for the overall population but that's ok

I just went for the most approachable mission of each story split and took about 20 hours to finish the game. I swear a solid ~5 hours of the run was spent on that notdarthvader fight though jeez

20ish hours for the main route or a bit less. Getting the golden ending will run about 25 to 30 hours but the pacing is so swift it will fly by fast. Note that for new game+ mode, each alternate ending can be obtained extremely quickly since battles can be blazed through. In particular I acquired the hilarious developer's ending in less than 30 minutes, though make sure to bring Marle to it for an easier final (and only) boss fight of that route

I beat this game in one night. It's like Sweet Home but there are no random encounters, and the JRPG battle system doesn't even come into play until the very end strangely

I remember this being kinda long but I was informed it can be easily beaten in like 5 hours so I think I just sucked as a kid lol

Apparently this one is mostly just cutscenes and some field encounters that aren't particularly long

Easily beatable in 1 sitting at the very least with a walkthrough. However, the hints are pretty damn straightforward in the NES localization to my memory

I only had to grind in 1 expedition mission tbh. Once Arioch is acquired the ground missions play themselves. It should take less than 20 hours to get ending D, with only the joke ending E taking a significant amount of time should the player be enough of a masochist like me

I think this one took me under 20 hours but I rec not getting the human evolution

I just replayed this one and it only took me around 12 hours but definitely look up a guide for that palm tree puzzle lmao

I spent over 80 hours in this game because every single NPC has like 4 unique dialogue prompts, and then an additional 4 unique conversations after each main story-relevant cutscene to the point I found cool undocumented shit in this game (ie the drunkard father-son mail sidequest which was pretty heartwarming) but if you play this at a normal pace supposedly it is only about 20 hours long

It's like it's an unspoken rule survival horror and JRPG hybrids are required to be super short

Fewer than 10 hours to clear a huge chunk of the substories and fight the final boss in the HD release, albeit I was playing multiplayer rather than using AI

Treasure actiony dungeon crawler is fast-paced, whoda thunk

The story is separated into 7 scenarios (at first anyway) and some of them can be insanely short such as Masaru's which is more or less just a fighting game arcade mode in JRPG form. I don't want to give away too much else but it is an insanely replayable game due to factors such as morality-based runs in Oboro's scenario

No use 100%ing the red orbs on a first playthrough tbh, might as well just run through the main story and even sidequests which will only take in the realm of 5 hours. Levels can be revisited after beating the game once should the player truly care

10 hours or so

I beat this game in 4 hours, probably the shortest JRPG I ever played tied with Power Quest. There is replay value however due to all the alternate branches, but still they only lead to the same ending

This game should have taken me 15 hours but the last 2 hearts (which are optional ofc) took me 5 hours each for the rocket minigame and fishing

Yes it's 4 discs, but they're all crammed with voiceclips and FMVs since the game is fully voice acted lol. Each disc can be beaten in roughly 3 hours

Only 7 days of in-game time, with each day lasting 1-2 hours. Even completing the warehouse only slightly expands the length, as challenging as that sidequest is. My first attempt at a speedrun only took a couple hours or so even with the 100% (ROCKET LAWNCHAIR) subcategory, though be warned I had to keep scrapping my old guns just to not run out of bullets. Playing normally, it's still a sub-15 hour game that awards plenty of bullets. Feel free to ignore new game+ since it's bad

Only a couple hours.

Even drawing every dungeon with graph paper, it definitely didn't take longer than 15 hours for me to clear. That said, play the fan retranslation since the shitty official localization fucks up badly with some hints

I beat this game in 1 sitting. It's just a JRPG that takes place in a single town and has fighting game segments for encounters and boss battles

Probably took me less than 10 hours to get all the joke endings too tbh

Specifically the game bundled with it, Gobli's Quest. It's super hard but only a few dungeons long so just grinding a lil bit and hugging save points should be enough

1 hour spent getting used to the controls and about 10 to 15 hours just purely having a blast dungeon crawling. Still not From's shortest JRPG though

Ez sub-10 hours to my memory

It legit took me maybe 15 hours to get all 108 party members lmao, just be careful about the woman in the prison after fighting her (she says something about being friends with Tir's father, make a mad dash to her after her boss fight to avoid losing the gold ending)

The speedrun route of Suikoden 2 is also pretty short should one desire to go after that quest but this should REALLY only apply to replays

Suikoden 1 tier length

Use the knights in the icy room to grind for an hour or 2 and the rest of the game becomes easily manageable even with the extremely limited resources. I beat the new translation in about 3 sittings even with limited guide use

Insanely replayable due to the essentially infinite party combinations, and designed with short playthroughs in mind as a result. The main story has little in the way of side content unless I suppose one should desire fighting the Black Rabite (only applies to runs with Duran or Angela as the party's leader) or constantly revisiting the black market which sells some busted as hell items. Oh and the class change seeds I guess, but in the SNES original it's easily possible to manipulate their RNG with data save/load strats. It took me about 20 hours to clear this game the first time through, specially in multiplayer where a competent partner is there to help as opposed to AI

Ys I is super short albeit the boss fights will no doubt take numerous tries. That said both games combined might just take less than 20 hours depending on one's playstyle

Took me like 4 hours on the PCE.