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Originally posted by Unicorn:
My two cents:
I think, this 6-8 hours make no sense at all, because it depends completely on the Type of game. Multipath-multiending-adventures could be played from the start to one possible ending very quickly, but this one played path leaves a lot to discover for other combinations of the players decisions.
SIMS could be a lot alike this.
NOVLs on the other hand have usually a really long lasting story that in most cases couldn't be played through in one go.
Exactly, it makes no sense at all! I think they should writte someting different instead, something like "An adult bishoujo game can, depening on what kind of bishoujo game it is, and various other factors take at least from 3 to 8 hours to play through. But some games take even more time to play through, like Chain, that can take a couple of days to paly through. And even if it usually doesn't take all that much time to play through a game once, it might take you quite some time tom find all endings in a game, since many bishoujo games have more than one ending". Or something like that. But t's as you say: novels and rpgs are long, and so are simulations, but not really THAT long, but long enough (To play through Princess Maker once, for example, takes almost as long time as it takes to play Kana) and multipath-multiendings are short, but have more paths/endings and such.