Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter.

I'm starting to suspect JRPG developers get some sort of sick satisfaction in stealing me away from other games, consuming my life, and making me hate myself. I was already excited for the Trails in the Sky remake, a reimagining of the cult classic JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, but now that anticipation is flavored with a touch of anxiety as developer Nihon Falcom has said it'll take roughly 80 hours, twice the length of the original game, to beat.

Talking to Japanese publication Gamer (transcription via Automaton), Nihon Falcom CEO Toshihiro Kondo said it took the remake's lead programmer about 80 hours to beat the game, compared to the original's roughly 40-hour runtime.