Lol no. The bigger KH games are easily 30-35 hours for main story alone and a lot more for full completion (on the first playthrough), unless you are specifically rushing through the games, skipping battles and doing as little exploration as possible.
It doesn't sound that high when we know worlds are bigger than ever and just how much story they need to go through in the game if they want to wrap up everything they've set up (which is what they have said they'll do).
Well, you only have to take a look at a couple different KHIII trailers to see how much variety it has (between and within worlds, in the moment to moment gameplay and overall) and it also looks fun as hell. Not much need to worry about those things. I imagine people want this to be an epic, content-packed conclusion and these sorts of estimates give a rough idea that it really is such.
HLTB puts an average completionist play through for KH2 Final Mix at over 70 hours so I'm not sure why this seems so crazy to people.
Because "completionist" in KH doesnt really mean much. The optional content in final mix is just a bunch of really tough, but very short, boss fights, and grinding monsters and minigames for exp and synthesis materials.
...That means the extra content took that long though? We're talking pure playtime, not quality of said playtime, right?
Yes and no? An 80 hour completion time for KH3 doesn't really mean a whole lot if, like KH2, it's around 40 hours of unique content and dozens of hours of material grinding.
If you cut out grindy crap from JRPG playtimes they'll all clock in at under five hours.
It's about in-line with the previous entries in the franchise, I don't see a lot of reason to doubt them on this one. I was hoping for a longer game since based on 0.2 the worlds seem more involved now but 40 hours is still plenty of gameplay for a single playthrough
